Intro SEO

According to eMarketer and a study conducted by Forbes, forty-eight percent of marketers said that search engine optimization (SEO) was the best method for generating conversions online. More than one-half of marketers with budgets over $1 million agreed. But don’t think that you need a million dollar budget in order to have your internet marketing [...]

Blogging is a great way to gain visibility and build community around your business, but doing it wrong can have serious consequences.
If you’re blogging, make sure that you’re hosting the blog on your own domain.  If you don’t have webhosting because you’re using an ecommerce solution platform like a Yahoo Store or ProStore, make the [...]

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Rand Fishkin’s post on SEOmoz today, “There’s Way More Than 2 Ways to Make Money with SEO” is absolutely golden, and I’ll let Rand’s awesome and very handy chart speak for the article itself:
If you work in SEO, want to enhance your own site’s SEO, or in any utter “SEO” throughout the day, this chart [...]

As an SEO Specialist, I know firsthand that the Hows and Whys of making it work can seem overwhelming at times. How can we know if meta-keywords play any importance in rankings improvement? Are links pointing at a site more important than relevant content? Will my client with the site name that pays homage to [...]

New social networks are born everyday, so how do you keep one alive and thriving? You need to strategize with the five forces. So, what are the five forces you ask? Drum roll… me-driven, peer-driven, trust-driven, time-driven and cause-driven.
Me-driven keeps the user in mind. Social networks are an extension of one’s self, with the user [...]

As a creative-minded individual, I have always jumped at any chance to pluck the strings of my imagination.  To me, there is no greater pleasure than venturing deep inside oneself and unleashing a heartfelt expression of powerful emotions.  So, one could imagine my delight when I discovered that even in the working world, life gives [...]

Wanted: Long-term SEO strategy, increased traffic and revenue in 6-12 months. Will care and nurture SEO campaign.
Now that’s ideal, but not always a reality for site owners. I was just reading Mark Jackson’s article, “Give SEO Time!“, and oh my, how true it is! Mark explains just how much SEO is a long term relationship [...]

I’m delving into my own inbox to talk about link building again.  Maintaining a personal blog with its own modest following apart from the work I do at Cactus means that I get a literal ton of requests for links, promotion and publicity, and the majority of them are just like the one I called [...]

I know that we’re kind of fun and laid back (comparatively speaking) here on SC’s SEO Blog, but let’s put on our Common Sense Hats for a second.
We all know the value of repetition, right?  When I taught writing, I’d use repetition in my notes and PowerPoint presentations to increase my students’ retention. From repeating [...]

Think SEO is too long term a strategy to help boost your traffic and revenue before the holidays? Not so! Although the idea of suddenly ranking high for general terms probably won’t happen by the time Santa comes down your chimney, adding holiday themed SEO content to your site within the next two weeks can [...]