SEO For The Common Webmaster

I purchased a new computer and I had lost my passwords for one of my blogs. For some reason when I hit lost password screen, the reset key that was sent to me was invalid. I was in a panic because I did not know much about resetting it through my cpanel on my hosting server.

I found the information after some searching and thought I would share it for any others who may run into the same problem.

Fort you need to go to phpMyAdmin and open the database that you have your Word press Blog. Find the users and hit browse. Find the User that is yours (the admin) and click edit. Now you need to search Google and find a md5 hasher and type in your new password and it will generate a code. Place this code into the password field and hit go to save. This should reset your password to a new password and you should be able to access your blog admin.

I hope this helps someone else because I know how it feels to not be able to figure out how to get into your admin panel.

I wrote a post a while back that this blog got listed on DMOZ directory. I was looking around a last week and I found out I was removed from the listings. I just received an email from one of my loyal readers and they said, did you see you are now listed again on DMOZ. I thought it was a joke so I went and checked and sure enough, I am back on. I am listed here.

I am not sure what is going on over there because it seems off and on. I hope this time it remains. I am very curious of the long term benefit that the listing will have. I will report back in a few months of any benefit from it.

Anybody have their site listed then removed then listed again?

There are many SEO companies that will do professional work for good prices. I have reviewed a few on this and my other blogs. However, when purchasing any service, be careful of SEO scams.

Search Engine Optimization is an acquired skill and it takes time and lots of work. There is no magic bullet that you can buy for $49.95 that will magically make your site appear on the number one spot in Google or get you a PR 6 ranking in just three months. I would be weary of any company that guarantees those results.

Are these things possible? Yes they are. You can get either and both if you work hard. However, Google determines who earns both of those rankings and at anytime Google can devalue any or all of your links. If this is done, there is no way to earn the rankings like that.

When using any SEO service, make sure to ask questions. Get the full details of what is being offered and what is being done to promote your site. If it sounds too good to be true, it is! With most honest SEO companies, you will see some results and hopefully really good ones. However, there are many who will say whatever it takes to get your money and never deliver what they promise.

Always do your research and ask for recommendations from other customers. Talk to friends to get some recommendations. Search the Internet for bad and good things on the company who is offering the service. And I say it again, SEO services are not a magic bullet and be weary of promises that are too good to be true.

Link baiting is a great way to build traffic to your site. However, many webmasters have no idea what link baiting is.

Linking baiting is writing or doing something on your site that will cause others to want to visit your site and link back to your site. There are many ways to do this.  Many sites do link bait with widgets and badges that are added to a website or blog with a link back to a site.  Good examples of this are social bookmarking sites like Digg.

Another example of link bait is writing something that is current breaking news. Many people will find it interesting and link to it. This is a little harder unless you have an inside track because news spreads so fast on the Internet.

Creating an unusual list or great tool that others find useful will get people to your site and wanting to link to it. One example is my post on here about checking for no follows. I have no idea how to incorporate the script in my post so I linked to the original creator’s blog because it is a helpful resource for my readers.

The final and most common way is to write something very controversial that will cause a stir and cause people to read it. This could be political, something funny, an attack on someone famous or any other idea. I wrote an article on my other blog on a religious topic. My plan was not link bait but it caused quite a stir and I had tons of traffic and lots of comments. This to me proved that it works.

If you decide to do link baiting, make sure you spread the word about your article. This can be done by placing it on news sites, social book marking sites, and on related forums. Link baiting is only good if others see it.

I was recently chatting with a friend of mine who has been a webmaster for quite a few years. We were debating between using a professional SEO service or doing all the work yourself. He made a valid point that often times these professional companies know little things that we have either not learned yet or are beyond most common webmaster’s knowledge. For that reason, he went with a Long Island SEO company to do SEO for his newest website.

This is a friend I respect so I asked for the website of the company and I checked out their site. They offer SEO Services to help a website or blog reach its greatest potential. They offer services that are integrated with a combination of what has worked for years along with the newest SEO techniques. Unlike many SEO companies, BDominant has a real address and phone number for easy contact. They also offer an online form to contact them for quotes and more information.

They promise results in as little as three months and they are a very professional company to deal with. Since my friend was pleased with them, I decided to share the companies with my readers so that they have another option when looking for SEO services. Please come back and let us know if you use them by leaving a comment in this post.