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If you receive link requests in which someone asks you to add a link to their site to one of your existing posts, here's why they're asking.

Once upon a time, bloggers could use an unfortunate practice called keyword stuffing to improve their blog's search rankings. Yes, keyword stuffing once worked. At least, it worked in that it confused search engines enough to help their SEO. SEO means search engine optimization. Bloggers work to improve their SEO...

In the world of blogging, a broken link can hurt your SEO, so it's important that bloggers make sure to look for links that may no longer work.

So you want to increase your blog traffic? Should you focus more of your attention on your social media accounts or SEO efforts?

Search Engine Optimization tool Yoast SEO will celebrate its first decade of helping bloggers get better search engine results in April.

WordPress gives you several permalink structure options when you're setting up your blog...but which is the best choice to select?

The subject of blog post word count is one that comes up often, particularly among new bloggers seeking advice on crafting the ‘perfect post.’

If your blog isn't mobile-friendly, Google could penalize you as the web giant is tries to make search results reflect mobile-first sites.

For many bloggers, it can be a challenge just to churn out enough content to stay updated. So how much should you rework older blog posts?

Broken links are links that point to posts or web pages that have expired or to websites that have been deleted altogether.

Do you have favorite blogging plugins you'd hate to have to do without? Here are five of them I'd probably fight to keep.

Most blogging experts agree that ignoring SEO is a critical mistake most bloggers can't afford to make...so here are 5 simple SEO steps to get you started?

I've spent much of the weekend on a little blog project: removing broken links that have shown up over the years.

A while back I reported the popular SEO plugin Yoast was not working correctly. Our long blogging nightmare appears to be over. Back in December, I wrote about some errors and miscalculations the blogging SEO plugin Yoast was experiencing since its most recent update. Some SEO experts accuse Yoast of...