Skills that Companies that Employ SEO’s are Looking For
There are a lot of different companies out there that are taking on full time SEO’s (people skilled in the SEO biz) and handing them enormous paychecks. As you can see from this infographic, there are a lot of SEO jobs out there, and a lot of them are paying...
Reputation Management for Your Personal Brand
Online reputation management is not just a strategy to consider if something negative surfaces about you. It should begin early on, because the longer something has been online, the more authority it will have. If one of your goals is to see nothing but positive items...
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...
Keeping Your SEO Clients Expectations In Check – 5 Rules To Live By (Part 1/5)
Have you ever been faced with an SEO client who wants instant results? If you are in the SEO business – it is safe to assume that the answer would be an emphatic “YES!” Imagine being able to drastically cut down on the phone calls and emails of panicked clients who...
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...
Doing All Your SEO Right and Still Can’t Beat the Competition?
There is little more frustrating as a site owner than to feel like you are doing everything right with your SEO—engaging in social media, creating a company blog, properly optimizing your site, sticking with white hat link building and so forth—and have it seem like...
Top Strategies To Optimize Your Site For Knowledge Graph
Google has been saying that user experience is paramount for quite sometime. A trustworthy SEO company would tell you the same. With the launch of Google Knowledge Graph, it looks like offering top-notch user experience is going to become the most important SEO...
Blogs aren’t Books: So Stop Writing Like They Are!
So why do you keep writing massive walls of text?? Blogs have a whole lot more to offer than just walls of text, and quite frankly, it is hard to read! Computers are a lot different than that old paperweight you call a book. And, they read differently too. The...How Online Press Releases Can Benefit Your Business
Most of today’s business professionals are well aware of the benefits of marketing on sites like Facebook and Twitter. But with the rise of social media and blogging, the power of the press release seems to have gotten the cold shoulder. If you’re looking to boost...
Google+ Working for Your Business
As anyone can tell from Google’s stock on the trade market, it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Google+ is a testament to the new technology in search engine features, which Google continues to improve upon. This awesome Google software enables social...
Top 10 Forums to Engage with Internet Marketers and Web Professionals
Forums can be a great way to communicate with industry experts, gather feedback, position yourself as an industry leader and drive relevant traffic to your site. The first step to marketing via forums is to find the right forums, where people are discussing your...
7 Places to Create Your Own Free Website
Here are a bunch of great resources you can use to create your own free website with no programming experience necessary. Google Sites allow you to create websites collaboratively. Making it simple for multiple users to add file attachments, information from other...
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...
Get Your Products Found in Google: Essential SEO for Online Retailers
Moving away from eBay and Amazon to sell your products on your own webstore is a fantastic strategy for most online retail businesses. Aside from not having marketplace fees butcher your profit margins, you also get away from the overwhelming level of competition that...
Using the Google Keyword Tool
Using Google Keyword Tool Among other functions, the Google Adwords keyword tool plays a vital role in effective SEO. All know the role of SEO on internet and the benefits it brings. If you ever plan to optimize your web content, you will definitely come across this...
Who Needs SEO Marketing When We Have FaceBook?
When ever I get a opportunity to speak about seo or social media to a whole new audience. I start to get a feeling of enjoyment because I feel like this is my time to not just teach but also help others to simply just understand online marketing. Meaning that people...
Online Marketing Crossing The Conventional Conception of SEO
The connotations associated with the word online marketing include the processes of SEO and PPC. To most of the businesses in the market, the online marketing is either search engine optimization or Pay per click. Businesses are either oblivious of the rest of online...
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...Web Developers: Educate Yourself with SEO Knowledge
I am writing this post in regards to a recent article I read on HubSpot. Mike Volpe’s lists 7 reasons why marketing can’t trust the Webmaster with SEO. I agree with all 7 reasons but I feel the view from the Webmasters eyes needs to be known as well. I...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...
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,...
Eye Tracking Study: How People Consume Information on the Internet
Writing for the internet has a totally different style than a typical PR release or article. They way people consume information on the internet is completely different as well. This post will go through some examples of different eye tracking studies to see how...
Improve Your Website Traffic by Cleaning Up Your Google Index
Your site index gives you an indication of health problems on your site; if you suddenly see a spike or large drop in Google indexed pages it flags a warning that there is something wrong that needs some attention. We focus mostly on Google, as this search engine...
Promoting Article Marketing with RSS Feeds
Many people think of article marketing as simply a way to build a backlink or traffic to their website, to build their reputation as an expert, or to make money online via article writing. But not many think about their articles as promotional items and actually...
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...
Lunch Break SEO Tips: 5 Simple SEO Tasks You Can Do In Less Than An Hour
SEO strategy development takes a momentous amount of time, effort, and expertise. It can feel overwhelming if you’re just getting started. Luckily, there are some simple, quick SEO tasks you can execute that will help you improve your organic search engine...
Using HubPages to Make Money Online and Build Backlinks to Your Blog
Is it possible to make money on another site while promoting your blog? Of course it is! One easy way is through article marketing on HubPages. Why HubPages out of all of the other article directories and income sharing content generation sites? HubPages gives you...Your Website SEO Checkup: Part 3 of 8 – Website Usability
When we talk about website usability we talk about the overall experience you give the user. That includes the overall design, navigation, content layout, calls to actions, accessibility and functionality of your site. I want to give you some tips on each of these...
Reverse Engineer Your Competitors with Link Analysis Tools
With Google’s algorithm placing more emphasis on off-site optimization and link building, it is essential that you take the time to analyze who your competitors are gaining backlinks from. There are a number of link analysis tools out there that will help...
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...
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.
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...
Yahoo! Site Explorer Closing: What Other Link Intelligence Tools Are There?
It doesn’t come as new news that Yahoo! Site Explorer is shutting down, as they are merging their organic search platform with the the Microsoft search platform. With the merge, means no more Yahoo! Site Explorer. With the shutdown of YSE, that means...
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...
What Should be Covered in an SEO Sales Meeting
When you are speaking to a potential SEO client, there should be some level of knowledge and training that should be given, to help them fully understand how SEO works and why you are structuring the proposal and strategy the way you are. Here are some aspects of SEO...
Quick Tricks to Checking Your Backlinks
Having backlinks is vital for good SEO. Knowing how to monitor your backlinks is beneficial to improving it.
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...
The Right Way to Create Branded Content
Content marketing is growing by leaps and bounds. More and more reputed companies like Red Bull are using branded content to create more awareness about their products, without actually “selling” directly to their target audience. However, creating the right mix of...
Does Google Have A Record On You? How to Protect Yourself!
If you are using any of Google’s products, then Google might have a dossier on you. But the question is who doesn’t? Many people are uncomfortable with the amount of information Google gathers and stores on its users. With the recent privacy rules update, Google now...
5 SEO Factors that Do and Don’t Matter in 2010
The landscape and ranking factors of SEO are always changing and evolving. In 2010, we are starting to see a fundamental shift in the way search engines are rankings sites. With the evolution of social media, video, and rich media, the organic SERPs are becoming...
Optimizing the Registration and Sign-Up Process
For many websites, the primary goal is getting a user to sign-up or register. That may mean registering for an account, creating a profile, signing up for a newsletter, providing user info to download a whitepaper, registering for a free trial, etc.. It is important...
Marketing SEO vs Webmaster SEO
Ideas about different types of SEO approaches.
How Article Marketing can Help Your Blog
Article marketing is a great way to promote your blog. Many people might think, article marketing is dead or “old”, but the fact it, it’s not. It works, and it works very well. Basically, you submit an article to the article directories. Once approved, your article...
How to Conduct Keyword Research for a New Website
Would you like to rank for a keyword like “business”? 101,000,000 monthly searches broad and 550,000 exact searches a month! Well I bet you would like that, ha? Let me ask you something, what kind of website would you run if you ranked for such a keyword? That is a...
How to Get the Most out of Guest Blogging for Link Building
Ever since Google came along and Panda-spanked article websites into oblivion, guest blogging has been the preferred choice for the internet marketer who is looking to squeeze a little more link juice from their articles. Guest blogging can be an effective way of...
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...![My Thoughts on the Newest Google Algorithm Update [w/ Results]](https://www.stayonsearch.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/google-algorithm.png)
My Thoughts on the Newest Google Algorithm Update [w/ Results]
On Friday, Google officially announced an algorithm change that is one to pay attention to. Typically when Google updates their algorithm, it is something so minor that you wouldn’t really notice a huge increase/decrease in your traffic and organic rankings. ...
SEO Experts Are Holding Back Important Strategies
I’m very excites to be sharing my first guest post here on StayOnSearch which is ran by one of the good guys online..Mark Thompson. What I’m looking to achieve in this post is just to shine a little light on the world of seo. Seo is my passion and something I been...