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What You Will Learn: This call will teach listeners how to improve their blog’s rank in search engines. Participants will learn: Why you should optimize your blog for search engines How search engines rank web pages Why focusing on a niche topic is key to ranking well Key elements of search engine friendly posts What [...]

Popuri.us is a free tool that shows you how your site ranks across a number of sites. With one click, you’ll learn: your site’s Google PageRank your site’s rank on Alexa, Complete, and Quantcast backlinks to your site measured by Google, Yaho, Live Search, and Technorati Del.icio.us bookmarks and links to your WHOIS and DNS [...]

Creating descriptive internal links is crucial to creating a user-friendly, search engine optimized website. Your internal linking structure helps search engines determine which pages on your site are most important, based on how many links to each page you include. It also helps visitors determine whether they should click your links to learn more. Here [...]

I was sitting with a new seo client a few weeks ago and we were browsing through some of his competitors’ sites. The site was sloppy and didn’t utilize any SEO best practices, so my client wanted to know why this site ranked so high in Google while his didn’t. There are a number of [...]

One of the most common questions small business owners ask me is “How do I get my site listed in search engines for the good keywords?” They usually want to be listed for the difficult words everyone wants to be listed under like “personal injury attorney” or “real estate” or some other term that Google [...]

There’s been a lot of talk about why new sites are so difficult to get ranked. One of the proposed reasons has been because Google keeps new sites in a holding area (aka “sandbox”) until it can determine a rank for the site. During this time, webmasters will notice that their site will only rank [...]

A September 2006 Comscore analysis found that 63% of US Internet users (approx. 109 million people) performed a local search online in July 2006. That’s a 43% increase from July 2005. 30% of those are conducted through Google. 29% through Yahoo! And 12% through Microsoft. As more people become comfortable searching the internet, they’re going [...]

Article explains why you should be cautious of most link exchange requests.

Want to know who’s linking to you? These tools can help. Google http://www.google.com Check the sites that are linking to you in Google by searching for “link:YOURDOMAIN.COM” – Replace YOURDOMAIN.COM with your actual domain name.

Keyword research is the key to any effective search engine optimization campaign. Uncovering and optimizing for the right keywords – those keywords and phrases your prospects and clients are likely to search for – will dramatically increase your search engine traffic. Here is a list of free keyword research tools you can use. (Note: many [...]