Author Archives: Jeffrey Smith

Jeffrey Smith is an active internet marketing optimization strategist, consultant and the founder of SEO Design Solutions SEO Company http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/. Jeffrey has actively been involved in internet marketing since 1995 and brings a wealth of collective experiences and fresh marketing strategies to individuals involved in online business.

The Triad of SEO, Traffic and Conversion

Unless you want to be upstaged by a competitor with the total package (attractive website, useful content, great rankings and a conversion rate above 15%), then you must see past SEO and search engine traffic as “the holy grail of internet marketing” and focus equally on conversion and conversion optimization to transform traffic into customers.
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The SEO Ultimate WordPress Plugin Video Tutorial

For those of you who have installed the SEO Ultimate SEO Plugin for WordPress from SEO Design Solutions and are have patiently waited for information about the feature-rich dashboard and configuration settings, we managed to extract the developer John Lamansky from the lab long enough for him to provide you with an in-depth video tutorial [...]

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SEO and Competitive Keyword/Relevance Thresholds

Who says less competitive keywords don’t convert? You need to know three things about SEO to get started (1) which keywords to target (2) how many competing pages are in front of yours occupying prime web estate and (3) what on page and off page SEO link/popularity/relevance/metrics or thresholds are needed to circumvent your competitors [...]

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How to SEO: Off Page Optimization Tips

Today I would like to share a brief off page SEO technique that allows you to (1) secure a specific keyword in the SERPs as well as (2) promote keyword stemming naturally over time.
When you consider the ranking factors that influence a website on a page by page basis, search engines have to parse millions [...]

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Press Releases SEO and Building the Buzz

It is no secret that in business, timing and relevance represent immense opportunity; and search engines and SEO are no different. You have to know what to say, why it’s relevant to your audience, when to say it and whom to address to make the most of each impression.
It is safe to say that content [...]

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Authority or Rankings, Which is More Important for SEO?

Is it rankings that produce website authority or website authority that produces rankings for SEO? Ultimately, which one is more important? Just like the conundrum about which came first the chicken or the egg, one could argue which has more long-term or short-term significance.
In the wake of Google’s last page rank update (something I think [...]

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SEO Ultimate All In One WordPress Plugin Version 0.5 Released

The team at SEO Design Solutions is proud to release SEO Ultimate Version 0.5.  SEO Ultimate is An All-In-One SEO Plugin for WordPress that adds enhanced search engine optimization capabilities to WordPress in minutes.
We have taken many of our cutting-edge SEO techniques and placed them all into a customizable dashboard that easily allows anyone with [...]

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Forget No-Follow: Try This PageRank Sculpting SEO Alternative

In case you are searching for SEO alternatives for the rel=”nofollow” tag to sculpt page rank, at the end of this post there are links and suggestions for an old school work around. But first, an overview of Page Rank Sculpting…
Page Rank Sculpting Overview:
Over time the links you use as anchors become prominent as each [...]

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SEO Techniques to Improve Search Engine Rankings

What are some advanced SEO techniques that you can implement to polish your websites’ search engine presence? For starters you could use keyword to content continuity; inbound anchor text to deep link mapping, internal link augmentation and sitemaps to push a few competitors off the page while scaling the search engine result pages.
SEO Technique#1: Mapping [...]

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Does Google PageRank Affect SEO?

Many are still uncertain as to what significance page rank has (if any) for SEO value or impacting search engine result pages. On a scale of 1-10 (ten being more significant) page rank in real word summation as a metric of relevance or measurement of validation for search engine ranking factor scores a two.

Although having [...]

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