Link Strategy
Debating Social Media vs Google
I have been writing about the rise of social media for a long time now and how it compares to search engine traffic and users. Many SEOs say social media traffic does not convert well and therefore useless to advertisers. I disagree.
First of all, you can read my post about the number of people who [...]
Link Building or Content Promotion?
This is a good discussion because there is a big difference in building links for the sake of building links and promoting your content. Are you a content publisher? Not all websites are and not all of them that do publish content consider themselves publishers.
If you own an online store and you do not add [...]
New Web Business Guide Chapter 8 - Website Promotion Part 3 - Links and Advertising
The New Web Business Guide Introduction can be found here. The previous chapter, PPC vs Organic Traffic can be found here.
How do I build links to my website?
There are dozens of different ways to increase your link popularity. But what is the difference between building link popularity and getting links that actually send you traffic [...]
New Web Business Guide Chapter 8 - Website Promotion - I Need Traffic!
The New Web Business Guide Introduction can be found here.
Now that your website is built and you are sure it’s ready to receive traffic and convert sales, you are ready to go out and get some people to come visit your new website.
How Do I Get Traffic To My Website?
That is the most asked [...]
Bicycle Parts - Random SEO Website Review
I want to give you a glimpse of how we review a website to see what needs to be done to optimize it for the search engines and how we can help improve sales. I chose bicycle parts as a search term.
The first website I find is BikeUSA.com. Go ahead and click it to open [...]
Yahoo And Page Rank
Yahoo invented TrustRank, but that is mostly to keep spammer pages from getting search engine listings than it is about a page’s importance or how relative the page is to particular search terms.
Users are going to be the biggest factor in how you rank in the search engines at some point. As Yahoo and Google [...]
SEO Checklist For 2008
There was a great post at WebProNews.com with a checklist to go over as you go into the new year. Here are some of the highlights.
1. Stop Stabbing in the Dark - Keyword Intelligence
Start 2008 with some intelligent keyword analysis. Find out what your potential customers are searching for and create your keyword hit [...]
Increasing My Link Popularity
There are a lot of ways to build link popularity for your website, but you do need to be careful.
Unfortunately, there are many seo companies out there who try to trick the search engines and who use link schemes that are unethical.
It is sometimes difficult for you to tell whether or not the [...]
Stop Flashing Me Already!
It happened over at Blog Content Provider. I had a reader leave a brilliant comment on one of my blog posts. It happens, but not often enough.
As I always do, I check out the websites of the people who leave comments because I want to see where they lead me. You never know when a [...]