1 Simple Tip to Improve Readability and SEO at the Same Time
January 23, 2008
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One of the questions I get asked a lot is, “Are you an SEO Expert?”
When I talk with the asker a bit, usually what they want to know is, “Can you help my site get ranked higher in the search engines?”
You bet I can do that.
Did you know there is something you can do that will not only help with your search engine rankings but also help make your posts more readable for people at the same time?
There is a catch, though. To do this you have to learn a tiny amount about HTML coding. The good news is that it is pretty easy. So don’t panic. You can learn how quickly. Let’s dive in. Read more
2 Easy Blogging Tricks to Learn Basic HTML Quickly
June 7, 2007
Some bloggers, especially new bloggers, don’t want to learn how to code html. I can understand that feeling.
There is so much to learn when we are first starting blogging it can feel a bit like taking a foreign language for some. From the very term Blog on down there are tons of new terms we bloggers use. Trackbacks, blogroll, pings, feeds, RSS, comment box, pages, blog post, categories, plugins, widgets, tags, seo - the list goes on and on.
And that doesn’t even get into the sometimes strange names of the different services and web sites that are useful to bloggers. WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, FeedBurner, Technorati, MyBlogLog, StatCounter, and Hit Tail are just a few that a blogger might run across.
It can feel overwhelming for sure. And the idea of having to learn HTML on top of all that other learning is keeping some folks from getting started unnecessarily.
If you are new to blogging, or are considering getting started I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Most of us didn’t know anything about HTML when we started either. We picked up along the way after we got started.
One of the things I love about blogging is that most of the blog publishing platforms make it so easy for the beginner to have a professional looking web site without them having to know any HTML to start.
So you can get started and pick up some basic coding skills along the way like I did because I am going to share two tricks that will help you begin to understand HTML as you blog. Read more
