10 Ways to Mess Up Your SEO
I see it and hear it all the time. I speak with potential clients that claim everything was going great and then all of a sudden everything hit the fan. Rankings gone, traffic gone and business down. Here are 10 ways to royally mess up your SEO: 1. Not asking enough questions When you hire a search engine optimization company make sure to ask questions on process. Find out to make sure there are no black hat methods being used. 2. Dangerous Linking A link is good but not everywhere. Linking to the wrong types of websites could land you in the hot seat very quickly. For instance, always strive to have relevant incoming links that could generate visitors to your website, not just a link for the sake CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Internal Linking Recommendations to Consider
Often times I see websites that think a certain effort is really important and required for success but the entrepreneur or website owner fails to realize the thin line between too much and too little of that effort. Too much of a certain effort can cause your website to receive a penalty from any of the major search engines so it is important to always take a tasteful approach to building up your internal links. Internal Linking in Your Footer I see lots of websites who do not even have a website footer visible on their website. A website footer is a great form of internal link building that can really help your internal search engine optimization efforts. I typically like to take the high level navigation CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How to Increase Your Friends, Fans, Likes and Followers
If you are a website or business that is really trying to make an impact in your industry in more ways than one at some point you might find that it is important to make friends with some of your industry professional colleagues online. How can I get the attention of my colleagues? One great way is to locate all of the high powered blogs in your industry and really start reading through some of regularly posted blog posts. Start by leaving tasteful and intelligent comments on some of the blog posts to get their attention. I wouldn’t necessarily do it every day but a few times per/week might be what you need to get the attention of not only your audience but also your CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Blog Posts To Read Week of November 11, 2010
Below you will find our favorite blog posts that are related to SEO, search engine marketing and social media marketing from this past week. Please feel free to visit each, we hope you find them as helpful as we do! Search Engine Marketing Guide for Entrepreneurs This is a great post that outlines some tips for entrepreneurs looking to get into SEM, it gives a good idea of the basics for those new to Search Engine Marketing. Leadership by Amputation This is a clever post about what makes a great leader. Takes a good spin on the Randy Moss football debacle, and calling the Vikings head office great leaders for looking out for the greater good, and ridding the team of what they felt was CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Recycle Your Old Blog Posts
Everyone who has been writing in a blog for some period of time probably has some blog posts from way back that are a bit outdate, sloppy or just plain boring. There is good news though because there are some things you can do to those pesky old blog posts to pump some vital life back into them so they can serve some sort of purpose on your blog. Here are some helpful recommendations to consider about how to recycle your old blog posts: Re-Optimize Go back and locate some of those old blog posts that might have not been optimized like they should and tweak them out. Maybe you have an older blog and some important search engine optimization efforts were not in the limelight yet so CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Great Ways to Kill Your SEO Progress
There are many ways that you can really hurt your search rankings in today’s search space and it is important that if you are planning on doing anything online you consult with a professional especially if you base your livelihood on your organic rankings. Website Overhaul If you are doing a large sweeping website overhaul and you are planning on changing everything including URL structures and content you will see a dip in rankings. The proper way to change URL structures is by implementing a 301 redirect on the old webpages you are converting. This is common as websites do often times change technology platforms. Removing all old content can also pose a problem. Rather than changing content completely try just updating the old content CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What’s New in SEO for November 9, 2010
We have compiled the latest news and updates from the big three, Google, Bing and Yahoo as it relates to SEO and the search engines overall. WHAT’S NEW THIS WEEK WITH GOOGLE: A Chrome Extension for Reporting Webspam For those who like to report web spam, or at least would like to have the option to do so, Google has released an easy convenient extension through Google Chrome that links to search results and your Web History, taking you directly to the spam report form and auto completing some form fields for you. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK WITH BING: One of many reasons to get your hands on Windows Phone 7 Ok, yes I know, what does this have to do with SEM? Well I CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Journal is Written by SEO Expert:
Nick Stamoulis
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