Ninety Nine Ways is having a relaunch contest with over $900 in prizes to be won! There are some great prizes like a logo design package, Wordpress themes and an SEOintelligence subscription. I personally would love the 1st prize with the SEOintelligence sub and I always enjoy putting new Wordpress themes to good use. This site could definitely use a makeover with a new theme… that’s for sure, so that’s why I should win it! Enter here. Read Full Story

Ok, if you’ve been trying to promote your website very long, you’ve no doubt heard of article marketing. It’s still an effective way to bring in targeted visitors AND build links at the same time. Needless to say, this double edge benefit is certainly worth the time you must invest in this tactic. Most people simply write an article, then submit it to a few directories by hand or use a service like ArticleMarketer, iSnare or submission software. This is ok, but you’ll ... Read Full Story

While I usually tell SEO clients that link building must be done manually, I am always checking out the latest software that can streamline, speed up or complete automate some link building tasks. Here’s my opinions on the ones I’ve used: DIRECTORY SUBMISSIONS Autofill Directory Submission Software SubmitEaze - This is a nice program, it does streamline the directory submission process quite a bit. The problem with it is that some directories in the list have broken captcha’... Read Full Story

With the current global economic state, just like in the real estate market, it’s a true buyer’s market. Great deals on websites can be had right now if you have some cash available. I’ve done a bit of buying and selling of websites over the years and here is my opinion on some of the popular places to buy websites online: SitePoint Marketplace - You are most likely to find a legitimate website deal here. The only bad part is that most everybody knows about it, so you aren&#... Read Full Story

I do a lot of SEO work in addition to my own projects, and link building is a huge part of SEO. I often get clients who can’t afford a big monthly package for link building work, so I try and give them tips for how to do it themselves. Maybe that’s not a wise thing to do as far as making money, but I hate to see people struggling when they get started and helping people in this way makes for some very satisfied and very loyal customers. I always get more business from them once th... Read Full Story

I’ve been wondering lately if Google is penalizing websites that are built using XSitePro. Sites built using this software do have a bit of an obvious footprint. Specifically, just about every site has something like this in their code: “XSP_HEADER_PANEL“, in fact, each panel, sides, footer, has one of these. All Google needs to do is look for this code and boom… assess a little penalty. Why wouldn’t they? The software is promoted as a solution specifically for &... Read Full Story

Traffic Travis was a bust… buggy and sometimes didn’t give results for certain engines. I’ve switched to Rank Tracker, which is very accurate. The only thing I don’t like is uploading the reports. The reports have too many unneeded files, images and directories. I have to delete certain files before trying to upload, otherwise my server times out or the upload is corrupted. The reports seriously need to be streamlined. I wish their reports were more like Traffic Travis... Read Full Story

I do quite a lot of search engine optimization for selected clients on the side. Pretty much every client wants a progress report of their rankings. While sales and/or traffic is a much more effective and important indicator of the success of a search engine optimization campaign, most clients simply don’t want to hear that. They want to see themselves #1 for whatever oddball phrase that they think is important. Nevermind what you tell them. Hence, the important of giving your clients a... Read Full Story

Optimizing your content site for your researched keywords and phrases is another extremely important step you can’t skip over. In order for search engines to find your website under your desired keywords and phrases, they need to show up on your website pages somewhere. This is especially important when are targeting long tail keyword phrases. Here’s how to easily optimize your pages: First, break up your phrases into small chunks of several phrases each. This also assumes you hav... Read Full Story

One of the most important aspects of creating content sites is choosing the right keywords and phrases to target. You want to choose phrases that are actually searched for on the major search engines like Google, MSN and Yahoo, but you also want to choose phrases that aren’t insanely competitive. So, forget that #1 ranking for “quilting”, it brings traffic that is too broad anyway. Just what kind of quilting are they interested in? Do they want to learn about it? Do they wan... Read Full Story