20th August 2009
I got into search engine optimization when Yahoo was king and Google was a gleam in Larry Page's eye so I've had a front row seat to all the big doings. And one thing I can tell you for certain is Microsoft just took off its kid gloves with the release of...
06th June 2009
As an old school organic search engine optimization specialist I don't utilize pay per click unless it is to supplement targeted traffic while waiting for an SEO campaign to kick in. Though, even that limited exposure to PPC teaches something valuable abo...
24th April 2009
Back in college I leaned a lesson in perceived, versus actual, value that will stay with me forever. There was a local homebuilder who wanted a big score so he invested his life savings into developing a community of nice, affordable, single-family homes....
17th February 2009
Today we are more health conscious than ever but it feels like bad timing around certain holidays like Valentine's Day. Everybody wants homemade goodies. They're as much a part as most of our lives as our favorite song or movie. So how do you keep the tas...
21st January 2009
SEO on a Budget; Trading Time and Money
SEO is like anything else in the world. You can trade time, money and effort to accomplish anything. The trick is in picking the best option for your needs at the moment. This article will show you how to save al...
01st December 2008
Most search engine comparison tables will show you usage statistics that are something like this:
64% Google
14% Yahoo
14% MSN
08% AOL, All the Web, and all others combined
Those are simple search engine usage statistics. While they might b...
13th October 2008
I got into SEO back in 1998. Back in the day, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) was much simpler than it is today. Most tricks like blatant keyword spamming and hidden key phrases worked like a champ. Even better, little tricks like these were usually OK t...
15th September 2008
Does dominating Google rankings quick and easy sound too good to be true? It really isn't. Following are a bunch of surefire SEO tips that have kept hundreds of my client's sites on top of Google for years, with new ones every month.
There's a lot to c...
03rd September 2008
Not long ago if you wanted to carve out a spot for yourself in a niche market you were in for quite a ride. First there was seemingly endless research to see if it was big enough and profitable enough to be worthwhile. Then there was the actual selling pa...
02nd September 2008
When you turn on the news or open a newspaper you're bound to be flooded with stories about financial disaster. From the recent mortgage crisis and stock market dives to small business failures and regular honest people who overextended their credit. Mone...
15th August 2008
If you're at all new to search engine optimization (SEO), there are two things you should know right away. First, Google gets over sixty percent of all searches performed in the US. And second, Google puts most of its emphasis on how well connected a site...
16th July 2008
Latent Semantic Indexing, or LSI is the hottest trend in Google today and the secret behind Wikipedia's runaway success as the top raking site for just about anything you can imagine on Google.
In short, LSI considers the words around your main keyword...
10th July 2008
Have you ever noticed that Wikipedia ranks in the top three spots on Google for just about anything you search for? It seems almost impossible that any one site can dominate search engine rankings for tens of thousands of topics. In fact, it goes against ...
18th June 2008
The days of stuffing META tags for great search engine ranking are long gone. If you want a top spot on Google today the thing that matters most is how you link. And you need to do it like a pro.
But don't worry. Linking is a whole lot easier today tha...
06th June 2008
Search engine optimization has changed a lot since over the past decade. Even just a few years ago you could simply load keywords to the point of overflowing and fill META tags with anything even close to what you had on your page to do great on Google, Y...
