Link Building By Guest Blogging

January 23, 2010

Blogs are fundamentaly social. It is built into the way people read, comment and follow. Guest blogging is a great way to get yourself out into more places to be seen and heard. It is also a good way to have a flow of new content.
I just twittered :
prediction: this will be a big deal [...]

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SEOMOZ Slapped Me Around Today

January 17, 2010

I ran the SEOMOZ Trifecta today. This is a tool that tells you how good your site is ranking. Well they slapped me around a bit but were nice enough to show me some great ways I can improve things so I thought I would share that list here:

Resources
for Improving Blog Posts

How
to Write Great Blog [...]

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Free DoFollow Blog Directories You Can Boost Your Links With

December 30, 2009

The biggest opportunity you will throw out the window if you spam post comments is  getting real links and traffic from people who want to know about what you have to say. When you write useful relevant comments on people’s blogs you will get good attention and good links. Some of them will read your [...]

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Free Linkbuilding Course

December 21, 2009

I was surfing and searching to get the latest and best linkbuilding information and after putting these 38 links in Diigo thought this could make a useful SEO resource. Who knows maybe you will link to it. If you only read the 3 that I liked so much I bolded them you will be way [...]

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The Reality Of SEO Today

December 13, 2009

I recommend you take a minute and read this post “Setting Realistic SEO Expectations” at High Rankings. This post discusses the reality of SEO today carefully revealing how so much has changed in the past few years.
SEO has always been a moving target and always will be; what worked yesterday may not work today; what [...]

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How Do People Find Your Business Online?

December 13, 2009

People either are or are not finding you through the search engines and by having links around the net.

Search engines: 81%
Link from another site: 59%
Viral marketing (word of mouth): 56%
TV: 48%
Guessed URL: 41%
Online advertising: 20%
Radio: 19%
Direct mail: 10%

From this list, links from other sites and word of mouth, you can see how social marketing is [...]

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SEO Manifesto

October 13, 2009

SEO as I do it is about more than getting found on page one. SEO is a marketing and sales operation. It includes publicity and creating “buzz”. A combination of content creation, social marketing, and link building will get better results. Sales Results. Targeted to potential customers.
Link building, which is a fundamental part of SEO, [...]

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Some Good SEO Blog Reads Monday Oct 12

October 12, 2009

Twitter deal to provide Google with real-time tweets could impact SEO strategies http://bit.ly/13jwVd

Twitter User Arrested For Helping Pittsburgh Protesters Evade Police http://bit.ly/4hgPZ6

4 Visual Charts on the Value of SEO Tactics http://bit.ly/14w89C

Five More Search Tools You Should Know: Twitter Edition http://bit.ly/ygahc

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SEO means more than getting on page one

October 12, 2009

Search Engine Optimization as I do it is about more than getting found on page one. SEO is a marketing and sales operation. A combination of content creation, social marketing, and link building will get better results. Targeted to potential customers.

Link building, which is a fundamental part of SEO, works best in targeted directories, related [...]

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Natural Search Opportunity

September 25, 2009

I found some interesting statistics in the value of natural search today while reading a post at the Search Engine Land Blog
The natural search opportunity
Allow me to humor you with some industry facts:
* Search, as an industry, is growing from a $12B industry in 2007 to a $25B industry in 2011—100% growth in just 4 [...]

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