SEO Myths and Facts

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This or That – Which is more important?

A lot of blog posts out there have titles like; ppc or seo, which is more important?, sem or seo, which is more important?, content or link building, which is more important?, etc. etc.
Maybe it’s just writers block or something, but every single day it seems another post like that gets made. And all of [...]

Validation Not Required

I would love to have someone prove to me where being W3C compliant helps you rank better in the search engines. I’ll pick three phrases off the top of my head.
1. Affiliate Marketing
2. Bicycle Parts
3. Homes for Sale
Affiliate Marketing – in Google, skipping wikipedia entries, the number 1 site was http://www.affiliatetips.com/ which has 39 Errors, [...]

SEO Trademark Considered Live By USPTO

According to a search of TESS at the US Patent and Trademark Office reveals that the trademark on the term SEO is considered live.
Word Mark SEO
Goods and Services IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: Marketing services in the field of computers in the nature of providing marketing services for the benefit [...]

SEO Scams and How to Recognize Them

SiteProNews author Andrew Plimmer wrote a good article about how to recognize SEO companies who use unethical tactics. I agree with most of the article, but had a few exceptions I wanted to share.
The SitePro News article asks; How can you tell if an offer like this is coming from a SEO scam artist?
Do your [...]

Do You Want To Know How I Saw The Woman In Half or Do You Just Want To See The Magic Trick?

It’s a question I actually ask clients from time to time. Some clients have a little understanding of SEO and others don’t. Some want to know details about what I am going to do for them and some just want me to get the job done.
In that initial SEO consultation, one of the first things [...]