What Is On Your SEO Christmas List?
Now that Christmas 2009 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about your SEO program and the Christmas and holiday season of 2010. OK, go ahead and groan. But you know it's time. Well, if you own an ecommerce or retail website and if you depend on Christmas and holiday visitors to make or break your annual sales numbers, now is the time to plan your search engine optimization efforts for the Christmas and holiday season of 2010. Years ago, people didn't start thinking about Christmas until after Thanksgiving. The day after Turkey Day was the largest shopping day of the year (and still is). But in recent years I've noticed that marketers have started marketing for Christmas earlier and earlier. It CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Search Engines Rank on Data Not Emotion
I get many potential clients on the phone that have one goal in mind and that is to be on the first page of Google right next to their biggest competitor, wouldn’t’ we all? It is important to realize that to get ahead in life most websites need to first put their dues in. The same thing goes for websites as well. Websites need to show the search engines that they have earned their right to be in that high position or ranking in search results before they are actually allowed in. Each website needs to work their way up to that point, by marketing their businesses over time. Key point is that search engine optimization is about building your online authority and developing CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Blog Post from 2007 Makes Top 2009 List
This is the time of the year when every blogger in the world looks back at the year and creates a top 10 posts of the year blog post. Marketing Pilgrim published its top 10 list of 2009 and I was just as surprised as Andy Beal to discover that one of the items on the list was a post from 2007. How did that happen? The post in question is this post on Google offering cheap online file storage. Let's perform a little forensic SEO analysis: First, the post is No. 1 in Google for the key phrase "cheap online file storage" It's also No. 1 in Bing and No. 7 in Yahoo! OK, let's include Ask too. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Blogging Helps SEO Efforts – Big Surprise!
Over the past year or so, I have started to see more businesses and marketers and search engine optimization professionals suggest that blogging is the best kept SEO secret online. I'd have to agree. But I've been saying that for several years now. Why is blogging such a great SEO tool? For starters, every time you update your blog with excellent user focused content you invite the search engines back to crawl it. The major search engines really do love fresh content and every blog post is great search bot food. But, and this is even more important, each blog post is a separate web page, which means every time you publish a new blog post you are giving yourself one more opportunity to be found CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Merry Christmas 2009!
I wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays! :) Please enjoy one of my favorite Christmas songs...12 Days of Christmas by Straight No CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Don’t Beat Up Your SEO for Slow Sales
When you finally reach that point where you want to introduce search engine marketing and optimization in your overall marketing strategy it is important to understand how SEO fits into your overall marketing equation. Even though there are many different approaches and SEO service providers out there, it is important to understand that SEO is a form of inbound marketing. If your website visitors do not convert you have to realize that this is not a direct problem from SEO service provider. Remember you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink. If your website is set up poorly than all the SEO in the world will not help you become successful. Unless you hired a firm or a person to do CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...









