HousingMatrix.com SEO Review – CNN’s “Website Remedies”
I recently did an interview with Emily Maltby from CNN Money for their “Website Remedies” section. Feel free to check it out. How To Make Your Website Pay...
Help Promote My Post for the Bad Ass SEO Guest Blogging Contest
Today is the launch of my guest post I entered for the Bad Ass SEO Guest Blogging Contest. I would appreciate it if everyone would help in promoting my post “6 Shocking Truths About Internet Marketing“. Feel free to leave your comments and share with...Your Website SEO Checkup: 8 Part Series
Part 1: Search Engine Friendly Site Structure NoNo’s for Search Engines Using a Text Navigation Creating Static Pages Descriptive URL’s Internal Linking Structure Part 2: Keyword Research Initial Keyword List Analytics Data Keyword Research Tool Analyze...
What to Consider When Assessing SEO Expectations
Typically when assessing a new SEO client, I will look at a number of different factors that will help me to determine realistic exceptions. Its funny to see companies give pricing to a potential client without even understanding the clients needs and their industry....
Technical Aspects That SEOs Should Know
SEOs do not necessarily have a technical background, so for the marketer it is important to at least have some basic HTML and programming knowledge. This will allow you to do your job without having to get a programmer involved for some simple SEO implementation....
5 Important Elements of a Sales Landing Page
Every great sales or lead generation landing page have certain similar characteristics to them. Those characteristics lead to increases in sales, leads and overall conversion rates. Let’s take a look at the different elements of a successful landing page. 1. ...
Forget a Link Building Company – This Link Building Campaign Pays
You’re online and you know you need to build links to rank your pages in any search engine that matters. But before you think about hiring a link building company, re-think your link building campaign. Would you rather pay money to have links built for you...
Design to Convert!
You can design a website in a thousand different ways but above all your designs should convert casual viewers into loyal users and buyers. One way to do this is by incorporating conversion optimization into your website designs. Your website will only have a few...
Google Penguin: AKA, “Get Your Act Together”
Since Google’s newest and somewhat controversial algorithm update dubbed “Penguin” first hit the web in April 2012, users quickly discovered that Google’s update was anything but small, cute and cuddly. Hundreds of thousands of websites were slapped with Google...
6 Offline Marketing Tips You Should Consider For Your Online Business
Once you have a website, or other online business, the hardest part is yet to come. In short, you need to market your website so as to attract more readers and, hopefully, more revenue. Online marketing tips are, of course, absolutely vital. These allow you to find...
Conduct Keyword Research through Mobile
With the rising amounts in mobile Internet users, the increased amount of mobile searches is steadily rising. Since 2009, the amount of Google use from mobile Internet searches has gone off the charts. Due to this ever higher rising number, the need for mobile...![Gain Insight on a Typical SEO Client [60 Second Poll Results]](https://www.stayonsearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/results.jpg)
Gain Insight on a Typical SEO Client [60 Second Poll Results]
At the beginning of the week I thought it would be a good idea to create an anonymous poll for other SEOs and Internet Marketers, to find out a little more about their current clients and processes. The survey includes questions about the client sales cycle, monthly...
Effective Link Bait Examples and Techniques
Link Bait is simply creating a piece of viral content that people will want to link to and share across the web, typically through forms of social media. There are a number of differ formats that link bait comes in, however they all have one thing in common. People...
Using Social Media to Build Your Ecommerce Business
Social media, networking, tweeting, status updates, joining groups… all these terms are becoming part of everyday life for many and with social media offering such a wide spectrum of advertising space; employing SEO into your latest Tweets is a trick worth noting! The...
How to Optimize an E-mail Generating Newsletter
Newsletters can make an accidental or first time visitor, who has come to your site because they saw something of interest to come back again as an interested reader. So long as they keep their subscription to your newsletter, you will have a consistent reader who will return to your site.
5 Ways to Dominate Google’s Quality Check
Just a few months ago Google was receiving continual pressure from the media to improve their search results. The general consensus was that too many search engine results pages (SERPs) were filled with content farm articles that did little more for searchers than...
Live From SMX Seattle: Analytics Every SEO Needs To Know
Moderator: Rand Fishkin, Co-Founder and CEO, SEOmoz Speakers: Brian Klais, Executive Vice President, Search, Netconcepts Laura Lippay, Group Program Manager, Search Strategy, Yahoo Jonah Stein, Founder, ItsTheROI Richard Zwicky, President, Enquisite Jonah Stein, 10...
The 3 Tier Keyword Structure
So are you optimizing your pages the right way??? Brad Fallon, a leading search marketer, discussed a great way to structure your keywords/phrases on your website. He broke it up into 3 tiers. I will use the example he uses on his Stompernet video. Brad owns an...
The 5 Minute SEO Audit
The 5 Minute SEO Audit Tools to have installed prior to performing this SEO audit. – SEO Toolbar – Web Developer Toolbar – Reverse IP Checker – Copyscape 0:00 – 1:00 (Domain History) – Check PageRank – Check # of inbound links...![Gain Insight on a Typical SEO Client [60 Second Poll]](https://www.stayonsearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/typical-seo-client-poll.jpg)
Gain Insight on a Typical SEO Client [60 Second Poll]
I thought it would a good idea to create a short poll to ask SEO’s about their everyday clients. I’m sure there are a lot of Internet Marketers out there, wondering how they stack up against other agencies and interactive firms. This is a great way to...
SEO Battle: Search Tactics Go Head-to-Head
I asked Ann Smarty from Search Engine Journal and MyBlogGuest to give her opinion on various search tactics that were put head-to-head. Although some of these tactics can’t survive without the other, it is interesting to gain Ann’s insights into these...
How SEO and Social Media Are Joining Forces
I have discussed with a number of people recently the debate about what is considered Search Engine Optimization and what is considered Social Media. To tell you the truth, I feel like they are starting to blend together to become the ultimate marketing machine on...
5 Things To Remove From Your XML Sitemap
When creating an XML sitemap, you may want to modify it slightly before you upload it to your server. There are a number of reasons why you should manually edit your XML sitemap file which include, proper indexation, URL index limitations (although they have gotten...
14 Free SEO Tools and Resources from SEOmoz
SEOmoz just updated their site with a new design, as well as some new resources. Here are the best SEO resources offered by SEOmoz without having to be a PRO member. Simply sign up for a free account and take advantage of the following resources. Free SEOmoz Tools...
Why Local Search Listings and Reviews Matter
Now that local search has taken an even bigger area of search results in Google, strong local search marketing profiles and reviews matter more than ever. Because it’s not just the reviews on Google itself that count, but those from other major local search...
Link Building – What Works
Over the course of the last week, I have seen people saying what works and what doesn’t in link building – and they all contradict each other. Some say the old fashioned link request from webmasters is dead and guest blogging is the way to go, while others...
How and When to Move from A/B to Multivariate Testing
Most of us who have a website would love to get it to perform a little better, two obvious ways to do this are to increase traffic to the site or to increase what we get from the existing traffic. By increase what we get from the existing traffic I’m talking about...
SEO Link Building Tools I Can’t Live Without
It may be a sweeping statement but if certain tools disappeared it would be devastated – in fact I would probably cry…(a lot!). In this article I thought I might cover some of the tools that I use when working on a clients site. Some you will no doubt be...
Niche Shark: Untapped Resource for Finding Hundreds of Profitable Niches
Keyword research is the foundation for deciding on whether you should enter a certain niche or not. If you enter a niche with high search volume and high competition, it could take years before you can see any type of return. If you enter a niche with low search...
10 Affordable Search Engine Optimization Tips
Search Engine Optimization doesn’t have to be costly, you just need to know some SEO Basics. Search engine optimization is the science and art of marketing and publishing information that ranks high for chosen keywords in the search engines. Most search engines show...
How to Hit the Bull’s Eye When Targeting Foreign Search Markets
Does your online business target countries other than your own? If it does, you probably know that promoting a website in a foreign market can be challenging for a number of reasons. First, each country is a unique search ecosystem with its own search engines, mobile...![Can These 13 Search Engines Steal Google’s Crown? [Infographic]](https://www.stayonsearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/google-crown.png)
Can These 13 Search Engines Steal Google’s Crown? [Infographic]
Over 15 years, Google has risen from a mere idea to prominence – and solidified its position as the world’s leading search engine. However, even though Google has absorbed many of its rivals there are still new contenders popping up all the time. Most of these new...
17 Google Tools Useful for SEOs and Webmasters
Today it’s hard to imagine the Internet space without Google. Thanks to it, users can find almost any information with little effort. The most important thing is to formulate your request properly. In addition to the usual search Google offers its users several...
Is SEO Changing to a Holistic Marketing Approach?
Ten years ago, hiring a good search engine optimization firm was enough to get great search engine rankings and relevant traffic. Since then, the internet has evolved and become saturated with millions of websites. Everybody now fighting for the 1st page of Google,...
SWX West: Matt Cutts Live with WebProNews
Mike McDonald took some time during SMX West to talk to Matt Cutts to get a recap on the session he contributed to, as well as to give us an update on relevant search questions Matt Recaps “Ask the Search Engines” session Google Caffine: Rolled it out to...
5 Reasons Why Your Site is Not Ranking Well?
Recently I have spoke to a number of people who have wondered why their websites are not ranking well. Of course that is going to depend on a case by case basis, but there are 5 things I will check first before I give them an answer. 9 times out of 10, if they are...
Pros & Cons for Various Types of Content Creation
Content development is the foundation for any good internet marketing strategy. The content type and quality will determine how well the content is perceived by the readers. There are many ways you can create great content for your website, but it is important to...
Part II: The Ultimate Guide to Meta Description
In Part I of this two part series, I left you saying how inaccurate the CTR’s Google was give are. Now I want you to totally forget what I said! In this post I’m going to take you step-by-step through extracting and changing poor performing descriptions. Step I: Start...
The Importance of Building a Natural Link Profile
Link building is essential to any website that wants to climb the search engine rankings and stay there. What a lot of people fail to understand is that this is not as simple as finding as many links as you can, no matter where from, and then adding them all in one go. If a website is to be consistently successful in the search engines, it has to possess a natural link profile.
8 Greyhat Tactics SEOs Are Using, Use at Your Own Discretion!
Throughout my 5 years as a SEO and Internet Marketer, I have seen a number of tactics that were borderline unethical (depending on who you talk to in the industry). Even though people won’t admit it, SEO’s are using some or all of the tactics I am going...
Create 100% SEO Friendly Pages With the New Website Auditor 2.0
For any company or internet marketer who is looking to better optimize their website for the search engines, it can be a huge time saver to have software that can gather important site data that the search engine analyze when ranking your site. Meet the new and...
How to Find Great Directory Link Building Opportunities
When it comes to building directory links, there are two possible goals. The first is to get a link on a directory with high Google Authority and PageRank. The second is to get a link on a directory with lots of traffic. The following tips will help you achieve your...
Opt-In Placement for Maximizing Subscribers
You have probably noticed that many bloggers are adding opt-in forms throughout their entire blog to help increase subscribers. Gaining new RSS and E-mail subscribers to your blog allows you to not have to depend on Google or other traffic sources to get your readers...
Using Fiverr for Link Building
Building backlinks to your website or blog is essential for high search engine rankings. That’s why I have been testing a number of different tactics and strategies to build backlinks effectively and efficiently. I started testing out Fiverr.com for finding...
How Your Web Hosting Service Can Affect Your SEO
Although high quality content and authoritative, relevant inbound links are the primary SEO concerns for most site owners, choosing an optimal web hosting service may be more important than some realize. First and Foremost: The Administrative Panel One of your top...
4 Tips to Capture More Leads Quickly & Easily
Of course, email marketing happens to be one of the most cost-effective means of advertising online. But email marketing can be effective only when you have built up a long list of responsive email subscribers. If you want to make money online quickly, you’ll need to...
Top SEO Blog Category Added to World Media Awards
Just yesterday, a new Top SEO Blog Category was added to the World Media Awards Event and Stay on Search was the first blog to be nominated. While marketing bloggers often write about SEO, and some SEOs are marketing bloggers, the Top Marketing Blogs category is...
3 Online Brand Management Tips for Google
Nowadays it seems like new reports are coming out every day about how potential clients and employers are doing searches online to research people before hiring. This means you need to be in better control of what they see and the goal here is to control at least the...