One very important aspect of getting ranked in the search engines is knowing your competition for keywords.  This competition can be used as a gauge as to how difficult it can be to get your share of the traffic for a particular keyword. On another point, boosting your rank is achievable with incoming links to your website – backlinks.  These give your site some authority. This article, in the Niche Site Development series, focuses on [...]

Mark has asked me to take a look at the topic of SEO rich blog post’s because a couple of people we have both been talking with are either currently looking at developing a few niche blogs – or they have already started (you can read Mark’s journey so far here and here). Now this SEO post structure can be used for both social blogs and niche sites, basically if you want to maximise your [...]

It’s been a pretty hectic few weeks, and I’ve not been doing Follow Friday on twitter for a while.  However, this week it returns.  This past week or two has seen the profile of Bloggers Journal circulate a little more around the internet, so this post will pay particular attention to mentioning those kind individuals who have helped advertise this place!

Before embarking upon developing a niche website, or even any website, a webmaster needs a few tools which make life a little easier.  There are many pieces of software available that do this.  They help you research keywords, and judge the associated competition levels. (Un)fortunately, many of these software packages cost money.  Many developers cannot justify to pay out lots of money for a tool that they will maybe only use a little.  However, I [...]

Recently I wrote on how niche websites are ideal to generate quick income – in theory.  In the article I decided that I’ll be using a niche site to learn about SEO and achieving a good search engine ranking.  It’s a great method – I hope – to put theory and research into practice, giving me experience and content to write about here. I’d been thinking of a niche site for a while, and when [...]

Albeit a little late, this is the report for the third month of “being online”.  It’s been a pretty hectic month – both online and offline.  Offline I’ve been finishing up my PhD – it’s finally submitted – hence the delay in this post.  Online, there are a number of things that have changed.  First of, you will realise that the domain has changed.  No longer is my blog going by the domain, markbell.me.uk, but [...]