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Denver SEO Blog Hits 100,000 Visitors

I launched this blog in January 2008 – only 19 months ago. Since then, the blog has seen 100,000 visitors. I look forward to creating more posts that you find interesting.
Last year at this time:
- The blog was averaging 18 readers per day. Now it averages 357.
- The blog had 14,677 visitors. This month, we hit 100,000.
Most popular blog posts on SEO Denver Blog:
- Barack Obama’s Web Designer – 14,793 Views
- Constant Contact WordPress Widget – 8,320 Views
- WordPress Real Estate – 5,595 Views
- The SEO Stylesheet - 5,555 Views
Posted in Blogging, KWS
Tagged Blogging, Denver SEO, Katz Web Services SEO Denver, SEO Statistics, Statistics
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Integrate Blogger Into your PHP Website using Includes

PHP includes for Blogger
Before writing this post, I looked online to see if others have written about this same topic. This might as well be Michael Gray’s “Integrating Blogger Into Your Website: Part II”, which he never wrote — though he did write Part I.
Step 1: Switch Blogger files to PHP
First, you need to update your publishing settings so that Blogger publishes your posts in PHP, not HTML (thanks to DevDoctor):
- Set up your blog to publish via FTP (on Publishing tab)
- Change the ‘Blog Filename’ to index.php
- Change ‘Archive Filename’ to archive.php (on Archiving tab)
- Finally, delete the old index.html file from the blog directory (otherwise it will probably take precedence over the new index.php)
Once you’ve got Blogger pushing out PHP, you’re able to do PHP stuff with the site:
- Update the entire site at once - When I create a website, I always want to create the structure using PHP includes, so that I can set global site variables, and if I change it in one place, it changes across the whole website.
- Set active navigation – Using SSI includes, I used to have to include a different file for each blog section on the site so that I could up. Here, I just send a variable to the navigation.php file, which tells it what page is active.
Next, I will show how to include these files.
Posted in Blogging, Tutorial
Tagged Blogger, Blogger FTP, Blogger Includes, Blogger PHP, Blogger Template, Blogging, BlogSpot, Blogspot PHP, HTML Includes, PHP Includes, SSI
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This blog has great PageRank!
So I’ve been working on creating great content for everyone out there, which happens to include Google. Well, it turns out that the Denver Web Design & Denver SEO Blog has been given a PageRank (their system of measuring the quality of a website) of 5/10…which is great.
I enjoy blogging for many reasons other than SEO, but it’s always nice when there’s a great reward, including good PageRank from Google.
Encouraging clients to write often…or using a blogging service?

I’ve been working with the WordPress platform for a little while now, and I’ve been a regular blogger since January (though I had been promoting blogging for years earlier, and had my first blog in 2000 [yes, I'm a bit insecure about my blogging creds]). I’ve created many sites with blogging capabilities, some of them based on Blogger.com integration, and others WordPress.
I’ve explained the benefits of blogging many times to my clients, made nagging phone calls reminding them to blog — all to little avail. I even wrote an article about the importance of blogging to help explain myself. But still, the blogs remain silent.
Posted in Blogging, SEO
Tagged Advertising, Articles, Blogging, Clients, consistency, Marketing, Traffic, writing
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How to increase online exposure through social bookmarking

Are you having the exposure blues?
ArrayDo you write articles that few people read? It may be because they aren’t finding your article! Writing on your blog is not enough when you’re starting out. It’s important to spread the word.
Doing a little legwork after you write an article makes a large difference in the traffic you will get.
When you write a blog post, what happens?
Depending on the blogging platform you use (WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type to name a few), when you write a post, a few things happen:
Upon posting:
- Your sitemap will get updated
- Search engines and other websites will be notified of the update
- Your RSS feed will be updated
- Gremlins dance a jig around a cauldron of boiling yam juice and frog eyes
These processes will notify the search engines, but in order to increase your website’s exposure, there are a some websites you should submit your article to. After writing an article, take 5 more minutes and submit your site to bookmarking websites.
Posted in Blogging
Tagged Blogging, Bookmarking, Exposure, Marketing, SEO, Social, Social Bookmarking
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WordPress.com finally updates to 2.5 — A review
A picture [of my cat] is worth a thousand words.
I’ve been waiting for WordPress.com to update the administration panel so that I can have galleries. That is the main feature that I’ve been waiting for. Now it’s here, I can finally upload pictures of my cat (and my wife
)
This will also allow simpler embedding of video, audio, et al. I’m glad it’s finally live.
EDIT: There seem to be a few kinks still with this feature — instead of having thumbnails, the site was loading the full images. This is obviously an issue. Until then, you get a thumbnail of my cat in the grass.
Posted in Blogging
Tagged Blogger, Blogging, editor, gallery, Google, images, Web Design, WordPress, wordpress 2.5
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Is Blogging Really Worth the Time?
![One reason to blog is traffic! [Image of traffic light]](http://www.seodenver.com//home/katzwebd/seodenver.com/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/b474026953c38cf6eb9af33980de820d.jpg)
Today, a business associate asked me “I know about blogging, and it seems like a waste of time. Why is blogging worth the time?” I was able to reply with some very convincing arguments — and in a way, I reminded myself about the value of blogging.
- Blogging establishes you as an expert in your field
- Search engine traffic dramatically increases
- Blogging is basically free marketing for your business: the only cost is your time.
- Blogging forces you to write about your life and your business
Posted in Blogging, For Clients
Tagged Blogging, business, expert, free, ideas, Marketing, Optimization, Performance, procrastination, promoting, promotion, Results, RSS, Search, SEO, share, sharing, topics, Traffic, writing
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Tumblr is a great website if you find blogging intimidating

I was reading an article on A List Apart the other day and found a link to a website called Tumblr. It makes blogging really easy by making it less intimidating.
You choose what type of content you’d like to post, and then you do it!It’s one of the most simple signup forms around, and encourages you to post right away. I just wanted to test it out, but now I’m hooked (check out the KWD Tumblr Page).
If you’re too nervous to blog, Tumble!
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How to get more comments on your blog
I was asked a question by a potential client about blog comments. She was concerned that some of the blog designs I’ve created have little user interaction. She wrote (emphasis added by me):
The question is a good one: why aren’t more people interacting? I wanted to dig deeper into the question: what contributes to comments? Read more…