Search engine optimization, or as it is abbreviated, SEO, is methods of encouraging Google, Yahoo and MSN to rank your site highly within their search results pages. When your site ranks highly within search result pages, you get more traffic. More traffic = more money. Yay! The best thing about search engine optimization is that you don’t spend money as you would buying traffic through Adwords or other advertising mediums; all the traffic you get from search engine optimization is free!
This is what Panda looks like. I’ve owned the site who’s stats you see pictured above for about 5 years. It’s been my test site for just about everything, from spammy link building to auto-generated content. I’m surprised it lasted in the index as long as it did! It ranked at #1 for it’s main [...]
I run tests all the time – you should too! – to find out what’s working today, what’s devalued, and what’s just plain hype. A lot of the time, the test results aren’t surprising. But sometimes, they are – as they were in a recent test I ran I lovingly referred to as the “Article [...]
(Be sure to see new updates / edits below!) Since it’s been the rage this week, I had a look at Auto Traffic Buddy to see what it was all about. I had a roller coaster of emotions. First, like most of you (I’m pretty sure) I don’t actually read every word on a salespage. So upon [...]
Just over two months ago, I started to get the sense that what we were doing to build links wasn’t as effective. I started to think that the articles my staff were writing and sending out via various services weren’t gaining as much traction as they once did. (This doesn’t mean “article marketing is dead,” [...]
Let’s talk about the content strategy I’m using on my new niche site. I *KNOW* this is a problem you’ve had before: You’ve got lots of enthusiasm for a site, you want to make waves in the niche, but when you sit down to do the keyword research you just can’t figure out a heavily [...]
I’ll admit it – it’s probably my biggest character fault. It’s not that I swear like a sailor or even that I occasionally skip a shower. No, it’s that… I like to be RIGHT… No, I MUST be right. And not like “I like to win arguments and was told as a kid I should be a [...]
