Viddler

Must have been an amazing event...wish I was there.

don't name folders "wordpress" rather use "blog"

Wow, this is a priceless seo tips from a google guy. Not only for search engine optimization but also for increasing readership of our blog and/or site.

sometimes a key word spelt incorrectly can get you found if you have it.

If you don't have much time watching this video, you may read the summary I prepared at http://www.freetipsandwits.com/moneymakingblog

Don't shoot yourself in the SEO foot. Use the WWW in all of your links. Yahoo.com and Google both do and so should you.

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Use Google FeedBurner.com for your RSS feed subscribers & your RSS via eMail subscribers but I recommend you use aWeber.com (blog Broadcater) for the eMail subscriptions instead.

Also use FeedBurner's MyBrand and FeedFlare.

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12/23/07

Use Google's Webmaster Console at http://www.Google.com/webmasters/ so that you can quickly and easily determine and "problems" with your pages.

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12/23/07

The Key To Search Engine Placement Is To Become Well Connected Within Your Web Neighborhood

QUESTION: What about the folks who don't have a budget to pay valid search engine placement companies?

CRAIG SILVERSTEIN: I'll tell you what we tell people to do and these are all free. The first thing is to design a Website that accurately reflects your content, put text on your Website that accurately represents what service you are providing.

The other is to make sure that the people that should be linked to you are linked to you. This involves not just the direct things you think of like Yahoo. For instance if you're running a store that sells Charles Schultz memorabilia, you want to make sure that all the Peanuts fan sites on the Web know about you.

You don't need to pay them to have a link to you, you just write them and say, "I'm offering a service that would be of interest to your readers, perhaps you would want to put a link on your Website to mine."

If it's a useful service, they'll gladly put it up. A

Resources

http://GoogleWebmasterCentral.BlogSpot.com/

http://www.MattCutts.com/blog/

http://www.StephanSpenser.com/tag/blog-optimization

http://www.DownloadSquad.com/2007/01/15/wordpress-the-complete-post-install-checklist/

Matt's List of Valuable Resources

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Matt says that in order to be indexed in Google News you'll need more than just you (a single person) blogging. Your odds will increase of there are multiple people blogging.

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Matt's List of Things That You Can Do to Get Known and Get Links

* Tutorials

* Contribute Insightful Analysis

* Live Blogging of Events

* Create Controversy

* Make Lists - 10 Reasons Why Something Rules or Sucks

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If you get popular enough people may want to hack your blog.

Therefore add security to your .htaccess file

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12/23/07

Avoid Mistakes

* Change the defualt permalink /?p=1 to /%postname%
* Don't use sponsored theme. You can lose all your trust with the search engines.
* No PayPerPost on WordPress.com - TOS highlights that in blue.

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