Sometimes I wonder who is my audience? I mean I write my blog posts, and get my traffic, and some comments. But everybody knows that the comments are a very small percentage of the actual amount of readers. I looked at my Google analytics results from all of the visitors on mastersofseo ever, and they averaged 1M and 41 S on my blog. Now that’s not very good but it’s not awful either. A minute and 40 seconds is a long time to look at one page. And also each visit averages 1.72 pages per visit. Then I totaled up my amount of visitors and using that information I used an online calculator and figured out what percentage of my visitors commented. It was pretty depressing number, only 0.06521739130434782% or rounding up 7% of my visitors comment. Read the rest of this entry »

Please take note, some SEO plugins can conflict and give you duplicate information, which is not good. So please, pick your favorites and stick with them. (Those that WILL conflict will be noted in their description.)

We all know that “Content is King,” but if your content can’t be found, it won’t be a help to anyone. But be honest with yourself, do you really want to spend hours on end on SEO? Don’t worry – you won’t have to if just let these plugins go to work for you while you focus on the main thing, and that’s content. Read the rest of this entry »

Since 10 has ended, it’s time to set goals or “new years resolutions” for 2011. There are several things you must keep in mind when you’re setting your goals – these are to keep you from being too ambitious and thus unpractical. Nothing grates on you more like unfulfilled goals. I’ve compiled a list of tips to keep in mind, when you are discovering and then accomplishing your goals.

1. Be Reasonable
Every heard the phrase shoot for the moon? Well don’t. Like I said earlier, when you set goals, and don’t do them, it can make blogging incredibly depressing. Set goals that are possible to obtain, that way you won’t get frustrated if you can’t. And every time you can check off a goal, it’s such a great feeling. Read the rest of this entry »

Some of you have been here before – some of you haven’t. But I want to let you all know that MastersofSEO is now under new leadership. John did a great job, and left us with a lot of great connections and awesome content. But something was missing that was hindering this blog from really hitting the big time, and hopefully we can provide it.

In January of 2009, you may have read the goals that the previous owner had for MastersofSEO for last year. Here it is one year later. How did it go you ask? Let’s review. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve compiled a list, of the different characteristics, attributes, and skills, that I think are the essentials for a  blogger to be successful. I hope you find this list enjoyable and helpful, but most of all, inspiring. Feel free to comment below with any suggestions, and I’ll add your idea with a link like this:
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