Don Charisma’s latest SEO Posts

1. The Wrong Thinker’s Guide To Being A Successful Novelist (Or Any Kind Of Creative) 27th April 2020 - To be a "successful" artist of any form - writer, painter, photographer, musician, etc, and don't forget creativity extends into STEM fields too - you either accept that you do your art because you love it or, you find a way to provide for you and your loved ones, via your gifts bestowed upon you by "God". Or in other words, the things you're passionate about doing, and love doing. Even better if you have competency at them.
2. Master Forum SEO In Just A Few Minutes 5th April 2020 - If you have a blog or website, then the chances are you want people to visit it. One promotional/SEO strategy is to regularly post in forums that are related to what your website is about. The benefits are many-fold in doing forum SEO - for instance receiving backlinks and organic traffic from Google. It’s also a good way to increase your own knowledge on your chosen field, to help others and (sometimes) make friends.
3. Why Didn’t My Post Go Viral ? 28th September 2015 - You toiled for hours, days, weeks to make that prefect creation, create that perfect storm, that special something that’s just spot on and MUST be acclaimed widely … Matt Mullenweg told you you’re gonna be a star … a shiny …
4. How To Blog Like The Best Of The Best – Poweblogger’s SEO 30th December 2014 - A few new bloggers have been asking me for blogging tips … so here you are … Personally I don’t see other bloggers as competition, so I wouldn’t call researching other blogs as “competitor research” more “colleague research”. Why I …
5. Why Choose WordPress for Web Development ? 22nd June 2014 - In a nutshell – cost, time and ease of use. Development of a website using WordPress is quick (compared to older methods), because of it’s modular nature, and is therefore relatively inexpensive. Once operational it’s a very very easy system …
6. Internship Update #4 19th June 2014 - Heather, our technical writer intern has kindly sent me over an update. I feel it’s important to keep readers updated on how it’s going, and so Heather can share what experiences she’s had in our intern program. Heather’s words : “Another …
7. Internship Update #3 16th June 2014 - Heather, our technical writer intern has kindly sent me over an update. I feel it’s important to keep readers updated on how it’s going, and so Heather can share what experiences she’s had in our intern program. Heather’s words : “I …
8. Internship Update 4th June 2014 - Heather, our technical writer intern has kindly sent me over an update. I feel it’s important to keep readers updated on how it’s going, and so Heather can share what experiences she’s had in our intern program. Heather’s words : “Heather …
9. Internship Update 15th May 2014 - Heather, our technical writer intern has kindly sent me over an update. I feel it’s important to keep readers updated on how it’s going, and so Heather can share what experiences she’s had in our intern program. Heather’s words : “Don …
10. Please Circle Me On Google+ 15th May 2014 - I’m currently following everyone back on Google+, so rather than following everyone individually, please follow me and I’ll follow you back. Free SEO tip – Google plus is probably the most significant social network after facebook and twitter. The main …
11. Promoting And Marketing A Book Or An eBook 6th May 2014 - I’ve been asked indirectly to give some advice on promoting and marketing a Book for a friend. This is probably starting to fall under the category of work, and generally my work is paid for. However part of marketing oneself …
12. How Google Search Really Works 30th April 2014 - INTRO FROM DON – This is Heather’s submission for the intern selection process. In my view she’s done an extremely good job at writing about this subject. It’s also much more in depth than the article I wrote for comparison. In depth is a …
13. How Google Search Really Works – Don Charisma 30th April 2014 - Google, they are the big boys in searching for stuff on the internet. But who and what are they really ? To put it simply Google’s search is an artificial intelligence engine. That’s right like a computer that thinks like …
14. “Lonely” – Don Charisma’s Opinion 30th April 2014 - For some reason people seem to think I blog opinions of what’s going on for me right in that moment. Occasionally that’s the case. Often it’s not. Sometimes it’ll be something that’s current, something a commenter will have said or …
15. Intern Selection Process – WE HAVE A WINNER! 29th April 2014 - It never ceases to amaze me the number of people who’ll put there hands up to an opportunity, and then flake out under any kind of pressure – “oh work you say, hmmm, no that’s not for me”. Success involves …
16. Intern Selection Process – Article One – SEO 26th April 2014 - Search Engine Optimisation is the process whereby a website owner or webmaster makes his website more accessible and organised so that internet search engines find it easier to index and serve his(/her) pages to searchers. SEO has been adapted and added …
17. Intern Selection Process – Writing For Don Charisma 24th April 2014 - I’ve discussed with business partner Danny, and we only have the resources to manage one (maybe two) intern(s) on this the first Don Charisma intern program. We’ve had 6 applicants. APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR THIS INTERNSHIP, PLEASE APPLY FOR …
18. “You’re Only As Good As Your Last Three Posts” – Don Charisma’s Opinion 24th April 2014 - Blogging and watching stats since Jul-2013, I’ve noticed a pattern on my blog. The latest three posts get the most attention, in of course descending order. What I’ve noticed is that readers will read the latest the most, and then it …
19. How To Block Abusive Stalkers 22nd April 2014 - It’s come the time to talk about this and name the party responsible. He his the first to go on my public blacklist which will be located at : http://DonCharisma.org/blacklist/ I started the DonCharisma.org blog back in July-2013. These problems …
20. Intern Opportunity – Writing For Don Charisma 21st April 2014 - I blogged yesterday about collaborative SEO. Working together entirely makes sense to me, and is exactly what a lot of successful bloggers are doing. Danny and I have been discussing a writing project. Either of us can do it, it’s …
21. Collaborative SEO – Powerblogging On Steriods 19th April 2014 - I’ve been kicked in the teeth, hard, plenty of times. As one ages it’s harder to get back up, dust oneself off and get back on it. Age brings with it wisdom which is the gift of time. One of …
22. Spam Or Not Spam ? 14th April 2014 - Ok, so the jury is out on this one – that’s you guys … Just received this email from perhaps a genuine questioner, or could be a spammer … I’m erring to spammer at the moment … I’ve partially reddacted …
23. Web/Graphic Design – Icon Preview, DonCharisma.com 18th March 2014 - I’ve been working on my revamped commercial website DonCharisma.com. We needed some icons for the animated “buttons” on the homepage: One for the building websites page, one for the SEO page and one for “contact us” page. So I came …
24. SEO Tip – Images And Photos In The WordPress Reader 17th March 2014 - I like to look myself up on Google, the WordPress reader, Yahoo and a few other places. I would call it vanity, if I thought it was, but it’s not, it’s work for me. Monitoring how I’m doing let’s me …
25. Logo Preview – DonCharisma.com 14th March 2014 - I’ve just finished my first proof for my logo. Not sure if this will be the final exact logo – changes may happen 🙂 (c) Don …
26. Graphic Design Preview – DonCharisma.com 14th March 2014 - I feel like that guy who spins the plates on the end of poles, and then has to keep them going so they don’t smash on …
27. Comments On Pages Reopened – SEO Refit 12th March 2014 - As some of you may have noticed I’ve been reorganising my blog. Overall I’m looking for an easier to navigate more professional look and feel to my blog. I closed comments a while back on my about page as it …
28. Testimonials For SEO – Don Charisma’s Guide To SEO 6th March 2014 - As someone who’s built many websites, I’ve often been called upon to include testimonials. Why ? Well there’s a certain class of customer who will look for testimonials. Testimonials are a way to develop trust with customers, and trust is …
29. A Shit-Hot Photo Library – Don Charisma’s Guide to SEO 1st March 2014 - This topic came up in conversation with a friend who I was discussing SEO with. Promoting a website or blog is about many things, it’s a multi-skilled discipline. One of the things another good friend of mine taught me early on …
30. Being Ignored – The SEO Angle 23rd February 2014 - My professional integrity says that I keep my personal life largely to myself in my work. I find when more problematic/troublesome situations come up, I prefer to work on my art/photography/visual side of things or if I’ve got myself extremely …
31. WARNING: Commercial SEO Free-loaders (Etihad Airways) 20th February 2014 - Normally I don’t mention names or report every little thing that happens to me on my blog. But when people try to manipulate me and start to lie to me, actually it’s probably in other people’s interest that I blog …
32. SEO Tip – Tags And Categories On WordPress.com 15th February 2014 - You’d have thought I’d know this already, but I didn’t … doh ! I was doing some research into the most popular tags used. I found a WordPress support page that states that your posts will not go into the …
33. Virgin’s Guide to Promoting a Blog or Website (Ethos – Part 2) 31st October 2013 - It’s been two months since I wrote what’s been lovingly nicknamed “Virgin’s guide to SEO”. It’s probably been the most popular post that I’ve done with more than 250 likes. It’s a really hard act to follow, and I hope …
34. What is the best time of day to post on your blog? 27th October 2013 - I’ve just completed a statistical analysis on when people comment on my blog. To be more exact, what times of day and which days of the week. Obviously there are many factors that can skew these types of studies, so …
35. flickr – biggr – WHATEVR 18th October 2013 - I don’t know why but whenever (“whenevr” ?) I see these ads I just think “Whatever”. Don Charisma, the critic – Great, so the guys at yahoo had a great idea, a photo website, let’s call it “Flicker”. On checking if the domain name was available, oh shit, it’s not, it’s already registered. What shall we do. And some bright spark comes up with the an idea, we can misspell it “flickr” rather than buying it fair and square from the legal owner, plus it will sound “cool”. Hmmm, no one visiting or using our site. What shall we do, how …
36. Virgin’s guide to promoting a blog or website on Google 30th August 2013 - So you’ve started your new blog on “Jimothy’s witty little witticisms” or “Mary’s cake bakery” or “Annie’s Arts and Farts”. You’ve crafted the pages, blood sweat and tears to get it up and running. Toiled for hours, days, weeks, over …
37. Getting A Failing Website Back On Top 22nd July 2013 - The Beginning I have a good old friend of more than 20 years back home in London, England. The UK economy according to the politicians is doing great, but ask most people on the street and you’ll hear a different …

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