Links – What to Link?

Blogging creates LINKs.  It does so naturally and it does so with human intention. Linking is the second most important part of SEO.  I’ll discuss the linking that blogging creates naturally in a later post.  Today we’re talking about links that we, the writer create and more importantly why. Lets’ look at some examples. Citing [...]

Content is King

With any blog, the single most important item is adding real and fresh content on a regular basis. This is also why most blogs fail after thirty days.  The blogger runs out of things to write about.  The truth is their imagination runs out of topics, that’s all. I have a mortgage background – I [...]

Categories, Labels and Tags – OH MY!

This is probably the most confusing item for the new blogger.  What are they? Do they matter? Let’s answer the WHAT first.  They are all basically the same thing.  Depending on the particular blog platform they might be called one thing and on another something different.  Blogger calls them Labels WordPress calls them Categories (and [...]