Ronda, Spain, Spanish, Themes, and Everything Else

When it comes to SEO, I'm no expert, I know what makes sense, I take a lot that I see around the 'Net with a grain of salt, and whenever possible I experiment, and I take advice from experts. So far I've done OK, I usually rank in the top half dozen pages for most of the major keywords I'm targeting, for example a search for 'serendipity templates' will usually find me pretty quickly.

The thing is though, doing SEO on your blog is one of those intangible things that a lot of people don't do right, or aren't able to measure in isolation from normal organic popularity of their blog. Measuring the results of your experiments is easy with regular HTML pages which don't have commenting functions, usually aren't updated all that often, and don't usually take advantage of the built-in social networking that comes with having a blog. Read More

Promoting a blog and building your traffic momentum is both the easiest and hardest thing in the world to do. I started working on this site about two and a half years ago I think, and it's done really well considering I haven't really tried to promote it, except through my templates, but all of that is about to change. Keep reading to find out what I'm doing and why it's working.

For the longest time this blog has pretty much done nothing for me. Sorry, I take that back. My blog has given a lot, to me and to the community I'm part of, I've enjoyed working on it, I love working on templates, and I can't believe how lucky I've been with other website projects that collectively generate a decent full-time income.

So you might wonder, what is my point, and when am I going to get to it. Ok, I'm going to share some of the things I'm doing that help drive traffic, and I'm going to keep doing this in future entries. This means that you will be able to see how I've got this site indexed in the search engines, and how I generate traffic, and you will be able to emulate this on your own blog. Read More

A great friend of the Serendipity community and an SEO expert, Paul Dillinger of CR Solutions Group S.A., has provided some key SEO tips for Bloggers which I've compiled into this article. I've started using some of Paul's tips on one of my own websites (not this one) and found an immediate improvement in SERPs and traffic.

Any blog could benefit from these so if you're using Wordpress, MT, Blogspot or some other engine, keep reading. Actually any webmaster should read the tips, even those of you using e-commerce sites, directories, portals, forums, you name it, these techniques work universally. Read More

Let's cut straight to the chase. You're a webmaster, your website needs traffic, and you need to see your site listed in Google's SERPs. I bet you've tried a hundred different ways to do this, but right now we're going to talk about how to use forum signatures to increase traffic and backlinks.

Other people's forums are a great way to get traffic to your pages, best of all you get to choose which page that traffic lands on. And if you need backlinks, wow, it's so easy to do, just reply to threads, it's a no brainer! Ok, back to reality, if it was that easy we'd all have success with forum signatures. So why do some people get the traffic and loads of backlinks, and others don't. Well, like anything, you have to know what you're doing. Any expert can tell you to post in forums, but most don't tell you how. Read More