SEO on Lin's Blog

Shared Links Not Showing Up as Expected on Facebook? Here's How to Optimize Your Site for Facebook!

Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:39:46 +0000

For every webmaster, Facebook has become just as important a traffic source as Google. In the past, we did a lot of SEO work for search engines, but did you know that Facebook has also published a document, “Best Practices for Sharing Websites and Mobile Apps,” that explains how to adjust your web pages so they are displayed in the best way when users share them on Facebook? In this article, I’ll share what I tried on my personal blog.

Worried About Visitors Copying Your Articles? Use JS to Automatically Append a Reminder or Disable Copying!

Sun, 12 Feb 2017 23:43:41 +0000

Many content sites have a mechanism that automatically appends the original article URL when text is copied, such as Mojing Lyrics and Zhihu. Some sites even ban users from copying text altogether. Achieving these features isn’t difficult; it only takes a few lines of simple JavaScript. But first you should think about whether your site really needs such a feature. When a regular visitor copies text and pastes it into Facebook, does that really harm your site? And if you truly want to stop visitors from copying text, these tricks only keep out the honest, not the determined. Are you really protecting your interests, or just making your site harder to use?

Google +1 Button - Google's Version of "Like" That Affects Search Rankings (With a +1 Chrome Extension)

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:43:51 +0000

When we agree with what someone says or writes, we express our support with words like “like,” “+1,” or “well said.” “Like” is a Facebook button. And +1? Well, now even Google is copying Facebook and has launched a +1 button. Its function is similar to the Like button, but there’s one very important difference: the +1 button affects your website’s search ranking. How much it affects it, I don’t know, but what’s certain is that “+1” affects search results. Also, the websites you +1 will show up in your Google Profile. Now let me show you how to put a +1 button on your own website xD

Blog SEO Essentials: Must-Do Steps to Push Your Blog Rankings UP! UP! UP!

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:30:20 +0000

In this post, I’m going to share a few SEO tasks that I think are essential when setting up a blog. But first, a disclaimer: I’m not an expert, so some of what I say may be wrong. I’d appreciate your corrections (not criticism). Also, most of the methods in this post don’t apply to BSPs (blog service providers) such as Wretch and Yam Sky Blog……

Most people who run a blog probably want to be popular, with lots of readers visiting their posts instead of writing only for themselves. But how do you get people to read your posts? That’s what SEO is for! (If you don’t know whatSEOis, you can read about it onWikipedia) However, SEO isn’t a simple technique. Doing it well might even require hiring a designer, which is a bit too much trouble for a blogger. But learning SEO yourself isn’t easy either. So in this post, I’ll share the techniques I’ve tried.

Google Webmaster Central - Find Where Your Site's SEO Falls Short & Submit a Sitemap

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:25:32 +0000

Today I’m introducing Google’s Webmaster Central. The Webmaster Tools are one of the tools most blog owners in Taiwan use. Besides analyzing where your site’s SEO falls short, this service also lets you submit a Sitemap to Google, which is a site map. The Webmaster Tools can also check whether your site has malware and how fast it loads. But to use any of these features, you first have to make sure your URL has been indexed by Google! So in this post, I’ll cover the following:

Small Market Strategy - An Easy Path to Becoming a Popularity Champion

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:40:16 +0000

In this post, I’m going to teach you a strategy for building popularity: the small market strategy. What is the small market strategy? I’m sure you all know that for a blog to become well known, it needs good SEO, and its articles need to be good too! Many books about gaining popularity say you should write about hot keywords so people will read your posts. But that… isn’t necessarily right. If you understand how SEO works, you know that the more links a web page has, the higher it ranks in search engines. In other words, if your site doesn’t get many visitors, your articles won’t rank near the top. For example, suppose I write an article about Gmail right now. If you search for it in a search engine, you might find your article on page 2 or 3, or not at all. Even if it ranks on the first page, if the articles ahead of yours are all very similar to yours,

How to Find Out How Many Websites Link to Your Site?

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:16:52 +0000

I’m sure you’re all curious about which websites contain links to your site! Here I’ll show you how to search with the link syntax. It’s a Google operator that lists the websites that link to your site, and note that the unit here is websites, not pages, so let Ting-feng walk you through this syntax!

Syntax:
link:URL
Replace URL with your site's domain, without "http://"

My Blog Is Now Indexed by Google

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:51:01 +0000

Recently I noticed that my popularity suddenly went up.

Do you know why?

It’s because this blog has been added to the Google search engine.

So now you can find this blog when you search on Google!

That brought in quite a lot of traffic XD

I never expected anyone to come visit, given how bad my SEO is………

P.S. This post now ranks above the original creator’s post = =