Real Reach

Let’s Get Real About Your Blog’s Reach Many ag bloggers start a blog to tell the world about how food is grown. They imagine if they just post enough and are forthright enough that their blog will be read by anyone looking for their information. I am going to be honest with you. It ain’t gonna happen. You might get a few people to stumble across your site and read a few passages. But these numbers...

The All Mighty BackLink

Why are backlinks important? They demonstrate to search engines that your site is considered valuable to other people in your market or industry. Thus placing your site higher in the search engines rankings. The ultimate goal being on the first page of Google and then the pinnacle of being ranked in the top three for that search term or topic. How to obtain backlinks? This is also called link building. There is a whole...

Improve Blogger’s Post Titles for SEO

Gayle emailed a great question after I posted about permalinks for self hosted wordpress sites. She wanted to know about her blogspot blog and permalinks. I certainly didn’t mean to leave blogger out. So to be fair to that platform here is my advice to improve search engine optimization for blogger. With bloggers new layout they took away the option to edit html; so removing the date from the permalink or post title url...

Is Your Permalink Dragging You Down

Post Links Should Help Your Blog I did not intend to make the topic of links a series but it’s funny how things work out. (or is it called snowballing?). In the last post I defined the basic link types. I probably should have written about this posts topic long ago but I didn’t have the information I do now. What I am talking about is permalinks. If you are on a self hosted wordpress blog and your post titles look...

Lots of Link Love

I had a great question asked to me this week. It was about links. What are the differences with all these links? Inbound links, Back links, Outbound links, nofollow links, external/internal links ect. Lets start with the basics. Link: short for hyperlink which is code that can be embedded into anchor text (or image) that when clicked will take you to another page, site or information. Internal links lead to pages within your...

10 Ways Your Blog Knocks Out Your Facebook Page

Facebook or Blog I started my Facebook fan page the first of January this year. I have had some decent response to it. And as much as I am a twitterholic, facebook is number one for referral traffic. But the question is can your facebook replace your blog? I would say, “Perish the thought.” And if you are visual like me, the following infographic will get the point across so much better than a list. Do you agree...

Video Tutorial: Adding an Image to Sidebar

How to Add an Image to WordPress Sidebar Sometime you might want to display a photo or image in your wordpress sidebar. You could use code from an image hosting site such as photobucket or picasa. But I don’t like relying on a third party site to display my images. I have had them stop displaying for no reason. To easily get around this problem, is to hold the images right on your own blog. Follow these easy steps that...

Stop the Excuses; Start Blogging

Before you can Speed Blog, you have to actually have a blog. Luckily for everyone wishing to start blogging, it is so easy. And if you have an ag business, you really can’t use the excuse that you don’t have enough time. I have considered writing about how to start a blog, but when I saw the following infographic I knew I had to share it. I mean why reinvent the wheel, right? So give your ag business a boost into...

Facebook is Fickle

Facebook Badges I don’t know why but facebook likes to make helpful items a mystery to find. Then once you find it; they switch to something else. I just discovered their badges page that lets you add widgets to your sidebar or footer. I had a previous post that was similar to this but the process on that link sometimes doesn’t work. Facebook now has one page where you can pick which type of badge to put on your...

Improve Your Blog in 31 Days

Blog Motivation After going through this workbook in January, I am convinced that a group setting is so much better than going alone. Accountability: Knowing others are expecting your participation is a great incentive to get things done. Multiple points of view: Getting input from people from around the country brings you valuable  view points that you may never have considered. Cheer Squad: Each blogger in the group wants...