Copyblogger.com is a website about Copywriting and Content Marketing Strategies. One look at their blog and you know they live up and beyond to their name and reputation. I myself have visited this site quiet often to get tips on writing. I am very fascinated with copyblogger as a website. They manage to produce such fabulous content day in day out, all around the year.

I am sure you’re wondering as to why I have chosen copyblogger as my first choice for SEO review. Go on, read below.

• Advertising Age ranks Copyblogger as a top marketing blog in its Power150 list.

• The Guardian named Copyblogger one of the world’s 50 most powerful blogs.

• Copyblogger founder Brian Clark was ranked #3 of the 100 Most Influential Online Marketers of 2009.

• Technorati says Copyblogger is one of the most popular blogs in the world.

• The editors of Performancing named Brian Clark the most influential blogger of 2007.

• BusinessWeek says entrepreneurs should follow Copyblogger on Twitter.

This article looks at copyblogger blog from all the aspects of search engine optimization and a little bit of social media marketing. Let us study and learn how these guys get it right. Continue Reading

Since June 2010, Google has been running articles on how videos can be made search friendly. Every video that you include in your website has a probability of ranking at the top of the Google SERP. Google Videos is the largest video search property on the Web and one of Google’s fastest growing search properties worldwide. One of the greatest benefits to Google Videos is the potential exposure to these millions of users. Continue Reading

The main purpose of an article’s title is to grab the attention of the reader. The title should be compelling enough to make the visitor read the entire post. As a site optimizer, this doubles up your task. You need to write an article title which is both search engine friendly and attention grabbing. If you lose the balance, you may rank well in the search engines, but due to a shabby title- no visitor will enter your site.

A title forms the first line of every search result and is the first thing a visitor sees about a website. In fact, many visitors enter the website upon reading the title and without so much of a glance towards the description. Continue Reading

Building a good number of high quality backlinks is a surefire way of ranking well in the search engines. In my previous articles, I have posted a list of high ranking search directories. In this article, I have compiled a list PR 6 search directories. Browse through the categories, drill down to the most relevant sub category and submit your website URL. If approved by the webmaster, your site will enjoy a backlink from PR 6 search directory. Continue Reading

Keyword Competitor is a real time competitive analysis tool for understanding your competition online. Based on the reports generated by the keyword competitor tool, you can develop your own strategy to rank better than your competitors.

Keyword Competitor gives you a lifetime free trial unlike the other 30 day free trails available with other competitive analysis tools.

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Following is a list of PR4 Search Directories (Free and reciprocal) where you can submit your website URL. Drill down to the most relevant category, fill in the form and if approved by the moderator, your website gets a backlink from a PR4 website. Continue Reading

One of the most common questions I have come across Is, Can I learn SEO? The answer is, absolutely anyone and everyone can optimize their website. The question is, can you invest sufficient time and efforts on your website? Once the initial excitement wears off and results are not in sight, many novice optimizers lose interest in the process. What they don’t understand is that time and patience is an integral part of SEO. Google isn’t going to place your website on top in a snap.

If you are determined to see your website through, do your homework on the process of SEO. It’s rightly said that half knowledge is dangerous. You have to ensure that your website doesn’t end up getting banned from search engines. All because of some point you overlooked. Continue Reading