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Hey Y’all!!
I have been so busy and it’s all good!!
First of all THANK YOU!! I won the traffic competition in the Marketing Startup Masterclass and am the very proud owner of my very own product which will be unveiled very soon!!
THAT’S some very exciting stuff and I owe it to all my readers and friends who stopped by and Tweeted, Stumbled, Facebooked and Digged!! I got it FREE! MY OWN PRODUCT!! Worth like a gazillion bucks!! YAY!
ANOTHER FREEBIE going on and I wanna WIN!!! This brand spankin’ new company WPStartups is having a Win a Free Website Sweepstakes and all you gotta do is enter!! How cool is that? Read about them right here!! I could win a $500.00 blog?? Just by entering!! I’m THERE!! I have been on a roll lately…told you things were looking up! But like they say in the Lotto…you can’t win if you don’t play! So go on over and (READ THE DIRECTIONS!) get signed up and maybe you will be the winner of a brand new blog or website!!
To enter the contest you must Fan them on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/wpstartups or go to their website and enter through there. Contest ends July 31, 2010 and winner will be chosen August 01, 2010, blah blah blah all the info and fine print are over there, so I will let them tell it.
You know what else I got FREE?? I got SEO’d! YAY!
I met the most awesome SEO expert and got a chance to chat with him and get my blog SEO’d! It’s still a work in progress, but it is so cool to be able to talk to someone who understands WordPress like a pro AND Search Engine Optimization! Like when I ask him about this particular thingy in the WP Dashboard, and he knows exactly what I am talking about.
That’s cool.
His name is Alex Miranda and his company is PRUnderground.com. It’s a Social Media Press Release Company (the only one ran on WordPress!) and they are probably one of the only social media services company that will not only answer all your questions (YAY! even the stupid ones, cause I had A LOT!)…. but….they will also help you write SEO optimized press releases!! I know I don’t want to have to worry about SEO and just want to write what I want to write….but with an awesome company like PRUnderground helping you write your press releases AND SEO-ing it…how can you go wrong?? They also research your topic and find totally relevant photos, logos and videos, and it’s all included!! YAY!
So this big time SEO Expert and really cool guy called me and SEO’d my blog!! Just because…talk about paying it FORWARD!!
Some of you know I couldn’t even get on the first page of Google with my own name! Lisa Hernandez, so we started with that. I used to be on page 3 of Google so people looking for me wouldn’t find me unless they searched around. I am in competition with a News Gal! Well I am on page 1 now in the 6-7 spot! 
We changed the title tags to more search engine friendly title tags. We also changed the meta tag description so that it matches my title tag keywords. Here are the basics steps we took :
1. Sign up with Google webmaster Tools: https://www.google.com/webmasters
2. Verify your website with Google: https://www.google.com/webmasters/verification
3. Add a sitemap to the footer of your website:
Search engines crawl websites regularly. In order for them to crawl all the pages on your website you must install a sitemap on your footer. As of right now, I only have one page, so I haven’t done this yet!!
4. Once you install the sitemap if you are using WordPress install the Google XML Sitemap plug-in. You can just search for it in plugins.
5. Now add your website to Googles sitemap. Go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/sitemap
6. You can also run all the tools available on Google Webmaster Tools to do a complete diagnostic of your website.
7. Add a unique title tag to each page. Try and think of search terms people would use to find your website. This is where keyword research comes in handy.
For example: Social Media Press Releases | Online Press Release Services | PRUnderground
See how they use long tailed keywords? If they had used just “press releases” that would never get picked up by Google to rank on the first page. Also notice the breaks in between the keywords. Do not use commas or dashes. Use those little lines on the backslash key. This is another spot where I messed up!! At the end of the title tags I put the company name. (Me) So if you look at my title tags, you will see
Successful Internet Marketing | Easy Blog Setups | Lisa Hernandez Online
Lisa Hernandez Online isn’t first anymore. This is the right way to add title tags to your website. If you do it any other way you can affect your rankings
8. Make sure you use a Meta tag description using keywords from the title tag. Also take note that if you do not use a Meta Tag description Google now adds one by default.
9. There is this big misconception that we must use Meta Tag keywords. Apparently Google does not check for that anymore. You can have them on the site but they are not necessary. What’s most important is that you have keyword rich content throughout your website that matches your title tags and description for that particular page. Hence, the need for multiple pages. Still working on that!
There are tons more things you can do to get noticed by the search engines. I just learned this too! I need to use a press release service such as PRUnderground for back link purposes. The more reputable links you have coming to your website, the higher your Page Rank and the better your search engine visibility. We are working on that next!! I definitely need more quality backlinks. (I didn’t even know what a backlink was until I talked to Alex!)
And there you are!! You’ve been SEO’d!! I have more coming up because this blog post is getting really loooonnnng so stay tuned and see how my blog blossoms into an SEO’d killer blog that gets itself on the front page, time and time again!!
Now Alex uses special software to do all this analyzing and I will be researching that and letting you know all about it in the next few posts.
Whew! So what do you think? Have YOU been SEO’d? leave me comments and let me know. If you have any questions, let me know. I am sure Alex will stop by to answer them!
Take care and have an amazing day!!
Lisa~
Hey Lisa.
Wow! as usual you have Given shed loads of info for your fans to use.
How do you do it?
You are so generous.
Thank you.
Gert.
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Lisa Hernandez
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June 25th, 2010 at 6:14 AM
Hey Gert!
Glad you liked this one! I did have help with all this SEO stuff, but I am so blessed to meet the greatest people in the world! You included!!
Thanks!
Lisa~
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Wow Lisa! That WAS a long post, but tons of great info. Thanks for sharing all that with us.
I’ll have to enter the WP Startups contest you mentioned. Uh, that’s just one thing on my to do list after reading this blog.
I do have a question though. Where, within your blog, do you change the title tags? Would it be in your WP admin area under, appearance>editor>header, or someplace in the settings area? Do tell.
After reading this blog post, I feel… uh, like a newbie. :/
Oh, well, live and learn right? You ARE learning a lot, keep up the awesome work.
All the best,
Ed
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Lisa Hernandez
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June 25th, 2010 at 6:10 AM
Oh My Goodness Ed!! I must have left something out! My bad!!
All in One SEO plugin. I am gonna (God willing) try to do some videos some day. This is some very interesting stuff and y’all need to know it!
Go in there and see what you have and if you have any questions, just holler!
I AM learning quite a bit and hopefully gonna learn more! there is a really cool software that Alex uses to analyze sites and I am gonna check it out this weekend, so if it’s easy….I will put it on here.
Exciting stuff!! And go to the WPstartups face book page and sign up for that website sweeps. I also learned that paid themes are WAY better than free, so I am doing a little research on that too!! Told ya I was busy!
Lisa~
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Cool Post Lisa
And great to see your pay it forward campaigns are coming back to you!
SEO is something I know I’m rubbish at – so if you keep explaining it in easy terms, you can be sure I’ll keep popping back
Randy
http://www.RandolfSmith.com
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Lisa Hernandez
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June 30th, 2010 at 5:23 AM
Hi Randy!!
Thanks for stopping by! And thanks for all your help on everything.
Alex did a great job of teaching me this SEO stuff step by step. Glad I could share it in such easy manner. I get so confused, but after talking to him, I was like a geek or something! How cool is that?
Come on over here anytime, I just received your email about all your sites and I am very impressed!
Gonna pop over to the forum right now!! I gotta tell y’all what’s going on!
Take care and please stop by again!
Lisa~
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Hey Lisa
Congrats, I knew you could do it!
Can’t wait to see what your new product is like.
Thanks for the SEO tips, as you know I am hopeless with SEO.
Please do not encourage me to Google myself anyone more than I already do, people already think I am a weirdo lol.
Sally
ps. why you never on skype no more!
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Lisa Hernandez
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June 30th, 2010 at 5:19 AM
Sally, Sally, Sally!! My Parner in CRIME!!
YAY!!
Girl I am so busy lately with writing my books, yes, I said bookS (plural) and getting everything set up. I am like a headless chicken over here but it’s all good!! Everything and I mean everything is falling into place with so much in my life, I can’t and won’t complain!!
Aren’t these great SEO tips? Alex taught me them! He’s very cool, you should talk to him on FB. Alex Miranda…very cool!
I see you have yet another blog post, so I will pop on over there after I get into the forum and tell y’all how wonderful things are here in So Cali!!
Take care and hope y’all are having amazing times over there in that beautiful country of yours!!
Lisa~
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Hi Lisa – great post, and CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
And you’ve really helped me at just the right time too!
I’ve been struggling with Meta-Tags and Meta-Description recently and hadn’t really understood which is which. I’ve even been watching the Google Webmaster Vids on YouTube…. Geeky eh!
You’ve given me some great pointers now, saved me looking them up!
Thanks again……. I can see how it has helped you too.
Even the tip about putting a site map in the Footer helped as I’d thought I was doing enough just activating two types of Plug-in (one for search engine site map and one for Users to follow).
Having such first hand help is a dream come true!
Keep it up, I’ll be back!
John O’York
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Lisa Hernandez
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June 30th, 2010 at 5:06 AM
Well Hello John and thanks for stopping by!!
Webmaster vids on Youtube? Is there such a thing? (I guess so if you are watching them!!)
this blogging is getting so much easier as I go along…..lots of help from awesome people! it’s so much easier for me to be walked through something than to watch videos!
Did you get signed up for the free website sweeps? I would LOVE to have a fully optimized site with all the trimmings!
Take care and I will see you in the forum!!
Lisa~
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Thank you for the mention. It is great to offer FREE SEO to people. There is so much to learn and if I can teach people like you who will pass it on without making a buck, then you have made my day
I am tired of seeing these SEO companies from India charging thousands and doing black hat marketing (that’s another subject)So thank you for passing this along. We are the only company that offers FREE SEO when you order a press release from us at PRUnderground.
Talk to you soon!
Alex
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Lisa Hernandez
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June 30th, 2010 at 5:02 AM
Hello Alex! thank you so very much for all your help! I have a ton of questions, so when you get a minute, give me a holler. You are just AMAZING! I was shocked at how smart and helpful you are! I feel like a brand new person over here blogging!
I want one of those blogs we talked about, so if I don’t win it…hook me up with wherever you get it from!
Thank you! thank you! Thank you!!
Hope to hear from you soon!!
Lisa~
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