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Entries from September 2008

Marketing Sherpa Landing Page Samples

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

I had a heck of a time trying to hunt down this fantastic link to the Marketing Sherpa Landing Page Samples, so I figured it’s about time I add the link to my blog as a good reference point for discussions with clients on the value of PPC and PPA campaigns.
Why Use Landing Pages?
First of [...]

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Monavie Pulse - Optimizing for MLM Practical?

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

With hundreds of thousands of amature SEO Experts in this industry, how practical would it be to optimize for MLM businesses like Mary Kay, Monavie, or whatever else is new in the network marketing arena?
I don’t take clients who ask me to create an MLM site for them because there’s just too much competition. Other [...]

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Online Marketing Strategies for Doctors & Dentists

September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

It’s a no-brainer, that if you’re a local business you should be using an SEM firm that specializes in the placement of your website inside Local Search Engines, such as Google Maps, Yahoo! Local, and MSN Live Maps. RelevantAds has always done a great job in this arena.
But how about for the businesses who like [...]

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CNNMoney.com Features an Expert SEO Review

September 20th, 2008 · No Comments

I was recently asked to review a small business website (Fretzels.com) and give some recommendations that may help improve traffic generated from the search engines, aka: Google, Yahoo! MSN, etc.
The article, Boost Your E-commerce Site’s Search Ranking, features a link to a video review I did of the Fretzels website and includes some great tools [...]

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Hiring Freeze at Yahoo! Sign of the Times?

September 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Just got word from our Account Executive that there’s been a hiring freeze at Yahoo! Who knew?
So I immediately jumped into Compete.com to figure out if it’s a market share thing or just something going in within the Yahoo! organization. Here’s what I found:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/google.com+yahoo.com+live.com+msn.com+ask.com/?metric=uv
Nothing. Everything appears to be business as usual, though the growth rate [...]

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Steve Wiideman Opens for Mark Victor Hansen

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments

I had the honor of speaking about SEO as an opener for Mark Victor Hansen at a business networking group last night. Of course, I warned the audience that I’m a “techie” not speaker, and still pulled off a good SEO Primer.
Mr. Hansen was an incredible, inspirational, educational speaker. Beyond reading several of his Chicken Soup [...]

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How Much Do SEO Services Cost?

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments

I get asked this everyday. “Come on, give me a ballpark figure”. Determining the market rate for such a niche industry is enough work on it’s own, but now us SEO Experts have to figure out site by site how much to charge a client. Not an easy task, but I’ll tell you how we [...]

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Bug in Google Chrome - Problems with JavaScript

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Here is a quick video of the bug I just found in Google Chrome. Basically when I was on Screencast, I was unable to upload a video or create a folder. The problem had to do with JavaScript. Check it out:

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SEO Expert Installs Google Chrome

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Okay, here’s how easy it was to install Google Chrome. My review starts in this clip and follows in the next.

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