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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.

    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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    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 16th, 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…

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    November 3rd, 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…

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    November 3rd, 2006 I can’t express how many times the ‘SEO / Flash’ subject has come up. It’s a very valid issue, and carries a lot of debate. The problem with Flash is the inability for the SE’s to read the text in the movie or animation. Well, there is a way to make this better.

    Here is an article on the whole subject at

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    November 2nd, 2006 To continue with my recent rants on alt tags, their importance, and proper use, I wanted to further my stance on this subject with Google backing me.

    Google has been, and continues to work on “Google Accessible,” a Google search engine built specifically for the seeing impaired. It will rely a lot on the same…

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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.

    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….

    read full post..

    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…

    read full post..

    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 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.” This is no longer so.

    After that rule, it became, “make sure the site linking to you is relevant in some way.” While this still holds true, the term “relevant” has undergone some…

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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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    October 9th, 2006 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 feels like your site needs a little…push. What ever will you do?

    One of the best next steps is a press release. Basically, an article will be written on your site/business/product or…

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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.

    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.

    read full post..

    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….

    read full post..

    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…

    read full post..

    November 22nd, 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….

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    November 16th, 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…

    read full post..

    November 10th, 2006

    It’s Veteran’s Day, so we will be taking thing a little light out of respect and reflection. I’m just gonna give a little week in review on some highlights in the SEO news.

    November 9th, 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. 🙂

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  • SEO-Factor: Search Engine Optimization & Website Marketing, Promotion FAQ’s, and help

    • What is SEO?

      • SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the act of editing and optimizing a site to provide the maximum potential of ranking and traffic. SEO has become as important, if not more important than the design of the site itself. Truly optimizing a site is very time consuming and contains very many variables ranging from the content on the site to the way other sites and search engines view your site.

    • Why should I optimize my site?

      • If you simply design a website and place it on the internet without consideration given to optimization, then your site will miss very many opportunities to be seen by the public. Search engines have a main concern to produce relevant results to a searcher so as to strive to become the number one search engine. Surely you have heard the commercials by Yahoo! Advertising that they will return the most relevant results when using their service to find what you need. So you can see how important it is to optimize your site to appeal to the search engines so they may use your site as a result of a web surfer searching on the Internet.

    • So how does on optimize a website?

      • First and foremost, you need to have a direction. Ask yourself, if I were a consumer, and I wanted to find my product on a search engine, what would I type? This is only the first step, but should help you in determining how you are going to optimize your site. The content on the site is very important, and you will want to know what subjects to concentrate on while writing the copy of your site. You will want to make the information on your website relevant to the terms that you have chosen so as to appeal to any potential web surfer.

    • Why should I optimize my site?

      • If you simply design a website and place it on the internet without consideration given to optimization, then your site will miss very many opportunities to be seen by the public. Search engines have a main concern to produce relevant results to a searcher so as to strive to become the number one search engine. Surely you have heard the commercials by Yahoo! advertising that they will return the most relevant results when using their service to find what you need. So you can see how important it is to optimize your site to appeal to the search engines so they may use your site as a result of a web surfer searching on the Internet.

    • Oh, I just need keywords then?

      • No. Creating a list of keywords is only the first, and a very small part of optimization. Appealing to the search engines also involves making the rest of the Internet aware of your presence by implementing inbound links to your site and providing a genuinely relevant information or services. Simply implementing the keywords meta tag, will bring very little if any benefit. Most search engines no longer even give any attention to the keywords. Click hereto find out more about our optimization services.

    • A friend told me that I can just put my terms all over my site, and the search engines will find me most relevant.

      • Optimizing a website used to involve placing your desired search terms throughout the website so that a search engine crawler would see their liberal use. This is known as “keyword stuffing.” However, gone are the days when this was good enough. Obviously, your search terms will appear on your homepage as they are likely terms that you would normally use when discussing your area of business, but you don

  • SEO Factor Blog

    December 1, 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 site owners to link to you without your request. This will look a lot more natural to Google than the sudden spike in IBL’s due to submitting to hundreds of directories in a day.

    Education

    Ahhh….yet another reason that quality text is important. Having a nice, attention grabbing text is a great way to get others to link to you. Creating something informative and/or useful in writing can help. Articles on you subject matter, giving tricks of the trade or the like will usually yield link bait.

    Negative PR

    Something we are starting to see a lot of is purposefully creating a controversial statement in hopes of link baiting. The problem I have with this method is the idea that it won’t always give you the traffic you want. Also, playing with negative PR is a scary thing on the Internet. A blog that gets more traffic than you will likely post something that will have a lot more staying power in the search engines, resulting in a bad online reputation when someone searches for the company name. Also, once the buzz stops and passes, where will that leave your link popularity.

    Free Tools

    My favorite, and one of the best ways to link bait is to offer a free tool on your site that helps others in your community. This blog often links to neat new tools we find.

    In the end, link baiting was the original way of gaining link popularity, and though it has gone through a few changes in definition and methodology, it’s coming back again. These are just a few and most popular of the methods, and people are coming up with new and inventive ways almost every day.

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    February 6, 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. Well….Google will now let you, and only you, see this information. So long as you can prove you own the site with Google’s ‘Webmaster Tools.’

    More here.

    This is incredible news. This should help us all understand a bit more on how Google determines where you stand. But also keep in mind that this is new, and as such, will not be void of inconsistencies or errors. But again, and excellent step forward in understanding how the Big G works.

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  • SEO-Factor: Website Marketing, Press Releases, and Promotion Services for small and medium-sized businesses.

    Once your site is optimized, the job is not complete. To maximize your site’s ranking and traffic potential, it must be submitted and effectively promoted. Let us promote it to the online community through directory and search engine submission, and targeted articles and press releases to drive traffic and build link popularity.

    Press Release Service $300

    A press release can be one of the most inexpensive and effective ways to get your site noticed by increasing relevant traffic and increasing link popularity. Let one of our expert writers provide your business with the best press release, and we will do all the distributions among the online press release services.
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    Monthly Website Tracking And Management $50 monthly Let SEO Factor keep track of your website’s progress and search engine submissions so you don’t have to. With our monthly search engine report, you can see your optimization efforts in work, and manage accordingly. The monthly service will provide the following:

    • Current rankings in the major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask)

    • Your site’s current Google PageRank

    • Your website’s current link popularity according to the major search engines

    • A reflection of the above stats from the previous month

    • Submission to 5 directories to increase you link popularity

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  • SEO-Factor: About Our Team and Commitment to Success

    SEO Factor
    Though all accounts are handled by an individual, we at SEO Factor always rely on each others knowledge to further increase success. So, your site will not get the attention of one, but several SEO Specialists.

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    Catering, Delivery Services, Restaurants, Blogs, Markets, …

    Health Products, Massage Therapy, Healthcare and Insurance, Alternative Medicine, Dentistry, …

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    Lawn Maintenance & Landscaping, Cleaning Services, Movers / Moving Companies, Disaster Recovery, Home Security, …

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