Giving Free Stuff Can Help You Make Money
I have always been a believer that especially on the web the best way to grow your site is to give something away for free. I first noticed this very early on when many of the webs first sites gave away many different things to grow. The most successful ones gave away information. There were […]
Still More Cool Free Open Source Tools
Here’s a list of some really great free open source software to replace many of the Windows programs that cost big bucks to buy. This list appeared recently on makeuseof.com. I have written about some of these tools and others before, but there are cool new ones here. It’s also nice to have a list […]
Tradmarking SEO
It seems that a person named Jason Gambert is trying to trademark the term “SEO”. There is no reason to believe that he will be able to accomplish this, but I have seen some strange things come out of our courts. Read More On The SEOMOZ Blog
Happy 600th Blog Post
I was thinking what to do for this wonderful achievement and recently I have had several potential customers tell me that they want their blog to look like their site. When I tell them that I can make it look like whatever they want, they tell me “but your blog doesn’t match your site!” I […]
How To Make Friends With Search Engines
Just in case you haven’t noticed I’m a big believer in making a site that is friendly to the search engines to read and follow. I have had people tell me that most visitors will come to your site through recommendations from friends, other sites or from print ads, but I think that most site […]
Internal Links Can Be Valuable, Too
Internal links in your site, that is, links from one page in your site to another page in your site can be almost as valuable as links coming into your site from the outside. I have been experimenting with different ways to do this and they have all been working well. Word Press gives you […]
How To Rate An SEO Service
I got an email the other day from a company in India that wanted my SEO business. I don’t think that they read my site, but they talked to me about link building and I don’t write about that much so maybe they did. They contacted me through my email form so what they sent […]
An Interesting Decision For SEO Services
You have optimized your site and gotten very good natural rankings for the keywords that you have targeted. Now What? My customer All America Roadside Assistance is now #3 on Google for “roadside assistance” (their most popular keyword). While there is no guarantee that they will stay there, I was thinking that they are at […]
Magic Secret SEO
I am continuously amazed by people that I talk to that expect me to wave a magic wand and make their site number one on Google for the keyword(s) of their choice. They don’t seem to understand that if I could magically make them number one that everyone else could do the same thing and […]
Design For Human Visitors
I was reading a post called “When is Usability More Important than SEO?” by Stoney deGeyter. Before I even started to read I said to myself it always is. I have written before What Good Are 1,000,000 Visitors If They Don’t Like Your Content? If you are making a business website you want the search […]
