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SEO Expectations and Guarantees

I have clients that call and ask me to develop an SEO strategy for them. Many times they ask certain questions that I thought it would be nice to answer here in my blog.
1. Can you guarantee me a front page google listing? No. And neither can anyone else no matter what they say in [...]

Filed under: NameCritic and SEO Myths and Facts and SEO Services by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic - 22. July 2008, No Comments

Google and Matt Cutts Ignore Their Do No Evil Policy and go into SEO Business

I posted about this when Google was still in the process of aquiring Doubleclick, which also owns Performics, which is an SEO company. Many in the SEO industry, including Danny Sullivan warned that Google would use this to monopolize the SEO industry. Original post on google getting into the seo business was here.
Now Matt Cutts [...]

Filed under: Google and NameCritic and PPC and SEO Consulting and SEO Myths and Facts and Search Engines by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic - 2. April 2008, 4 Comments

Questionaire For Helping You Choose An SEO Company From Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub wrote an interesting article in SearchDay that I wanted to comment on here on my blog.
The reason I wanted to discuss this is that many companies expect all seo people to be like other vendors. A lot of seo companies cater to this by providing pretty charts and graphs and testimonials of [...]

Filed under: Internet Marketing and Onsite SEO and PPC and SEO Consulting and SEO Myths and Facts and Social Bookmarking by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic - 4. March 2008, 4 Comments

New Web Business Guide Chapter 6 - Website Design

The New Web Business Guide Introduction can be found here. Chapter 5 - Planning Your Website Navigation can be found here
Ok, first I have to admit that I am a little harsh on website designers and website design companies. The reason is that the content that goes into your website is a lot more important [...]

Filed under: Content and Internet Marketing and NameCritic and Onsite SEO and SEO Consulting and SEO Myths and Facts and Web Design by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic - 14. February 2008, 5 Comments

The State Of SEO

Where is the SEO industry today? Is it headed in the right direction, in an off direction, in no direction, or going sour?
One would think that the SEO industry is in a state of poor health if you visit the forums and read what people are saying. Google is broke, Microsoft and Yahoo are merging, [...]

Filed under: SEO Myths and Facts and Search Engines by Allen - 8. February 2008, No Comments

Get Your SEO From Wal-Mart! This is too funny!

Those who read my blog know that I sometimes make fun of people who go into the SEO business before they have even owned their own website and made any money on the web. I make fun of them because they read an ebook or read a few blogs and suddenly declare themselves an SEO [...]

Filed under: PPC and SEO Consulting and SEO Myths and Facts by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic - 27. January 2008, No Comments

Top 10 SEO Questions I Get From Clients

I get a lot of clients that use our services who have tried so many other services and not gotten results. I can tell by the questions they ask me that our SEO company is way different than what many of them are used to.
Here are the top 10 questions they ask and my answers;
1. [...]

Filed under: Google and Internet Marketing and Link Popularity and Main and NameCritic and Onsite SEO and SEO Consulting and SEO Myths and Facts and SEO Services and Search Engines by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic - 12. January 2008, No Comments

Web Position Checking Software VS Manual Statistical Analysis

I read a really good article about web positioning software and it goes along with what we have been doing all along. We never use automated software to check keyword positioning in the search engines, to do search engine submissions, to analyze web copy, to generate content, to manage a ppc campaign, etc.
I’ve seen people [...]

Filed under: Cool SEO Tools and Onsite SEO and SEO Consulting and SEO Myths and Facts and SEO Services by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic - 8. January 2008, No Comments

PPC Myths Exposed

There was a good blog post outlining 13 myths about PPC. I have one or two to add to the list, but here are the top ones from that blog;
13 Myths of Pay Per Click
1) You need to be number 1 - Leave your ego at the login, you do not have to rank number [...]

Filed under: PPC and SEO Myths and Facts by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic - 30. December 2007, 1 Comment

Are Dinosaurs Extinct?

Not when it comes to Search Engine Optimization, Keyword Research, and Internet Marketing. How does that relate to dinosaurs becoming extinct? I’ll explain.
Whenever someone wants to learn about SEO or Internet Marketing, they find a ton of information on the web. They also find a lot of confusing or conflicting information depending on which self-proclaimed [...]

Filed under: NameCritic and SEO Consulting and SEO Myths and Facts by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic - 11. December 2007, No Comments