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    November 22, 2006 In light of the coming holiday, I thought it would be fun to show some of the similarities between SEO and cooking a turkey. 1. You usually wait until it’s crunch time to get started, then run around frantically getting all your priorities and methods in place. 2. You spend more time online reading about what to do than actually implementing. 3. There is an hour-long debate about whether you should be stuffing it or not. 4. You put in an immense amount of work, then have to sit and wait for…..evverrrrr. 5. Because you are too impatient, you end up hurting your progress because every ten minutes you are in there poking around instead of letting it do what has to be done. 6. There are usually too many people involved, and kind words are not usually the result. Well, that’s about all I can come up with right now. It’s gonna be another light week again ( I know I said that last week, but it’s getting busier. I promise more.) I wish everyone a safe and happy Thanksgiving. In tradition of this particular holiday, I want to share my thanks to all my friends and loved ones that help SEO Factor along. Together we are creating something that can prove bring a lot of happiness to us. There is no way I would be able to do any of it alone. So thank you all.

    Later guys (and girls).

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    November 16, 2006 Yahoo! Google, and MSN will agree on the Sitemap protocol previously supported by Google alone. We all know what a sitemap is, and how it helps your site getting indexed. If not read here. The protocol is basically an XML file uploaded to your root directory, mapping your site and giving a little information on how often it changes, when it was last updated, etc. Though it will not improve rankings in a search engines, it will help with the search engine’s attempt at crawling your site, thus increasing it’s index potential.

    From sitemaps.org, the site released by all of the search engines:

    “Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

    Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.”

    This marks the second time that the three big guys teamed up for a common, and greater benefit to the online community. The first was with the recognizing of the ‘nofollow’ tag.

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    November 9, 2006 In continuing introductions to the SEO Factor team, we will showcase Aaron Smith. He is versed in SEO, but handles a lot of the logic and landing page layout for optimal marketing and conversion for us. I am the SEO Specialist, he is the layout guy….we fight a lot. Alysson is the writer, we are the nerds, so please don’t hold the very poor grammar against him. 🙂

    Aaron Says..

    By Aaron Smith Let’s face facts our customers only care about SEO if it brings them business. There are many times that we SEO’s get hung up on search engine position and the ensuing traffic that should generate from a top spot. This is all fine and good and is great for our own personal satisfaction but what does position and traffic really do for our clients? The answer to this question is simply, absolutely nothing. I have worked on many sites that I was able to get listed in some really choice positions in several large search engines. This position also generated quite a bit of traffic for each one of these sites day in and day out. The only problem with this comes with the statement “If I have all of these hits, then why doesn’t anyone buy from me?” This is the point that I had a revelation; SEO doesn’t mean squadoosh without appropriate marketing strategies being implemented on the site. There are a few important things that we forget when going about our SEO’ing on a client’s site. We forget that if the site is not appealing then their clients are not going to click to buy. We need to use a little psychology when helping a client out. Don’t be afraid to do a little research about the specific type of business that you are trying to promote. (other than just keyword research) I do this by asking myself a few questions. 1. What colors drive the behaviors that this business needs? What I mean is red incites passion, and blue drives calmness, green sparks a thought of money so what does this business need to happen. A particular color scheme will really help drive the point of the site home. 2. Have I made full use of a call to action in the Title? I have found that the greatest response for a site is if the site title is set up as a call to action. If I can spark the interest of a potential client from the search engine content then I can definitely get them interested in the home page content. 3. Does this business need products up front or would they benefit from a more detailed description of their service? Many business’ need to have some products right up front to drive a customer to an order section of the site, while other business’ need to properly describe their service to merely peak the interest of the reader. These basic questions provide the opportunity to really focus concentrated efforts on conversion AND SEO at the same time. Let’s be honest our customer’s don’t really care about how many hits they are getting. They may ask about hits because it’s what we have trained them to ask, but the real issue is “HOW MANY CUSTOMER’S ARE BUYING FROM ME?” This is why focusing SEO in a way that also touches customer conversion or marketing will ensure that your customer will end up with a solid position in search engines and will be pleased with the amount of contact that they receive from their site. Once this is out of the way then I can start my normal process for SEO. Now, I know that some people may think that some of this is antiquated or more of the same but it does work none the less. I work the content to ensure that I have enough keyword saturation (and no I don’t mean blast the page with keywords). Starting the content then leads me in to Alt Tags, Text Links, Reciprocal Links, and the same old stuff that we do day in and day out. To be honest I’m not trying to re-invent the wheel, I am only trying to make sure that each and every customer becomes successful on the Internet and I think that many times we lose sight of that fact. Now I’m not saying that we need to all only focus on doing this or guarantee a certain amount of conversion for a customer, but what I am saying is that by improving a customer’s conversion rate we are simplifying the daily conversation, “You have blah, blah, blah, number of hits and that is great!”

    At the end of the day, position in a Search Engine takes a back seat in our customers mind as long as we can bring them a response from their site.

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    November 6, 2006 So often I speak in first person. Not really known by the public, the SEO Factor team is actually more than just myself sitting in my underwear smashing away at the keyboard. So I wanted to shed some light on other members that make up this family, and give them a chance to let their voice be heard. First up is Alysson Fergison. Some background. I have spoken time and time again on the importance of content in the world of SEO. Most of the members of SEO Factor (myself included) couldn’t write a thank you letter, let alone good website copy. However, this is one of the most important factors in website design and SEO. We had a member of our team that was and continues to provide content and copy for our optimization projects, press releases, and articles. In taking hold of his dream, he has recently become the managing editor for a very prestigious entertainment magazine here in Jacksonville. Enter Alysson. She has written a few articles for us and our customers, and we will be working with her on honing her SEO knowledge. She has a lot to learn and big shoes to fill, but even more willingness to do so. So, without anymore of my rambling, here is a nice little writing about content and SEO by Alysson.

    What Your Designer May Not Know About SEO

    by Alysson Fergison The vast majority of website owners, and website designers for that matter, don’t understand the importance of search engine optimization or SEO. Many believe that having a gorgeous website is enough to generate traffic. Wrong! Crawlers can’t read images, so a website without text is like building a mansion at the bottom of the ocean. Many business owners would prefer a more cost-effective means of increasing their website’s ranking within search engine results. That means going back to basics: meta tags and text content. Flash sites are expensive and extremely popular. Animation, audio and streaming video are all very impressive to those who visit your website. The question of the day is: how do people find your website? If your hope is that they will find you in a Google or Yahoo! search, that won’t happen with a graphics-intensive Flash site. It may be absolutely beautiful, but it will not appear in a keyword-based search. That means only the people who already know your URL will be able to find your website. If you’re looking to promote your website, start by optimizing it for search engine friendliness. While the appearance of the website is certainly essential to converting prospects into paying customers, having a search engine friendly website is the single most important aspect of generating website traffic. What exactly does “search engine friendly” mean? Essentially it means that you have well-written, relevant text, and that the words in your website title and description meta tags appear properly on your page. Remember, in order to outrank your competition, we have to start with having a more relevant site than your competitors’. Provided that your meta tag information is correct and relevant, the more words you have within your site, the better your ranking potential will be in keyword searches. The title and description meta tags are the most important meta tags within your site. The title meta tag should include several of your keywords, but should not exceed 80 characters. The description meta tag should include every keyword in your title, as well as several more of your keywords as a summary of your site content and shouldn’t exceed 200 characters.

    If you’re looking to increase the traffic to your website and generate more revenue for your business, start with search engine optimization. Having the proper meta tag information and text content within your website is extremely cost effective. If you’re able to make the changes yourself, it will cost you nothing but time. Many website owners don’t want to invest a great deal of money in Internet advertising without first getting an idea of the potential business the website is capable of generating. Rather than investing hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars in advertising your website, start with making sure your existing website is optimized to be search engine friendly. Help your customers find you on the Internet as inexpensively as possible and decide later whether investing in additional Internet advertising, such as pay per clicks, is necessary.

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    November 3, 2006 I often speak of the importance of content on a site for SEO. In these talks, the question of placing a certain term on a site a certain amount of times to prove relevancy comes up. This usually sparks in interesting conversation that I will share here…

    On-Page-Optimization. First things first. The idea of optimizing a website is taken to levels that it shouldn’t necessarily go. When I say to someone “I will optimize your site,” I don’t mean to improve the rankings in the search engines, I mean to help improve crawlability (I think I just made up a word) and show the search engines what the site is about effectively. This is all in an attempt to achieve better “relevance” than the other sites in competition. If your site starts to seem as if you are doing something solely for the search engines to rank you higher, they will not. Search engines are in competition with each other to pull up the most relevant results. So a site should be created with the customer or visitor in mind, not the search engines. So, in optimizing a site, we don’t want to do it for the benefit of the search engines, we want to do it for our customers and make it appropriate for the search engines.

    Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). In an ever growing struggle to bring “relevant” results, search engines (read Google) are making use of a technology known as Latent Semantic Indexing. This means that an algorithm will find sites that deal in the most relevant subject matter, even if certain terms don’t appear on the page. For example:

    • In an AP news wire database, a search for Saddam Hussein returns articles on the Gulf War, UN sanctions, the oil embargo, and documents on Iraq that do not contain the Iraqi president’s name at all.
    • Looking for articles about Tiger Woods in the same database brings up many stories about the golfer, followed by articles about major golf tournaments that don’t mention his name. Constraining the search to days when no articles were written about Tiger Woods still brings up stories about golf tournaments and well-known players.
    • In an image database that uses LSI indexing, a search on Normandy invasion shows images of the Bayeux tapestry – the famous tapestry depicting the Norman invasion of England in 1066, the town of Bayeux, followed by photographs of the English invasion of Normandy in 1944.

      • – Insert from www.knowledgesearch.org**

      So this means that a site doesn’t really need to have a term a certain amount of times on a site to appear in a search result. You just have to be the most “relevant.” This is obviously not the end all to optimization. There are still a great number of factors involved, but keep this in mind when thinking of the question, “how many times should I put ‘keyword’ on my site?” The answer is, speak on the subject, make the content relevant, and create the site for the consumer.

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    October 9, 2006 Sitemaps are becoming ever important to a website’s success. Generally speaking, a sitemap is just that, a map of your site. Today I will shed a bit of light on what a sitemap is for, and what it should include. At a minimum, your sitemap should link to ever major page or section on your site, but preferably an all inclusive link list. This can get quite large, and a page with too many links can make a search engine crawler waiver just a bit, so keep the sitemap to a maximum of about 150 links. It serves 2 purposes really. One, for those surfers that prefer to navigate your site from one page. And two, recently really, for a search engine to better crawl your site. The larger your site gets, the more cumbersome the flow of navigation can become. If you have thousands of pages, it’s hard for a visitor to get to a specific page from the home page. The web savvy surfer knows to look for a sitemap link, so as to browse for the proper section he or she may be looking for. For ease of use, there should be link to the sitemap on every page of your site.

    When a crawler gets to your sitemap, it has a very easy time of getting to the other pages. So again, it’s best to have a link to every page on your sitemap. You will also want to make sure that the sitemap is crawler friendly in regards to simple code and preventing the robots.txt file from stopping the crawler. Google helps in a very cool fashion, by providing their own Google Sitemap. This is a neat tool that not only creates a sitemap, but will also allow for Google to give an amount of feedback clueing you in on guidelines that may not be met by your site. This will help in understanding why a page may not be indexed and sometimes ranking. It does require a bit of finesse as the sitemap tool is an XML based product, so try to be careful if you’re not experienced. In respect to coding as a whole, it’s really pretty simple, and the manual makes it almost dummy proof.

    You don’t need to have Google’s Sitemap if you don’t feel up to it. Just as long as you have a page dedicated to being a sitemap, you can submit that to the se’s and be OK. Just keep with Google’s, Yahoo!’s, and MSN’s guidelines during the creation, and be sure to name the page sitemap.html. If you do decide to go with the Google Sitemap, you can visit their official blog and group for specific help.

    A small disclaimer if I may. Having a good sitemap does not mean that you will rank higher. It only means that a search engine can crawl easier, and makes submissions a little quicker. There is a small debate on this, but no proof to show a difference.

    If you have any questions, same as always. Let me know.

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  • SEO-Factor: Search Engine Optimization, Website Promotion Services

    Business Growth With Ranking – Having a website in today’s business world is not a luxury, but a necessity. Even if you don’t plan to sell products on your site, there will be a need for a convenient central location of your business’ information. But, having a website is not good enough. If customers can’t find your site, then they can’t buy your product. That is where Search Engine Optimization comes in. SEO is the act of optimizing a website so that it will improve it’s potential to appear higher on the search engines, and it’s worth can mean the difference between succeeding in business and closing the doors for good.

    What SEO Factor Can Do For Your Business – By charging SEO Factor with the task of optimizing your site, you increase it’s potential for ranking and traffic, and thus the potential for increased income. Most small and medium-sized businesses already make use of a Pay-Per-Click option, not knowing that they can achieve a higher rate of success by exploiting the statistics that consumers are more likely to click on a site listed in the non-paid section of a search engine. This will not only promote a company’s growth, but will cost a lot less than paying for every click to their site. So, we can help your site work harder for your business, and save you money at the same time.

    Versatile Help For Any Budget – With a wide range of optimization and website promotion services, we can assist in the growth of any business with any marketing budget.

    Timing Is Everything – It takes time for search engines to crawl and rank a website, so don’t waste another minute. Let SEO Factor give your site the extra help it needs to work harder for you and your business.

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    October 27th

    Alt Tags Lawsuit

    If I have to talk about alt tags one more time this month….I will have to….talk about alt tags one more time this month. But I’m not happy about it. Maybe it’s my geographic location, maybe…

    Google Co-op released the personal search engine yesterday, allowing you to “index” pages and provide a search results page that will be geared to an area of study you specify. You will notice the…

    October 25th

    Often times we speak of the time it can take for SEO to take effect and rankings changes. But there is also a part of the puzzle when speaking about new sites (or newly acquired). Tenure can…

    October 24th

    I recently spoke on the importance of alt tags, and how to properly implement them. The question arose, “how much weight does the alt tag have in reference to ranking?” Well, keeping with the…

    October 18th

    The following is a link to a post at SEOMoz. Rand started to compile information for on-page optimization efforts, and provided all of us with this invaluable information. Rand’s List of…

    October 12th

    By Mark Spivey. Below are 11 practical reasons why streaming video should be considered as a vital marketing tool to add to a business website. 1. Limited Screen Space. Computer…

    October 10th

    Google goes through yet another growth spurt with it’s recent acquisition of YouTube. Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Google, justifies the $1.65 billion payment with “Our companies share…

    October 9th

    I have posted a couple of times on articles/press releases and their seemingly unknown importance. Now I want to discuss optimizing your article/press release, and give you a great deal of…

    I’m really not sure where this information is coming from, but I’m getting a lot of clients asking me about poison words. This is an excellent example of a Google Myth. There are no such things as…

    A lot of times people ask me where I get my information or where they should start reading to learn more about SEO. I usually reply with a half cocky/half joking “read my blog, it has all you need…

    It seems that Yahoo!’s organic listings include not only “relevant” results (and I use quotes for a reason), but they also show a Pay-Per-Click service. Through Search Submit Express you can…

    Google filed for a patent recently that would allow for algorithmic ranking, along with the efforts of human editing. This would mean that the build of the work in determining ranking and results…

    There are a number of big names in the SEO and online marketing industry. A lot of times I throw them around as answers to “people I would like to meet” or “what source do you have for this…

    As with all things in the website world, the idea, practice, and importance of link popularity is always changing. The rule used to simply be, “get as many links as you can from anywhere at all.”…

    Sometimes I get so caught up in describing some of the complexities of SEO, I neglect the simple things. So today I think I will discuss internal links. Internal links are any links on a page…

    I promise I will write something good and original today. But first, I wanted to give props to Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall of SEO Book for an incredible list of 101 Ways To Build Link Popularity In…

    Often times we get so caught up in marketing our site and making it aesthetically pleasing, we forget one of, if not THE most important part of SEO. Content. The search engines can not see…

    A press release is an article written on or about your company, site, product, or whatever. In respect to marketing, this will accommodate the exposure of your writing when promoted to many avenues…

    So you have an optimized site, have started and continue a good link building campaign, your site is on your business cards, and you tell all your friends about it, but for some reason, it just…

    Blogging is an ever-growing method of networking on the Internet. This one, for example, was created to help beginners that I work with in consulting on search engine optimization. It since has…

    When optimizing a site, we are faced with many daunting tasks. It’s hard enough to generally optimize a page for “the search engines.” But when we say “the search engines,” what are we talking…

    I’m getting an increasingly large amount of questions about Google’s Adsense and whether or not they should be implemented on a site. First, let me talk about what Adsense is. We are all…

    In my position as a consultant on SEO, I seem to be getting an increase in the amount of customers asking why their designer had not considered the changes I suggest. Some of these questions are…

    I seem to be in a real “talk about marketing” mood this week. To continue with this theme, I want to take a small amount of time to discuss marketing on forums. Forums, in my opinion, can provide…

    The online community is a fast one. So marketing online requires that you make use of new and creative avenues on a very mobile basis. One of the coolest thing I like about blogs is that you open…

    Optimizing a website is only part of the SEO / SEM process. Once a site is optimized for the search engines, you still have to consider “old-fashioned” ways of marketing your product or service….

    Link popularity is a very important aspect of SEO and website promotion. It not only brings traffic to your site, but also helps the validity of your website’s importance in the eyes of Google and…

    There seems to be a lot of talk on various blogs and forums (check SEO Book ) that Yahoo! is giving more consideration to inbound links than before. This would be interesting, as that is also the…

    Sitemaps are becoming ever important to a website’s success. Generally speaking, a sitemap is just that, a map of your site. Today I will shed a bit of light on what a sitemap is for, and what it…

    In creating a website we try to desperately to make something aesthetically pleasing, and there are so many methods to that madness. But the prettier the page, often means the more code we have to…

    After reading my last post on CSS and SEO , a buddy of mine asked for a more detailed reason on what exactly about CSS will reduce the amount of code. I figure, “hey, I got a blog. Might as well…

    There are a bunch of them. I would like to share some of my favorites. First, though, I would like to say a thing. All tools are not 100%. Nothing is. Tools for SEO are online and rely on…

    October 7th

    One of the terms used a great deal in the SEO industry is “PageRank.” PageRank is basically Google’s way of telling how “important” a page is. It is often thought that a good PageRank will…

    I just read an incredible article on keyword analyzing, and it inspired me to want to share a little about the way I conduct business with my potential clients, and how we should explore all likely…

    In the creation of a site, many people make use of frames. Frames are a way of making one page that will stay static, but a chunk of which will be used to call information from other pages. The use…

    SEO is a sticky subject sometimes. Many people have been burned by people claiming to be SEO Specialists, and are aprehensive to give another one a shot. There are plenty of resources out there on…

    CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a very great way to design and layout a site in terms of SEO. We have discussed how the crawlers will read through the HTML of your site and how this helps determine…

    I recently read forum post on the three signs of a nightmare client , and was thinking, “wow, I get a lot of problems from customers wanting too much for too little.” I thought it would be a…

    We shall now go into the actual code of your site. “Code” is used loosely here as HTML is actually a mark-up language, but we aren’t here to talk that. HTML is the language used to create your…

    October 6th

    I know there is a lot on this blog, but it just started and I want to get a lot of the basics on here so we can start to get into the good stuff. I’m also gonna try to categorize the basics so that…

    We have discussed meta tags and the such. Now we will discuss the content that is on your homepage. The content is in part how the search engines know what your site is all about. They can’t see…

    Well. I’m chillin’ out and wanting to make something useful. So, I will use this time to educate others on a piece of SEO. I think first we are going to talk about the Meta tags. No no, let’s start…

    I was very recently asked by a friend about alt tags in reference to using them to increase keyword relevancy. I answered, and she wanted to know if it was bad to stuff them with keywords (really…

  • SEO Factor Blog

    The SEO Factor Blog is a supplement designed to provide up to date information on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Website Promotion. As a compliment to our promotion and optimization services, we also like to keep others informed so as to spawn a greater understanding of SEO and search engine placement. Read more about SEO Factor here.

    Or goal with SEO Factor is to provide an affordable service with real results. We certainly don’t mean to speak in ill manner towards other companies specifically, but there are some that are charging a lot for submissions, or some other service that doesn’t require an exchange of funds. Our goal with the blog is to share information. SEO almost sells itself in complexity and importance. Anyone can do it. But to be effective you need experience, proven methods, and time to spend on it. Most business owners can not neglect their business to achieve these. With the blog, we have an avenue where we can fully disclose any news, methods, and ideas. There should be no secrets in SEO.

    February 20th, 2007 This is a big giant collection of SEO tools and references. I want to give a great deal of credit to Webnauts of www.webnauts.net. He put 98% of this stuff together. Enjoy. I’ll try to update it as new and cool stuff comes out.

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    February 6th, 2007 Ok, so we all know how important IBL’s are for ranking in Google. I’ve gone over the importance and what factors are taken into account, but one of the most frustrating thing was the idea that you never really had an idea at how many links you were getting credit for from Google. The ‘link:site’ operator was never all inclusive because of the metric’s weight in determining your ranking….

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    November 14th, 2006 Because the original list would expand so much, we decided to make it a resource page that won’t get lost in the timeline of a blog.

    We use a lot of these in our promotion service, so a lot of them can be relied upon.

    So, here is a very large, and ever-growing list of sites to submit articles and press…

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    October 27th, 2006 Google Co-op released the personal search engine yesterday, allowing you to “index” pages and provide a search results page that will be geared to an area of study you specify. You will notice the search bar at the top of the blog, allowing you to take a gander at my search engine. This is a pretty neat project for many reasons.

    Testing

    Obviously, being the SEO nerd…

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    October 9th, 2006 A lot of times people ask me where I get my information or where they should start reading to learn more about SEO. I usually reply with a half cocky/half joking “read my blog, it has all you need to know.”

    Obviously this is not the truth, as no one person can know all there is to know about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). And even if there were, that person would not likely…

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    October 9th, 2006 Sitemaps are becoming ever important to a website’s success. Generally speaking, a sitemap is just that, a map of your site. Today I will shed a bit of light on what a sitemap is for, and what it should include.

    At a minimum, your sitemap should link to ever major page or section on your site, but preferably an all inclusive link list. This can get quite large, and a page with…

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    October 9th, 2006 There are a bunch of them. I would like to share some of my favorites. First, though, I would like to say a thing. All tools are not 100%. Nothing is. Tools for SEO are online and rely on information given by different sources. For example, there are tools that check link popularity. Google will not ever let you know how many links they consider. This would give a little info on how they…

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  • SEO Factor Blog

    The SEO Factor Blog is a supplement designed to provide up to date information on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Website Promotion. As a compliment to our promotion and optimization services, we also like to keep others informed so as to spawn a greater understanding of SEO and search engine placement. Read more about SEO Factor here.

    Or goal with SEO Factor is to provide an affordable service with real results. We certainly don’t mean to speak in ill manner towards other companies specifically, but there are some that are charging a lot for submissions, or some other service that doesn’t require an exchange of funds. Our goal with the blog is to share information. SEO almost sells itself in complexity and importance. Anyone can do it. But to be effective you need experience, proven methods, and time to spend on it. Most business owners can not neglect their business to achieve these. With the blog, we have an avenue where we can fully disclose any news, methods, and ideas. There should be no secrets in SEO.

    December 1st, 2006 Well, I’m back from vacation and getting back into the swing of things. Over the large feast, a friend of the family asked about link popularity and what the best method of gaining quality links would be. I offered the advice of link baiting.

    Link baiting is the method of providing relevant and “buzz worthy” content or subject matter on your site, inducing the desire of other…

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    November 14th, 2006 Because the original list would expand so much, we decided to make it a resource page that won’t get lost in the timeline of a blog.

    We use a lot of these in our promotion service, so a lot of them can be relied upon.

    So, here is a very large, and ever-growing list of sites to submit articles and press…

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    October 25th, 2006 Often times we speak of the time it can take for SEO to take effect and rankings changes. But there is also a part of the puzzle when speaking about new sites (or newly acquired).

    Tenure can play a big part in your rankings. You shouldn’t expect to setup a site today, and rank tomorrow. One of the points that a search engine (especially Google) will look at is the registration…

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    October 12th, 2006 By Mark Spivey. Below are 11 practical reasons why streaming video should be considered as a vital marketing tool to add to a business website.

    1. Limited Screen Space.

    Computer screens have increased in size over the years but webmasters still have to deal with the problem getting all a client’s information presented above the bottom of the…

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    October 9th, 2006 I have posted a couple of times on articles/press releases and their seemingly unknown importance. Now I want to discuss optimizing your article/press release, and give you a great deal of resources for submitting your them.

    Optimization. First, we want to make sure our articles are indeed optimized. By this I mean, make sure they discuss the appropriate subject matter at hand….

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    October 9th, 2006 I promise I will write something good and original today. But first, I wanted to give props to Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall of SEO Book for an incredible list of 101 Ways To Build Link Popularity In 2006. This list is a bit to get through, but I found things that I had never thought of. Very useful.

    Link building is a very…

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    October 9th, 2006 A press release is an article written on or about your company, site, product, or whatever. In respect to marketing, this will accommodate the exposure of your writing when promoted to many avenues of online press release viewers and publications . This is a good thing that can lead to a better thing. If someone reads your press release, and then writes an article for a local paper or some…

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