Want to know what pisses spiders off? When they come to a website and see the same danged title and description for every page in it. Not every page on your site is identical (if it is, you’re really in trouble because having duplicate content on your own site will make it drop like a [...] Read Full Story

Linking isn’t dead, though some think it’s not as important as it once was. Not true! Search engines consider that links pointing back to your website from other sites are “votes” for your site. They’re links from new content you’re putting out on the Web, they’re links coming from quality directories, and they’re links coming from people just thinking, “Hey, cool blog,” and linking back to you naturally. Of all the types of links co... Read Full Story

I try to read a lot about this business from copywriting to SEO to whatever I can get my hands on. If you’re not doing that, you really should be, and I can steer you to one publication that I look for in my mailbox each and every month: Website Magazine. The tone is serious business, and I wouldn’t say that it’s a magazine for newbies. If you aren’t really attuned to Internet marketing just yet, it probably won’t help you… yet. But it will. If you’re... Read Full Story

Oh, you’ve seen the sites. “Just $49 and we’ll submit your site to a gazillion search engines! It’s great for SEO! It’s amazing! Give us your money!” PFFFTTT!!! This is just one of those bullshit services that newbies fall for. Here’s the deal… DO NOT pay anyone for search engine listings. The robots will find you, even if you have no keywords in your title, even if you have a crappy description, even if you’ve only been online for a week... Read Full Story

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Listen, I just got word that Russell Bruson is giving away his 90-minute on-stage lecture from StomperNet that he did back in August. I wasn’t able to go to that because I was heading out for his Mastermind the day after it ended. Jumping from Atlanta to Las Vegas just wasn’t an option for me, so I’m thrilled that I’m getting to hear his keynote address because well… As you know, I got very sick during the Mastermind. I got to spend ONE day there, when it was sup... Read Full Story

All I can say is, “Wow!” I just read a post by Ann Smarty over at SearchEngineJournal.com about some very cool Yahoo pipes that you can run. (http://www.searchenginejournal.com/5-useful-yahoo-pipes-to-monitor-your-brand/14320/: “5 Useful Yahoo! Pipes to Monitor Your Brand”) For those of you who don’t know what Yahoo Pipes is it’s an aggregator for different types of content. For example, they’ll take several feeds and put them together, either to mak... Read Full Story

And what in the world does that have to do with marketers? Well… I found a connection and Danny Frank put the idea into this short video. Check it out. Danny has a way with video that really makes my articles come to life! And if you’re interested in learning more about joint venturing or any Internet marketing topic, check out what our new levels of the ListBuilding Club have to offer: http://easyseotricks.com/lbc2 We’re not just for newbies anymore. Read Full Story

What’s the first thing you think when you hear Web 2.0? I’ll bet I can guess… It’s one of two things — Facebook or Twitter, right? Well, those two sites are definitely at the forefront when it comes to Web 2.0 properties, and they’re totally worth the effort of maintaining presence in both places. But I have a very POWERFUL weapon in the Web 2.0-verse that you may not be thinking about — social content sites. These are great places to pop some content... Read Full Story