DIY Blogger NET

Google Alerts is a great tool but only when it’s working reliably. Most are reporting that it’s stopped completely. Considering how Google Reader was dropped, it won’t be long before it gets closed too. The replacements… If you love the tool and need a replacement, here is our small list of alternatives… Mention Mention offers [...]

In case you’re not familiar with List.ly, here’s a quick lowdown. List posts are one of the most popular, persistant, and useful forms of content you can find online. We’ve all seen them: 12 Most Perfect Ways to X 7 Reasons Why You Must Y 3 Dangerous Items in Your Z Nick Kellet and the [...]

If you search Huffington Post for the phrase “This article originally appeared in”, you get over 11 thousand results. That’s 11 thousand pieces of duplicate content. Of course, this is one of million examples I could have listed. Every big site, from Forbes, to Mashable, to RWW, to you name it…sais they’re doing us a favor [...]

Have you ever participated in a business course? If you have, then you would remember the famous quote of Bill Gates that your professors might have evoked (and which interestingly relates to local SEO): “In a business the first technological rule used is that in order to magnify the efficiency you need to apply automation [...]

Dan Cristo, the Founder of Triberr, Director of SEO Innovation at a prestigious NYC SEO firm, and all around my hero. He regaled the attendees at the TribeUpNYC with his vision of the future for bloggers. And it’s a glorious future indeed. Check it out. > And if you’d like to bring the next TribeUp into your town, [...]

The dreaded 301 redirect. It seems so scary to many people! Will my rankings transfer over? Will I still have the search engine power I had before with a new website? What about the new domain trust factor? How can a new domain possibly earn trust with the search engines and rank in top positions [...]

Short answer is yes. They are. In fact, looking at the arc of algorithmic updates over the last 10+ years, it becomes clear who they’re working for. But don’t take it from me, here’s what Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, had to say about it. Internet is a “cesspool,” a festering sea of bad information. Brands are how [...]

Have you got your ducks in a row? Social Media seems to be engulfing us nowadays both online and off-line. Not a day goes by without a mention in the news of the latest innovation or issue from Facebook or Twitter. Or the latest social platform that’s sure to be “the next big thing”; Pinterest? [...]