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A Clever Tip To Boost Your Search Rankings And Drive Massive Traffic To Your Site
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! In SEO it’s all about getting a top ten ranking under a certain keyword. That’s what we all work for around the clock. It’s the holy grail. The game is pretty straight forward; you pick your keywords using solid keyword research, then go to work optimizing those keywords on your web site […]
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Save Your Ranking With a 301 Redirect
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! …”But, I’ll lose my ranking!!” There are many times when you have to make a change to your web site. Maybe you’re doing a complete redesign. Maybe you’re just changing the look and feel of a few pages. Maybe you’re taking down some outdated material. Whatever the reason, you probably often find […]
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Longtail Keywords, What Are They And Why Are They So Freaking Important?
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Keyword Research. In SEO it always comes down to keyword research. I feel like a broken record, but it’s really important so I keep harping on about it. What’s the most important part of keyword research? Longtail keywords. Most people will probably disagree with me, but I don’t care. Longtail is where […]
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How To Use Twitter as an SEO Tool?
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Do you tweet for SEO? With the announcement several weeks ago that Bing will index Twitter feeds (in fact they’ve already started doing so), and the immediate response by Google announcing basically the same thing, the world of SEO got a little more complicated. So what exactly does this mean to SEO? […]
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SEO or Copywriting Which is Better to Focus On When Building Your Web Site?
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! I get asked this question all the time. Should I design my web site using persuasive copy that sells my product, or should I focus on optimizing the site for the Search Engines and in the process make it less reader friendly?? This is a great question that everyone has an opinion […]
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How to use Google Trends for Keyword Research
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; SEO is 95% about keyword research. There are many tools out there to help you do keyword research. From the Google Keyword Tool to the pretty good
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Article Marketing and SEO, What You Don’t Know Can Kill You At The Search Engines!
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! With Internet Marketing, it’s all about traffic. If no one shows up to your web site, the game’s over. One popular form of traffic generation is article marketing. Basically you write an article about whatever your site is about, then submit it to the major article directories like ezinearticles.com You attach a […]
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How Google Handles Parked Domains For SEO
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! So you’ve got a great idea for a new web site. You search and search for that great domain name, and you finally find one that hasn’t already been taken. So you quickly snatch it up. The problem? You haven’t BUILT the site yet! NO PROBLEM, you think, my web host just […]
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Always Back up your Keyword Research!
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! So I was sitting in Starbucks for a good couple of hours this morning sipping coffee and relaxing. This is what I call a “Business Starbucks” because even though it’s before noon, the place is crammed full of business people; suits, briefcases, rushed conversations, piles and scatters of financial looking papers on […]
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Neat Google Keyword Trick for On Page Optimization
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Here’s a really cool, super quick, incredibly easy trick to find out exactly what Google thinks about your web site and any given keyword. Getting ranked well at Google under a given keyword is the prize all SEO types covet. That’s the whole ballgame! The problem is, it’s often hard to know […]
