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404 Errors: SEO Impacts and How to Fix Them
After discussing what 404 errors are and how they impact your website, you might be wondering how this impacts your online marketing efforts. How do Google and Bing treat 404 errors on your site? What if somebody shares a broken link from your website on Facebook, Twitter, or another social network? More importantly, what can you do to avoid those negative impacts?s
Read MoreUnderstanding 404 Errors On The Web 101
If you run a website, you are probably wondering what this means for you. Because visitors can encounter 404 errors on any site, some of your visitors are probably encountering 404 errors on your site. The more visitors you have and the more pages you have, the better the chances of your visitors encountering 404 errors on your site.
Read MoreGoodreads For Authors: How to Take Your Book Social
If you are an author, and haven’t heard about Goodreads.com you need to fire your coach, publisher, or PR company. Goodreads.com is a fast growing social network for readers of all genres. Like most social networks you setup your own profile, connect with friends, and send private messages. It is different in that everything you do to interact within the site is based around books.
Read MoreReputation Mangement: Quick Look at Google Alerts
Google Alerts is a no cost service that searches the ongoing Google index of the web for a preset list of your designated keywords or phrases. This is particularly effective at searching on blogs and news sites. The service is not perfect and the more remote the site where your keywords or phrases are used the less…
Read MoreHow to Setup A Home Video Surveillance System Without Monthly Fees
In the first weeks of 2012 I added to my list of family goals for us to setup a home video surveillance system. Our family is very security minded and this was something we wanted to implement without signing a long term contract with a monitoring company.
Read MoreBlog Monetization With Kindle Publishing For Blogs
One way to generate some supplemental revenue with your blog is to publish it with Amazon Kindle. In addition to creating another stream of income it will also add some additional convenience for your subscribers who own a kindle.
Read MoreHow Can I Tell If Comments On My Site Are SPAM?
If you have a WordPress website you probably are bombarded with comments that you think are JUNK and other comments that you can’t help but wonder if they are legitimate or not. The following is designed to act as a guide and tutorial to help you better identify SPAM comments and prevent them from occurring in the first place.
Read MoreThe 3 Ways Websites and Blogs Make Money
If you recently started a blog or have a website you may be looking for creative ways to generate revenue. As I considered all the various ways to generate revenue online I was able to boil it down to just three generic methods. As you review the concepts and some of the specific examples, consider how
Read MoreGoogle Webmaster Tools & XML Sitemaps Tutorial
When you first build a site you need to submit it to Google so that it can be indexed. Google can more easily index your site if you have a sitemap. Since the recording of this video several years ago, Google has created a robust and helpful dashboard of tools called Google Webmaster Tools. Check it out.
Read MoreWhat is a Computer Browser? How Does it Work?
In my series of Internet Basics I’d like to add this great tutorial video from Google that explains browsers.
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