Did you know that Google is freely giving away advice to help you perform what they consider the BEST SEO PRACTICES? Are you ready for some good news? Google is freely giving away advise to help you perform what they consider to be the best SEO practices. The Google chat forums have multiple PDF’s providing information on just about everything you need to know to have a wildly succesful site.

Check out this PDF for a full SEO overview created just for you by google:

SEO pdf by Google

In this guide google goes over:

SEO Basics

Create unique, accurate page titles

Make use of the “description” meta tag

Improving Site Structure

Improve the structure of your URLs

Make your site easier to navigate

Optimizing Content

Offer quality content and services

Write better anchor text

Optimize your use of images

Use heading tags appropriately

Dealing with Crawlers

Make effective use of robots.txt

Be aware of rel=”nofollow” for links

SEO for Mobile Phones

Notify Google of mobile sites

Guide mobile users accurately

Promotions and Analysis

Promote your website in the right ways

Make use of free webmaster tools

Just Another Free SEO Tip from the guys at HitBrand Consulting!

I am not sure if you are aware but Google really respects .EDU, .ORG and .GOV sites. If you had the capability to find EDU blogs and comment there you could read some great posts as well as provide meaningful feedback. We are sharing the scoop with you and wanted to let you know of a great tool to find EDU blog sites in your niche.

Just click on the link:

FIND EDU BLOG SITES FREE

The frustrating fact is that we get so many spam comments on our blog a say, sometimes we just want to disallow comments all together. So the question of the day is, ”Should I Allow Blog Comments On My Blog?”

We think the answer is Yes! After all is said and done, spam comments are extremely annoying, but there are several things you can do to decrease the time you spend on wedding through spam comments. Here are a few suggestions:

Askimat- This is an invaluable tool for the wordpress platform, which we use on HItBrand Consulting. The Askimat plugin is already preloaded  in your plugins section. All you need to do to activate it is submit your Key, which you can obtain from providing askimat an email address to register. Once activated, Askimat will aggressively locate spam posts on your blog and automatically place them in a spam folder. This is trully one of the best tools to fight against blog spam.

IP Tracking- Each time a blog comment is posted the wordpress platform will show you the commenter’s IP address. You can test to see if this user is a possible spammer by simply cutting and pasting the IP address into a google.com search.

Good Ol’ Common Sense- Read the post, does it make sense and is it relevant to the post? Does the link go to a spammy website?

Comments allow an important way to connect with your readers and we believe with the simpe tips provided here, you can create a high traffic and beneficial blog.