Ali Blogging - Alex Jeffreys Coaching Program

Some of us students in Alex Jeffreys coaching are struggling to get on top in Google with the keyword “Alex Jeffreys”. Garry Parkes have done some research on why his ranking has dropped in Google.

We have not got any answers yet why the search engine result is like it is. Garry made research and comparison with Steve Harolds blog. Steves blog is higher ranked than Garrys although Steves figures are lower than Garrys. Read more…

Search Engine Optimization Search Engine Optimization, seo

Earlier today I at last made some article submissions to some sites for testing how it works.

I know I should do video marketing now if I followed Alex Jeffreys coaching plan. I will hopefully do this in the weekend instead.

Here are the sites where I made the article submission:
• ezinearticles.com (+++++) (my own ranking)
• hubpages.com (++)
• squidoo.com (+++)
• wetpaint.com (++++)

EzineArticles
Adding your article is easy. Then it seems that they have very careful control of the articles before they are published. There are 4 steps before the article can be published (or not). Read more…

Traffic Generation Search Engine Optimization, Traffic Generation

Be aware of the NoFollow tags. Those tags are added to the links in your visitors comments on your blog. This NoFollow tag is used as default in WordPress.

What is NoFollow then?
It’s a tag that tells search engines “not to follow” the link and therefore don’t give credibility to an outbound web page. This means that your readers do not get any credibility (and higher ranked in search engines) for their activity on your blog.

A win-win situation with DoFollow
Your readers should get the credibility when they add comments and value to your blog. It’s a win win situation. My advice is that you should install the plugin DoFollow for your WordPress blog. Link to DoFollow download.

What is the purpose with the NoFollow tag?
The NoFollow tag is a help for webmasters to stop spammers for making posts on blogs. The spammers will not get any advantages making links. The problem is that this will affect also links in comments from your valuable readers. The spammers also seems to not care about the NoFollow tag. They spam anyway. My conclusion is that the NoFollow tag is fairly useless.

Protect your blog from spam
Use approve the comments before they are displayed on your blog in the WordPress “Settings” area (choose “Discussion”). Then you have control over the spam and can delete those comments and those will never be displayed.

How do I know if a blog use the Nofollow tag?
When you are at a page with comments you can view the source code. Choose “View” and then “Source” in your browser toolbar. When the source is displayed you can make a search for “nofollow” in that document. If you do not find any nofollow tag in the comments text the blog appreciate its visitors and is collaborative.

Search Engine Ranking Search Engine Optimization

These basic SEO are recommended for the biggest search engines. Below are recommended for the meta tags in the header. (Alex Jeffreys is the main keyword)

1. Title tag:
<title>Alex Jeffreys Coaching Program</title>: Use your main keyword in this phrase and try to find a title that most visitors appeal to.

2. Description tag:
<meta name=”description” content=”Great success in Alex Jeffreys coaching”>: Again use your main keyword in this phrase. Try to write the description as clear as possible and make it sticky. This text will be seen in the search engines results. It is important to write something that attracts the visitors among all other search results.

3. Keywords tag:
<meta name=”keywords” content=”alex jeffreys, jeffreys, jeffreys coaching”>: Write your main keyword first. Separate wit commas for the next ones. Use maximum 5 keywords. All keywords should be related with your main keyword.

Above basic search engine optimization are recommended for the head tag. Then you will write your web page content related with the keywords.

If you have a short text do not use your keyword in the body text to often. I will come back with info about Search Engine Optimization for your content of your web pages.

Additional info for Search Engine Optimization for WordPress Blogs
I have tried the “All In One SEO Pack”, Search Engine Optimization pack, for WordPress. Since I didn´t know how to manually change the meta tags in the WordPress themes files.

Maybe it is not possible to change because it is database driven? But the SEO pack seems to work fine for WordPress 2.7.

When using the SEO pack the results in the html files are two lines for the keywords meta tag. The first one is empty:
<”meta name=”keywords” content=”">.

The other one is generated by the SEO pack:
<”meta name=”keywords” content=”alex jeffreys, etc, etc”>

Update: I dont know what the search engines think about the extra empty meta tag. But it should not be a problem if this has been the case with older versions of WordPress.

Anyway these extra tags are easy to remove. Choose to edit your theme and choose to edit “header.php”. There you should delete the two meta tags for “Description” and “Keywords”.

Keywords, Search Engine Optimization Keywords, Meta Tags, Search Engine Optimization