Reputation Management is going to play a very large part in the Future of SEO and everyone with a name or brand they care about needs to pay more attention to what the search engines are telling their potential customers. Google validates everything and if joe schmoe says you suck and it ranks in the top ten for your name, well then guess what? You Suck. (more…)

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I think a good lesson can be learned from the people that are visiting your website and the questions they ask (that’s a given) but I think a lot of people miss out on the obvious opportunities, and just get to “comfortable”. You can get awesome feedback and ideas, but if you never do anything with that feedback and keep your site “stale” and “same ole, same ole” then its done nothing for you.

I have a perfect example of this with a site I own an operate and want to share everyone. (more…)

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I got to admit, it really is getting annoying blogging about how Yahoo has screwed up (another great program) again.  I have promoted, and talked a ton about My Blog Log, and how it’s such a good source for blog promotion, but I am beginning to wonder.  Shoemoney (a self proclaimed NON SEO) has been banned.  WHAT?  ShoeMoney was simply (more…)

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SEO Question:

I wanted to know if there is a quota for getting inbound links on a weekly or monthly basis? (more…)

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My 4 year old son was playing Star Wars Lego II on the XBox 360 live the other day and he came across this area (pictured below) that I had not seen before. When I saw it…I was like “Matt Cutts” is in Star Wars Lego’s!!!

I thought it was funny anyway. I hope all you that are familiar with who Matt Cutts is will get a kick out of this.

And Matt (more…)

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Building a name and reputation has been something on my mind a lot lately.  I am not the best writer in the world (no surprise to my readers) but I do my best to provide the most up to date (or cool) information (in the search world) I possibly can, and I think that is what brings people back to this blog. (more…)

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*Update - These steps that I am talking about relate to the “On Site” optimization!

I did a conference call tonight for a small group of Internet business beginners, and I talked about Organic Search Engine Optimization and tried to help them understand better what Organic SEO is with 10 simple steps. I wanted to post this for them (for reference) but I also thought it would be a good refresher for those that may be new to this blog, and have not dove deep enough into my archive to find the other posts about this topic.

1. Proper Keyword Research and Analysis - (more…)

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People are always telling me about the amazing traffic they get from DIGG, but I never hear these same people telling me how much money they made as a result of the traffic.

I realize there can be long term benefits such as people linking to you, and possible (additional) rankings on the search engines by getting a story dugg, I have experienced this myself. However, I am wondering if the initial traffic burst from DIGG does anything for a website other then making your site stats look a little better?

For me, when I set out to get quality traffic through links, I have the end goal in mine - to make money. (more…)

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Lloyd: What the hell are we doing here, Harry? We gotta get out of this town!
Harry: Oh yeah, and go where? Where are we gonna go?
Lloyd: I’ll tell you where. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I’m talking about a little place called Aspen.
Harry: Oh, I don’t know, Lloyd. The French are a$#holes

Some of the best discoveries are found on accident. This last week I have been testing a tool for a totally different reason than what it was created and it is looking like a sweet way to let relevant pages prime and ready for links “flock” straight to your RSS Reader. (more…)

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I was over checking out Shoemoney’s blog when I saw he was talking about sublistings (some of the results that come up under your main result) when you type in “shoemoney” in Google and it got me wondering. (more…)

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