Watch out for the “new wave SEO specialists”.

One of my clients called me and told me he was approached by a company claiming to offer SEO consulting services. This company claimed they could do a better job than I was doing. Apparently the owner of this company recently completed the Search engine college’s course on SEM and was now ready to get into the business of finding new customers. Don’t get me wrong, the search engine college has an excellent product but maybe they need to add a segment on ethics. Needless to say, I explained to my client that the proof is in the pudding. What is this person’s rankings for their...
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I have lost my Google rankings…tell me what is going on?

One of the more common posts around various search engine forums is, “my rankings at Google have gone down, can someone please explain why?” People who watch their search engine rankings on a hourly or daily basis should spend more time on building backlinks and providing linkable content (my opinion). I posted this comment which includes a quote from a Google public relations person recently at SEOChat last week and again today. I’ve been reading the book, “Winning Results with Google Adwords”. This book was published sometime in what appears to be late in 2005....
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Are you ready for Google personalized search?

Most people outside of the search engine industry are probably not aware that Google has been moving towards providing “personalized search”. Danny Sullivan formerly of Search Engine Watch has posted this very interesting article on the subject. Click here to read about it.
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Longtail keywords can bring in conversions.

I received a call today from a company that sells gift baskets. They have a new web site and were hoping I could help them with SEO. She had received a quote for some on page optimization from another company and wanted to know how I could help her with links and generating traffic. Before making a proposal, I examined her website’s back links profile by using Market Leap’s back link popularity checker. I compared her links with the top three competitors at Google. We found out she has virtually no chance to ever compete in the Gift Baskets Category at Google.She asked me what her...
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What factors determine your search engine ranking positions at Google?

As promised my first of many high quality posts starts today. I’m posting some advanced search engine marketing information. If you are new to SEO great! My suggestion is to come back and read the link in this post over and over. If you consider yourself an SEO expert or if you really are an SEO expert this information will either confirm what you already know or add value to what you know. A great thread popped up at SEOChat. Visio is one of the many great contributors at this forum. He listed what I believe some of the most crucial factors to achieving high rankings at Google. Click here...
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Twelve great search engine optimization (SEO) tips for 2007.

Sorry it has been so long in between my last posts. I’ve just been incredibly busy managing client projects and watching my own site move up the search engine rankings. If you have read some of my previous posts, you know my favorite SEO forum is SEO Chat. Although a lot of newbies post there and they don’t usually read the F.A.Q.’s, it is still a great forum. Gary The Scuba guy put up a great post that everyone should see. Gary’s SEO bootcamp training web site is a fantastic place for more search engine optimization tips. Click here to read the great post that I’m...
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