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Facebook, SEO and Traffic – Stats Don’t Lie

January 18th, 2012

Your Facebook page is all set up and ready for action. You built a following, and now you’re wondering what is it all for? Are you really getting traffic to the point of sale site the way you need to? Are you actually making salesand seeing any money come in from all of this? Do [...]

 
 

Link Building Secrets

December 15th, 2011

Without doubt,  link building is one of the best ways to get better rankings and drive organic traffic back to your site. That isn’t always feasible for everyone. There are several free strategies that you can use to help pick up some solid targeted traffic from sources other than the SERPs alone. – Article marketing. [...]

 
 

How’s Your Homepage?

December 2nd, 2011

Optimizing your home page is one of the most important things you can do, but doing it RIGHT is imperative. As they say, anything worth doing is worth doing right. There are plenty of websites out there that are really quite pathetic in terms of optimization and content – aggrgate sites with no quality control [...]

 
 

Understanding LSI

November 30th, 2011

What do you know about LSI? Latent Semantic Indexing, or LSI, is not a new concept by any means. If you have been doing SEO on your site, then you have researched keywords and phrases that are likely to help your website rank better on Google. High search engine ranking involves more than keyword density [...]

 
 

Using Tools to Discover Links

October 18th, 2011

One of the interesting things about linking is that you can  learn a lot about your site and visitors by tracing back links to where they cam from in the first place. For instance, at mandyf.wordpress.com, an experiment in linking to several key terms that sare unrelated like “dating”, “amputation”, “edema, and “disgusting eggs” returned [...]

 
 

SEO Is Like a Golf Game

October 10th, 2011

Your entire golf game can, and at some point almost always will,  break down over just one small  flaw in your swing or slightly misreading the break of a green. The success of your website is often quite similar to that rough golf game – there are several key factors that make a site work [...]

 
 

DIY Link Audit

June 27th, 2011

Instead of focusing all of your energy on new inbound links, from time to time it is a good idea to divert some of that to evaluating the internal links you already have. Internal site link audits do not cost much money if any and can help boost your site by clearing out the useless [...]

 
 

Understanding What Google Wants You To Do

June 16th, 2011

Google indexing gets a lot of ink because it is important. Bing and various other competitors have their place, but Google is king until someone knocks them off the mountain. While major algorithm changes like Panda are announced with some fanfare, there are loads of tweaks that occur which largely go unnoticed by anyone that [...]

 
 

SEO Recap – Internal Linking Tips

July 16th, 2010

Internal Linking Tips We can’t stress the importance of internal linking structure enough.  With one-way links we can use many different methods to improve our rankings but when it comes to internal linking we often fall short with creative ways to improve our architecture. Most webmasters don’t think about internal linking as much as they [...]

 
 

In-Text Link Options

December 13th, 2009

We all know it is better to use in-text links in some cases. The anchor text gains importance as an in-text link, and the destination should be clear. There are a few things to remember, however. If you are using an advertising program that highlights links in your articles, be aware that the relevancy may [...]