If you’re running a website, chances are you may know about the WWW or No WWW controversy. Some say that routing your URL to be accessible by WWW is the best way to go – some say the WWW is implied. Do you regularly type in the WWW when you access a website? If you think it’s implied and possibly a little redundant, you’re not alone. There’s an entire movement of people out there who want to completely do away with the WWW, and are setting up their servers to do a redirect to their domain name without the WWW. They’re hoping this will dissuade WWW users from bothering to...

Even more than Facebook, Twitter is fast becoming the social networking site of choice for virtually everyone who wants their presence known online. Twitter was developed as a micro-blogging platform that allows users to post text-based messages, or “Tweets” up to 140 characters that are then sent to their followers, or subscribers. While the vast majority of Tweets are personal in nature, the marketing potential of Twitter is fast being recognized, and using Twitter to market your blog can mean a quick, easy to use, and free way to increase your web traffic. The simplest way to use Twitter to...

Here are a few tools I regularly use to speed up my blog commenting for link building campaigns. easyComment easyComment is a lightweight FireFox plugin that makes blog commenting fast, and easy to maintain. Simply install the plugin, restart firefox, and right click on “easyComment” in the bottom right hand corner of your browser window, then click Manage Profiles. Create as many profiles for as many sites as you want. After you’ve setup a profile, follow our blog commenting tutorial and you’re on your way to building quality back links. SEOquake SEOquake is a firefox plugin...

Blog commenting is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to build quality links. So what’s the catch? It’s time consuming, obviously. You have to find the blogs, skim through the post, write a relevant comment and pray for approval. Is it worth it? Absolutely. Strategic blog commenting can boost your rankings fast. As a bonus, if the link is not marked as nofollow, you can gain a higher page rank by carefully picking the right blogs. I have been blog commenting for close to 3 years now and have found enormous results for the fruits of my labor. Whether you’re a webmaster, SEO, or a...

A very important, yet, often overlooked aspect of SEO and link building (for a blog) is your ping list. This is one of the simplest ways to get your content indexed by search engines, and it can be within a matter of minutes. It will also help you to get ping backs from other blogs (and “scraper” sites) which will in turn build your backlinks. If you’re using Wordpress as your blogging platform simply go to your admin section. Click Options, then click Writing. Paste the following text in the ping list...