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WordPress is a fantastic tool for amateur bloggers to professional webmasters to build and maintain their websites and blogs. Once you have well written and thoughtful content, how do you share it with the world? Not everyone can afford an internet marketing company, especially if the website is a hobby. Fortunately while there are a few search engine friendly features, there are a few plugins that every blogger can use to raise their search engine profile. The best part is that they are all free! All in One SEO – This is the most common SEO plugin for WordPress, and for good reason. It quickly and easily allows you to customize your title tags and meta descriptions for each post and page that you create. Custom Permalinks – This plugin allows you to completely customize the URL of your blog post or page on a case-by-case basis. From an  SEO

Two Reasons that +1 Will End Up Next to Buzz in the Google Social Media Graveyard Note: This is the opinion of Highly Relevant, an Internet Marketing Company in Los Angeles. Anytime Google launches a new service, the Internet is alive with speculation on how it will affect SEO and the Internet in general. I want to be the first to predict that the new “+1” feature will be another failure for Google in the “social space” because of two fundamental problems: Problem #1: Launch Strategy The first issue is the launch strategy.  Since the “+1” button for websites will not be available for several “months not weeks”, users are left to “+1” content in search results. I cannot remember a time when I thought to myself, “That is a fantastic Meta description. I like this site already!”  Do they really expect me to return to the search results after

Today Google announced its latest and greatest push into the social space with +1. Similar to the Facebook “Like”, this feature will allow searchers to “+1” search results that they like or find useful.  The feature is currently in Google “labs,” but you can start using it today. Here’s how you can get started with +1-ing search results: Log into your Google account, go to http://www.google.com/experimental/ and click “Join This Experiment” (next to the +1 Experiment).  At this point, the feature will be activated in your search results when you are logged into your Google account. +1 buttons will be available to put on websites, next to the Facebook “Like” and Twitter “Tweet“ buttons in a few weeks. It is too early to tell if – and exactly how – this new feature will impact the search results.  My speculation is that in the short term, +1-ing a site (someone

One of the best things about Firefox is its fantastic library of plugins and extensions that extend the functionality of the browser in various ways.  As an SEO, there are a handful of extensions that I could not live without. I want to share with you my five favorite SEO extensions that can be used by people with all levels of SEO experience. mozBar Anyone that has spent time doing SEO should know about SEOmoz. They are one of, if not the best, resource for all things SEO. Accordingly, they created a fantastic tool bar that includes Page Authority, Moz Rank, links to the site, and short cuts to many of their invaluable pro membership tools. Rank Checker This tool does exactly what it says. You input a list of keywords and a domain, and it will tell you what page, and where your site ranks for those keywords. This

With the release of its latest product, Google Buzz, Google announced today its plan to compete with the likes of Facebook and MySpace. The company is off to a jumpstart in membership by integrating Gmail account users directly into the social network, which already has established 150+ million users. Check out Google’s video demo: The two core philosophies behind Google Buzz, as described by Bradley Horowitz, vice president for product management of Google, was people’s fondness of sharing life experiences and being able to do so in-real time. Todd Jackson, product manager for Google Buzz, began his demo by logging onto his Gmail account, which captured plenty of interests because of the curious splash page introducing the company’s newest release. He described it as, “an entire world within Gmail” and that is exactly what it is. Whether Gmail users want to be part of another Social Network or not, one