SEO Advice: Avoiding the bad guys!

The eager neophyte website designer/marketer is often prey to the many scams and other tricks that are abundant on the Internet. And there are so many gurus promising instant success, if you buy their book, download their software, purchase their website promotion software, or use their engine submit software. But Apogee Search has a great article that can help you think about your Top Google Rankings, it’s a bit heavy, but should you wade through Avoid Search Engine Marketing Malpractice, you’ll find it a worthy read.

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Three Kinds of Blogs: the Passion, the Job, or the Splog?

Having browsed quite a few blogs over the last few months, I’m beginning to find that many blogs fall into three categories, and three categories only:

1. the Passionate Blogger: Done by someone who cares for their subject, the main focus of their blog, someone whose passion shines through in their blog writing, their detail, etc..

2. the Business Blogger: Written by someone who is either assigned or self-assigned by his boss/business or whatever, it is thorough, detailed, and specific. But it lacks the real passion from the first type, maybe sporadic, and fails to excite its reader..

3. the Splogger: Written purely for cash, to milk the ads served by an advertising system (fill in the name here), it is usually not well focused, staggers from topic to topic, advert to advert, reader to reader, and after even casual reading, it becomes obvious that the blogger is trying to cash in on Payperpost’s recent generosity, ReviewME or Blogitive’s opportunities…

Which kind of blogger do you aspire to be like? Why?

Increasing your PageViews…

Wow! I found a good pageview target for my blog to aim for. Currently, the page views are hovering between 1.73 and 1.43 this week. I read on here that aiming for 2.0 is a good target.

Then I searched Problogger.net for some info, and they said:

After surfing the top 50 blogs listed there (I couldn’t find stats on 6 of them) I found that on average they have 1.7272 page views per visitor. The highest any of them had was 3.3 page views per visitor and the lowest was 1.1.

There is more to this article that is worth reading, including the fact that blogs lower down the scale didn’t vary as much as one would think. Now that is food for thought!

What is your page view? Vote or comment here… Do be honest! Also, any strategies that you suggest would be great!