Most of the webmasters and SEOers know the importance of link building, including me. And we are trying to achieve inbound links at all costs, some people even purchase links to game search engine algorithm despite it is seriously violating Google guidelines and they can get caught. But nearly none of us would really want to link out to other websites, reason is simple, original Google PageRank algorithm makes us wary that the more external links a page has the more link juice it will lose. In our minds, we are scared to sacrifice PageRank to feed other potential competitors (you are linking to relevant topics, aren’t you). But is Google working in this way? Should we really not to link out to other websites?

seo link out

I am a big believer in “SEO is nothing without providing decent user experience to your visitors“. Imagine you ranked as #1 for many popular keywords, but your website is crap and people who enter your website cannot find what they want, they will definitely go away and never come back again.

Well, you must be curious how the hell I could learn website user experience from Gordon Ramsay’s TV Progam: Kitchen Nightmares. Before I tell you the full story, please let me quickly introduce this TV program to readers who have never watched it. Each episode of Kitchen Nightmares was about how Chef Gordon Ramsay helped a desperate restaurant and saved them from closing. I watched several episodes of Kitchen Nightmares during Christmas (check out my Xmas seo posts collection) because I simply love food and cooking. What surprised me was that running a restaurant was amazingly similar to running a website, and below are the lessons I learnt from this TV program.

Is there anything more interesting than reading changelog of the latest wordpress update? I guess the answer would be NO to wordpress fans. Wordpress just released its latest wordpress 2.9 update, which resolved more than 500 tickets and bugs.

So let’s have a look at its core updates

Avinash Kaushiv is one of the most famous Web Analyst in the world, you can always find best knowledge and latest technology of Web Analytics World in his blog. Not even to mention his two great books, “Web Analytics 2.0
” and “Web Analytics: An Hour a Day“, which provide some of most enlightening points of view and best practices. However, this post is NOT a review of his books, it’s about how I won a copy of “Web Analytics 2.0″ from Avinash Kaushiv and how possibly you can win this copy from me.

how to win web analytics 2.0 from avinash

How often do you want to give up blogging especially the passion is fading away? Do you feel it’s painful when you have to write a lengthy and compelling article after day job? How many times you just want to relax after a nice dinner?

There is an enormous amount of seo blogs being created every single day, but how many bloggers can keep working their bums off on writing useful content for a long time? Only a few of them. I am sure you want to be next Darren Rowse or any other succesful bloggers, but the first thing you have to do is KEEP WORKING, just like gym workout.

blogging-and-gym-workout

Have you been to gym often? If so, you will know blogging and gym workout have 5 things in common.

what wordpress plugins should I use

“What wordpress plugin should I use?” This is the common question to those who are new to wordpress. From my experience, the thing you need to do is to find out what do you exactly blog and who do you want to blog to. Is your blog talking about professional design? Or is it just about your daily life? Once you answered two question above, then you are good to go.

For this blog, it is about my SEO experience gained by the projects I deal with and other top SEO blogs I subscribe. (I know you are very likely to be confused by my domain name, but I purchased this domain before I changed my mind. It was planned to blog about monetising the blog, but I think I need more experience and better to build my own from very beginning.) So I am blogging to those who are interested in SEO, PPC, Social Network etc, and this type of reader doesn’t really need over-edited blog or many fancy-looking functionalities.

Here I simply break my desired wordpress plugins down into 2 parts