Monthly Archives: June 2011

Website Architecture for SEO

Is the Architecture of your Website Search Engine Friendly?

One of the most overlooked items in SEO is your website architecture. If you don’t do it the right way from the beginning it can be a major undertaking to make your site search engine friendly later on, just as it would be in rewiring or replumbing your home.
Web designers may not fully understand modern SEO techniques, but are often tasked with the job of developing the sites architecture. Therefore when the site is complete, it maybe a graphically appealing, however is very SEO and visitor unfriendly.
A great example of a site ... Read More

SEO Outsourcing Tips and Start Ranking Now!

What is holding you back in building a six figure a year or more online business?
One of the biggest mistakes I see many Internet Marketers make is doing all the work themselves, not outsourcing.
Luckily for Nichole Munoz she figured this out early into her Internet Marketing career, building several online businesses all while working with her husband at a Mission on the outskirts of Mexico City.
I first became acquainted with Nichole in 2007, a year after her launch of her first online business, a website that sells camping equipment.
When Nichole first became interested in Internet Marketing she was bedridden, pregnant ... Read More

What is Quality Content?

Are you still frustrated because your website isn’t ranking as well as you would like it to or are you still trying to recover from the Panda update?
This past week Search Engine Land published a Periodic Table of SEO Ranking Factors.

As this guide is an illustration of the important factors in getting your website to the top of the SERPs, we thought it would be fun to go through each segment over the coming weeks so you can get a better grasp on how to implement this strategy.
Their SEO Ranking Guide is broken down into 4 parts:

On Page SEO
Off Page ... Read More

Why You Should Use Canonical Tags

If you have been on the internet for more than a few months you may be aware that duplicate content is a big problem. We don’t always mean to create duplicate content, sometimes it is just a website configuration issue.
Let’s start by explaining what a canonical is. The rel=’canonical’ tag tells the search engines that the location of the page that this content is for is page XYZ. This allows you to have duplicate content pages on your site with different urls and not get hit with duplicate content issues. This does not mean that you should go and create ... Read More

The 7 Steps of Effective Keyword Research

(This video is a segment from our new SEO Training series that we currently have in production covering keyword research. In the following weeks we will add several other segments prior to the official release of the video training)

Doing proper keyword research is vital and should be your first step to building a strong foundation for your search engine optimization or any of your online marketing because if you get this step wrong, everything else you do later on can come crashing down around you.
Proper keyword research can be broken down into seven simple steps or phases
Brainstorming Phase:
The brainstorming phase ... Read More

Google Shuts Down Google Related July 25th!

Google recently announced in their Google Groups that their Google related links will be shut down on July 25th.

Those of you that may not be familiar with their Google Related feature; it is (or was) a snippet of code that typically appears on the bottom of a search result showing other related keywords for the search query.
The Google Related feature was helpful in search engine optimization in that it would give you other search terms related to your topic to build out content and keywords.
Hopefully the Google Wonder Wheel will remain as you can use this as a substitute tool ... Read More