Selling SEO Is Not Just About You
Stepping into the corporate world of SEO is not a simple task. SEO is no regular desk job. As a businessperson who wants to make it big in SEO, you’re going to be meeting people from different industries, not only for the purpose of introducing and selling your...![Making Money Online with SEO [Webinar Replay]](https://www.stayonsearch.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/70_webinar_replay1.jpg)
Making Money Online with SEO [Webinar Replay]
Hey guys, I wanted to give everyone who missed the webinar a few weeks back, a chance to watch the replay. Daniel Lew and I discuss a number of different tactics and strategies for turning your SEO efforts into dollars. We went for almost two hours, so there is a lot...
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...![Google Panda Algorithm Update [Infographic]](https://www.stayonsearch.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/8-16-2011-6-24-30-PM.png)
Google Panda Algorithm Update [Infographic]
I was recently contacted by Carlos Paulinich, who created this amazing infographic that shows a graphical representation of the Google Panda Update. I thought I would share it with the readers. Make sure you give him some props on his amazing job! Image...
SEO Optimizer’s Guide to Smart SEO Reporting
Today, I’d like to speak a little SEO reporting. But, before I begin, what are SEO reports actually for? They are used by SEO’s to demonstrate the results of their work in a visual and easy-to-grasp mode. Is this all SEO reports do? For most SEO services...
What Can Online Marketing Do For Your Business?
There’s no doubt that a website hoping to do business has to invest in and have some knowledge of online marketing if they expect to be successful. The sheer amount of information going live on the internet every moment can mean that despite authenticity and quality,...
5 Plugins to Make Your WordPress Blogs SEO Friendly
If you are blogging for personal reasons only, you don’t need to think much about search engine optimization and all. But what you will do if you are blogging with the intension to grow your business or making money from blogging. All of your hard work in writing good...
How to Increase Your Page Rank by Getting Links to Your Website
Ever since Google became the major player among search engines, web masters have been trying to figure out the algorithms Google uses to rank websites. Although the actual numbers are a closely guarded secret, we do know that one important factor in ranking pages has...
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....
How to Generate Extra Cash from Your Top Exit Pages
While I work for websites, one of the most important statistics that I keep my eyes on is the exit pages. Yes, it’s extremely important to know from which pages on a website or a blog people are exiting most. Exits from web pages can be both ‘positive’ and ‘negative’....
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...
5 Top Tips for an International SEO Campaign
Putting together a domestic SEO campaign can be an extremely complex affair and one which takes a lot of time and effort to put together. Add to that different languages, cultures and target markets and you can imagine how complicated an international SEO campaign can...
The Developer, The SEO Specialist: How to Play Nice
The SEO Specialist and Web Developer relationship is very important. If the communication between the two is lax, the client is the one who suffers. I have been developing websites for the past six years, and until recently I have not had the opportunity to work with...
Marketing SEO vs Webmaster SEO
Ideas about different types of SEO approaches.
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...
10 SEO Bloggers To Watch in 2010
Darren Rowse from ProBlogger recently wrote a blog post encouraging people to write a ‘Bloggers To Watch’ post, to promote bloggers in your prospective industry. I thought I would do my due diligence and make a list of 10 SEO bloggers I feel you should...
How Professional SEOs Get Inbound Links
Getting found on Google consists of 2 things: 1) content and 2) links. Since inbound links act as a voting system or currency for search engine algorithms, it’s imperative that SEOs acquire high quality inbound links on a consistent basis. One way to produce...
Top 10 Link-Building Ideas For An E-Commerce Store
Current trends for optimizing your website to bring a site’s organic ranking to the top is highly dependent on high quality and constant flow of back links. It doesn’t matter to many of us how Google will update its algorithms, but back links will always be counted as...Your Website SEO Checkup: Part 6 of 8 – Social Community Building
With new social communities popping up everywhere, it is hard to ignore them as a new means of communication with your target market. Social communities have broken the communication barrier between marketers and consumers. With Social Bookmarking sites like Digg,...Your Website SEO Checkup: Part 8 of 8 – Blackhat SEO Tactics
WARNING: Blackhat SEO are things NOT to do to improve your website rankings. They can result in lower search rankings or get your site completely banned from search engines. It use to be that people could perform these blackhat SEO tactics on a website and increase...
Google, How Important Will Page Speed Be in 2010?
In April 2008, Google announced that page load time would effect your ad quality score for Pay Per Click ads. They stated the main reason for implementing this factor was to give the user a better experience and to be able to serve web content faster. In further...
Example of a Daily Routine for an SEO
Have you ever wondered what a normal day is like for a SEO? Well, I don’t think there is such a thing. Depending on if you are working In-House, an Agency or are a Freelancer, your role and responsibilities will vary. However I have noticed a pattern and...
Solutions for Your Top Daily Distractions
I want to start off by saying that this post is a little bit of a different topic than I usually write about. However I think it is relevant to everyone and can be applied to any topic. Now that I am writing for my blog on a much more regular basis and recently...
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...
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...
Top 10 Google Search Results Analysis After the MayDay Update
In the comments of a recent post on Search Engine Journal on the Google MayDay Update, one commenter noted that authority is being devalued in terms of commonly sought after sites were not ranking for terms such as search engine and online auctions. In a reply from...
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...
5 Website Fixes You NEED To Make
A great deal of small business owners has created a website just because others have recommended it. They do not even promote it thinking that customers will find them amidst the millions of others out there. This can be due to the fact that many small business...
3 Ways to Get Your SEO in Shape for 2012
The end of 2011 is coming up…fast. With multiple major holidays on the horizon, the last thing you’re probably thinking about is your SEO. But now is exactly when you should be thinking about it! SEO is incredibly long term, so developing a plan for 2012 now means...
Five Quick Actions to Get Your SEO on the Right Track for 2012
As we move towards a New Year and another 12 months of fervent optimisation, I’d like to contribute a few simple tips that will help keep your SEO on the straight and narrow. These are quick wins for issues that are well within your control, but which are often...
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...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...
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...
Using Google’s GL Parameter to Beat Geo-Targeting
Nowadays, Google and many other search engines custom-tailor search results to a particular location. They identify user’s IP address or GSM location and provide results relevant for his/her whereabouts. This could be good for users, however, this often gives...
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...
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...
Complete Guide to the Google Panda Update: 50+ Articles & Resources
Have you been searching and searching for more information the Google Panda Update, formerly known as the Google Farmer update? Search no further! The following is a timeline of articles, videos and resources about the latest Google algorithm change. More than enough...
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...
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...
100 SEO/SEM Blogs You Should Subscribe To
Below is a compilation of 100 of the best blogs in search. The blogs are organized by “theme” including internet marketing news, SEO, eCommerce, social media, blogging, and web design. Feel free to leave me a comment with your own SEO blog and I will...![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...
SEO Link Bait Tactics are here to Rescue Your Blog
The internet is about one thing: exposure, exposure; exposure! Knowing how to use the internet to the fullest in essential to getting the exposure you need. One way to do this is by using link bait. What is Link Bait? Content is golden. That is the premise behind link...
Website & Landing Page Design Elements for Usability and SEO
Driving people to your website is only half the battle. Once you get them there, how do you lead them to where you want them to go on your site? Having a well designed website will help give your users a great experience, find what they are looking for and be more...
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.
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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. ...
Can Your Search Engine Rankings Be Damaged By Tricky Competitors?
For those of you who thought black hat SEO methods were reserved to those guys who clutter your inbox with subject lines like, “Make $2,500 per day with affiliate ads!!!” or “FREE wireless internet provider – click here!”, think again. In 2006, Google caught car maker...
Rank Higher in Google Places – 8 Local Search Optimization Tips
Over the past few years, Local Search has been gaining momentum. More and more small business owners seek to rank higher in Google Places, especially now, as search results personalization is at large and growing. Point is, we are now seeing an increasing number of...
Why You Need to Run Multivariate Tests
It’s been several years since your website’s last major update. The design is starting to look outdated even though you’re still adding new content every day. You know it’s time for change, but you’re understandably hesitant because things seem to be working out just...