Monthly Archives: September 2007

Target Marketing, Hit, Miss or Finding the Right Audience

Hitting your target in marketing takes more than wishful thinking, it takes research, perspective, patience and aptitude. Knowing who your customers are, where to find them how to speak to them and what makes them tick is what distinguishes those who have a successful online marketing campaign and those who aspire to crack the code … Read more »

Link Building Strategies Using Blogs, Articles, Directories & Contextual Advertising

Link Building Strategies - The value of link bait | one way permanent links | and SEO link building
With all the talk about link building, in my summation there are only a handful of ways to truly build value for your website that won’t get you penalized from search engines. When you think about it, … Read more »

Hittail Long Tail Search Engine Monitoring Tool is a Hit for SEO

If you are currently evaluating a search engine positioning service, then you may wish to consider a firm that utilizes the benefits of long tail search engine optimization. This is the practice of optimizing keyword combinations that are outside of your main or broad search keywords, but have the ability to drive traffic to your … Read more »

Yahoo Search Displaying Schizophrenic Results

Is it just me or is Yahoo Search displaying Schizophrenic results?
One search for Seo Web Design for example resulted in “We had temporary problems searching for web pages. Search again for seo web design or type a new query above”. Another brought up an entirely unrelated topic, who knows what is next when updates like … Read more »

Massive Link Audit or Quality Control for Search Engines?

In case you are outside of the bubble of search engine optimization or oblivious to it’s affects, rumour as of late is, there has been a reported link audit occurring throughout various industries throughout the web in regard to Yahoo search results and the number of links being counted as valid links to your site. … Read more »

Catchy Titles Have Higher Click Through Rates

Do
“Catchy Headlines”
Increase Conversion?
Getting the attention of the reader can make the difference between a thriving online presence for your website or blog vs. crickets chirping and no traffic in sight. When you think about it, having a well positioned opportunity to get picked vs. actually being clicked is what true optimization is all about. … Read more »

Search Engine Rankings and the Flux of Tides, Ripples & Waves.

The cyclical tide of search engine rankings, positioning & placement
Have you ever noticed that search engines like Google have a tidal cycle that ebbs, ripples and subsides?
What about how some websites rise from the time they are indexed and stabilize in the top 10 or top 20 results? Or how other websites rise quickly to … Read more »

Local Search Engine Optimization Tips to Improve Organic Rankings

Ever wondered how to attain higher local search engine rankings? Here are a few tips to strengthen organic search engine placement. Although the competition can be fierce from local businesses (who often resort to keyword stuffing) local search engine optimization is far less convoluted by comparison to national search engine placement.
local search engine optimization … Read more »

SEO Web Design - Why Frames and SEO Don’t Mix

How many of you are still using frames on your websites and want to rank competitively for keywords with high search volume? (slumping in seat as hand raises) I hate to break this to you, but like oil and water, frames and SEO just don’t mix.
frames noframes seo and frames seo friendly … Read more »

Cool Google Gadget that Allows You to Watch TV on Your Computer

I am aware that this is way off topic, but we are human after all and although SEO is all I live breathe and sleep, I thought I would share a cool little snippet of code that I found.
While taking a spin around the web this morning I stumbled across (no tens inpunded) … Read more »