SEO for Dummies – What YOU Need to Know
October 23rd, 2009
What do you need to know about SEO to protect yourself? Just a few basics can help keep you from getting ripped off, so here’s a few pointers to keep you on the right track when you start looking into having your website optimized; basically, these are red flags to let you know when an [...]
SEO Step-By-Step Guide– 212. Looking Beyond Google
October 22nd, 2009
For some reason or the other our minds refuse to think beyond Google when it comes to search engine success. Google has literally monopolized the search industry. Google holds around 70% of the market share in the search industry. So, many webmasters feel justified in their approach, which concentrates just on Google. However, we should [...]
Snake Oil and Used Cars?
October 22nd, 2009
SEOs are called ‘snake oil peddlers’, ‘used car salesmen’ and other unkind names on a regular basis. The truth is, some are. However, if you turn your back on SEO, you are letting go of a great tool. Seriously, a good SEO consultant can be worth much more than you pay for him/her. Doing the [...]
SEO Step-By-Step Guide– 211. Factors to Consider When SEO Fails
October 21st, 2009
Despite your hard work and lot of efforts that you have taken, your SEO might fail to produce the desired results. You may not get enough visitors and the expected business conversions. It is certainly going to be highly discouraging if not frustrating. There may be number of reasons for your SEO failure. Rather than [...]
SEO Step-By-Step Guide– 210. What is wrong with email blasts?
October 20th, 2009
Are you being talked into trying out the emailing software that sends out millions of emails in one shot? Are you being lured into getting millions of visitors from your email marketing? Are you almost convinced that bulk emailing is one of the best holiday selling strategy? Be warned, it is not a healthy thing [...]
Should You Listen to SEO ‘Gurus’?
October 19th, 2009
SEO advice is offered for sale these days from every corner – from other webmasters, freelance writers and search engine reps as well as from firms, website developers and so called ‘gurus’. It can be difficult to decide who is giving good advice that will actually help and who is giving a summation or hodgepodge [...]
Are Professional SEOs Worth It?
October 16th, 2009
The battle is raging as to whether SEO consultants are worth the money. Of course, we are going to say “yes”, being an SEO firm, but there are real reasons to use a professional team to help SEO your website. Some people enjoy using writing as an avenue to quickly distribute information – but don’t [...]
SEO Step-By-Step Guide– 209. Effective Optimization of your Squidoo Lens
October 16th, 2009
Squidoo lenses are becoming one of the popular ways of promoting one’s website, products and services online. Squidoo gives a lot of freedom to its publishers and as a Squidoo publisher, you can publish just about anything on any topic. It is totally up to you and your imagination. If you want to tap the [...]
Are SEOs Members of ‘The Dark Side’?
October 15th, 2009
There are a few blog posts making the rounds on how SEOs are spammers, evil, snake oil salesmen, etc. Certain individuals claim that there is no such thing as SEO; there is only ‘building good websites’ – and all the stuff called SEO is just ‘building a good website’. Lets look at a well built [...]
SEO Step-By-Step Guide– 208. Stay Away from Doorway Page Creation Software
October 15th, 2009
Today no one talks about doorway pages, it has been a long forgotten black hat SEO strategy to increase the number of entry points to your website and to increase your website traffic. Even today, there may be some die hard black hat SEOs trying to revive this strategy to get good traffic to their [...]













