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~

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