Tucson SEO Announces The Free Create A Successful Website Series
October 29, 2008
We are Tucson SEO Solutions and will are offering you an opportunity to learn how to create a successful website. This is a six part series broken down into 6 one hour session over a 6 week period. The seminars will be held at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, 120 N. Stone Ave. #200. You will need to register in advance as seating will be limited. Please do not register if you are not committed to attend. These seminars are being presented as now cost to you.
The first presentation of this series will be held from 11:30 – 12:30 on these dates.
11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/03, 12/10, and 12/17.
The second presentation of this series will be offered from 11:30 – 12:30 on these dates.
01/07, 01/14, 01/21, 01/28, 02/04, and 02/11.
Creating A Successful Website Series
This free seminar series covers all the basics of developing a successful website. It has been designed for those who need, want, and desire to obtain high search rankings and increased targeted website traffic. It also emphasizes creating sites that turn visitors into customers.
This seminar series has been developed for websites that actually sell a product or service, or for informational sites. It will be hugely beneficial if your website has a geographically defined customer base, such as Tucson. It has not been created for those who need to learn Pay Per Click marketing or for those who have e-commerce sites with large shopping carts.
We strongly encourage all participants to be early or on time and to bring your laptops. You will get the most out of this series if you come prepared to take notes and ask questions. Seating is limited to 20 so please only register if you are certain to attend.
Part A - Website Keyword Development – This part of the series covers keyword development which is the cornerstone of any successful website. The dates are 11/12 from 11:30 – 12:30, and again on 01/07 at the same time.
Part B – The Importance of In-bound Link Development - This part of the series explains in detail the various kinds of website links and how they affect website rankings. It also explains how links can drive traffic to your website. The dates are 11/19 from 11:30 – 12:30, and again on 01/14 at the same time.
Part C - How To Effectively Market Your Website – This part of the series explains why it is necessary to market your website to more than just the search engines. We will show you who that it is possible to own the first page of the Google search results for your targeted keyword phrase. The dates are 11/26 form 11:30 – 12:30, and again on 01/21 at the same time.
Part D - The Most Effective Website Marketing Tool Available Today – This part of the series covers the most effect tool available today, the blog. We will explain in detail the many benefits of blogging and why you need this tool to be successful. The dates are 12/03 from 11:30 – 12:30, and again on 01/28 at the same time.
Part E - Understand And Implementing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – This part of the series explains in detail the importance and effectiveness of using SEO. You can do everything else correct but do this wrong and no one will be able to find your website by using keyword search queries. The dates are 12/10 from 11:30 – 12:30, and again on 02/04 at the same time..
Part F - Creating A Website That Works – This part of the series covers what works and what doesn’t for a website. It also covers how to create a sales funnel so that you can turn visitors into customers. The dates are 12/17 from 11:30 – 12:30, and on 02/11 at the same time.
If you have any questions please contact Tucson SEO Solutions, 777-6479.
The Tucson Search Engine Optimization Meet-Up Announces
The Tucson Search Engine Optimization Meet-UP group is offering a free seminar series called ‘Create A Successful Website Seminar Series.” This will be a seven part series that we cover just about everything that you need to know about creating a successful website.
For More information please visit Tucson Search Engine Optimization Meet-Up or call 777-6479
Are you ready to create a successful website?
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A 12 Step Program For Link Buyers - Sellers Anonymous
October 21, 2008
This is my personal favorite post. This was created as a response to the uproar during over Google’s decision to move against websites that participated in the lucrative trading of links. This practice for many seems as if it were an addiction.
The SEO subculture was a buzz and people were openly discussing how hard to was to give up the easy way of buying your way to the top of search rankings. It seems often like the cry of addiction. Businesses were struggling with how to give up this patterned behavior.
So we came up this little 12 Step Program.
1. We admitted we were powerless over links that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than or ourselves, (Google) could restore us to our SEO sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Google as we understood their SEO logic.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, our links, and our hats.
5. Admitted to Google, to ourselves and to another SEO being the exact nature of our link buying and selling.
6. Were entirely ready to have Google remove all these defects of character and SEO practices.
7. Humbly asked Google to remove our Page Rank.
8. Made a list of all websites and clients we had harmed by buying and selling links and become willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to Google and our clients wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10.Continued to take link inventory and when we were wrong in our SEO practices promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, Google , and the universe, as we understood them to be, praying only for knowledge of Google’s will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of Google, we will carry this message to all SEO’ers, Black Hat and White, and to practice these linking principles in all our SEO affairs.
Rely on your higher power to keep you strong.
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Link Building - Why We Don’t Use Directories - Part 2
October 15, 2008
If you are reading this for the first time we recommend that you start with Part 1 first.
Recently, we posted an article about why we do not use directories and we would like to expand on this in more detail. When we first got into website marketing one of the tried and true methods of acquiring links was through directory submissions.
However, this can be a bit time consuming process as you have to register at each site. So we tried using some automated software. This helped speed up the submission process tremendously. We tried this method off and on for about 3 months. We checked back some 6 months later and discovered that less than 10 of these directories actually accepted our submissions. So the ROI here was not very good.
Since then we have noticed a sea change in the chatter coming from many SEO websites and blogs. Many of them mentioned that the search engines have devalued links from directories. They often pointed out that these directory sites had all seemed to be loosing their page rank it was concluded that the links from these sites had little or no value.
The assumption seemed valid to us, but we prefer to go directly to Google for our answers. Until recently Google’s webmaster guidelines had recommended only one directory. That directory, DMOZ, was highly respected as it is free, human edited and difficult to get into. It took us six tries over a year to get listed.
Since Google has now removed its recommendation of DMOZ, and since most directories sites no longer have much if any PR, we have concluded that directory listings are a waste of time and effort. We evaluate all of our marketing based on our return on investment or ROI. Thus our ROI indicated this was not a profitable use of our time.
As a follow-up to the original, it has been mentioned to me that directories are still useful for driving traffic to a website and thus should still be used. So I went back and looked at our website traffic reports over the last year. Even though we had been listed in dozens of directories out of the hundreds used, we could not find one directory that has sent us any traffic. That’s right 0 traffic. So directory submissions have been a complete waste of time for us. That’s not good ROI in anyone’s business playbook.
This may be why we believe the search engines no longer value directories. Those of you have been around website marketing for very long you have heard that the common refrain “content is king.” Well, that in a nutshell is why directories have lost there allure to the search engines. They simply don’t have any useful content. Since searchers rarely use these directories the search engines have concluded that their only purpose is to manipulate the search rankings, thus these links have been devalued.
There are so many better ways to acquire links that will make a difference that we must ask “Why are you still using directory submissions?”
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We invite you to join the conversation and leave a comment. We also invite you to continue the conversation on your blog or perhaps use a trackback, or maybe even social bookmark this article, give it a Digg or Stumble it.
To learn more about our services please check out these links:
Local SEO Tucson Website Designs Phoenix SEO Tucson Search Engine Optimization
Small Business SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Do Follow Blog List
If your business is located in US, Canada, or in the Arizona cities of Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, and beyond and would like to learn how your website can benefit from a blog please call Tucson SEO at 520-777-6479 or 1-866-512-1230 Now!
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Link Building – Why We Don’t Use Directories
October 14, 2008
Using directories to build backlinks to your website was once a very useful website link building practice. If you are not a student of the website marketing community you might still think it is a vital useful tool. Just go to any SEO or webmaster forum and you will see dozens of threads about free directories and submission tools.
Many of us have known for some time that backlinks from directories have been devalued by the search engines for some time now. But like anything questionable in this industry it is best to get Google’s opinion on any subject.The best source of acceptable practices is Google webmaster guidelines.
These guidelines are an SEO bible of sorts. The guidelines offer a very clear picture of what is good website behavior. Until recently, Google only recommended one directory; this should have been a hint that Google no longer values these mostly useless links.
However, it did recommend the DMOZ directory. Most likely, because it was human edited and appeared to be spam proof. That has changed with Google removing its reference to this directory. For us this is a very clear indication that Google does not value directory links.
I have been trying to explain on forums for about a year that Google has devalued directory links. I have meet with fierce resistance until this recent development. It is somewhat amazing how people get certain web based marketing techniques ingrained in their marketing efforts and have a difficult time giving them up.
What it all boils down to is this. Almost all of the easy links building methods have become obsolete. The reality is that link building has become a much more difficult and time consuming task. This is why we are such a big proponent of creating great content that is worthy of linking too.
We would like to invite you to become part the conversation and leave a comment. We also would like to invite you to continue this conversation on your own blog, perhaps maybe even social bookmark this post, give it a Digg or Stumble it.
To learn more about our services please check out these links:
Local SEO Tucson Website Designs Phoenix SEO Tucson Search Engine Optimization
Small Business SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Do Follow Blog List
If your business is located in US, Canada, or in the Arizona cities of Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, and beyond and would like to learn how your website can benefit from a blog please call Tucson SEO at 520-777-6479 or 1-866-512-1230 Now!
Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.