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Search Engine Watch November 8, 2010 Josh McCoy |
Diversifying Your SEO Imagine your site as you would your investment portfolio. Spreading your assets evenly is extremely important to long-term growth.  |
Search Engine Watch January 27, 2009 Mark Jackson |
SEO Web Site Review: Water Filter Corner This Web site recently launched and has several elements that need to be corrected to lay a sound foundation for future SEO success.  |
Search Engine Watch May 24, 2010 Josh McCoy |
Breaking the Single Keyword Obsession in SEO Campaigns Structuring a site to be SEO-friendly, as well as reinforcing a keyword theme in your content strategy that greatly expands the broad term desired, should result in great rankings for competitive terms.  |
Entrepreneur August 2006 Catherine Seda |
Attention, Please! Having trouble attracting readers to your blog? With the right voice, your popularity in cyberspace will soar.  |
Search Engine Watch December 2, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Link Building, Circa 2008 SEO isn't as easy as it was in years past. At one time, optimization meant dropping some keywords in your meta keywords tag, using your most important key phrases a dozen or so times on a page, and exchanging links with anyone who had a Web site.  |
Search Engine Watch January 11, 2011 Kevin Gibbons |
10 Tips for Top Business Blogging Is your business blog ready to work in 2011? Read on for some top tips for blogging success.  |
Search Engine Watch September 1, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Blogging for Search Engine Optimization Search engines like to see you add content to your Web site on a regular basis. Creating a blog is a great way to do this. Once you know you want to begin blogging, where should you start?  |
Search Engine Watch October 13, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Addressing the 'O' in Search Engine Optimization Tips for improving optimization efforts.  |
Search Engine Watch September 27, 2010 Bas van den Beld |
5 Common Mistakes Bloggers Make Here's how you can avoid common blunders when writing blog posts and ensure what you write benefits your readers.  |
Search Engine Watch March 17, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Setting Expectations for Search Engine Optimization How many SEOs have suffered because of unrealistic expectations from clients? That situation can be avoided if you spend the time before an agreement is signed to have a frank and sincere discussion with your client about what they can expect from your efforts.  |
Search Engine Watch August 26, 2008 Mark Jackson |
SEO Success -- Guess What...Content Works! Fixing problems and implementing some search engine-friendly practices can have an immediate effect on a site's search engine rankings. But no search engine optimization technique works better than creating quality content.  |
Search Engine Watch July 19, 2010 Josh McCoy |
SEO, the SERPs, and Your First Impression First impressions aren't just for first dates anymore. Taking advantage of free tools, smart thinking, and your visitor's best interests can be key to converting visitors into customers.  |
Search Engine Watch April 18, 2011 Josh McCoy |
Analytical Measurement & SEO: Ignorance Isn't Bliss Not establishing SEO goals is bad. Even worse is not knowing how to evaluate your campaign. Here's how to understand and assess the causation of analytical trends.  |
Search Engine Watch May 3, 2011 Kristi Hines |
How to Use Blog Commenting to Get Valuable Backlinks and Traffic Blog commenting can help you build relationships and authority in your industry. This will ultimately lead to organic links and new traffic.  |
Search Engine Watch March 29, 2010 Josh McCoy |
SEO With a Skeleton Crew Crunched for resources? Here are some simple search engine optimization tactics for those faced with limited staff or budget.  |
Search Engine Watch February 9, 2009 Ron Jones |
Link Building 101, Part 2 Last week, we looked at on-site linking best practices. Today, we'll look at off-page factors, with five methods you can start using right now to build links.  |
Search Engine Watch October 1, 2010 Rob Chant |
Improve Your SMB Site with These 2 Basic SEO Metrics Unique search landing pages and unique keyword visits are two metrics that are directly actionable for small businesses, no matter what your level of SEO expertise.  |
Entrepreneur July 2007 Catherine Seda |
Site Unseen? To attract customers near and far, optimize your blog for search engines.  |
Search Engine Watch March 21, 2011 Bas van den Beld |
Where to Get Inspiration for Blog Posts Twitter, Google Trends, comments, RSS feeds -- there are numerous ways to find blogging topics. Here are a few to get you started.  |
Search Engine Watch December 9, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Is it Too Late for Holiday Search Traffic? Holiday phrases like "Christmas" show up in Google's universal search results, so there still may be an opportunity to show up. For other competitive keyword phrases, you'd be better off targeting New Year's, or even Valentine's Day.  |
Entrepreneur June 2010 |
Google Analytics Is it (literally) a priceless tool for tracking and scrutinizing online traffic, or is it too complex for the average entrepreneur? Two readers offer their own analyses.  |
Search Engine Watch November 24, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Natural Link Building Practices Don't take chances buying links. Make these safe, proven link building tactics part of your search engine optimization strategy.  |
Search Engine Watch February 6, 2009 Chris Boggs |
Don't Believe Everything You Read Some marketers choose to base their search marketing strategies on blog posts.  |
Search Engine Watch April 25, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Sphere: A New Approach to Blog Search Sphere's approach to blog search is clean and easy-to-use -- and usually offers good, uncluttered results.  |
Search Engine Watch November 5, 2009 Sage Lewis |
Do Follow Pros and cons of building links through blog comments.  |
Search Engine Watch September 14, 2010 Garry Przyklenk |
The MEGA List of Free and Paid SEO Tools the Professionals Use Rankings, link analysis, trends, keyword research, metrics, and beyond -- we've compiled a list of must-have free/paid tools, toolbars, and browser plug-ins for all SEO professionals.  |
Search Engine Watch July 6, 2009 Ron Jones |
Blogs and Blogging 101, Part 2 One of the best ways to approach your blog posts is to put yourself in the shoes of your followers and identify a question they might have. Your assignment is to answer that question with a post.  |
Search Engine Watch December 23, 2008 Carrie Hill |
The Small Business Guide to Choosing Keyword Phrases Here are some best practices for choosing good keywords to utilize when optimizing your small business Web site.  |
Search Engine Watch August 29, 2008 William Flaiz |
There's No Secret Recipe to SEO Some marketers are looking for a secret, step-by-step recipe to SEO success. But while a general framework is necessary to be effective, the search engine optimization process must be adaptable. Here are some tips for guiding you down the path to SEO success.  |
Entrepreneur May 2008 John Jantsch |
The New Frontier These days, everyone's blogging. Is it time for your business to join the club?  |
Search Engine Watch August 13, 2010 Nichola Stott |
Internal Link Housekeeping To get the best from your internal link strategy, it's a good idea to perform regular housekeeping checks looking at these three areas.  |
Searcher November 2011 Rushton & Funke |
The Goodness in the Evil of SEO - Why Search Engine Optimization Matters to Information Professionals Some information professionals view SEO with some reservation or even actual contempt due to the rampant SEO techniques that reduce the quality of search results by driving traffic to sites that take advantage of trending searches rather than useful information.  |
Search Engine Watch January 6, 2009 Mark Jackson |
There's No Shortcut to Good SEO...Or Is There? If search engines want all SEOs to operate in an ethical manner, they should show us that they're penalizing the Web sites that abuse their guidelines, and reward those who follow their guidelines.  |
Search Engine Watch January 11, 2011 Kristi Hines |
Is Link Relevance as Effective as Anchor Text? Obtaining links from high authority pages will increase your site's authority. Here's how to find pages with strong relevance to the keywords for which you want to rank.  |
Search Engine Watch July 21, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Brand Promotion Online -- Signals for Today's SEO Well, you may have heard it mentioned that Google wants to rank brand Web sites. It isn't so much that Google only wants to rank big brands. But they do like all of the signals that these big brands carry.  |
PC Magazine February 8, 2007 Russell Morgan |
Business Blogging Here's how your small business can benefit from blogs.  |
Search Engine Watch June 27, 2008 Chris Boggs |
SEO Basics: Effective Iterative Keyword Research in 2008 The value of any SEO effort lies in the keywords you choose. It's really that simple -- you can't overestimate the importance of strong keyword research.  |
Search Engine Watch August 24, 2010 Gareth Owen |
Don't be Afraid of URL Links Monitor and manage the spread of URL vs. keyword rich links across your client's profile. And don't worry if you get really high quality links that only use your client's URL.  |
AskMen.com Jim Bauer |
How To: Start A Blog Transaction costs are next to nothing in the digital age, and with just a few key strokes and mouse clicks, you could be on your way to becoming a famous blogger.  |
Search Engine Watch December 6, 2010 Josh McCoy |
Funneling your Traffic into Conversions Rankings and referrals are important but even more so is what your traffic is doing once they get to your site. Following these few easy steps helps to get your traffic back on track.  |
Search Engine Watch June 29, 2009 Ron Jones |
Blogs and Blogging 101, Part 1 Search engines will reward a site that has quality content with good rankings. For many sites, one of the easiest ways to add that quality content on a consistent basis is by starting a blog.  |
Search Engine Watch June 21, 2010 Josh McCoy |
What Google Thinks of Your Site Paying attention to your site's Sitelinks, hierarchical listings, and internal link listings in Google SERPs are great ways to see how Google understands your site.  |
Search Engine Watch November 23, 2010 Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
The Redeeming Qualities of Links with a Bad Reputation Backlink rejects, such as nofollows, blog comments, and reciprocal links, have earned their bad reputations by being mostly garbage. But that doesn't make them entirely beyond salvation.  |
Search Engine Watch February 3, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Using Search to Help you with Search Engine Optimization Link research can take time, but there are several ways you can use a search engine to find quality links. Today we'll look at queries you can make using your favorite search engine that can help you find places to acquire links to your Web site.  |
Search Engine Watch September 14, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search Google has introduced its long awaited blog search service, becoming the first major search engine to offer full-blown blog and feed search capabilities.  |
Search Engine Watch June 1, 2009 Ron Jones |
Video Search 101, Part 1 With Internet video on the rise and the search engines looking more favorably on video content, there's an opportunity to leverage this medium for your SEO efforts. We'll focus on five steps for optimizing for video search, many which run parallel to traditional SEO best practices.  |
InternetNews October 29, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Blogs Better at Pushing Product? New research finds that bloggers' links are gaining heft as trusted guides for finding useful content and product purchases.  |
Search Engine Watch November 30, 2010 Kristi Hines |
4 Ways to Build Links Without Anchor Text Is there such a thing as too much anchor text? Absolutely. Here are some of the benefits of creating a more natural looking link profile.  |
Search Engine Watch December 8, 2008 Ron Jones |
Keyword Discovery 101, Part 1 Keyword discovery is important for PPC and SEO campaigns, link building, even as it relates to general marketing like writing press releases, product and service descriptions, or even your positioning statement. Here are the general steps for approaching a keyword discovery project.  |
Search Engine Watch February 27, 2011 Mark Jackson |
The Difference Between Black Hat SEO and Bad SEO The safest way to build up trust/links for your website is to create good, unique, resourceful/helpful content, promote via social channels, and try to win links the "white hat" way.  |