Seriously, aside from a little annoying flickering, I think the content in the video itself is pretty good.

I recommend watching it in a full screen mode (click on the black square icon next to the volume control)

Enjoy : ) (Since it’s high resolution, it might take 20 seconds or more to load the video)

Click here to view the embedded video.

Duration: 13 min

I did a blog post about traffic conversion on 1/18/2010.  On 2/8/2010, my ranking was a 3rd place on the 1st page of Google (in about 3 weeks).

It didn’t stop there.

On 2/20/2010, despite the fast that competition got somewhat more intense, my post moved up to the No. 1 position in Google for “Web Design For Traffic Conversion” (in about 5 weeks).

This tells me that Google puts a lot of weight on a HTML title in terms of site rankings.

1. Remember, 5 steps to optimize blog post are:

1. Compelling and optimized post title
2. Permalink (post URL)
3. Internal links (Use keywords for anchor text link and a rel=”nofollow” attribute)
4. Meta Tags and HTML title
5. Use of categories or tags

2.  Once Google caches your page, I don’t recommend changing your permalink for your blog.

3. I prefer using categories over tags since its more natural way to show your keywords than tags which looks a little spammy to end users in my opinion.

Hope to see you at the top of Google. Sorry about flickers… that’s what I get for testing a free screen recording software

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to shoot them below…

Cheers,
Shingo

WordPress is now chosen as a popular publishing platform by many large companies including a handful of fortune 500 companies.

But wordpress is not yet perfect and still has some work to do to lower some hurdles for people who are not so tech-savvy.

These are the tools recommend:

1. Wordoff

comes to the rescue when your post get screwed up for some reason. Just copy the code you see in the HTML view and paste it into wordoff – it will clean up the code and make it presentable again.  Your post will likely to have issues when you copy and paste from Microsoft Word so beaware!

http://wordoff.org

2. ScribeFire

is a FireFox addon that lets you easily craft your blog posts by letting you drag and drop images, text, and etc while browsing on the sites. It could be useful tool to help you save some time in creating a good looking post!

3. Broken Link Checker

Broken links on your site are detrimental to your SEO performance. This wordpress plugin will help you scan and find any broken links on your post.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/

WordPress.tv’s how to section has lots of videos to quickly educate you about how to use wordpress.