50 Blog Post Ideas for Business Blogging

From: http://www.seoptimise.com

Business blogging is not always easy.

A business blog is subjective but unlike a private blog you still are writing for people interested in your trade, products and services and not necessarily you as a person watching movies and eating out.

You can’t annoy people too much, you can’t be too

• personal
• funny
• outspoken

So you need ideas that are creative while not being too creative as to scare away your business audience.

To assist you I collected a list of 50 blog post ideas for business blogging for any industry. You can apply it in most niches I think. Some of these ideas are the bomb and will bring you publicity and popularity while others focus on highlighting your expertise or are part of a social networking strategy. Some of the post ideas are all of these at once.

Finish reading this article here.

Simple SEO: explaining and understanding SEO in the simplest way possible

Published by Hamlet Batista on Thu 22 May 2008

It’s been a while since I’ve had time to post here as I am extremely busy with RankSense. In selling an SEO software suite I answer a lot of technical questions, but, oddly enough, I feel I have become much better at explaining what SEO actually is. As SEO has become more mainstream, and more people are curious about what exactly it means, I think it’s important to find ways to explain SEO in simple terms. That’s exactly what I want to do in this post: simple SEO in terms of goals, strategies, and tactics.

Finish reading this article here.

10 Ways to Make your Website More Popular

Golden Rules of Linkbaiting

Link baiting is not evil. Although some bloggers tend to go beyond any ethical considerations in their attempts to enforce as many reciprocal links as possible, the term itself stands for a completely organic nature of the Web – actually, something that has already been here for a while. Traditional link building, used to be bounded with Search Engine Optimization, is now being extended with the aspect of so-called Social Media Optimization – with Digg, StumbleUpon, Netscape, Del.icio.us & Co. on the bandwagon. Driving traffic to your site has become easier, but requires through-out strategies and understanding some basic rules of useful content and effective content marketing.

Finish reading this article on Link Baiting.

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Link Building Secrets Revealed by Top Linking Experts

The world’s top link building experts get together to provide a single source of never-before revealed link building tips, tricks and strategies.

What happens when you ask some of the world’s foremost link building experts to dish out one of their most guarded secrets to the world in a single collaborative effort? They respond!

Over the years of studying and implementing SEO and link building strategies I have found that with all the information readily available, very little of it is actually revealing in any real way. I set out to remedy that. I asked each of the experts below to disclose ONE link building secret that they use and are pretty sure hasn’t ever been made public. The secret could be in the form of a strategy, tactic, way to analyze, a tool that you use (one that is publicly available), etc. I didn’t ask anybody to give away their best secret and asked that they don’t share anything that’s easy and/or likely to be abused by spammers.

Finish reading this article on Link Building

How to Think Like an SEO Expert

If you want to become an expert you need to start thinking like one. People perceive you as an authority in your field not because you claim you are, but by listening to what you say or reading what you write. From my personal experience, the key seems to be the originality, usefulness and depth of what you have to share. Recently I was very honored to contribute to a link-building project. I wanted to share with you my idea, but more than that, in this blog I like to take extra time to explain the original thought process that helped me come up with the idea in the first place.

Finish reading here.

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SEO Speak Translated: The Real SEO Glossary

In the SEO industry agencies, experts and even bloggers have adopted a special mode of speech not to say slang that might be misunderstood by outsiders like clients, website visitors or the general public. To help you understand what search engine optimization experts really mean I devised this real glossary of SEO speak:

Finish reading here.

Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?

Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows how it works. Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. With billions of existing pages and millions of pages generated every day, the search issue in the Web is more complex than you probably think it is. PageRank, only one of hundreds of factors used by Google to determine best search results, helps to keep our search clean and efficient. But how is it actually done? How does Google PageRank work, which factors do have an impact on it and which don’t? And what do we really know about PageRank?

In this article we put the facts straight.

Networking to Build Back Links to Your Web Site

If you’ve been doing SEO for a while, you know about the concept of linkbait. This is content that is so cool or useful or entertaining that people can’t resist linking to it, thus improving your page rank and your position in the search engine results pages. But how do you get the word out about your linkbait?At base, the Internet is one big network – the largest in the world, granted, but still one big network. If you want your linkbait to attract visitors to your web site, you’re going to have to use the network to put it where they can see it. Quite literally, you’re going to have to network.

You don’t necessarily have to put all of your linkbait in places where it can be seen. You can set lures to your linkbait, in a manner of speaking. For instance, you may have engaged in pay-per-click campaigns. Have you considered starting one to promote your linkbait? To take a very basic example, if you put the term “mortgage calculator” into Google you get more than five million hits; you also get eight sponsored results on the right, including one with the words “Mortgage Calculator” as the active link.

I don’t often click on sponsored listings, but if I was thinking about how much home I could afford I wouldn’t have any qualms about clicking on those links. It’s obvious that they’re highly relevant to my search. If you can lure relevant traffic to your web site, there’s every chance that they’ll bookmark your linkbait, pass the link on to friends (after all, most of us have friends with similar interests), and maybe even link to it themselves.

In short, however you get visitors to your site, from whatever source or in whatever venue, once they’re at your site, they’re likely to link to it if you give them what they’re looking for. With a pay per click campaign, you may not have a lot of room in the ad itself, but you can focus it tightly to your linkbait. In this way, searchers will know you’re giving them what they expected.

Finish readhing this article at SEOChat.

“Page Rank will make you feel good, but higher conversions will make you rich.”

When I first started working with the search engine optimization industry I was drawn to Google’s page rank system. Google is – and most likely will continue to be – the largest search engine of our time, so when they say “we have created a system to rank webpages” you better pay attention.

If the leading search engine tells you that they have a way to monitor and rank your website, you would pay attention to what they have to say. And most web masters do. But some webmasters take the guidance from search engines like Google a bit too far.

Page Rank and linking = nasty taste in your mouth.

The problem with webmaster and search engine relationships arises when webmasters think that getting a high Page Rank from Google is essential to their website’s success.

Surprise surprise, having a high Google Page Rank does not mean more traffic, more site conversions, and more popularity online. All a high Page Rank means is that Google thinks your website is fairly important.

And yeah, if Google thinks your website is important, that’s great. And if you are building quality link partnerships with websites that Google thinks are important, that’s great too.

But focusing on Google Page Rank will not – in any way, shape, or form – bring you more traffic. Focusing on getting a high Google Page Rank will not make you more sales, or higher click-through rates, or more subscribers. It won’t.

So when webmasters focus on linking only with websites with high Page Rank, they are missing the point of Page Rank. In-fact: when webmasters focus on Page Rank at all, they are missing the point of Page Rank… which is authority and reputation.

Finish reading Tanner’s post at Internet Hunger.

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