Perhaps you have read just as many posts as I have about finding your niche competitors. There are many tips out there to find your competitors and how to use that information to leverage your blog.
However, few of those posts actually tell you to make friends with your competitors. Why not?
It’s initially obvious that you’re [...]

Through recent emails with a few I’m Blogging That visitors I realized that not everyone gets use out of the all too popular Technorati website.
I first became familiar with Technorati when the WordPress admin panel displayed “blog reactions” from Technorati instead of back links from Google’s Blog Search.
To be honest, I preferred the reactions from [...]

Let’s face it, we’re not all cut out to be SEO (search engine optimization) masterminds. But there are plenty of tools out there to help those of us who are a little challenged in this area.
With my Race for Rank series, I’ve been encouraging myself to take a look at these tools. Even if I [...]

In the comments of my post, Understanding Follow Tags a great question was asked that I thought I’d give special attention to with a blog post. It’s relevant, it’s useful, and there are many theories to it.
So, let’s jump into it.
Lisa asked: Does “no follow” affect SERPs at all?
My initial answer is simple: yes and [...]

All right, I’ll be the first one to admit that I don’t necessarily agree with PageRank. Generally, it’s a large mystery and the only thing we know for sure that will work to increase PageRank are the “tried and true” messages sent from other bloggers and webmasters.
Yes, there are those famous backlinks but ranking in [...]