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Keywords and keyphrases are the backbone of SEO. Finding good keywords to use in our articles and descriptions and file names can be a bit difficult and time consuming. Most keywor…

I've been a homesteader for pretty much my entire life, but never knew it until I joined [Homesteaders CoOp](https://homesteaderscoop.com/). My parents and my aunts and uncles were…

Last in our series on images, but by no means least let’s cover the legalities of images. <center>![downloadfree.jpg](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/kay-leclerc/dQRdh6…

Memes. Nothing stirs emotion and gets a point across to your audience as quickly and effectively as a meme. Nothing is shared, retweeted, reposted, passed around both the conventio…

So I've had some thoughts lately that I really want to share. I'm just going to jump into it because I don't know how to build up to it for an intro. I want to take a holistic look…

Infographics can be a really powerful addition to your posts and can even be used in videos. What exactly is an infographic? It’s a visual representation of information which makes…

Adding images to our blog posts is a good thing. It makes the post more interesting and helps it stand out for a potential reader. However, sometimes finding images that we are all…

If, as the old saying goes, a picture is worth 1000 words, then an online image should be worth 1000 likes or followers. And if just 1% of those likes or followers convert to a pay…

We all know how great the blockchain is. We’ve been here posting (and lurking) and meeting new people, sharing our thoughts, spreading our creative wings and enjoying the apps buil…

This week feels like it's been quieter than usual on the posting front. Perhaps it's getting busy in the real world for homesteaders and gardeners. Whatever you're all doing, I hop…

There are a bazillion sites offering "the best SEO tool to make SEO easy and profitable". Most of these tools cost money - some cost a LOT of money and are available only as a subs…

To wrap up the Myth, Magic and Mystery of SEO series let’s do a summary of what SEO is all about, the Cliff Notes cheat sheet of SEO. <center> ![search-engine-optimization.jpg](ht…

Our weather turned very warm this week, and I have a couple of yard projects that required my attention so most things online related took a backseat while I dug and raked and plan…

We spend a lot of time on keywords - picking the “right” ones, positioning them correctly on the page, getting links that use them to send traffic back to the page, but there is on…

In a previous article, the importance of sending a strong social signal to the Google bots was discussed. I had fully intended to move on to some of the lesser known ranking criter…

We’ve looked at inbound, outbound, and internal links, but today we’ll check out the hardest working link of all - what I call the double duty link. The double duty link sends two …

Last week we looked at links coming into your page, today we’ll take a look at the links ON your page. The onpage links are like the red-headed stepchild of SEO, ignored and often …

Backlinks are one of the most magical parts of SEO. Links from reputable websites and pages referencing your page and content can give you an almost overnight boost in the rankings…

I took a forced break from the SEO series partly because of RL and partly because Google dropped one of their big algorithm changes last week and I wanted to be sure my SEO article…