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Two of the biggest things that will improve your search engine rankings are keyword rich website titles and keyword rich links to your content. Today’s lessons will cover both of these topics.

Objectives

• Improve our search engine rankings
• Set a title tag
• Map a specific URL to a custom controller and action
• Avoid using ids or numbers in our URL

Before I start, I would like to make it clear that this article is and does not intend to be a be-all-to-end-all of the SEO necessities for your website. It is meant to describe some excellent techniques to quickly and easily improve upon CakePHP to make it more SEO friendly. More »

Using the right keywords are important, but don’t let this drive your content.  It’s important to remember what your first goal should be and not your second.  Your first goal is write and provide useful content to people who do find your content.  Your second goal is for search engines to rank it well.

So, how can this be done?  Start by thinking about what your keywords are for your content.  Once you have your keywords decided, create a title for your content and integrate your keywords into them.  Make sure your title is intuitive, keyword rich, and catches people’s eye.  This can be done through good keywords, a secret, and/or a descriptive title describing exactly what the user wants. More »

Do I believe in SEO?  Absolutely I do.  Do I believe in link popularity?  Absolutely I do.  Do I believe in targeted keywords?  Absolutely I do.  Do I think it’s the most important thing?  No, I don’t.  I am going to reveal to you the true method to a successful website on the Internet!

Being well ranked in Google on specific keywords is good.  Incoming links, both reciprocal links and one-way links are great.  But it will only really pay dividends after you’ve focused on success, the true way. More »

In today’s article I am going to discuss something that *hopefully* was taught to you at a very young age.  For me, this dates back to my earliest memories of being a child.  In your life, how many times have you heard someone say, “You must share that with others.”?  I’m pretty sure it’s more than you can count!

Well, what’s old is new again.  Sharing is an excellent way to achieve better search engine rankings as well as additional traffic.  Right now, this is what I’m doing, I’m sharing my idea with you in hopes that you will visit my web site and enjoy the excellent content that I have on it. More »

Today’s article is going to discuss my top 5 ways to gain new traffic, did I mention that they are all FREE! Because each are free, they all take a few minutes of work on a regular basis. After a short while, you should hopefully gain a following and not require doing them anymore.

The top 5 reasons are:

1. Submit your content to social network sites
2. Share your content with article directories
3. Create a Twitter following
4. Submit to Blog Carnivals
5. Comment on other relevant blogs or forums

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If you are like me and are creating personal web sites, one of the best ways to gain traffic to your site is through SEO.  I won’t go into detail here as I want to focus on how to setup a route in CakePHP, but having SEO friendly URLs will go a long way in helping.

First let’s define what a “route” is.  In CakePHP it allows you to add a different path to access a specific controller and/or function in that controller.

For example, let’s say I want to create a CMS.  I might create a controller called “StaticContent” and then place a function for each page a client would like to create.  I’m pretty sure I would start getting a lot of calls saying, “Jamie, why is my URL http://www.myaddress.com/StaticContent/myCustomPage?”  So to avoid those calls, we can use a route to make it more accessible and SEO friendly. More »

I thought I would follow-up my “How to get indexed by Google in ONE hour” article with my top 5 SEO (search engine optimization) tips.

The following 5 items are by no means in order of importance, it’s best to try the ones that you think you can do first.  When you are implementing the following 5 SEO tips, it’s important to not rush anything.  When you are creating a web site and writing content, it’s important to take your time, write good content, read it, update it to better market your keywords, and read it again to ensure you are marketing your keywords to the best of their potential. More »

The following article is going to be short and sweet, but applying this technique will help you move up those all important rankings.

The technique involves updating your <title> tag.  With a few simple changes, your ranking for your targetted keywords will begin to immediately climb (well not immediately, but next time Google crawls your web page). More »

If you’re not familiar with how some people accomplish getting their web sites submitted to Google quickly, you are going to absolutely love this article.

I’ve bet you’ve heard from many people that it can take days, weeks, even months to get indexed by Google.  If you have heard that, you’re now thinking, “OK Jamie, you must have had a really stressful day at work today and you’re now hallucinating that this is possible!”.

If I read this blog title a while ago, I’m sure I would be thinking the same thing as you!  Ok, let’s move on to how to get indexed by Google within one hour. More »