You blog should be focused on certain keywords and phrases (like “blogging”, “social media”, “SEO tips”, etc. or whatever your topic is).  Using these words on your site helps search engines determine the relevance of your site’s pages in relation to your site’s keywords.  This helps provide focus to your website, which will result in [...]

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As a test, I haven’t given my recently-created blog much attention over the past week of so – and it shows in my Google Analytics: No posts on other sites, no Craigslist ads, barely using Twitter, no new Youtube videos.  Zero Traffic.  One of the keys of a starting blog may very well be creating [...]

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Make sure links to pages within your site use keywords or a keyword phrase.  In other words, don’t make you link say “Click Here”.  Making it say something like “Blogging Tips” or “Learn How To Make Money Online” instead.

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Yes, WordPress is a great tool for creating a blog.  It has almost everything you need.  But as a fun side project, I’d rather code my blog engine myself.  With a background (and full-time day job) as a software developer, I’ve decided to re-create this blog from the ground up – MySQL database and all.  [...]

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My Technorati claim was approved!  Now, I can login to start commenting on blogs and learning about all sorts of subjects: http://technorati.com/blogs/www.andyd.org Technorati is a highly popular blog directory that lets other people know about you.  Being listed in Technorati will help your site get listed in search engines because Google considers Technorati a “quality” [...]

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Everyone knows what YouTube is. People will watch your video, whether it’s gone viral, been on the news, or you haven’t even advertised it. Someone will watch it. Make it interesting, make it exciting, make it fresh. To start things off, here’s my rather boring first video (hey, it’s my first one!). There will be [...]

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