Cindy Szponder’s Tips

While a very simple robots.txt file is fine when you first start out online, once you begin to receive traffic from the robots and spiders you’ll want to restrict their access to unnecessary or private areas of your blog or website. For example, if you’ve created a pdf that you’re marketing online, you obviously wouldn’t […]

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This is the second video in the series I’m creating to accompany the ebook I’m writing. In order to upload the robots.txt file, you’ll need an FTP program. I use and like FileZilla.

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Why in the world would you want a robots.txt file? Because search engines look for this file and because you can specify what files you want to them to look at and index. I covered in an earlier post where to find information about creating your robots.txt file.
I’m including a YouTube training video on this […]

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I was searching around YouTube last night and learning about screen capture software. Downloaded CamStudio for free and was impressed with my first couple of recordings. Of course, the files are over the limit over at YouTube, and need to be compressed.
When I searched YouTube and the internet, I found varying advice about how to […]

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 Absolutely. A poor domain choice can spoil an otherwise great site by giving the wrong impression about you or your organization. It can even insult those who see it in search results and prevent them from clicking through to your site.
I found an absolutely wonderful example of choosing a poor domain name over at OneMansGoal.com. 

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Link building is a powerful way to develop streams of traffic to your site. The people over at Prospect MX have created a very wonderful “Professional SEO Link Building Services and Strategies Chart” (what a mouth full).
Well worth a visit and download of the .pdf file. It provides a one-glance overview of link […]

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If you’ve wondered about adding Facebook to your marketing mix, head on over to Build a Better Blog, where they are offering a 60 minute teleseminar on Facebook for Business on March 10. Registration information is available at their site. Worth a look.

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I just found what looks like a great new way to develop backlinks for a blog. Of course, more one-way backlinks can lead to higher rankings with the search engines. I’ll be testing this new method for the next few weeks and will let you know the results. If they’re positive (which I suspect they […]

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Ok, people. I just discovered an outrageous tool for keyword research. All the tools I’ve learned about (and then some) are wrapped up in one tool over at SEO Book.
Be sure to check out their blog and their keyword research tool.
I’m heading back to what I was working on–an upcoming post on writing your own […]

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If you conduct any business online or maintain a website to compliment your offline business, then blogging is quickly becoming a mandatory part of your future. And if you are not currently blogging, chances are after realizing the potential of these traffic-enhancing goldmines, you soon will be!
Blogs, derived from the words “web log” were originally […]

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