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Optimize Keyword Density in WordPress with Keyword Snatcher

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Every SEO Specialist has their own formula for keyword density. Personally, I prefer to simply have articles written naturally and I try to make sure I’m appropriately mentioning and writing about my targeted keywords. However, many SEO copywriters rely on external applications or online tools to report keyword density — sticking to their tried-and-true formula. If you’re one of those people and you use WordPress to publish your content, you’re in luck. A new plugin for WordPress called Keyword Snatcher provides a quicktag to the “Write” page to easily display the current keyword density. The plugin is not only easy to ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/125/optimize-keyword-density-in-wordpress-with-keyword-snatcher

MyBlogLog Releases a “Shiny” New Recent Reader Widget

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Hot off the heals of the MyBlogLog API debut, MyBlogLog just released a shiny new widget for displaying recent visitors. In addition to its shininess, you can hover your cursor over a MyBlogLog member to learn more about them. Hovering over Web 2.0 Guru — a recent visitor to the Raven blog — revealed some identifying details and also listed all of the blogs that he authors. There are also options to add a member to My Contacts and to view their profile. The widget is available from your Blog/Community page on MyBlogLog. Look for the message and link at the ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/117/mybloglog-release-new-shiny-recent-reader-widget

Google’s Blog Search is Broken

Monday, January 28th, 2008
I’ve always found Google’s Blog Search to be less then stellar. It’s excellent at indexing, sorting and presenting current blog entries. What it’s not excellent at is returning quality results. However, today it hit an all time low. I was doing some research for a client — searching for “chicago annuity” — and the first page results were basically all spam. One of the first things I noticed was the keyword stuffing in the blog entry description. As this screenshot shows, having the word annuity in every sentence three times is most definitely keyword stuffing! If you look closely, you’ll see that ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/97/googles-blog-search-is-broken

How to Extend Your Blog and Promote Your Members with the MyBlogLog API

Friday, January 25th, 2008
We were lucky enough to get access to the MyBlogLog API (Web Service), which is currently part of an invite only beta. The API allows you to pull public information associated with your blog visitors and members and then integrate that data into a custom feature or service. We thought of several ways we could use this service, but settled on the creation of a “Blog Members” directory for our first project. The Blog Members directory was designed to showcase and promote all of the active MyBlogLog users that are members of the Raven Blog (via MyBlogLog). We also wanted to ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/96/how-to-extend-your-blog-and-promote-your-members-with-the-mybloglog-api

8 Ways to Get Thousands of Blog Subscribers

Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Dosh Dosh, a quickly rising personality in the world of search marketing, recently posted a blog entry announcing over 10,000 subscribers. Dosh Dosh’s simple advice was to “Minimize noise. Maximize signal.” The blog entry listed eight (accidental?) strategies that were used to achieve this. They included: No Feedcount No Guest Posting No Contests/Projects No Advertising No Incentives No Guest bloggers No Digg frontpages No Frequent Posting One thing that I felt was missing from the list was “branding.” Dosh Dosh has excellent branding. From the name “Dosh Dosh” to the Japanese influenced anime girls, Dosh Dosh has built a strong and interesting brand. However, there are things in the list ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/93/8-ways-to-get-thousands-of-blog-subscribers

Five Reasons Why You Should Run a “Do Follow” Blog

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Why is the Raven blog a “Do Follow” blog? The short and simple answer has to do with rewarding our blog community. There’s too many high quality comments that don’t deserve to have their links “no followed” in the comments. Running a “Do Follow” blog does take more effort. You have to be more vigilant about the quality of comments left on your blog and you have to give greater scrutiny to external links. However, there’s excellent “Do Follow” and anti-spam tools that are available to bloggers. Andy Beard has a comprehensive list of “do follow” plugins. The list includes plugins ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/88/five-reasons-why-you-should-run-a-do-follow-blog

Blog Spam and the Collateral Damage of Howard Owens

Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Scott Karp over at Publishing 2.0 wrote an entry this week about the scourge of blog comment spam and how it can become an annoyance for unintended victims. Such is the case for Howard Owens. Whenever Howard leaves a comment on a blog that uses Akismet, his comments almost always get flagged as spam, but the problem is that they aren’t spam. Scott believes the culprit is hacking (or cracking as it should appropriately be called). It’s likely because Howard’s blog was hacked by spammers. Not once, but twice. So when Howard enters his blog URL in the comment form, it ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/74/blog-spam-and-the-collateral-damage-of-howard-owens

Best Practices for Successful Blogging

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Blogging has proven itself to be more than just a way to speak your mind online. As companies like Weblogs, Inc and 9rules can attest to, it can also be a lucrative business. Even better, you don’t have to be a large company with several blogs to make money — Darren Rowse of ProBlogger is living proof of that. Although blogging is easy to do, it’s not easy to make it into a successful, revenue generating machine. Being successful at blogging takes time and determination. Mani Karthik put together a helpful list of the twelve habits of successful bloggers that might ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/5/best-practices-for-successful-blogging

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