A Good Time is Blog Time

There are many ways to use Google search to find information, but a dedicated blogger needs to know which ones are likely to help him get the information he needs.

For basic tips and tricks using Google the Google’s tips and tricks pdf is as good a place to start as anywhere. But I was a bit surprised to find how little it actually tells you, OK it shows you how to find exact phrases, how to screen out unwanted results using a – symbol and a few other helpful modifiers. But if you are blogging and looking for ways to suss out the competition and find long tailed keywords that are highly audience targeted, then it doesn’t really help. So if you want some Google search tips and tricks that might help, then read on.

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Submitting a site map to Google

A subject that has been reported as causing a lot of concern is the subject of submitting a site map to Google, the concern comes from two different aspects.

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It seems to me that when you start to discuss SEO techniques for whatever your reasons, perhaps to gain a better page ranking (sometimes known as an SEO rank) or for a better position on a search engine results page (also known as SEO placement), that we often forget to do the obvious.

Go and check out what the big search engines are telling us will improve our positions.

Now as you would expect from the big boys, there are no guarantees, all they do is advise us of what their take is on things, remembering also that very often this can change so you have to stay up to date on the latest thinking. It is up to you as a webmaster or blogmaster to see if following that advice works to improve your website ranking.

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