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Blogger – Make it Easy on Your Readers
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Blogging on January 25, 2010
Commenting on blogs similar to yours is one quick way to promote your own blog/website. I discovered this a while back but wanted to beef up a bit my own blog before jumping on the “comment on other blogs” wagon.
Although a lot of them are very well designed I found it hard to write about some mistakes I kept on seeing on other blogs. In fact I have learned a lot.
The most important thing to remember is this:
Scan not read
People do not have the time to read a whole lot now-a-days (unless they are really interested in a particular subject) so “Good bye Reading” and “Hello Scanning”. In order to capture attention you have to create breaks in your text such that the human eye can easily scan, stop and read small bits.
5 Questions You Should Ask a SEO Company
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in SEO Killer Tricks on January 20, 2010
First of all – familiarize yourself with basic SEO jargon like: internal/external links, meta tags, titles, pagerank, etc.
This way at least you know what the SEO company is talking about when they make the sales pitch.
Personally, I noticed that the shady ones are often hiding behind geek lingo trying to paint you in a corner by throwing these words at you, thus proving that they know what they are talking about.
You can cut that conversation short and find out how credible and professional they are by asking 5 little questions. Here they are:
- What kind of results should you be able to see and how long will it take to get there?
- What experience do you have in my industry and how long have you been doing this?
- Show/send me examples of your previous work and success stories. Can I contact some of these people?
- Do you follow the Google Webmaster Guidelines?
- What other marketing services do you offer besides SEO?
Just keep this list by your phone and take notes while they answer these questions. I’m sure you are a pretty seasoned business individual so you should be able to spot the shady ones right away. You can download a quick and easy PDF document of “Questions to ask a SEO company” right here.
