Posted by admin in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Mar 28th, 2007 | No Comments
Today’s post comes from Search Engine Roundtable. It appears that Yahoo’s paid directory could be slowly going away. Let me provide you with a little historical perspective. In the early days of the web (I mean 10 years ago), generally there were two types of search portals.1. Directories
2. Meta-crawling search engines
Both of these have gone away and have been replaced by bot searching technologies pioneered by Google and copied by others. Yahoo originally was a directory. In the early days you could submit you web site to their directory for free. It has always been edited by humans....
Posted by admin in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Mar 27th, 2007 | No Comments
As my previous post proves, Google places a very high value on incoming links to your web site from web sites or blogs with .edu extensions. I frequently mention SEOChat in my blog posts. Loveskills___s is one of the top notch regular contributors at SEOChat. He gives some very valuable tips about how to build inbound links from .edu web sites. Click here to read his interesting post.
Posted by admin in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Mar 26th, 2007 | No Comments
A lot of companies are promoting, “natural link building” via articles and press releases. It is funny because these companies seem to think they have discovered something new, yet this practice has been in place since the dawn of Internet marketing. I was writing articles seven years ago for my old web site eMarketingman.
The truth is nothing will impact your search engine rankings faster than getting in-bound links from authoritative .edu extensions or web sites. Would you like some proof? My largest client is Gatin Education Services. We just launched a “Pay Per Click Marketing...
Posted by admin in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Mar 25th, 2007 | No Comments
I was surfing the web today and came across this great post by Brandon Hopkins. The title is very appropriate and should provide all of my regular readers with enough link building tips to keep them busy for the rest of they year.
Posted by admin in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Mar 23rd, 2007 | No Comments
This is a common question in today’s competitive marketplace. There are so many unethical SEO firms and companies that don’t follow standard SEO protocols, it is becomes really had to separate the legitimate companies from the scammers and incompetent firms. Here are my recommendations.
The firm’s web site can be found in the top ten at Google for competitive search terms related to their services. If two or more companies are using these phrases to be at the top of the results at Google then this a competitive term.
The firm must provide references from current clients. Those...
Posted by admin in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Mar 23rd, 2007 | No Comments
This is a common question in today’s competitive marketplace. There are so many unethical SEo firms and companies that don’t follow standard SEO protocols, it is becomes really had to separate the legitimate companies from the scammers and incompetent firms. Here are my recommendations: The firm’s web site can be found in the top ten at Google for competitive search terms related to their services. If two or more companies are using these phrases to be at the top of the results at Google then this a competitive term.
The firm must provide references from current clients. Those...
Posted by admin in Blogging - Social BookmarkingMar 22nd, 2007 | No Comments
In my last few posts, I have been mentioning blogs. I looked back that these posts and realized that a number of my blog visitors might not know much about blogs. Instead of giving you 50 posts over the next year about how to start a blog and promote it, I thought I would just tell you about one source for concise and accurate information on this subject. My suggestion is to purchase Blogging Bonanza! The definitive guide to using blogs and RSS for internet marketing. Are you going to be a leader or a follower in this hot new trend?
Posted by admin in Blogging - Social BookmarkingMar 21st, 2007 | No Comments
So you have been visiting this blog and you decdied to create your own blog. Then you began to wonder how will peoople find your blog? The easiest way to get web surfers to visit your blog is to register your blog with blog and RSS directories. The most famous list of these is Robin Good’s 55 Top Blog and RSS directories.
Posted by admin in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Mar 20th, 2007 | No Comments
A common question I receive is, “what if I don’t have time to write articles?” This is a difficult situation many of us face in these extremely busy times. I have found blogging a great way to share information and much less time consuming than writing articles.
So you might be thinking, “what if I don’t have time to create blog posts?” Well all I can say is you need to find the time and if you want people to come back to your blog you should post at least five days a week. A useful tool I have found for finding good content to post on blogs are Google Alerts....
Posted by admin in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Mar 19th, 2007 | No Comments
Link baiting is a technique used to draw traffic to your web site or blog to create a network of inbound links. High quality one-way inbound links are probably the best way to improve your search engine rankings at Google over time. Gary The Scuba Guy who writes the Pay Per Click Manager blog that appears in my blog roll, has created this superb article about Link Baiting. Hmmm…..it looks like he practices what he preaches!
