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Lest You Make This SEO Mistake Too

by Yan Susanto

What if I say I get a lion share of my traffic from referring sites than that of search engines. It’s still traffic, is it not? Yes, it is but social traffic isn’t the kind targeted traffic you should be proud of if you want to make money blogging. Sure, some of you are social [...]

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7 Habits of Highly Effective One-Way Link Building

by Yan Susanto

Link building is the art of getting links pointing back to your site in pursuit of higher search engine rankings. We certainly know how important link building is but the question are how do we build links? Why do we build links? Which link building strategy works best? Everything else being equal, in theory, the [...]

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Google Tips on How to Improve Your Adsense Earnings

by Yan Susanto

The blogosphere is never short of tips and tricks on how to make money online. Some strategies take a bit more time to implement while some are downright too-good-to-be-true. I’m not your “usual guru” who teaches you how to make money online but personally I second the notion that the most basic strategies are usually [...]

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8 Google Lessons I’ve Learned from Garry Conn

by Yan Susanto

Who the %@#^ is Garry Conn? Let’s just say there are two big ‘G’ in the world of blogging. One is Google with a double ‘o’ and the other is Garry with a double ‘r’. Garry Conn is a down-to-earth blogger who finds joy in helping other bloggers in the business of making money online [...]

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Google Debunk Webmasters’ Myths

by Yan Susanto

The myths and misconceptions about Google are very much prevalent among us webmasters and in an effort to debunk some of them, Google hosted its third Online Webmaster Chat even last Wednesday where Q&A session was held between Gooooooooglers and webmasters. Below are some of the interesting questions and answers I’ve chosen in the best [...]

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15 SEO Tools for Beginners

by Yan Susanto

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the art of optimizing your site blog to rank higher in SERP or Search Engine Result Position. Being on #1 or page one of Google is the ultimate goal of any blogmaster. It’s the key that separates the average site from the extraordinaire. Simply put, the higher you are on [...]

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How Did Google Calculate Your PR?

by Yan Susanto

The buzz of excitement – and disappointment – around the blogosphere these few days are so real that whenever you’re blog hopping, the subject of Google PR Update keeps popping out. You’ll hear all the “cheers” and the “moans”. Some argued that whether it’s really worth the excitement. To each his own, for me getting [...]

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Optimize robots.txt for Better SEO

by Yan Susanto

If you aren’t in the know, search engine is not as smart as what you think it is. It can’t tell which pages of your site should be included in the index and which files to ignore. Therefore we need to instruct it on what to do using a robots.txt file. What is robots.txt file? [...]

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15 Most Under-Utilized Plugins for SEO

by Yan Susanto

Search Engine Optimization is all about optimizing your blog to position it higher in the Search Engine Results and thus increase overall visibility. It’s one of the most, if not the most, important aspect of blogging. In what I have come to learn, there are 3 fundamentally important factors determining the success of a blog, [...]

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