Keywords and keyphrases are the backbone of SEO. Finding good keywords to use in our articles and descriptions and file names can be a bit difficult and time consuming. Most keyword research tools come

I've been a homesteader for pretty much my entire life, but never knew it until I joined Homesteaders CoOp. My parents and my aunts and uncles were homesteaders too, and I just thought sustainable living

Last in our series on images, but by no means least let’s cover the legalities of images. Image courtesy of Pixabay Let's get one thing out of the way first off - just because it's on the internet does

Memes. Nothing stirs emotion and gets a point across to your audience as quickly and effectively as a meme. Nothing is shared, retweeted, reposted, passed around both the conventional net and the blockchain

Infographics can be a really powerful addition to your posts and can even be used in videos. What exactly is an infographic? It’s a visual representation of information which makes sometimes complex data

Adding images to our blog posts is a good thing. It makes the post more interesting and helps it stand out for a potential reader. However, sometimes finding images that we are allowed to use and getting

If, as the old saying goes, a picture is worth 1000 words, then an online image should be worth 1000 likes or followers. And if just 1% of those likes or followers convert to a paying customer, that image

We all know how great the blockchain is. We’ve been here posting (and lurking) and meeting new people, sharing our thoughts, spreading our creative wings and enjoying the apps built on top of the blockchain.

There are a bazillion sites offering "the best SEO tool to make SEO easy and profitable". Most of these tools cost money - some cost a LOT of money and are available only as a subscription service.

To wrap up the Myth, Magic and Mystery of SEO series let’s do a summary of what SEO is all about, the Cliff Notes cheat sheet of SEO. Courtesy of Pixabay First thing to remember - SEO isn’t really hard,

Our weather turned very warm this week, and I have a couple of yard projects that required my attention so most things online related took a backseat while I dug and raked and planted. You see we have

We spend a lot of time on keywords - picking the “right” ones, positioning them correctly on the page, getting links that use them to send traffic back to the page, but there is one part of a website or

In a previous article, the importance of sending a strong social signal to the Google bots was discussed. I had fully intended to move on to some of the lesser known ranking criteria used by Google, but

We’ve looked at inbound, outbound, and internal links, but today we’ll check out the hardest working link of all - what I call the double duty link. The double duty link sends two signals to search bots

Last week we looked at links coming into your page, today we’ll take a look at the links ON your page. The onpage links are like the red-headed stepchild of SEO, ignored and often forgotten. Yet they are

Backlinks are one of the most magical parts of SEO. Links from reputable websites and pages referencing your page and content can give you an almost overnight boost in the rankings. But links from

I took a forced break from the SEO series partly because of RL and partly because Google dropped one of their big algorithm changes last week and I wanted to be sure my SEO articles for you were still

In our last article we talked about how important the location of keywords is to the Google Search Bots. But just like the guy on T.V. ads says “But wait! There’s more!” While putting yor keyterms in

What is THE most important part of SEO keywords? The location of those keyterms. When the Google Bot comes to check out your site, it doesn’t just look for the keyterms you might have put in the head tags,

Now that we have an idea of who our perfect visitor is, and we have a list of the words and phrases that best describe our content, (see the previous article) it’s time to do some hard core keyterm research.