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Here, you can figure out whether or not you want to start over. If your existing website is so horrible you want to start over, then I totally get it: I would not want to add that site to my portfolio either! Take a look at your existing website and figure out what you want to keep and what you want to throw away. Depending on what you uncover in this step, it will be necessary to perform a full website migration, which will take longer than 24 hours and is beyond the scope of this article. … [Read more...] about How to Build a WordPress Site in 24 Hours

I also recommend that you carefully consider the type of news content you publish. Google doesn’t want to see you republishing syndicated news feeds. They already have that stuff, and you’ll be rejected if your application doesn’t account for that. If your news site publishes both original/heavily edited content as well as syndicated feed content, be sure your Google News Sitemap does not include links to the feed content pages. If you get rejected, you cannot reapply to get into the Google News index for 60 days or so. … [Read more...] about A Primer On How To Get The Most Out Of Sitemaps

Try and add new content to your site every week or 2 through a blog post or company update. This gives search engines a reason to come back to your site and re-crawl it. It can also help to generate backlinks to your site when other site owners & bloggers find it; and it gives you something useful to tweet, share and email your customers with. All of which can be very useful for your SEO and sales. … [Read more...] about The Building Blocks Of Good Local SEO

But there are those who are genuinely unaware they have made mistakes, and equally unaware that those mistakes are hurting them. I’m seeing a growing wave of concern bordering on paranoia about linking related mistakes. I’m getting new clients who don’t even want me to build links, they want a linking damage control strategy because they previously paid for (and took) bad SEO advice. Now they want to see if damage has been done, and if so, undo that damage. Fair enough. Those are the scenarios where we link builders can help make repairs. … [Read more...] about Recovering From Link Building Mistakes

Even these brief comments will have repercussions. I expect attacks. If you operate a directory not named Yahoo! and make money from it, of course it will piss you off if I tell the truth about it being useless. If you sell link building services based on press releases, same deal. You don’t want your clients reading this and asking you hard questions. That’s another reason most of us have kept quiet. Outing a useless service or tool (and believe me link building tools are a boondoggle bonanza) means the person who created the tool could lose their livelihood. Nobody should have that happen, right? … [Read more...] about Betting On The Link Building Boondoggle Bonanza