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  • Beginning SEO

    Posted by admin on Fri, 06/20/2008 – 18:30 in

    Today I thought it a good idea to write a post meant to get the brain juices flowing more than a strict SEO technique. Sometimes it’s nice to think aloud without holding back on your ideas just to get to the good little nuggets tucked away in your own brain.

    Posted by admin on Wed, 05/28/2008 – 15:28 in

    It seems that almost every conversation I have about SEO with someone new to the idea includes some common questions. With answering these questions, I am then asked the exact same question, every time. “So, what sites do you read?” Well, let me tell you.

    It’s not uncommon for SEOs and bloggers to share their RSS feeds or XML files to their readers. This indeed allows for the reader to make use of the ones they want to read, and use their desired RSS Reader.

    Posted by admin on Thu, 05/15/2008 – 15:33 in

    I recently wrote an article for Skellie of Anywired.com on 7 Signs of SEO Scams. It was posted yesterday, and I would like to direct my readers to it. It was a post on SEO offers that should be noted as signs of a scam.

    Posted by admin on Thu, 04/17/2008 – 15:43 in

    Shimon Sandler wrote an interesting article on CEO Bloggers and whether or not they should clear their posts throught their legal department that got me thinking about my current situation with company blogs. I love to push the idea of a blog to my clients, but with a strong air of caution. I’m also in a constant uphill battle with an agency I work for to either take their blog seriously, or remove it all together. I thought this would be a great time to go over some of the reasons not to start a blog.

    Posted by admin on Thu, 02/21/2008 – 00:58 in

    As part of my initiative to take my freelancing SEO services more seriously, I decided to branch out to communities comprised of more than just other Internet marketers (sorry Sphinn, I still love you though).

    Posted by admin on Tue, 02/05/2008 – 16:36 in

    Today, I wanted to do another beginner post, but didn’t want to wait until I reached this portion of the beginner’s SEO book. I want to talk about header tags.

    If you aren’t sure what header tags are, these are tags in HTML used to create…well…headers. They have a range in size, and can be used for header and sub-headers. Header tags are signified by the syntax, ‘x’ being a number from 1 – 6. Example as follows:

    Posted by admin on Wed, 01/23/2008 – 23:30 in

    During the whole Shoemoney circus, it became clear to me (with the help of Halfdeck) that we SEOs, especially us bloggers, should concentrate on more important things that feeding into the bait tactics of nay-sayers.

    For eample, we should be looking for ways to come up with better education for up and coming SEOs, new business owners, and hopefully one day some sort of standardization by way of SEO certifications.

    Posted by admin on Mon, 01/21/2008 – 16:04 in

    I know the title sounds a little weird, but it rhymes, so it must be true.

  • Aaron Wall Was Right

    Well crap. I read a post by Aaron Wall of SEO Book on putting your ideas to paper (or whatever the appropriate implementation would be in your case) before someone else does last week and thought to myself, “man, that has happened to me a lot.” And I mean a lot. I just came across an example of someone posting their idea, a while after I had thought about it. But really, it was my fault.

    The example is an idea that I’ve been playing around with in my head for a while. Basically, to promote your business to your demographic by placing your business card (I am thinking now that a postcard may be better) into magazines and books that your target audience would read. You could do that at a bookstore, Wal-Mart, the convenience store, wherever. It’s a little spammy, I know, but the idea is still there.

    Well today I found a post by Gyutae Park of Winning The Web, where he outlines this perfectly.

    I made a mistake here that I hope to not repeat. First, as much as I probably will never try the idea, it would still have made a decent post. Second, I let the cat out of the bag before I had actually posted anything with a comment on Freelance Switch about a month before Gyutae’s post. I highly doubt Gyutae stole the idea from me, but I really should have posted on the idea, and then linked to that post within that same comment.

    To be honest though, the post by Gyutae is actually pretty damn good. Maybe better than I would have compiled. So I suggest you at least check it out. In the right market I think it may work for some.

    But the fact remains the same. If you have an idea, at least expand on it. Don’t let someone else get it before you do.

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