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Submitting Your Thesis WordPress Site, Sitemap, and Setting up Analytics for Google.

Rachael Butts — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:22:33 +0000

It is super important that you don’t forget to submit your Thesis WordPress site to Google, as well as add a sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools, so you can tell the Google spiders to come crawl your WordPress posts, and pages that you have added. The other benefit of adding you sitemap to Google is you can track crawl errors, check whos linking to you, set up robots.txt files, as well as other odds and ends. Google Analytics actually lets you track who is coming to visit your site, what keyword(s) they typed in to find you, and even where they live! It also shows what search engine they were in, and if they came and left right away also called “bounced”.

In the video tutorial below I am going to show you how to submit your WordPress site, and also a Thesis WordPress site to Google. I will show you how to download Google XML Sitemaps plugin, configure it, and submit that to Google, and lastly show you how to set up Google Analytics to track your SEO power!

So lets Go!

Part 2

Links to the Google Places You Will Need to Visit:
Google Webmaster Tools

Google Analytics

If you need assistance with Submitting your WordPress, or Thesis WordPress site to Google I am available to assist you.

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5 SEO Factors When Choosing a Domain Name.

Rachael Butts — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:23:53 +0000

SEO for Domain names, your "lipstick".

What better place to pick up where we left off than talking about a domain name. We have been doing all these tutorials on your site for SEO, and haven’t really touched on the most basic make-up of your site. No not lipstick and blush, but the first thing that Google sees. Your domain name.

Now, a long time ago, people could put up a site, keyword stuff a title, and description and rank in 24 hrs. Now, it requires a lot more skill than typing.

So, let’s look at some of the factors when choosing a domain.

1. Stick with the highest level domain extension. This means .com. If the domain name you want is taken, and is only available in .net, I’d skip it and try and find a different domain. Underneath that is .org and .net. There has been debate under which is better, but generally I have had more success with a .org site. Another thing to remember when choosing and extension is “.com” is much more brandable than a “.net”.

2. Choose a site that ideally has your keyphrase in it. Now, I know what you are thinking, your site is “rachaelbutts.com” You are a hypocrite. I have had success with non keyphrase and keyphrase sites , don’t get me wrong. In the end the most important part is on page content and links. Which designers get plenty of . So, look for sites that have your phrase in the order it is searched, or try adding a word before or after the phrase. Say for example that wordpressdesigners.com is taken, but bestwordpressdesigners.com is available then the latter is perfectly acceptable.

3. Avoid dashes. Dashes are bad for two reason. a. It breaks up your keyphrase, and b. It isn’t user friendly. No one says, ” Hey, visit my site at rachael dash butts.com. See it looks and sounds weird.

4. Pluralizing a word is perfectly fine, and if you have done your keyword research you might find the “s” , or pluralized version is actually searched more than the singular.

5. When purchasing a domain that is an “aged” domain, and has established backlinks and PR. Make sure that the domain isn’t in any bad neighborhoods, and only got all those backlinks by paying for link farms. An aged domain is most of the time better than a newly registered domain, but not if it is associated with bad sites. It is like dating a guy you don’t get a background check on.

In conclusion, there are several things to look at when choosing a domain for yourself, especially for SEO. Remember, .com, keyphrase, no dashes, can be plural, and no bad neighborhoods. Good Luck!

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Phoenix SEO Rachael Butts Link Building Tutorial Step 12 | Social Media

Rachael Butts — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:53:33 +0000

Social Media for SEO can sometimes become overwhelming. Trust me I know. Update status here, tagged photo there, a new Farmville animal gathered, and eventually you throw your hands up in defeat because there is no way you can keep up.

That is why I set the whole thing on autopilot by setting my RSS feed to automatically post to Twitter and Facebook, and in doing that it leaves me a wonderful super fantastic link to my post! It also uses my title and description, so I am using my keyphrases as well. A double win.

So, to do that I use Twitterfeed along with my RSS feed burned by FeedBurner. Now, you do not have to burn your RSS feed with FeedBurner, but I highly recommend it. If you don’t know how check out my Phoenix SEO tutorial on it. Very easy, and takes 5 minutes.

How to set up your Feed to Automatically Post to Twitter and Facebook:

1. Create a Twitter Feed Account

2. Get your Feed Title /Feed Url and copy and paste them into TwitterFeed.

3. Create Services ( Facebook and Twitter) It will ask you to authenticate and make sure you are authenticating it with the account you want. This is for people with multiple blogs and social media sites.

4. Save it and write a post to test it if you like.

5. Warning…it does take about an hour sometimes to have the post appear on the social media sites, because it only updates every hour, so if it doesn’t show up right away…Don’t freak out! ( I did)

* A few words in leaving. Always remember that spamming is for losers, and you won’t gain any friends by being spammy and leaving your shameless links all over the place. Social media is a great way to share other people’s content and in turn they will share yours. It is like that Bible verse. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

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Phoenix SEO Link Building Tutorial Step 8| dofollow Forums

Rachael Butts — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:42:58 +0000

This is my Link Building Tutorial Step 8

Sorry I skipped this step because I was off in some mystical realm. Don’t ask it is a secret.

So, forums are a great way to get some links to your site form a niche.

Warning! Do not over spam this , because it can make you look worse than you started out.

I like to find forums that interest me, and I actually want to gather some info on, and meet other people who are like me…crazy.

It is a good idea to talk on the site a few times before linking as well, so it makes you look even more legit which I know you are

How to Get the Links in a Forum Brief Discussion ( Please Watch)
Sorry for the shakiness I forgot my tremor medication. :

How to Get the Links in a Forum Tutorial using FollowTopia:

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Phoenix SEO Link Building Step 11 | Social Bookmarking

Rachael Butts — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:26:22 +0000

Welcome back to my Link Building Steps.

This is step 11, and we have almost reached the finish line.

Step 11 is all about social bookmarking, and how to use these sites to get links.

I have a video tutorial here just for you, as well as the Top 20 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Sites to get links from.This list has the Alexa Ranking as well as PR.

To get my social book marks simply go to Plugins>add new>sexy bookmarks, and install it, you can then manage the plugin under settings in your WordPress dashoard. Enjoy!

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Phoenix SEO Link Building Step 9 | .gov links

Rachael Butts — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:18:25 +0000

Howdy!

This is step 9 in my seo link building tutorials. In this step I am talking about how to get that link from a .gov site. This site I am referring you too actually is very active and has lots of participants, so you may even drum up some business! Enjoy!

How to get a link from a .gov site:

1. Create an account at Business.gov

2. Create your profile, and in “signature” in your profile ad your name and the html code for a link to your site: Anchor Text ( Main keyphrase)

3. Save Profile

4. Search the community using your keyphrase

5. Respond to a topic from the results, and your link is automatically added each time you post to the business.gov site.

6.

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Phoenix SEO Expert Rachael Butts Shows You How to Set Up Permalinks on Your WordPress Blog

Rachael Butts — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:14:51 +0000

I decided to veer off for a second on our Link Building Tutorial path, and talk about Permalinks.

I am doing this because lately lots of clients have been having me look at their blog, and it looks real nice and pretty, and then I hover over a link, and there it is…dun dun dun…?p=123. Now for someone who knows nothing I understand what you are thinking. Rachael, so what? SO WHAT! I say. This means you have no title set up of category, and you are missing a perfect opportunity to get that keyphrase in there twice! When you change your permalinks you are changing it from:

http://yourdomain.com/?p=123

to

http://yourdomain.com/category/post-title.

Much better! Now you can have that SEO Juice Power, and tell people what the category and post is about.

If you have set it up, and you have lots of posts already, don’t fret. There are several permalink redirect plug-ins that do this for you without 404 errors.

Watch the video how to below:

Enjoy!

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Phoenix SEO Link Building Step 8, How to get a .edu Link to Your Site

Rachael Butts — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:26:41 +0000

This is step 8 of my link building tutorials, and in this tutorial I am going to talk about how to get a .edu link.

Before we start I want to add that .edu sites are not any more important than a .com site, but a .edu sites normally will have a lot of weight in Google because it is a trusted source, has good PR, and is White Hat. Not many black hat college sites out there!

So here is how you can get that .edu link.

Step 1. Type : Your Keyword or Keyphrase+inurl:blog site:.edu

in Google, and you will see a list of .edu blog sites.

Step 2. Leave a comment on a blog post on one of the results that pulled up

*Remember to find sites that are in your niche, and remember to be kind and curtious.

Watch How!

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Phoenix SEO Link Build Step 7-How to Get Your Link In YouTube

Rachael Butts — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:51:19 +0000

This is Step 7 of my 12 Phoenix SEO Link Building Steps, and in this step I am going to show you how to get a link from a big site like You Tube.

This also applies to other video sites too, but in this video tutorial I used YouTube.

Steps to Get that Link in YouTube

Log into YouTube
Upload Your Video
Enter Your Title
Enter your description and use : http://yourdomain.com in it.
Add your tags
Save Changes

You did it! That is all you need to you. Simply type out the url and make sure to use the http://. Unfortunately, you cannot use anchor text, but a link from a high pr like youtube is good enough for me!

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SEO Phoenix Link Building Step 6-Comments

Rachael Butts — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:23:30 +0000

This is Part 6 of my 12 Phoenix SEO Link Building Steps, so congratulations you are half way done!

In this link building step we are going to talk about how to post a link to your site by leaving a comment on other blogs.

This is really great because you can get a link from a site in your niche just by searching in Google and finding a relative site to post a comment to.

This also allows you to be seen and heard in your community as well.

* If you want your picture to show up next to your comment that you make everytime, simply go to Gravatar and make one for yourself. Now a pic of you, or your logo that you upload will appear everytime and any site!

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