by Katinka Hesselink on July 18, 2011
First watch this video by Matt Cutts from Google: Do you recommend article marketing as an SEO strategy? Since I’ve been advising people to do article marketing for ages now, I think I should explain. Matt Cutts says you should NOT do article marketing. I say you should. The difference is due to a difference [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on July 1, 2011
Most of the people who comment on here have done this, but a few haven’t, so I thought I’d remind people: If you want your avatar to show up on wordpress blogs, nine times out of ten what you need is a gravatar account. It connnects your email address (hidden from viewers) with an avatar [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on June 15, 2011
I’m writing this ahead of time, so by the time you all read this, it’s probably no longer accurate – especially given that I’ve become more active here over the past weeks. Anyhow – as I write this (June 6th 2011) this blog has 113 subscribers according to Google’s Feedburner stats. That’s great – especially [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on May 9, 2010
NOTE: in the coming month, squidoo will be changing their nofollow policy. I’ve been thinking about Squidoo and SEO lately. Well, what else is new, right? Turns out I’m not the only one. One of the issues is that there are quite a few useful modules where squidoo nofollows links, though you’d expect the links [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on February 21, 2010
Alright: spam alert. This tactic can seriously cross the boundary between creating original content that adds something to the web & content that is only there to make your other content rank. That said, building links is part of any web publishing business. And looking at the backlinks to Katinka Hesselink the other day, I [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on October 28, 2009
In this e-book I will share my knowledge and experience about online publishing, marketing and making money. There are roughly four aspects to this craft: putting content online, optimizing your content for search engines, promoting your content and making money off of it. I will help you figure out what kind of content you will [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on March 5, 2009
I’ve had several online conversations lately with people which have clarified my own position about online marketing. I have long had the policy that I am only putting energy into blogs, social networks, bookmarking services etc. if they have followed links. That is, other than twitter. I prefer blogs that are self hosted, but that’s [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on November 6, 2008
I just had to say this. Trying to dispel a myth here. It is NO use to submit your squidoo lens (or blog or website) in google. It is a waste of time. I don’t know about yahoo and MSN, perhaps submitting your lens (or website or blog) there gets it traffic, but in google [...]