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Every good politician comes fully equipped with a speech writer to help them craft their message. We know this, but when these political figures get up and deliver the speech, we like to believe it’s theirs, just as if they wrote it themselves. There is no shame in that!
So why shouldn’t bloggers have someone write their blog posts for them? No, I’m not talking about ghostwriters, but I am talking about audience participation in every blog post you write. Traditionally, audience participation in blog posts comes after the post is written and published, in the form of comments. But smarter bloggers get their audience participating before even the first blog post is written. It may not be active participation, but the audience is involved nonetheless.
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Whether you are optimizing your website for search engines or visitors, heading tags are an important aspect of your on-page optimization strategy. The overall pull of heading tags in regards to search engines is up for debate, but very few SEOs believe they hold no value at all. While they may not be the proverbial magic bullet for instantly improving your search engine rankings, optimizing heading tags for search engines are, at the very least, another baby step toward a more perfectly optimized web page.
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I’m convinced that all bloggers are narcissists. Not in the when-I’m-president-I-will-fix-the-world kind of way. Much more subtle than that. But nonetheless, bloggers write expecting people to care about what they write. Remember when we used to keep our diaries under lock and key? Now they are published on the WWW for the world to see and share.
If you’re not yet a blogger but are thinking of blogging, you’re probably even more of a narcissist. Why? Because the only reason you haven’t started blogging yet is because you haven’t figure out what’s in it for you. If you already knew that you could get a thousands of fans tomorrow if you started blogging today, wouldn’t you start today? Heck, I know I would. But that’s because I’m a narcissist, just like you.
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If you were ever going to tell a “back in the day” story about SEO, it would have to include a discussion of meta tags. Long before links were built, before content was king and before social was sharable, meta tags were optimized. Meta tag optimization is the original SEO.
But gone are the days when throwing long lists of keywords into a couple of meta tags could move your site to the first page of Alta Vista, Excite or Webcrawler. For that matter, gone are Alta Vista, Excite and WebCrawler. Today’s SEO isn’t the SEO of, well, your slightly older sibling. While there is still some value to optimizing your meta tags, it just isn’t what it used to be.
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Shopping cart abandonment is the bane of e-commerce sites. Fairly recent studies by Forrester and MarketingSherpa indicate shopping cart abandonment rates are higher than 50%. That can certainly add up to a great deal of lost revenue for you.
In my latest post on Search Engine Land, How To Make Your Online Checkout More User Friendly, I share eight critical things you can do to improve the shopping-cart experience on your site and, hopefully, encourage more of your site visitors to become loyal buyers. If you decide to try them, let me know how they work for you!
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If you’re looking for some new, profound or revolutionary “trick” to getting #1 rankings, you can just stop reading this post right 
now, because you won’t find it. In fact, there is really nothing new here. Then again, there is really nothing new to good SEO. Sure, you might learn about some new avenues or a particular strategy, but not here. Not today. This post is for those looking for some good, solid, foundational SEO.
SEO can ultimately be completed in a handful of steps. But don’t let the simplicity of these steps fool you. Time, skill and understanding are still required for good SEO that gets results. Here are some core SEO concepts and a bit of information to get you started growing a great SEO campaign.
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When it comes to on-page optimization, the title tag of any given web page is the single most important piece of optimizable real estate there is. Think of it as beach front property off the Florida Keys. Unlike other areas of a website, the optimizable space in the title tag is extremely limited but has great search visibility, which means it can really pack a punch! In fact, aside from a site’s total architecture, I can’t think of any single area of a site that holds as much sway over search engine rankings as the title tag of your pages.
The title tag represents the most powerful collection of characters on the entire web page. Assuming your site architecture is in order, if you could only make one change to a page to help it rank, I’d make that change to an unoptimized title tag to be fully search and user-optimized. All that to say, optimizing it right is extremely advantageous!
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I’m not into hunting. That goes for the real world, as well as the online one. (My guns and crossbow are strictly for target practice and the impending zombie apocalypse). When I use a search engine, I want to find what I’m looking for the first time. When I go to a website, I expect the navigation to immediately point me in the right direction.
However, I often land on websites with navigation that’s less than intuitive at best and downright confusing at worst. If I can’t locate the information I’m seeking in a relatively short period of time, I leave. I am not going to hunt.
Why would anyone want to send their visitors away in frustration when it’s so simple to create clear, consistent navigation? To learn how to improve this critical piece on your site, check out my latest post on Search Engine Land, Six Easy Ways to Improve Your Site’s Navigation.
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It can be difficult to quantify or draw direct correlations between an SEO campaign and the sales it generates. Unlike PPC, where keywords can be tracked from the click all the way to the conversion, SEO tracking 
is isn’t quite as specific. In fact, tracking sales from an SEO campaign can often be difficult to differentiate from other web marketing campaigns, except through source tracking which can be vague.
Many SEO skeptics and naysayers fill the net with their horror stories or proof as to why you don’t need SEO. Usually, these naysayers are promoting their own non-SEO created wins, much the same as the “junk SEOs” they decry. Yes, anyone can stumble into an SEO win.
But SEO is much bigger than content or links. It’s more than blogging, keyword research or fixing website problems. All of those are things that SEO does, but none of that explains why you need SEO. You may need all those services, but here’s why you need SEO.
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I’ve long advocated a common-sense approach to algorithm chasing with SEO. What most people don’t understand is that with today’s algorithms, there is almost no such thing as a top search engine ranking. There is simply exposure. You either get more of it or less of it. Rankings play a role, but not in the way most people think.
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