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Why Google Plus Can Be Used for Blogging Purposes

AlliedBloggers — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:18:52 +0000

I have good luck with Google stuff as I usually get an early invite from Google to test out their new products. It’s nothing special. I happen to be one of those people who get things rolled out to their account early. Just like Google Wave, Google Buzz, I was able to join in on Google Plus early (and without any invitation, of course). My first reaction was, ‘this is it!’

Google+ is an amazing platform. Although there are things that can be argued about, overall Google+ is a hit from my end. It turned out to be more interesting to me when I figured out that I can actually use it for blogging purposes as well. Not only that, I thought for a few minutes and came up with a few reasons why blogging on Google+ may actually be better than blogging on an actual ‘blogging‘ platform.

Today, I’d like to share those reasons with you and know what your opinion is on them.

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Page Speed Test, Webmaster Tools And SEO

AlliedBloggers — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:07:04 +0000

You all probably know by now that page speed is an important ranking factor for determining your position on search engine rankings. While this is true, I am of the opinion that more important than this is to provide your readers with the best possible user experience and having your website load quickly not only achieves that but also avoids from “casual” visitor to quickly abandon your site if it takes too much time to load. When this happens, you loose potential readers (or customers) and that is something you don’t want to happen.

Optimize Page Speed

To optimize your page speed, you first will want to know how long your pages load and detect if any, which components are taking too much to fully render. Having the right SEO tools for this is essential as the results will provide you with some insights of what to tackle. One the most obvious tools available for performing this test is Google’s Webmaster Tools. Although Google Webmaster Tools (under the Labs Tab) does this, it provides you with “average” data and basically directs you to use another tool, which is not the object of this post today.

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Exclusive Interview With Maddy Cuttsworth

AlliedBloggers — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:37:31 +0000

How fortunate was I to have run into Maddy Cuttsworth, one of Google’s big boys, and to have him agree to an interview. How lucky are you, my loyal readers, to have access to this exclusive interview with one of the most famous faces behind the huge Google machine.

Naturally, once I got him on his own I wanted to grill him, to learn as much as I could about what Google sees as important as far as PR updates are concerned.

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iPageRank SEO Tool Extension for Google Chrome

AlliedBloggers — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:57:38 +0000

There is a unique Google Chrome Extension called iPageRank SEO Tool for Chrome that shows you every websites pagerank as most other plugins do but goes several steps further.

Clicking on the iPageRank button gives you your websites keywords and the frequency of which they appear, I tested this on my poetry blog and saw what my keywords looked like. There is also a separate column called “performing” on the right which I assume shows which keywords have lead to clicks on your blog from Google Search engines but I don’t know for sure.

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Make Money Using Google’s Analytics Data

AlliedBloggers — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:55:19 +0000

What is the one thing that serious bloggers will often recommend when writing a post? Write for your readers, right? Don’t do this, don’t do that, and everything else in between. Most of these suggestions are correct and you should really avoid cluttering your pages and content with too much ads, excessive keywords and really write for humans and not for search engines. If you can do both, all the better, but first write for your readers.

How to use your Google’s Analytics data to improve your revenue potential?

As time goes by, a post will eventually get old, and most likely, your loyal readers may have already seen them and maybe even commented on them. Your loyal readers are the ones that are following you and waiting for that next killer post:) If your content is full of hurdles (ads), especially those that are intrusive, it is possible that you might just tick your loyal readers away, and once that happens, it could be the beginning of an ending. But then you may ask, where the h*ll should I put my affiliate links and all those goodies to make money? Well, here is where Google Analytics comes in.

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Improve Your WordPress Page Load Performance

AlliedBloggers — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:31:56 +0000

With Google Caffeine being released next year, there is talk among the search engine magazines about how Google may start penalizing websites in the search engine rankings if they have poor pageload times compared to their peers. This means if you were to place a top 5 listing on Google Search you could lose this ranking if your blog has a poor page load performance.

The fact is, even as the internet continues to get more feature rich, bandwidth and broadband can’t keep up fast enough. Mobile devices still average around 1.5 Mbps, and there are still millions of people using dial up. With websites containing often 1mb or more of images this can be up to a minute long pageload for a single website if you are still using dial up modems.

My own blog suffers from pageload performance issues and this is due to many of the social submission plugins, and various external js calls made from my blog. I am in the process of tuning my blog to be more efficient and in doing so I found these three wordpress plug-ins that greatly improve some of your blogs footprint.

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Is Google PageRank Really That Important Anymore?

AlliedBloggers — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:25:33 +0000

Lately there was a shift in the Google PageRank world where some sites lost pagerank, some gained and some never changed, I’ve read a lot of blogs lately posting about Google Page Rank such as “Google Page Rank Hates Me“, “Reporting And Reflecting On My Google Pagerank Update” and “Google Pagerank (PR) Update” but the question is how does Googles Pagerank affect your blog and your blogging?

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Google Dashboard Sets Lead On Privacy Issues

AlliedBloggers — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:06:32 +0000

New Google Dashboard Now Addresses User’s Privacy Concerns

The new Google Dashboard allows you to view and control data associated with the different products you use with your Google Account. It literally shows you everything, from information about your web usage, email usage, chats stored, youtube usage and more, when you are logged into Google services such as Gmail, Google Docs, contacts, alerts, the whole shebang. I have to admit that this can be somewhat scary, but the fact that Google now provides you with more control over your private (?) data is something that they have to be commended with.

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