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Entries from November 2008

SEO Blog Optimization Released!

November 21st, 2008 · No Comments

The Internet is about to explode with thousands of SEO Experts and SEM Experts producing products that can be used in conjunction with Wordpress. BEWARE! Many of these products include Easter eggs and backlinks for the people who built them.
If your website is about anything other than SEO, then I’d recommend not allowing any SEO-related [...]

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SEO and Video Made Easy

November 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Video isn’t something I discuss enough on my SEO Expert Blog, however, since today I was able to get my custom TubeMogul SEO Expert Videos page, I thought I’d share a few tips on how to optimize and distribute video.
There are two very important reasons you want video on your web pages:
1. To improve CTR [...]

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Top Toys for Christmas 2008

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments

SEO is all about the links these days, or “link juice” as it’s referred to as in our little search engine optimization community. For kicks, the wife and I researched the top toys for Christmas 2008 (since we have two girls of our own) and created a page to see if we could drive any [...]

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Jerry Yang Steps Down as CEO of Yahoo!

November 18th, 2008 · No Comments

According Reuters, Yahoo! CEO and Co-Founder Jerry Yang has stepped down from his role after a long-bitter year of not-so great performance for the world’s 2nd largest search engine.
The buzz is that this change in leadership may provoke a new negotiation with a potential buyout from Microsoft. Of course, after being turned down twice, I [...]

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Affordable MySpace Customization (Limited Time Offer)

November 17th, 2008 · No Comments

A good friend of mine is discounting his unbelievable MySpace design services to help those suffering through these tough economic times.
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As you know, MySpace is a fantastic social network, that can drive hundreds of new visits to your company or personal website. Over 7 percent of the traffic I get comes [...]

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Google Describes in Detail How to Get Higher Rankings

November 13th, 2008 · No Comments

One of my favorite things to do is to share where I get all my information from. Of course, having an inclusive guide, aka my free SEO eBook, is a great way to break guidelines into an actual checklist or action item list.
Considering the fact that Google still owns over 60% market share in the [...]

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Come Meet Me and Discuss SEO

November 12th, 2008 · No Comments

As you know, I’m passionate about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Meetup.com has given me the opportunity to synergize with my peers and offer marketers a chance to sit in on discussions that could help improve ranking in the search engines.
I use to offer my Meetup Group as a workshop format, but have since gone back [...]

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Behavioral Targeting

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments

One of my client’s analytics report popped into my email this morning and I was extremely pleased at the progress and conversion rate improvements. Take a look at last week’s improvement in traffic from the search engines for this local photographer and below it, conversion rate information.
I highlighted Direct Traffic to show that the client [...]

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How to Undo MySpace Profile 2.0

November 10th, 2008 · No Comments

A good friend of mine put together this video on how to undo MySpace Profile 2.0. Apparently there are some bugs. If you need to undo your MySpace Profile from the new 2.0 version, simply follow the instructions in this video:

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Free Letters from Santa

November 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Not having much to do with SEO or being an SEO Expert, as a parent I thought I might tell everyone about a fantastic place they can go to get free letters from Santa.
We have two little girls and absolutely NO time to spend on buying a pack of stationery and figuring out how to [...]

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