If You Want Customers, Don’t Scare Them Away
Many of us in the Internet Marketing world may not use mass physical mailings very often, but they are a very traditional form of marketing.
Many of us in the Internet Marketing world may not use mass physical mailings very often, but they are a very traditional form of marketing.
I’ve always enjoyed LinkedIn, but I’m not sure about this new feature. They want me to Accept or Deny Jesus?
We all remember TV, radio, and even print ads back in the AOL era that left us with an AOL Keyword for finding their site.
Over at WMW there is a fun thread started by Habtom covering the Top 100 Ecommerce Tips. It’s kind of hard to read in a
Anyone who has ever done link building knows there is a lot that goes into link building. One of the most challenging parts is getting
In keeping with the theme of Michael’s earlier post called Links vs Content and Long Tail vs Short Tail Keywords, Michael discusses the differences between
Opposition in All Things, Links vs Content Everything in life has its opposites. There is light and dark, hot and cold, black and white, and
You’ve used Google Reader and BlogLines, but have you used Safari? Safari has been my RSS Reader (and browser) of choice ever since its debut
Nope. Except for @, -, and ‘. @ is nice to find someone’s email address. – and ‘ are less helpful because Google goes ahead
There are two types of people out there, those who capitalize and those who don’t. When you search for something, do you bother capitalizing your
I have been able to take some more time and mess around with Google’s Universal Search over the long holiday weekend, and I really like
Anchor text for inbound links is one of the most important factors in search engine optimization. According to SEOmoz’ search engine ranking factors (v2), anchor
I remember the first time I learned what Memorial day was and what it meant. I was in 4th grade, standing in the back of
A couple of items caught my attention yesterday. Aaron Wall reported that Google is claiming up to 25% of search queries run any given day
I was gone all last week, in Maui. Yeah baby. It was our first time to Maui, and I loved it. I didn’t even think
Todd (StuntDubl – SEO Consultant) brought my attention to an interesting widget that lets you put in your own rating of a blog. The widget
I’m obviously not the authority on SEO fame (if I was I’d be famous), but I wanted to write about a few opportunities that can
I love a challenge. In fact, if I don’t take on a challenge it drives me nuts. So when Darren Rowse came out with his
There have been many discussions over the recent problems at Digg, Andy of Marketing Pilgrim, Muhammad of Pronet, and Michael of Wolf-Holf have all commented.
I read an interesting/alarming Associated Press article by Dibya Sarkar, AP business writer, in the local paper yesterday. Four states, including Arizona, California, Utah, and
I was reading an article (here too) just the other day about how National Amusements, a company that owns 1500+ theaters, gave away free movie
I was plowing through the myriad of blogs yesterday and found a couple of things I found interesting in Rand’s post called Identifying and Calling
Clickability has created a really nice Robots.txt Builder that helps you to configure your Robots.txt file. You can easily build a Robots.txt file to disallow
It’s a big day for Aaron here at SoloSEO! Happy Birthday! Aaron has been such a great inspiration and motivation to me. He is an
Lee Odden blogged about Google Categories yesterday. I wasn’t able to duplicate the categories look, but it did get me thinking about the ramifications to
Between the tragedy at Virginia Tech yesterday, a few headaches here at work, and the fact I had to send in a check for taxes,
There is a big brouhaha over Matt Cutt’s recent postings (yes, 3 of them) about the disclosure of paid links (big one here, another here,
I had the chance to sit down with a large, multi-national, manufacturing company the other day. We did some research on the company before I
I’m sick of trackbacks to my blog from other sites that steal my content. Sure they “cite” me with a link, but it doesn’t count
While others have spoken against submitting your sitemap to Google et al., I am going to stand up for sitemaps all across the web, and
At Search Engine Strategies New York it was announced that you can now have your sitemap automatically discovered by configuring it in your Robots.txt file.
I am surprised I didn’t hear about this from any typical news source, but Google has launched a 411 information service powered by their local
I was on a flight the other day, and happen to see this guy with a really cool PDA phone. I wasn’t sure of the
I have never liked tag games very much as a kid. It was mostly due to the fact that I was too fat and slow
A radio ad I heard this morning starts out “Another how-to half minute from the Home Depot…”. Now, before you read on, what are you
I was recently tagged by Jaan Kanellis in a blog meme that has been circling around the blogosphere. The “theme” of the blog meme is
With another game of blog tag coming around the SEO blogosphere, we have again created a page to track the blog meme. The first time
Originally I wanted this post to be titled, “Top 10 Useful and Free SEO e-Books”, but I was surprised to find very few worthwhile free
This morning we sent out our first SoloSEO newsletter. Our newsletter’s main title is “SEO for the Rest of Us”, and anyone interested in learning
I always have to try something to get my wife on April Fools, so this year was no different. Turning the clocks forward 6 hours
“Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, I don’t know what’s in it?”
In search marketing keywords have the potential to render a site useless, give it wings, or get it shoved somewhere in between. Keywords are the
Have you ever found yourself ranked for a popular one word keyword that you never intended on ranking for? Maybe we’re an odd ball, but
Last Friday William Slawski posted on an interesting new patent registered by Google. Essentially a non-browser program for mobile phones which allows search through Google,
Andy Beal announced today the launch of the second Search Engine Marketing Scholarship. This is a fantastic opportunity ($10,000 worth of prizes) for any of
On my last day in Japan, I can report that there is a huge market for Japanese SEO services. And there are many companies not
I was reading a post by Rand Fishkin about the “secret” that’s not really a secret for ranking. Essentially the secret is linkable content.
SoloSEO has been quite a surprise. When we launched last November, we had no idea the draw a stand alone SEO system would have, nor
The following are some steps on how to get double listing in Google. Step 1 – Pick a topic that you can write a series
Nowadays you don’t have to be big to get big clients. After 3 months of starting up (early 2006) our own web content firm (Applied
From all of my daily blog browsing, as well as watching our own blog, I don’t think many people are logged into MyBlogLog anymore. I
A recent article posted on Slashdot looked at various website design points of the top 6 Presidential Candidates. Here I compare SEO statistics of the
I thought it would be interesting to look at all of the top presidential candidates and see what they are using for analytics for their
Due to our launch of SoloSEO and our foray into blogging, I have been more sensitive to the plight of all bloggers, and to the
Overture’s Keyword Tool was declared dead by many, then Yahoo said it wasn’t dead yet, and now I can confirm it has been resurrected. Before
If you don’t already know SEOs that live around you, use your search engine superpowers to find them, then contact them and meet up for
A television station who couldn’t afford the $20,000 commercial link for their station enlisted the help of a wok and saved $19,990. The story goes
Many see SEO strategies as a process which is only used when you are constructing your web site, or after launch to improve the site
If you take a step back and look at it, the SEO industry is rather odd. SEO experts who are paid thousands of dollars by
If you are running a PPC (pay-per-click) campaign with search engines, you can create campaigns that are either Search or Contextual based. Both have their
Watching your competition is an important part of SEO and it can take quite a bit of work to stay on top of it all.
We all know SEO assists a site to perform better in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages), but the reasons people SEO can differ. Some
When you were a kid, did you ever have one of these transformers? I had several transformers and even loved watching the cartoon. A transformer,
Today, I took a few moments to take in a bit of the current online marketing blogscape. I eventually came across a post entitled “17
If you have not gone over and read about the tussle between Dave Pasternack and SEO pros, you must take a minute to review it,
After writing about Elusivity and Internet Marketing this morning, I put in the 3rd CD of the audio book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas
The words “elusivity” (being difficult to describe, detect, or grasp) and “Internet Marketing” are not words I would typically join in a sentence (no one
On January 25, 2007 Guy Kawasaki posted a blog called “Ten Questions With Donald Trump” at the very end of the article Mr. Trump is
Michael Gray, AKA Gray Wolf, has started a series called Local Search Tips, Tricks & Secrets where he is interviewing 20 SEO experts about local
I heard a great radio ad about radio advertising, which included the following: Your customers aren’t targets, they’re your friends and neighbors. They want to
I know this is a little off topic, but since Michael has been discussing how to get your own SEO company off the ground and
Recently a big story hit the news about Google modifying their algorithm to fix googlebombing. When news hit, my first instinct was to start buying
Your blog is an important part of your business, so why not optimize it with the rest of your site? You’d be surprised by how
An excellent post by Lee Odden over at the Online Marketing Blog brings up an interesting issue about if asking your web designer to do
Some of you may have noticed we were down some yesterday and early this morning. We ran into hardware issues with our DNS servers. Note
Two important things come together that make local business a great opportunity for finding SEO clients. First, there are tons of local search tools and
Small Business SEM has an excellent post titled Ultimate Guide to Building the Perfect Link. This is a great read for anyone considering or getting
Everyone’s always out looking for good quality backlinks (inbound links) at a great price, and what’s better than free? Hopefully MyBlogLog will patch this up
Quantcast.com is a new “Open Internet Ratings Service” that I learned about from Paul Allen. It’s a free service that looks nice, runs quick, seems
I ran into a buddy of mine the other day, and during our “catching up” conversation, the topic eventually turned to his manufacturing business, and
I was led to a post by Jordan McCollum on Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim today. It was there I read, to my horror, that V7,
Starting your own SEO business is an exciting new adventure. This is the first of a series of tips, steps, lessons, and tutorials on how
Social networks are amazing from a “data mining” perspective. I’ve had a few posts about MyBlogLog recently, uncovering an easily exploitable flaw and announcing the
The Missing MyBlogLog Tools, created by SoloSEO.com, give you a new way to harness the power of MyBlogLog. These tools let you compare and find
Google has created a set of tools to help Webmasters see interesting and important Google data about your site (try it here). One of the
Get away from the edge, just calm down, back away, there is a better way. Just don’t buy a link, work for them. I am
Andy Beal and Jarrod Hunt reveal tactics Yahoo is using to get your preferences to switch to Yahoo. If you upgrade to Yahoo Messenger it
In search engine optimization it can be easy to overlook search engine snippets (you know, the smaller text below the title when you get your
I have the opportunity to discuss SEO quite a bit, even my mom wants to understand SEO and our newest venture. However, within seconds of
Matt’s infrastructure status post today let us know that the PageRank update is live.
MyBlogLog has become hugely popular and was even acquired by Yahoo recently, but I recently discovered a flaw that can easily be exploited by
Last week we announced a new tool every day (except New Year’s), and we thought we’d kick off this week with one more tool announcement.
In SEO we spend so much time improving our rankings, getting links, optimizing content, and watching competitors (all good things), but it is easy to
This week we have announced a new tool each day, starting with the dead link checker that checks your site for internal and outbound links
From a comment on a recent post of mine about getting your Web 2.0 brand past Google’s spell checker, I fell upon an “infinite loop”
Today’s new tool in SoloSEO is an integrated XML Sitemap Generator. Previously you just had to create your own, now we’ll do it for you!
This week we are announcing a new tool each day (so stay tuned by subscribing). Today’s new tool is the “Dead Link Checker” tool. Many
We are excited to announce a new affiliate program for SoloSEO, with a payout up to $75 per referred sale! The structure of the payout
Digg… I don’t get it. After attending PubCon, and hearing many refer to Digg this, and Digg that, I figured I better do some digging
A new photo tour of SoloSEO.com helps you to see the interface and many features of SoloSEO.com, even before you sign up for the free