These are my most visited blog posts in 2011.
I picked the top 10 which had a combination of the most views, comments and shares.
1.Website Name: How To Choose The Best One
Check out this short video to see and hear the do’s and don’ts of website names. The video shows you how to choose the best website name for your site.
Read more by clicking here: Website Name: How To Choose The Best One
2. Get Backlinks – Here are the 11 methods and backlink tools I use
In this post I share 11 methods I use but first…what is a backlink:
Simply put, a backlink is a link on a website (including blogs) that leads back to your website / blog.
In search engine optimization (SEO), page rank is at least partially determined by the number of sites that link to yours. It’s important to gain backlinks honestly, and if a lot of other sites link back to you, you will naturally get more traffic to your page.
Read more by clicking here: Here are the 11 methods and backlink tools I use
3. To start a blog, how much does it cost?
From a monetary point of view, starting a blog can cost you nothing. It can be free.
There are many free blogging platforms to choose from like www.blogger.com, www.typepad.com and even the mighty www.wordpress.com.
These free blogging platforms are fine for those individuals who just want to blog and NOT make any income.
Read more by clicking here: To start a blog, how much does it cost?
4. Tips for Making Google Crawl Your Blog More Often
There are literally thousands upon thousands of blogs on the internet. There are blogs about every niche imaginable. As such, there is a great deal of competition out there. Bloggers all have a variety of techniques they use to obtain traffic. However, most people agree that nothing beats organic, natural, search engine traffic.
Read more by clicking here: Tips for Making Google Crawl Your Blog More Often
5. The Funny Side of Customer Service
We know there are the technical sides of a successful blog like targeting the right keywords, regular posting, SEO, backlinks, traffic, advertising, selling products or services that people want…and so on.
Let’s assume you have all those things in place. If you do, you have a great chance of being a successful blogger but…
…there is one thing that can ruin all your hard work and that’s…
Read more by clicking here: The Funny Side of Customer Service
6. How To Sell Your Product Online
Many people begin blogging without any clear purpose to their site.
When we first realise the possibilities of writing our thoughts and tips and having them read…that alone is seductive enough to make us take the jump and start our blogs.
Read more by clicking here: How To Sell Your Product Online
7. How you make your blog index quicker, build backlinks and increase your traffic with a task that takes 2 minutes and you only have to do it once
Do you like the title?
It’s true.
By using the following step-by-step approach, it will make your blog index quicker in the search engines, build powerful backlinks and can provide a steady stream of organic traffic.
How?
Read more by clicking here: How you make your blog index quicker, build backlinks and increase your traffic with a task that takes 2 minutes and you only have to do it once
8. 16 Mandatory WordPress Plugins Your Blog Should Have
I’ve been known to be a plugaholic. I love WordPress plugins. At one time, I had almost 70 installed.
Even though I have deleted many, I still have over 40 WordPress plugins active.
In one of my recent posts…
Are You A Plugaholic, where I recommend having as few plugins as possible, John Soares from Freelance Writing commented and got me thinking about sharing the plugins I use in my next blog expert series.
Read more by clicking here: 16 Mandatory WordPress Plugins Your Blog Should Have
9. William and Kate: Love Is In The Air
Prince William and Kate Middleton get married today…so here in the UK there is much love in the air.
Many people get excited with a Royal wedding and Prince William and Kate Middleton are very much in love. I wish them all the best.
Read more by clicking here: William and Kate: Love Is In The Air
10. How to use the All in one SEO WordPress plugin to your advantage
In my last two videos I showed you the free ways to find the best keyword phrases for your blog:
Video 1: Use keyword optimization to get on the first page of Google
Video 2: Check the competition before deciding upon your chosen keyword phrases
So I shall assume you now have your best 6 – 8 keywords for your blog.
Read more by clicking here: How to use the All in one SEO WordPress plugin to your advantage
Andrew is a website builder and helps small businesses with their on-line presence…so they can grow their customer list and increase sales. That’s it! That’s what we do each and every day.
congratulation for success in 2011 and i hope you will get more success in 2012.These post is really great and most of them i have read..
Happy New Year…
Bhupendr
Glad you liked them and hope 2012 is good for you.
Andrew
Hi Andrew,
I’m looking for more ways to get backlinks to my site and this article of most popular post is very handy to me. Thanks for sharing these.
Happy New Year!
Raymond,
I hope they help in getting you more backlinks!
Andrew
Hi Andrew,
Have a great year ahead! I enjoyed reading your posts in 2011.
Cheolsu
Thanks for visiting and being a regular commenter in 2011. Hope to see you in 2012.
Andrew
Congrats! you have published that many awesome blog posts, I am looking forward for more from you in 2012.
Thanks, David…hope to see you back in 2012!
Andrew
Your blog published many great posts and it a great experience to have explored your blog last year. I wish you a great year ahead and looking forward to read many interesting posts.
Thanks, Robert.
I wish you great success in 2012 as well.
Andrew
Hey Andrew,
I am really very happy with your great achievements of year 2011.2nd,4th and 10th are my favorite posts and thanks for listing them here again.Wishing you a good luck for 2012.
God Bless!
Best Regards,
Samuel Joshua
Samuel,
Here’s wishing you a great 2012 as well.
All the best,
Andrew
These were great post and thank you for putting them all in one place to find.
We can all use a refresher when it comes to blogging.
I look forward to even learning more from you in 2012.
Thank you Andrew.
Blessing always to you,
Debbie
Thanks, Debbie.
It’s nice to have people like you visiting and comenting.
Andrew
I just read the 11 Methods to Get Backlinks post and I found it pretty useful. I might end up buying one of those tools. I’m going to look into them a little more though.