Archive for 'Frugal SEM' Category
2 the point: Patience is definitely a virture in SEO
To obtain high rankings in the SERPs (Search Engine Ranking Pages), you really have to have patience. Mark Nenadic writes some very good points about this in his post on Searchnewz. Check it out here. His main points are:
Conduct thorough research for keyword phrases
Valuable web content (he means create stuff people will value)
Relevancy (make sure [...]
Real Estate Marketing Tips: Don’t focus on the sale
This should be a very, very simple bit of common sense for anyone marketing to consumers. Consumers don’t want to be sold. They want to be serviced or assisted or get a lot of value from each person helping them in a business capacity with care. As you’ve been told numerous times, put yourself in [...]
What the heck is Twitter? …and why another online account?
Do you ever catch yourself paying attention to your friend’s status updates? If you do, then you may be a strong candidate to adopt the new microblogging tool: Twitter. You may be following the little tweets or 140 character or less messages from friends or just simply people you want to follow soon enough.
Is the SEOMoz Pro membership worth it?
Well, the price point that Rand Fishkin offered to recent opt in email list recipients by SEOMoz.org seemed to be a great deal: $1 for 30 days for a service that normally costs $79/month.
After linking through to the splash page on SEOMoz.org, you find a video of Fishkin talking about the Four areas of SEO [...]
Another Blow your mind: Link Building Techniques (summary) from SMX Seattle
There are lots of interesting link building techniques shared that are supposedly very effective and can improve your SEO. They include using .edu sites to the common suggestion of commenting on blogs to building tools for others to spread ubiquitously across the Internet.
Thinking backwards: a great method of mining for great online marketing resources
I’m very close to giving a service a try which costs about $100 a month which is definitely not a cheap investment. For close to a $1000 a year, this service better be worth it!
Regardless if I decide to give the SEO membership service a try, I have to admit this service does a [...]
Free Real Estate Search Engine Optimization - limited time offer
Bellevue, WA was my market - and I killed it in my first year of working as a Real Estate Consultant (as they call it in the Keller Williams bid ness). Part of it was because I really did give a damn about trying to help people find something that would be their dream [...]
2 the point: Making Flash Search Engine Friendly
Eric Enge writes in Search Engine Land that you can use either Scalable Inman Flash Replaced (aka sIFR) or SWFObject, if applied as intended, to get around the limitations of Flash in web pages. Click here for this article in April 2008.
2 the point: 8 strategies simplfied in two sentences about keyword research
Simplifying what Jennifer Laycock’s article titled “Two handfuls of tips for picking keywords” summarized in SearchEngineGuide.com wasn’t easy. She shortened Christine Churchill’s post titled “Eight Keyword Research Mistakes That Are Costing You Money” (on SearchEngineLand.com) which basically said: 1) be original, but do not let quantity override common sense like considering user intent & appropriateness [...]
47 year old quits Facebook…creates Newsweek traffic spike?
Here’s Rand Fishkin’s tip of “creating controversy” in play on Newseek recently.
Steve Tuttle wrote about his disgust in being a Facebook member and also how he wasted a lot of time on the site (reminds me of some thoughts I had last week) recently on Newsweek.
Perhaps Tuttle was sincere in the desire to quit & [...]