Archive for the 'SEO - Search Engine Optimization' Category

7 Simple Steps to SEO - the heck out of your competition

By Dave James
This article is meant for beginners who are new to SEO and for old-timers who are seeking new ways to get things done faster.
When thinking about Search Engine Optimization for your site, you must always keep in mind that the basic purpose of your web-site is to make you money. You make money […]

Boosting Your Blog With Better Content

By Andy MacDonald
As you think about ways to generate buzz around your blog, you can also improve the quality of your blog by focusing on your posting techniques. These tips may give you some good promotion ideas:

7 simple steps to Keyword Mastery & Search Engine Ranking

By Dave James
Keyword Research has become an integral part of starting up your own business or growing your business (exponentially). Search engine marketing is here to stay for the long term, hence finding customers through keyword research should also be an integral part of your marketing.

PageRank the next Y2K?

By Robert Cerff
PageRank… or is it really just a few green pixels? Every so often we hear of a new PR update and the craze that follows it. Has this addiction finally reached a pinnacle or has the worst yet to come? I shudder to think.
Funny enough, the name PageRank has little to do with […]

SEO That Works! Keywords, Content and Links

By Michael Small
Search engine optimization has been around almost as long as search engines have. It probably started about five minutes after someone realized there was money to be made on the Web, but only if your site could be found easily enough.
The reason for optimizing a Web page is the same today as it […]

Link Building 101

By Jason Storm
Two of the three big search engines (Google and Yahoo) place a large importance on one way links to determine rankings. Each link to your site is like a vote and the more votes you have, the higher you will rank.

To Use or Not To Use? Duplicate Content

By Andy MacDonald
Duplicate content is a hotly debated issue when it comes to how it affects your web-site ranking. And it’s become an even bigger issue over time as spammers and other malicious Internet users have taken to the practice of content scraping, or scraping the content from a web site to use on their […]

Best 3 SEO Tips of 2008

Each year I spend the first three months looking for the best and most innovative SEO tips of the previous year’s end. This year I have what I believe to be the best 3 SEO tips in a decade!

Using a Search Engine Optimization Company vs. Hiring an In-House Expert: The True Dollar Cost

By Scott Buresh
It’s a common question that companies who are considering hiring a search engine optimization company often face - is this something that we can do in-house? More importantly, can we do this in-house and get the same results that an expert search engine optimization company would provide?
As this article will demonstrate, clearly the […]

Snagging Inbound Links

By Andy MacDonald
Inbound links are now so important in the constant battle to achieve top search engine rankings, that tons of people are using every tactic under the sun to gain that one additional link. You must be careful when it comes to linking though. You could jeopardize your whole linking plan by getting links […]