In Search of a SEO GURU by the Rich Sage
I’ve documented the best ways to build traffic for several years.  I’ve used several of these methods, but in the end there is only one that should be your focus.
There is only one way to achieve long-term, consistent, dependable and effective traffic:  Search engines.  Simply put, [...]

Setting Up SEO Plugins and Sitemaps, a lesson from the Rich Sage
You’ve been reading about my SEO work for Savepedia.  Below I am actually using Wordpress to display some examples of what I do to optimize a site to make Google and other search engines happy.
In the below case I am using the ALL-in-ONE-SEO plugin [...]

Growing Traffic at Rich Sage dot Com:  In the Slowest Quarter
The summer tends to be the slowest part of the year for Internet traffic, at least to the Rich Sage.  That means it’s time to look at what has worked building traffic and do more of it in the coming year(s).
So, what has worked?
Search [...]

Very Few Posts were made in October of 2008
Only about 6 posts were written, with my most important launch ever –The NEXT SuperStock Membership.  However, traffic climbed another 25%, helping to gain over 1,000 page views per day on most days.  Most of this traffic is from search engines, and a bulk of it from [...]

Rich Sage Traffic Surge
After nearly a year of work building traffic, and making it to around 200,000 Alexa Rank there was very little progress over the summer months.  That has changed in the past 3 weeks.  I know that for a few years, Alexa rankings have lost some credibility, but I think that has also [...]

11 Part Series: Stumble Upon Traffic by the Rich Sage
In my traffic building experience online I’ve focused on the few elements that deliver a lot of traffic — search engines, forums, RSS feeds and building a brand. While my focus was on these, one dark horse has steadily kept rising delivering traffic, and just this [...]

Validating Your Web Site HTML
After switching to WordPress 2.5.1 and taking on many changes to Rich Sage dot com, I also looked into the very ‘nuts and bolts’ of the code that makes up the site.  I wanted to do what I could to minimize all kinds of problems that lead to less traffic.
Site navigation [...]

Debut of the Rich Sage FREE Ad Forums
One of the elements that I wish to ‘cultivate’ at Rich Sage dot com is more and more reader interaction. I want to create several places where readers build the content –often described as “user generated content” by the gurus.

I’ve come up with these ideas to do that:

A [...]

Rich Sage Traffic Growth is Accelerating: My plan for March 2008

The month of February ended with outstanding traffic growth. All this after only 4 months of work. Clearly the number of sites that are referring traffic is increasing, and with it the number of visitors. My goal in March is to [...]

Rich Sage ‘cracks’ the 60,000 Alexa rank, briefly.

After watching the Super Bowl Sunday, I took a moment to glance at my Alexa rankings to see the stats to the right. I couldn’t believe that the rank for the day was displayed. Alexa does not show daily stats for sites ranked higher than 100,000. [...]