71 Ways for a Writer to Make Money
I often talk about why you should be writing new content for your website as a way to get more visitors to you site through search engines and links from other sites. It turns out that you can also make money from these endeavors directly. Wordpreneur has printed a post called “71 Ways for a […]
Article Writing to Add Content
I always believed that one of the best ways to get your site noticed is to write articles. I have several sites that distribute articles that I send them off to and if one gets published on a popular site it can bring tons of traffic. That’s not the only reason to do it, however. […]
Should We Be Worried About Click Fraud?
I am reading more and more these days about how click fraud is going to be the death of pay-per-click advertising. While I believe that the numbers are probably higher than what is reported, but the search engines are doing their best to limit this problem. What you need to do as an advertiser is […]
Wild SEO Claims
I was reading this post and thought, I have had almost the same experience. A client who had a site built by someone else proudly showed it to me and wondered why it wasn’t getting any help from the search engines. Their site used JavaScript for navigation, not Flash, but the idea was the same. […]
Is there a “Best Way” to build a site?
When designing a new site one of the questions asked most often is “Do I design my site for human visitors or the search engines?” I have always believed that if you build your site for the human visitor first the search engines will find you and reward you. There may be some things that […]
11 Best Practices for URLs
Here’s a good idea to help both your human visitors as well as the search engines spiders. Your page’s URL (Uniform Resource Identifier) is your pages address. It’s what you link to or what your visitors can type directly into their address bar to get to your page. It used to be that I didn’t […]
Google’s technology playground
Google Labs has been a playground for search engine optimizers and marketers for a long time. Google Labs offer a wide variety of searcher toys that are not quite ready to be unveiled on the main Google site, and some developments eventually become a significant part of Google. Some of the not-quite-ready-for-prime-time players here are: […]
Lessons of Talk Like A Pirate Day
September 19 has been declared “International Talk Like A Pirate Day”. How do I know that? I read it on Matt Cutts blog. If you don’t know who Matt Cutts is, he is one of the first employees at Google. He also writes a blog that for us in the Search Engine Optimization business makes […]
The VP of Search
Sara Holoubek of Search Engine Watch has written a post about just how far SEO has come in a short time. Major companies are adding VP’s of Search, she says it’s “the hottest new title in town”. Well, if the big players are doing it shouldn’t small companies at least recognize that search is something […]
How Much Do I Charge For SEO?
With Search Engine Optimization (SEO) nothing is ever guaranteed, so my first rule of thumb is to be skeptical of anyone who does guarantee you specific results. That doesn’t necessarily mean they can’t do it, but they may just be talking about a specific search for your name or some other obscure search term that […]
