Category: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

The Holiday Season is over…What should I do now for SEO?

With the holiday season about to wrap up or wrapping up now you are probably wondering what to do next.  Well first things first do not delete or remove your holiday pages off your site. You have been building those pages up for the past three to four months so all the value you have [...]

SEO Ultimately Breaks down to – Google VS. Oprah

Derek’s Sandbox –  8
In continuation of my SEO Training at MorePro…
I’ve realized this week that there are two kinds of Authority in this world.
Oprah- and Google.

(Allen, August)                  (White, 2009)
These two authorities can make you or break you effortlessly.
If you have a website- Google probably owns you and you don’t even know it. This [...]

Another Reminder to Consult Your SEO Company Before Editing Website Content

After going through one of the more puzzling “why did the Google rankings drop” so suddenly episodes w/ one of our best performing client’s website, I thought detailing the cause/effect would provide a good resource for other webmasters & marketers who might run into the same thing.
I’m not going to provide the website or our [...]

The Grab Bag

Heat Maps, Puppies and Landing Pages
I received an offer last week to beta  Attention Wizard’s new heatmap program. This new service is great for helping to determining the projected eye path of visitors to your landing page or as they write ”AttentionWizard uses advanced artificial intelligence algorithms to simulate human visual processing and attention. Our [...]

4 Signs That Your Shopping Cart is not SEO Friendly

With the Holiday season coming closer and closer to wrapping up, now is a good time to evaluate your shopping cart. Granted, you should have evaluated your cart prior to the holiday season, but back then you didn’t have this helpful blog post to guide you, right? Well now you do, so you can finally [...]

Derek’s Sandbox Day 57

The Internet, the Last Great Frontier
Throughout my training at MorePro Marketing, I have been trained on the current SEO Strategies that MorePro uses for improving results on search engines. But this week I was trained on some current bad practices of SEO issues going around called Black Hat Strategies.  For those who are not familiar [...]

New SEO Client Site Indexing Issues – A Timeline of Improvement

Updated analysis as of 12/10/09
Having submitted the sitemap files on 12/3/09, we were hoping to see some changes reasonably quickly in the indexing.  Without much additional linking – only because it hasn’t started yet – the numbers do look improved after just 1 week.
Indexing Counts (Site saturation) 12/10/09

Google (258) +22
Yahoo (4) +2
Bing (23) +22

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