Monthly Archives: December 2007

The Top 50 Sites that Receive Traffic from the Term SEO

Talk about a belated Christmas gift. It turns out that Seo Design Solutions made the top 50 websites for traffic from the keyword SEO according to www.compete.com.

You’ve got to love Google Blog Search. A great service that has the ability to set up alerts and monitor any time someone so much as mentions your … Read more »

Strategic Keyword and Link Building Strategies for Internet Marketing

If you ever wondered how to measure SEO results for link building, here is one of many tactics that provides insight to how rankings are acquired as a result of a keyword acquisition & keyword sniping.

Relevance is the basis of rankings, you either have it or you don’t. Relevance is determined by the type of … Read more »

Why it’s Time for Traditional Marketing to Step Aside

So many options, so little time. Attention diffusion is a reality for the modern consumer. While surfing the web via Stumble Upon, I came across a great video from Seth Godin (a true SEO / marketing guru) who shed some interesting new light on the current state of marketing and how savvy consumers are not … Read more »

What are the Most Important SEO Factors for Achieving High Rankings?

submit_url = ‘http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/search-engine-optimization/what-are-the-most-important-seo-factors-for-achieving-high-rankings/’;Search engine optimization and it’s application is just as much an art as much as a science. The scientific aspects are things like meta tags, h1-h6, the meta description, internal links, .htaccess files, robots.txt files, keyword density and the like. The artistic side of SEO (in my opinion) is the method in which … Read more »

Descriptive Titles Have Higher Traffic Conversion

Using your title and description tags properly is quite possibly one of the most overlooked aspects to encouraging traffic and higher click through rates (CTR) Something as simple as using the right 65 characters to summarize your page title can mean the difference between lackluster and blockbuster click through conversion.

Despite where your pages are displayed … Read more »

5 Link Development Guidelines You can Build On

submit_url = ‘http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/link-building/555-link-development-guidelines-you-can-build-on/’;Ever wondered what to look for when building links? Link building is like one of sacred scrolls of search engine optimization, that (for very good reason) is kept secret. Much like the formula for Pepsi, Coca Cola and other trade secrets that if revealed and exposed to the wrong sources, could spawn … Read more »

Catchy Titles, Social Media Stampedes and Content that Converts

Is Your Content Sticky Enough?
For those of us who are new to social media, creating a server-taxing social media traffic stampede could be triggered merely by a catchy title alone.

Attention is the new commodity online and if you expect visitors to just fork it over, without being entertainment or fulfilled in exchange, think again. Social … Read more »

SEO 101 Crash Course with Links to our Top Secret SEO Tips

Are you aware that at the whim of a fleeting thought and a few keystrokes, essentially anyone who has the slightest inkling to research a subject can pull up a snapshot of the trails we all leave behind?

In search engine optimization, it’s not always what you see, it’s what you don’t see that has the … Read more »

Using Deep Links to Summon Search Engine Spiders

Why overlook the beautiful garden of latent links that are available from several of your very own buried internal pages? With a menial investment of time and a bit of pruning to remove a few semantic weeds, you can revitalize your website via deep links and give all of your pages a serious boost in … Read more »

Phrase Rank, Trust Rank and Linking Outside the Box

This post is about relevance and Linking Outside the Box as Trust Rank, Phrase Rank and Page Rank are looking for more than just links to assess your content.

As the holiday season is upon us and we wind down this illustrious year of 2007, what better way to conclude and enliven the festivities … Read more »