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March 2010

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Article Marketing Is Part Of A Good SEO Strategy

SEO, or search engine optimization, is a term that covers a lot of ground. It involves link building strategies, branding, blogging, onsite optimization, ppc, and much more.
Under link building and branding, article marketing comes into play. You can write articles or have them written for you by a ghostwriter. Once you have the article content, [...]

Filed under: Article Marketing by Chris McElroy - 30 March 2010, 1 Comment

Do You Really Know What Article Marketing Is?

Lots of people have heard about article marketing or maybe even doing what they believe is article marketing, but do not really understand what it is. There are different ways article marketing can be used to help you.
Writing an informative article about something that is related to your website content, service, or product, then mass [...]

Filed under: Article Marketing by Chris McElroy - 28 March 2010, No Comments

I Want Cheap Content Because I Don’t Know Any Better

I see this everywhere and still cannot believe that people do not get it. Content is still king on the web.
Website Content
The most important thing you will ever do for your website is to put in good content. Great content will get you links and your position in the search engine results will be because [...]

Filed under: Article Marketing and Content and SEO Myths and Facts and Website Copywriting by Chris McElroy - 27 March 2010, No Comments

Subdomains or Subdirectories? That is the question

This is another question that a lot of people ask. One client recently asked if using subdomains would hurt or help his SEO efforts.
My answer: Subdomains are like standalone websites without the advantage of having a real domain name. You can build whole sites on subdomains, but they won’t help the website on [...]

Filed under: Bing and Google and Onsite SEO and SEO Myths and Facts and Search Engines and Yahoo by Chris McElroy - 15 March 2010, No Comments

SEO Blog Reposts Rehashed Rewritten Spam

That title doesn’t do it justice. Everyone hated Microsoft for years. One of the reasons is that Microsoft will put out software according to its’ own schedule even when that software isn’t really finished. Then they add patches to try and fix the broken software they put out.
Their schedule of selling us new software and [...]

Filed under: Blogs by Chris McElroy SEO - 12 March 2010, No Comments

Can Bing Get A Little Respect?

OK, I’ve been around long enough to be a Microsoft-hater as much as the next guy. I didn’t switch from windows 3.1 to windows 95 until they forced me. I was using windows 98 up until December of 2007. I’m still using windows XP.
(OK, I had to use the “add-to-dictionary feature in Microsoft Word [...]

Filed under: Bing and Google and Search Engines by Chris McElroy SEO - 11 March 2010, 1 Comment

More Video Fun With SEO – Google Google Google

Google, Google, Google. Can you say that three times really fast? These guys are having a really hard time with it. It’s a fun video, but it also seems to be the obsessive sales pitch that many SEO companies use with their clients.

Do You Have a Google Habit?

Filed under: Google and Search Engines and Video SEO by Chris McElroy SEO - 10 March 2010, No Comments

Personalized Search is Google’s Mistake

A lot of people are talking about Google personalized search results and most don’t like it and for good reasons.
1. If I like a site or visit a site often, it’s likely already in my favorites or bookmarks or I know the web address by heart. Google Personalized Search is just another bookmark tool [...]

Filed under: Google and SEO Myths and Facts and Search Engines by Chris McElroy SEO - 8 March 2010, 1 Comment