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One of the challenges that small businesses have is being found in local search. I have a chart based on some studies that I share with prospective clients to show them the importance of optimizing their whole site - not just buy PPC with some keywords. When we optimize a business site, we like to look at all aspects and fine tune from messaging to sales conversions. We ask the customer to...
Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Three star links: Giles Bowkett examines what it's like to be "Internet famous." I'm not exactly sure, but I think it involves cheezburgers. SEO Black Hat is offering seats to this year's SEOktoberfest. Want to party in Munich and pick the brains of some of the best super affiliates and black hats around? If so, contact Black Hat and let him know you want in. It's a pricey ticket (5,000 Euros, or roughly a firstborn American child), but he's giving away one free seat if you blog about the event and send a trackback. Hmm, guess that means that this roundup mention is my raffle ticket. Hrm. I don't know how much affiliat/black hat stuff I can wrap my head around, but a trip to Munich sure sounds nice! ;)
Over the past couple of days I have been putting together some internal guidelines on various aspects of our jobs. This should ensure that we are giving consistent information to our various clients. Most of these guidelines have been fairly straightforward with nothing in them to write home about. However, one of the hardest guidelines to write has been the one talking about xml sitemaps. ...
Anybody who has ever put together a killer piece of linkbait has thought about it: how could I get this kind of attention to my landing pages? It's an obvious dilemma. You get a ton of traffic, a ton of links, all of the ranking boost that follows, how could you not want that juice directed toward your conversion-centric pages? Well, there are reasons why the two tend to be mutually ex...
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The Foolproof Method for Great Blogging Don’t become an expert by acting like one - This might sound counter-intuitive, but it really does make sense. Many inexperienced bloggers try to make their work sound important and reputable even when it is not. This is an easy mistake to make because emulating the industry leaders is a logical path to success. Don’t be fooled. Real success comes from distinguishing oneself in a useful way, not by pretending to be something one is not.
Blogs are a good way to set up some fine quality link baits (mind you Link Baiting is good thing)... write something great about or atleast related to what your selling and if its good, you'll find all kinda people linking to ya... or even digging you on digg, stumbling you stumbleupon or "whteva they do" on del.ico.us.But i've recently seen or may be noticed it recentl...
There is a very large group of vocal, active members on SEOmoz whom we hardly ever see on the blog. Most of them rarely write YOUmoz posts and comment infrequently. However, they spend a lot of time in the same area of the site where I spend the majority of my time: SEO Q&A....
For the four of you who aren't aware, The Dark Knight is a pretty big deal for a multitude of reasons: It was the first movie to film large chunks of the film with IMAX cameras. It debuted on the largest number of screens in cinematic history (4,366). It also debuted on the...
Hello, YOUmozzers! I have a quick "feel good" story I'd like to share with everyone. This is a true story about an experience I've had during the last few weeks, when I was able to generate business leads for my SEO consulting services... by being nice. I know... weird, right? Who would've guessed that being nice actually has perks! ...
This week marked the arrival of Cuil on the search engine scene. Being a huge fan of search technology and how search engines work in general, I've been spending some time playing around with the new service and thought it would be valuable to expose my data on how the classic market leaders - Google, Yahoo!, Live & Ask compare to the newcomer. When judging the value and performance...
This one is for anyone who has ever had the pleasure of doing a viral video marketing campaign.As we are all aware there are so many hurdles to getting either a client or an in house CEO to sign off quality "viral" video content. Two of the most difficult of these hurdles are "can you guarantee results e.g. numbers of views etc...." and "how do we track this"...
In June of this year, I presented on the "Give It Up" panel at SMX Advanced. Although some of the material shared by panelists during that session was gray and black hat, my presentation was nearly entirely white hat, and I think that these tips should prove valuable for anyone in the SEO industry. This presentation was broken into 3 parts, and I'll maintain that segmentation here on ...
Me and my team spend a lot of time, like most of the industry, do the 'hard yards' finding potential back links to our clients sites. We use some great tools. These include: The Juicy Link Finder http://www.seomoz.org/link-finder Yahoo Site Explorer http://sitee...
May It Please the Mozzers, Last week, many of you requested more posts on common contract clauses. Your wish is my command: Today, I'm very briefly going to review "opportunity to cure" provisions. This provision is valuable for any one providing a good or service. ...