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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Election Lessons: Is The Internet Blue Or Red?
October 23, 2008
I came upon a daily email update from Search Engine Watch that caught my attention. It made the point that the blue group (Democrats) seems to have taken to the internet much better than the red group (Republicans.) So I started looking around and here is some of what I found.
First off, you would have needed to be dead, living in a cave, or perhaps in a comma not to know that the blue presidential candidate was trouncing his red opponent with internet fund raising. It seems that the blue team learned well from the example shown by former blue candidate and the national blue party chairman, Howard Dean. Mr. Dean was the first major presidential candidate back in 2003/2004 to adopt the internet for fund raising and other campaign related needs.
However, outside of the Drudge Report, the red team has been very slow to adapt to the power of blogs and social media in general. It seems that they still prefer the talk radio model. Another big indicator of this trend is the overwhelming backlinks advantage that the blue side managed to collect. The Yahoo Site Explorer backlink checker indicates that www.barakobama.com has almost 2 million links pointing to its site. However, www.johnmccain.com had only around 900,000 links pointing to its site.
That in and of itself, gives the blue team a huge advantage. That basically means that over twice as many web pages were writing about the blue candidate and supporting him by providing a link to his site. However, you slice and dice things what this represents is a change in how politics are practiced and how politicians are promoted. What we are seeing is more about a bottom up approach rather than the old top down style of politics. The people are speaking up and actively mobilizing for change on both sides.
As with anything internet related there was also a proliferation of smear merchants as well. There isn’t much that we can do about this since in America we have the freedom to express our thoughts, which is a good thing. I find it very interesting when the internet sometimes spills over into the televised media. When candidates are asked questions at town hall meetings based on what was read online. Remember, the kinda wild looking woman who remarked to McCain that Obama was a Muslim? She had read it on the internet and thus it had to be true. That qualifies as an OMG moment!
I am thrilled to see the inclusion of sites like YouTube and FaceBook becoming actively involved in the political process. I also found it very interesting that CNN’s, Mr. Sanchez, included Twitter and others sites in his news program. He was not alone in this practice, another CNN anchor, Anderson Copper, made blogging a centerpiece of his shows. From my perspective the blue team will continue to maintain their dominance in this new media format, as long as the red team continues to cling to their reliance on talk radio.
On a personal note, I wish all of this red and blue stuff would morph into purple. I am sick of the politics of division. I hope and pray we as a nation can start being Americans first and start solving problems by working together. We have to start finding middle ground. Since we just had a ground breaking election perhaps this is not such a bad idea after all.
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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Got More Time Than Money? Try Help.com
October 17, 2008
I recently discovered this website while reading another blog. The blogs whole focus was about link building. I don’t remember the blog but, I did visit this website and used it and then quickly forgot all about www.help.com.
I rediscovered Help.com today while doing a Google search for ”Geo-targeted SEO.” This site has been ranking high on the first page, as in #1 and #2 for a couple of months for this search. I still check it daily because I still have a hard time believing that we are on the first page of Google for an SEO related search.
Usually it’s the same sites that are there, but today I clicked onto a different search result and landed on Help.com. I had forgotten about this website and that I had placed a free blurb about our business. There on the screen were several paragraphs about our business and the “Do Follow Link” on our website. Yes, I was pleasantly surprised.
I quickly opened a Word document and started writing this post. When you visit Help.com you will see in big bold letters “Start Here: Ask a question, post a rant, tell us your story.” So I told our story which lands on the first page of Google for an SEO related search. I call that Way cool. The website also has a Page Rank of 6.
I can’t say that I have noticed any traffic from the website. But I did pick up a high PR Do Follow backlink, and that’s not so bad, since there aren’t many of those available. The other great thing about this is that when you use a site like this to promote your website you can often get on to the first page even when you can’t get your website there. When and if it does make it to the first page, you have knocked a competitor to the second page of results.
Are you ready to own the SERP’s?
We are officially requesting that you join the conversation here. That is, if you found that this post was at all interesting, useful, or perhaps you are just looking for a useful link. Then., I would like to entice you to comment by providing you with useful links as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”
The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment of at least 20 words or more. Your comment should be relevant to the post. My scratch is that you will receive a Do Follow anchor text link (Keyword Luv.) And if you have a blog with an RSS feed enabled you will receive an extra permalink back to your blog via Comment Luv. We also use the Top Commenter plugin as well!
It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.
Are you ready to exchange comments for links?
This is the part where I move link juice around the site and hope that someone might actually want to learn more about our local small business SEO solutions and venture further.
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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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19 Do Follow Links And Free Business Cards
October 14, 2008
I thought that the title might get your attention. Yesterday, while working on another installment of our 109 Day Link Explosion, Day 47, we had what I would call a very successful Day. As always, we visit one social media site, 2 forums and two blogs daily. So I thought you might be interested in hearing about our daily success. Hopefully, it will motivate you to get involved in the process.
This is some of what I found. We able to acquire 19 do follow links, 17 were anchor text links. One link included a permalink to our most recent post the other was a generic url link. We also acquired 100 totally free business cards. There was absolutely no cost involved even the shipping is covered.
I located this offer while reviewing the blog, Mommy Gadgets. I refer to the blog as the mommy geek blog. It is loaded lots of useful tech related information. So do visit her blog to learn about how to obtain your 100 free business cards.
Here is the story on the truly free business cards. HP, Hewett Packard has launched a website geared to the small business owner. It offers a lot of low cost DIY printing solutions. I happened to have wanted to upgrade our business cards for some time now. So the idea of free business cards caught my attention. The site just happened to be offering 100 free business cards.. The offer is not like that being offered Vista Prints. Where the cards are free and you pay for the shipping. No, this free offer actually is totally free there are no charges except for premium services. You design the cards yourself but extra features like glossy coatings do require small fees.
We are officially requesting that you join the conversation here. That is, if you found that this post was at all interesting, useful, or perhaps you are just looking for a useful link. Then, I would like to entice you to comment by providing you with useful links as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”
The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment of at least 20 words or more. Your comment should be relevant to the post. My scratch is that you will receive a Do Follow anchor text link (Keyword Luv.) And if you have a blog with an RSS feed enabled you will receive an extra permalink back to your blog via Comment Luv. We also use the Top Commenter plugin as well!
It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.
Are you ready to exchange comments for links?
This is the part where I move link juice around the site and hope that someone might actually want to learn more about our local small business SEO solutions and venture further.
And to learn more about our services please check out these links:
Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Phoenix SEO Tucson Search Engine Optimization
Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions
If your business is located in the US, Canada, Sierra Vista, Phoenix, Glendale, Scottsdale, Arizona or beyond and you would like to learn more about how your website can benefit from a blog, SEO, Internet marketing, or our affordable website design/re-design services please call Tucson SEO at 520-777-6479 or 1-866-512-1230 Now!
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