I freaking think I had seen it all the last 4 years living in Utah, but Utah has gone and proved me wrong - I read this story talking about Rep. Dan Eastman banning keyword advertising and instantly thought (WTF)?

I would love to hear from anybody who may have more insight into this ridiculous waste of time that Utah law makers continue to dabble in. Is this a joke?

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I just wanted to do a quick post talking about a few things that have been on my mind all weekend. I have read some really amazing posts lately about this subject and wanted to add my thoughts. I really do believe that any good SEO fits into one of these four areas: (more…)

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I am a fool for a tag cloud.  I love Del.icio.us and the amazing social bookmarking site it is.  I was messing around with my account today and found some stuff I knew was in there, but never really did anything with.  I finally did something with it tonight and I am very please.  If you click on the settings link in your Del.icio.us account then scroll to the bottom of the page and find the “blogging” tools then you will see an area where you can create a tag cloud to display on your site.  You can also just list recent links of stories tagged as well.  Like I said I am a sucker for a great tag cloud so thats what I opted for.  You can see my tags by visiting here - Matt Siltala on Del.icio.us

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If you host your own WordPress blog then you will love this hack created by my good friend Brandon Buttars -called Meta Tagz. This plug in will allow you to create custom meta info for each page/post of your blog. It also does a ton of other cool things, but the meta tags (part of it) is what excites me the most because its such an easy plug in to use, and its probably one of the best things you can do to help get better blog rankings for individual blog posts and pages. Enjoy!

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I don’t know about anyone else out there, but I have been hit with over 1600 comment spams today, and most of them are from different IP’s. They are all similar to this:

Name: car future nissan | URI: best-cars-directory.info/nissan-cars/car-future-nissan.html | IP: 80.200.77.145 | Date:

March 27, 2007

car future nissan…

Approved articles about car future nissan….

Any one else been spammed by these guys today so aggressively as I have? I guess I have to get my ban on again! Good thing for Akismet Spam! I really don’t want to give these guys any publicity, but this is by far the most aggressive attack of comment spam I have ever received on this blog!

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I read a very interesting article today that I wanted to share with everyone on the SERP’s being dominated by fake and spammy doorway pages being led by non other then Google’s Blogspot blogging service. (more…)

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Its been a while since I posted, but the last 96 hours I was on the road for 36 of them.  So thats my excuse.  I was going over something with a client this morning, and it was something that struck my so silly that I wanted to post about it.

We were talking about the basic functions of a website builder/host/template etc., and the question was actually posed by the owners of this website builder (to my client) if my client wanted it to be “search engine friendly”.  Are you kidding me?  Is there even a need to ask that anymore?  There was so many other functions that were not included it was ridiculas! (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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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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*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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