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An Intro to SEO for Photographers

Due to some technical difficulties, this week’s podcast will get rolled into next week’s show. I’m excited to offer up this video however, produced by the folks at Photoshelter. In addition to their great photo hosting services, they produce a variety of resources to help photographers grow business. Here’s a great introduction to Search Engine [...]

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Six Plugins You Don’t Need if You Use Thesis

I’ve talked about how much I love Thesis, but here’s a reason that doesn’t usually come up in first conversations: Thesis means I don’t have to use a bunch of plugins. Why does this matter? Because each plugin is one more bit of overhead that runs when your blog serves up content, and it’s one [...]

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Posting Video Online? A Quick Tip for Search Optimization

While at BlogWorld last month I chatted with Eugene Lee from TubeMogul. As a TubeMogul guy, he knows all about online video and offered up a tip for photographers who put video online: Thanks for the tip, Eugene!

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Thesis Just Got Better: An Easy to Customize WordPress Theme

I’ve blogged previously about why I think Thesis is the best WordPress theme. The folks at DIY Themes just released Thesis 1.6, a new version that adds some incremental updates along with some really nice new design and customization features. Thesis has always offered menu-driven customization for things such as number of columns and the [...]

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The Web Stat that Leads to SEO: Search Referrers

Over the past month or so, I’ve posted several articles related to web statistics and what they mean. Let’s take a look at an important referrer-related bit of information: inbound search links. These identify the terms that visitors are putting into search engines and then finding your site. For example, if one searches for Portland [...]

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SEO Basics: Links

Last time we talked search engine optimization (SEO), we talked about how keywords relate to SEO. Today let’s take a look at links (the HTML anchor <a> tag) and how they factor into ranking on Google and other search engines. Links matter for a couple different reasons. The first is the general assumption that the [...]

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SEO Basics: Intro and Keywords

If you start publishing content on the internet through a website or blog, one of the terms you’ll come across fairly quickly is SEO. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, and it’s an area that should get some attention from every blogger or content creator. Search engines such as Google and Bing use automated programs [...]

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