Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category

An Excellent Article on Content Writing

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

One of our own guys, the big DC, found a very good article on SEO writing.  I was already using a lot of these techniques without even realizing it, and I’ve been producing some excellent rankings and results from doing the very same things this article suggests.

Check it out.  You might learn something new, or just reacquire lost knowledge.

SEO Specialists

Monday, August 4th, 2008

I have been spending a great deal of time comparing our services to other SEO Specialists and seeing what we offer over and above what they do, or vice versa. And it is not always easy to compare as many companies will not tell you what they do. Hence the purpose of this website, to lift that veil and give useful information and stories on SEO. But others tend to hold information ‘close to the chest’.

In the past, we have garnered a great deal of negative press on the internet, from people who didn’t understand what they were purchasing, or others who didn’t understand that SEO does not mean you WILL GET MORE SALES. What we do is to put browsers and buyers to our clients’ websites. But that does not guarantee that they will buy.

What SEO does do, is to put buyers on your site, once there its up to the site owner to sell them, much like any form of advertising. Merchandising, positioning, calls to action.  These are what sell, not merely being page one. We work with clients to make recommendations for their site to increase sales. However, it is not always acted upon.

Specialists can tell customers nearly anything and not back it up with any work after the sale. Happily I  work for a company that continues to increase the work load to each SEO Specialist we have, making sure that clients get more service. Not many companies work harder over time to achieve more results. Usually, its a ‘thank you for your money’ and a quick goodbye. We are not like that. We have a staff of 23 working on our clients’ SEO. From full time content writers, and for those keeping score at home, content is the NUMBER ONE REQUIREMENT for proper SEO, to a client relations department that spends hours researching and preparing key terms for clients to approve, ones the client will benefit the most from, to a team of SEO Specialists who make sure the content and the site sell the surfer. Although, as I said, we don’t guarantee sales, we do whatever we can to make sure our clients have the BEST CHANCE TO SELL.

Other SEO Specialists work on ranks, and we do too, however, we go the ‘extra mile’ to make sure our campaigns are more than just rankings, their sales and their image.

When looking to work with an SEO company, a search for ‘SEO Specialists’ and choose one according to your beliefs. Sometimes you can’t merely trust the experiences of others, especially considering the ’smoke and mirrors’ that are associated with SEO

TDay

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Added some arrows to spruce up the menus check out http://campbellriverrealtor.com/ and let me know what you think. Been trying to work in the framework of the templates but add things that help clients navigate the page and click thru.

After Careful Consideration…

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

…I may have discovered my secret to good rankings.  I’m not sure yet, but I’m treating my recently finished content for an MLM client as a bit of an experiment.

I’ll see how it ranks after a week or two and decide if this is working, but basically I’m focusing each of my paragraphs around one or two keywords instead of a whole string of keywords.  This keeps my density intact while keeping each paragraph coherent.

Let’s see what happens…

Squidoo

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

What an awesome name for a program. I can’t stop saying it in different accents. Oh joy!

I had my first flirt with squidoo today. It was pretty cool, grabbed rss feeds from my blog, and was very simple to use. They also have this program for frequent users, you get this giant star next to your name. And, since we are not making new accounts each time, I will be able to submit all of my website to squidoo! So I too can become a big cheese. The first site I made was pretty cool, it is a website showing you how to get rich quickly! You can see my squidoo lens here! Check it out, it is very cool looking!

New Procedure

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

That’s right, further link building, but where is this new bit of link building going to take place? Why on Squidoo this time! With one account you can build several lenses and further link build with the site they let you make. The more links that come in with relevance, the better the site will come out in the end. The first one I did with Squidoo is none other than an MLM promoting the reverse funnel system. Since it’s new, the results of it are yet to be seen, but when more are done, the easier it will be.

Getting those inbound links

Friday, July 18th, 2008

We have started working on getting more inbound links to our websites. This involves posting on yahoo, and will probably involve posting on various boards across the internet. Of course these posts must be relevent, which makes it a tad boring. But over all answering dumb peoples questions on the internet through Yahoo answers is fun. I just wish I could bash on people a tad more. I guess I am a screwed up person deep down.

I did quite a few yahoo answers for this unique mlm opportunity website. They involved everything from “why is my business failing”, to a thirteen year old asking if he is bipolor. This is a screwed up world people, and I am having a hard time getting used to it.

Tday

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

We are getting great results and it has been because of a total team effort. From the initial keyword approval, to content writing, design and search engine submittal, all the way to the final approval and reworks. I think the biggest key is as a team we have great flexibility, to  see something isn’t working and change with the SEO times as well as adding and improving what is working. The client really has a team dedicated to getting him/her the results that are promised and then some.

Blast From The Past

Friday, July 11th, 2008

With the rank checking and content writing I’ve been doing lately, I’ve only really paid attention to the one that was doing very well on a former account. A particular URL for how to rank on the first page wasn’t doing as well as one of its predecessors. A quick add to StumbleUpon and an add into del.icio.us, and a bit of promotion should help it along just fine. Lately content writing has come down really well in terms of moderation and execution, but the process is quite lengthy. Adding a lot of time where we used to be able to work on design. While design is still being covered, the work with content is of the utmost importance. Just wish it wasn’t so very long.

Mirroring Websites

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

The best thing happened to us this week. We were told to start mirroring our clients websites. At first I was taken back. Consudering the fact that you can hardly call some of our clients websites sub-par. A much worse word would be needed to give the full description of some of these websites. They make me cringe just looking at the lack of css and the potential for causing sever cases of “color blindness”.

Even though I started on this off foot, I soon found that it was more interesting try to mirror their websites than make my own. Sure, making my own websites was quicker, but when attempting to mirror their websites I find that I will have many obsticals in my way, and I will have to hurdle over them or dodge to the side or slide underneath. This has been a fun week, and I hope to enjoy more mirroring websites next week.

This is a great example of what I was talking about above. It is; however, an excellent insurance company and the design took alot of thought. I ended up making unique ID’s for each link and replaced the links with images in the CSS.