I ask this as obviously google doesn't have any question marks...
I have a article called:
How Do I Wax My Snowboard?and it isn't ranking at a
Agree with comments below....
How To articles are huge for SEO.
Perhaps "How to Wax a Snowboard" ?
So just to add, I have just found a decent keyword I want to do an article about: 'how is a snowboard made' but don't want to do it if it won't rank.
If I was to do it I would make a article title along the lines of 'The question all riders wonder: How is a snowboard made?"
or something like that..!
Hey Olie, questions are great. Just think about all of the people who are starting to use voice command on their phones to search the internet.
A high percentage will be questions, such as "what is the weather going to be like today"? "Where is the closest Chinese restaurant"?
You get the picture. Personally, I would swap the article title around so it reads... "How is a snowboard made: The questions all riders wonder"
That way, your main keywords are right at the beginning of the title.
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Can questions as article titles still get ranked?
I ask this as obviously google doesn't have any question marks...
I have a article called:
How Do I Wax My Snowboard?and it isn't ranking at a
I would use the keyword tool here and do a search with your question to see if it gets any searches. I would also check out this training: Alphabet Soup Technique - Using Google Instant to Find Keywords hope this helps..
Agree with comments below....
How To articles are huge for SEO.
Perhaps "How to Wax a Snowboard" ?
So just to add, I have just found a decent keyword I want to do an article about: 'how is a snowboard made' but don't want to do it if it won't rank.
If I was to do it I would make a article title along the lines of 'The question all riders wonder: How is a snowboard made?"
or something like that..!
Hey Olie, questions are great. Just think about all of the people who are starting to use voice command on their phones to search the internet.
A high percentage will be questions, such as "what is the weather going to be like today"? "Where is the closest Chinese restaurant"?
You get the picture. Personally, I would swap the article title around so it reads... "How is a snowboard made: The questions all riders wonder"
That way, your main keywords are right at the beginning of the title.
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Is there a general best practice for how long an article needs to be?
Is there general best practie for how long a review needs to be?
I'd like to know amount of wo
"Build a Better Mousetrap" - I've been writing a long time. Depending on topic, longer articles are pulling better traffic for me, personally. Now, as Eric eloquently pointed out, write it as long as it needs to be. We don't want to bore the reader to death. But, as Jovo's link points out, make good use of title, section headers, sub-headers and so on. Allow the web visitor to scroll down and easily pick out the part that interests them. Generally, my tutorials, lists and reviews range from 1,000 - 2,000 words. JMHO
I write until I've said everything that needs to be said. Anything more is fluff and folks will notice.
I've heard and read that 1500 words is a goal and that Google considers lower word count in a dim light.
Interestingly many of my articles and reviews are less than 1000 words and rank well.
ROCK ON!
E
Thanks E, this was my concern - is there a kind of minimum?
I ask because at the moment I do articles that tend to last for 800- 1200 words, and some of them are second page rankers on google at the mo, my best yet.
However some of the topics that rank great are really quite simple articles that would not last longer than 500 words.
I will take your advice and just write until the article is fully explored.
Thanks again E :)
Another helpful tip - use plenty of internal links to boost your article rankings.
When someone comments on an article of yours and you respond see if there is opportunity to add a link in there to another post or review of yours.
If you'd like you can check out my site as I've done this quite often and it has helped. My site is on my profile under my picture.
One time I had an article jump up 89 places on Google. Here is a post I wrote about this: Excellent Jaaxy Tool - Be sure to check it out! ROCK ON!
E
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How long do my articles and reviews need to be?
Is there a general best practice for how long an article needs to be?
Is there general best practie for how long a review needs to be?
I'd like to know amount of wo
"Build a Better Mousetrap" - I've been writing a long time. Depending on topic, longer articles are pulling better traffic for me, personally. Now, as Eric eloquently pointed out, write it as long as it needs to be. We don't want to bore the reader to death. But, as Jovo's link points out, make good use of title, section headers, sub-headers and so on. Allow the web visitor to scroll down and easily pick out the part that interests them. Generally, my tutorials, lists and reviews range from 1,000 - 2,000 words. JMHO
I write until I've said everything that needs to be said. Anything more is fluff and folks will notice.
I've heard and read that 1500 words is a goal and that Google considers lower word count in a dim light.
Interestingly many of my articles and reviews are less than 1000 words and rank well.
ROCK ON!
E
Thanks E, this was my concern - is there a kind of minimum?
I ask because at the moment I do articles that tend to last for 800- 1200 words, and some of them are second page rankers on google at the mo, my best yet.
However some of the topics that rank great are really quite simple articles that would not last longer than 500 words.
I will take your advice and just write until the article is fully explored.
Thanks again E :)
Another helpful tip - use plenty of internal links to boost your article rankings.
When someone comments on an article of yours and you respond see if there is opportunity to add a link in there to another post or review of yours.
If you'd like you can check out my site as I've done this quite often and it has helped. My site is on my profile under my picture.
One time I had an article jump up 89 places on Google. Here is a post I wrote about this: Excellent Jaaxy Tool - Be sure to check it out! ROCK ON!
E
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I've been wondering lately what is more effective - promoting american affiliate links or UK affiliate links?
My niche is freestyle snowboarding, and even though I am a U
Hi Olie. Perhaps by now you have chosen, and I hope you have chosen to do both, much success to you.
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American or european affiliate links for my site?
I've been wondering lately what is more effective - promoting american affiliate links or UK affiliate links?
My niche is freestyle snowboarding, and even though I am a U
Hi Olie. Perhaps by now you have chosen, and I hope you have chosen to do both, much success to you.
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I did a lot of research and know that Advantlink is the best affiliate network for my niche (freestyle snowboarding). I submitted my website to them but it got rejected. I thin
Hi Olie :) why don't you ask them directly? ask them what it would take for your site to meet their standards,...look at other sites in your niche that carry the adds of this affiliate...what can you learn from them?
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How to get accepted by advantlink?
I did a lot of research and know that Advantlink is the best affiliate network for my niche (freestyle snowboarding). I submitted my website to them but it got rejected. I thin
Hi Olie :) why don't you ask them directly? ask them what it would take for your site to meet their standards,...look at other sites in your niche that carry the adds of this affiliate...what can you learn from them?
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It seems like a really stupid question but I can't for the life of me work it out! What I'm getting at is changing the image at the top right of your wordpress dash where it says "
Hi Olie! Yeah, you'll need to create an Gravatar account and upload your profile picture to the server. By the way, I faced a problem when creating the Gravatar account, here I show you one of my blog and hope that it'll help you out, you can also follow the step that I am creating the Gravatar account. Problem with Gravatar? Not Receiving the Confirmation Email. Hope it helps!
had exactly the same issues with email confirmation email not coming, thanks so much for taking the initiative to also link me to the blog post it really really helped.
I don't suppose you can also point me in the direction of how I can change my username from 'admin' to my own personal name? Then I'm about done, haha.
Thanks again man.
I'm happy that I could help on your first point! But on the second point, yeah you're right, I never thought of that in changing the username as it's' attached to WA here with direct login, really never thought of that... Maybe I'll use some time to look into it.
ahh sorry man I didn't mean to open up a can of worms! haha.
Ok cool no problem, if it's automatically linked then it's no stress. Thanks a lot for the guidance here, your blog post was massively helpful.
Cheers,
Olie.
Hi Olie, I just found out that when I get along with the 'Get Started Here' Course 2, I had forgotten as if on Lesson 8 or 7, Kyle did mentioned that to create another administrator user in wordpress, and you'll be able to use a brand new username of your preference.
Just get along with the lessons and you'll find out the same too! I just created mine.
Thanks for letting me know that SmileofJoy, I really appreciate it.
I'm almost at that lesson now! :)
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How do I upload a user profile image for my wordpress site?
It seems like a really stupid question but I can't for the life of me work it out! What I'm getting at is changing the image at the top right of your wordpress dash where it says "
Hi Olie! Yeah, you'll need to create an Gravatar account and upload your profile picture to the server. By the way, I faced a problem when creating the Gravatar account, here I show you one of my blog and hope that it'll help you out, you can also follow the step that I am creating the Gravatar account. Problem with Gravatar? Not Receiving the Confirmation Email. Hope it helps!
had exactly the same issues with email confirmation email not coming, thanks so much for taking the initiative to also link me to the blog post it really really helped.
I don't suppose you can also point me in the direction of how I can change my username from 'admin' to my own personal name? Then I'm about done, haha.
Thanks again man.
I'm happy that I could help on your first point! But on the second point, yeah you're right, I never thought of that in changing the username as it's' attached to WA here with direct login, really never thought of that... Maybe I'll use some time to look into it.
ahh sorry man I didn't mean to open up a can of worms! haha.
Ok cool no problem, if it's automatically linked then it's no stress. Thanks a lot for the guidance here, your blog post was massively helpful.
Cheers,
Olie.
Hi Olie, I just found out that when I get along with the 'Get Started Here' Course 2, I had forgotten as if on Lesson 8 or 7, Kyle did mentioned that to create another administrator user in wordpress, and you'll be able to use a brand new username of your preference.
Just get along with the lessons and you'll find out the same too! I just created mine.
Thanks for letting me know that SmileofJoy, I really appreciate it.
I'm almost at that lesson now! :)
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I would use the keyword tool here and do a search with your question to see if it gets any searches. I would also check out this training: Alphabet Soup Technique - Using Google Instant to Find Keywords hope this helps..