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Bebo Is Being Sold

July 11, 2010

Bebo Is Being Sold

You might be asking yourself right about now. What is Bebo. Well, it is a social media site that is very big in Europe, but never really caught on in the US as Facebook and MySpace have. It also is being sold as part of the break up between Time Warner and AOL.

The Wall Street Journal reported on this topic earlier this week. They noted that the sale was occurring at fire sale profits. AOL had purchased the web property for a reported $850.00 just two years ago.

This sale happened as OAL was moving away from fee based subscription services to an add supported model. Unfortunately it also was occurring at the beginning of the recession when ad purchases began to dramatic drop. It also showed how difficult that it is to make money on social media sites.

I actually am a member of this site but I never liked it much. It just seemed dull and uninspiring. However, I had just visited the site prior to reading this article. I had also just placed Bebo into my video marketing database. So I was and still am concerned what will eventually happen to this site.

As many of you know by now social media sites struggle to make a profit. Both Twitter and Facebook, internet social site giants still struggle to come up with a money making model. The reality is that many people who visit these sites are not clicking on the ads placed on these sites. Thus making a buck for the websites owners a very difficult proposition indeed.

The business is being sold to Criterion Capital Partners LLC which is a California based investment firm.

What Say You?

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A Tucson SEO First

June 14, 2010

A Tucson SEO First

As strange as it may seem I posted my first video on another website… Yea! The downside of this event is that I have yet to figure out how to embed a video on this blog. When I do it will be posted here.

I have been in business over three years and I have finally taken on the video challenge. I tried several times tonight to load a video and I will be calling it a day. I will surely try again tomorrow.

The reason that I have avoided using video is that I really am not a big fan of videos. I have probably watched fewer than 10 videos all the way through that were purely for entertainment. I also am not much of a movie fan either.

I am guilty of having a short attention span. That is also likely why I don’t mind link building. I can go to a site added some content or a comment or two and I am onto the next site. I am also a bit of a workaholic. I have to force myself to slow down and smell the roses that I tend in my garden.

Considering that I have never used video marketing to promote my business I believe that I have done very well without using them. So I am very excited at the potential that video presents.

Well, as you can see there is no video. It was over 14 minutes in length and You Tube only allows for up to 10 minutes for videos. I did not know this. Oh, well it was a test video and not a very good one, but at least I figured out the process.

As I am working on my video database I have become a bit surprised by how much time this project is taking. I wanted to come up with a list of about 100 video sites that allow self promoting in the SEO field. After visiting about 500 sites I have only found about 65 useful sites that meet my needs.

This has been a huge learning curve for me as I was never a fan of video sites. First, I have to learn how to make good videos. Then I must locate sources where I can post them. I need to learn a Google video algorithm. Finally, I need to learn how to promote them. This all takes a lot of time. Actually, its like being a student who is taking a self paced class or classes. I find this all very interesting but time consuming!

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Can You Meet Or Exceed Our Google Search Results June 2010

June 7, 2010

Can You Meet Or Exceed Our Google Search Results June 2010

Over the last month I have made it a point to visit every website where I have a record of having registered. The main focus was to clean up my links. I have closed many websites this year and I needed to recover these links where possible. This links then were changed and directed to another web page on my site.

During this process I paid close attention to the 10 specific cities that I target all across Arizona. Many of these cities I was only targeting SEO. I expanded that to focus on Local SEO and Local Internet – Website Marketing Services.

These efforts have paid off in a huge way. Many of these keyword phrases simply reversed a targeted phrase Tucson SEO would become SEO Tucson. Internet Marketing Service then became Internet Marketing Services.

I do this because these small difference do have an impact on how well you rank and how well that phrase elicits a click through response. I know from experience that those who reached my website by clicking on SEO Tucson do several things. They stay longer and they visit more pages than those who used Tucson SEO. Also by adding an ‘s” I can sometimes jump from the # 7 position to the # 1 position.

Since my job is SEO I want and seek out every opportunity to rank well. Even thought the site ranks for 178 keyword phrases visitors found my website using 687 keyword phrases. So there are many more opportunities available.

Yes, many if not most of these searches are not very competitive and that’s ok with me. I like to the top dog across many different keyword phrases. In fact I rank # 1 for 121 keyword phrases and those using these phrases are usually a highly qualified lead or competitors.

And this works for me! But it drives the affiliate marketer crazy as they are only looking for highly trafficked keyword phrases to make a few pennies per click. I go for those who might just be willing to part with some serious cash!

I should also note that I turned my Local SEO page into a page that focuses on local internet search maps like Google Places. I actually tried to add Google Places as a service in my Google Places (maps) account and got my account flagged!

Rankings report summary for our Google results 06/01/2010

178 Keyword Phrases ranking on the first page.

121 Keyword Phrases ranking # 1.

69 Keyword Phrases ranking both # 1 and # 2.

19 Keyword Phrases were 2 pages rank.

153 Keyword Phrases ranking in the top three.

Here is how it all breaks down in Tucson.

Affordable Website Design Services Tucson we rank # 1

Affordable Website Designing Services Tucson we rank both # 1 and # 2

Bing Maps Tucson we rank # 3

Increase Website Traffic Phoenix we rank both # 1 and # 2

Increase Website Traffic Tucson we rank both # 1 and # 2

Internet Marketing Tucson we rank both # 1 and # 2

Google Internet Maps Tucson we rank both # 1 and # 2

Google Local Maps Tucson we rank both # 1 and # 2

Google Places Tucson we rank # 1

Google Website Maps Tucson we rank # 5

Local Bing Maps Tucson we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Internet Marketing Tucson we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Marketing Tucson we rank both # 3 and # 4

Local SEO Tucson we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Website Marketing Tucson we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Website Marketing Services Tucson we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Yahoo Maps Tucson we rank # 3

SEO Tucson we rank both # 1 and # 2

Tucson Internet Marketing we rank both # 1 and # 2

Tucson Internet Marketing Services we rank both # 1 and # 2

Tucson SEO we rank both # 1 and # 2

Tucson Search Engine Optimization we rank both # 1 and # 2

Tucson Website Marketing we rank both # 1 and # 2

Tucson Website Marketing Service we rank both # 1 and # 2

Website Designing Services Tucson we rank # 4

Website Marketing Tucson we rank both # 1 and # 2

Yahoo Internet Maps Tucson we rank both # 2 and # 3

Here is how Tucson SEO Solutions ranks across Arizona:

Arizona SEO we rank # 9

Arizona SEO Services we rank # 4

Arizona SEO Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Chandler SEO we rank # 1

Chandler Internet Marketing we rank # 1

Chandler Website Marketing we rank # 1

Glendale SEO we rank both # 1 and # 2

Glendale Internet Marketing we rank both # 1 and # 2

Glendale Website Marketing we rank both # 1 and # 2

Internet Marketing Services Phoenix we rank both # 4 and # 5

Flagstaff Internet Marketing we rank # 2

Flagstaff SEO we rank both # 1 and # 2

Flagstaff Website Marketing we rank # 1

Internet Marketing Chandler we rank # 1

Internet Marketing Flagstaff we rank # 1

Internet Marketing Glendale we rank # 1

Internet Marketing Mesa we rank # 2

Internet Marketing Tempe we rank # 3

Internet Marketing Scottsdale we rank # 4

Internet Marketing Yuma we rank # 1

Local Arizona SEO Services we rank both # 4 and # 5

Local Internet Marketing Arizona we rank # 7

Local Internet Marketing Chandler we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Internet Marketing Glendale we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Internet Marketing Flagstaff we rank # 3

Local Internet Marketing Mesa we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Internet Marketing Phoenix we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Internet Marketing Tempe we rank both # 2 and # 3

Local Internet Marketing Scottsdale we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Internet Marketing Yuma we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local SEO Arizona we rank # 1

Local SEO Chandler we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local SEO Glendale we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local SEO Flagstaff we rank both # 2 and # 3

Local SEO Mesa we rank # 2

Local SEO Phoenix ranks both # 3 and # 4

Local SEO Tempe we rank both # 2 and # 3

Local SEO Scottsdale we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local SEO Yuma we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Website Marketing Arizona we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Website Marketing Chandler we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Website Marketing Flagstaff we rank both # 2 and # 3

Local Website Marketing Glendale we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Website Marketing Mesa we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Website Marketing Tempe we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Website Marketing Phoenix we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Website Marketing Scottsdale we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Website Marketing Yuma we rank both # 1 and # 2

Mesa SEO we rank # 7

Phoenix Search Engine Optimization we rank # 9

Scottsdale Internet Marketing we rank # 8

Scottsdale SEO we rank # 9

Scottsdale Website Marketing we rank # 6

SEO Chandler we rank # 1

SEO Flagstaff we rank # 1

SEO Glendale we rank both # 2 and # 3

SEO Mesa we rank # 9

SEO Tempe we rank both # 2 and # 3

SEO Scottsdale we rank both # 2 and # 3

Tempe Internet Marketing we rank # 3

Tempe SEO we rank both # 1 and # 2

Tempe Website Marketing we rank # 2

Website Marketing Services Arizona we rank # 8

Website Marketing Services Chandler we rank both # 1 and # 2

Website Marketing Services Flagstaff we rank # 1

Website Marketing Services Glendale we rank both # 1 and # 2

Website Marketing Services Mesa we rank # 1

Website Marketing Services Tempe we rank # 1

Website Marketing Services Phoenix we rank both # 3 and # 4

Website Marketing Services Scottsdale we rank both # 1 and # 2

Website Marketing Services Yuma we rank both # 1 and # 2

Yuma SEO we rank bath # 2 and # 3

Yuma Internet Marketing we rank # 1

Yuma Website Marketing we rank both # 1 and # 2

Here is the latest on how Tucson SEO Solutions ranks nationally:

Affordable Link Building Services we rank # 1

Affordable Link Building Solutions we rank # 1

Affordable Link Building Training we rank # 1

Affordable Backlink Building we rank both # 1 and # 2

Affordable Backlinks Building we rank both # 1 and # 2

Affordable Backlinks Building Services we rank both # 1 and # 2

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Affordable Backlink Building Solutions we rank both #1 and # 2

Backlink Building Service we rank # 7

Backlinks Building Service we rank # 2

Backlinks Building Services we rank # 1

Backlinks Building Training we rank both #1 and # 2

Business Search Engine Optimization Services we rank # 1

Business Search Engine Optimization Solutions we rank # 1

Business SEO Service we rank # 3

Business SEO Services we rank # 1

Business SEO Solutions we rank # 1

Comprehensive Website Audit we rank # 7

Comprehensive Website Review we rank # 1

Detailed Website Audit we rank # 1

Detailed Website Review we rank # 1

Ethical Links Building we rank # 1

Ethical Link Building Services we rank # 1

Ethical Links Building Services we rank # 1

Ethical Link Building Solutions we rank # 1

Ethical Link Building Training we rank # 1

Ethical Backlink Building we rank both # 1

Ethical Backlink Building Services we rank # 1

Ethical Backlink Building Solutions we rank both # 1 and 2

Ethical Backlink Building Training we rank both # 1 and 2

Geo-targeted Internet Marketing we rank # 3

Geo-targeted SEO we rank # 1

Geo-targeting SEO we rank both # 1 and # 2

Geo-targeted Search Engine Optimization we rank # 1

Geo-targeting Search Engine Optimization we rank both # 1and # 2

Geo-targeting Website Marketing we rank # 4

Geo-targeting Internet Marketing we rank # 5

Holistic SEO we rank # 1

Holistic Search Engine Optimization we rank both # 7 and # 8

Internet Marketing Services we rank # 7

Local Business SEO Services we rank # 1

Local Internet Marketing Services we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Internet Marketing Service we rank both # 3 and # 4

Local Internet Marketing Solutions we rank both # 2 and # 3

Local SEO Services we rank # 1

Local SEO Service we rank # 1

Local SEO Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Small Business SEO Services we rank # 1

Local Small Business SEO Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Website Service we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Website Marketing Services we rank both # 3 and # 4

Local Website Marketing Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Website Marketing Training we rank # 1

Niche Internet Marketing Services we rank # 2 and # 3

Niche Internet Marketing Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Niche SEO we rank we rank both # 4 and # 5

Niche SEO Services we rank both # 1 and # 2

Niche SEO Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Niche Search Engine Optimization we rank both # 1 and # 2

Niche Website Marketing we rank # 1

Niche Website Marketing Service we rank both # 1 and # 2

Quality Backlinks Building we rank # 1

Quality Backlinks Building Services we rank both # 1 and # 2

Quality Links Building Service we rank # 1

Quality Backlinks Building Services we rank # 1

SEO Solutions we rank # 2

Small Business SEO Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Website Marketing Services we rank # 3

Website Marketing Service we rank # 2

Do Follow Lists we rank # 1 out of 476 Million

Do Follow Blog List we rank # 2 out of 154 Million

Do Follow Forums we rank # 10 out of 454 Million.

Do Follow Forum Lists # 1 140 Million results.

Our Do Follow Social Bookmarking List site ranks # 6

Do Follow Social Bookmarking List we rank # 10

Do Follow Social Media List we rank # 2 out of 6.8 Million

Do Follow Website site ranks # 1 out of 475 Million

Now this is a rankings report worth sharing!!!!

I started doing this rankings report last year in 2009. I started reporting the results to the public one year ago. Back then I was ranking for about 30 keyword phrases that has grown a lot since then. The reality was that I was ranking for many keyword phrases but I was not tracking them all, but now I do.

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Nationally we offer the following services:

Local SEO Internet Marketing Services Tucson Phoenix

Geo-Targeted Geo-targeted SEO – Search Engine Optimization Services

Affordable Quality Ethical Links – BackLinks Building Services Training

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Blogging For Links What You Need To Be Successful 2

April 28, 2010

Now, that I have gotten my frustrations off my chest in the previous post, it’s time to get down to business. I will start off by claiming to actually know something about link building. First, I would like to direct you to my post on how well this site ranks for our targeted keyword phrases. As of October 1 we ranked for over 60 keyword phrases. I would especially like to point out that we rank anywhere from #1 to # 5 in Google for the keyword phrase Backlinks Building Services.

Let me make it clear that this was not accomplished by a large staff of link builders it was accomplished by one person and that person is Urban. Many of the keyword phrases that I target include highly competitive phrases that include either the words SEO or internet marketing in them. No, building links is not all that I do, but I spend more time on link building and branding than anything else. I also build links 7 days a week.

I should also point out that I no longer build links by using blog commenting on stand alone blogs. I gave it up for several reasons. The main reason was that because I include SEO in my keyword phrase in the name field where allowed. Spam filters were picking it up. I did a case study that only 43% of my blog comments got approved. However, this is not likely to happen to you if you provide useful relevant comments.

When I blogged for comments for clients the number of accepted comments was usually about 85%. I also have noted that blogs disappear, are abandoned, or went no follow at a high rate. Blog links for myself and my clients disappeared at an alarmingly high rate for me. In the cell phone industry is change of is called churn rate.

Now, Having said that, I know many people perfer blog commenting for links. So I figure I would clue you in on how you can improve your link building success rate. You see, I am a big fan of working smarter and not harder.

A successful blog commenting campaign is all about being prepared and setting goals. I recommend that you start by analyze your competition. The easiest way to find relevant linking resources is to see where your competitors got their links. You must and find out who is linking to them. A really good resource is Backlink Watch. All that you need to do is enter your competitors url and hit enter. They will provide you with up to 1,000 backlinks that are going to your competitors. It also may indicate if the link is Do Follow or No Follow.

There are a few other good choices such as Yahoo’s Site Explorer. I just did a search of a professional link builder today that I am very familiar with. Yahoo’s Site Explorer produced 2843 links pointing to her site and Backlink Watch produced around 2700 links. The problem is that each sites allows you to only access to the first 1,000 backlinks. I don’t know if they are both using the same database or different ones.

The point is that I now have a huge database from where I can begin the process of link building. I am certain that their will be a lot of overlapping links, but that’s ok. If the source is a good source going back a second time is a very good think. Of course, it works both ways. If the resource is No Follow or no good you will likely have doubled a fruitless effort. Many times you’ll land at a site and never find that sites link and there are no linking opportunities available.

It’s not a perfect solution but it does reveal a whole lot about your competition. Are these links No Follow or Do Follow can easily be ascertained. Then you will want to look for link patterns. Does your competitor have a favorite source that they use like directories or blogs. Maybe them prefer to use forums. In some ways link building is a pathway or trail that has already been blazed by your competition. Their link building history isn’t hidden away in some secret place. You just need to know where and how to look.

I recent have been testing out Raven SEO Tools. They offer a free 30 day trail of the software. Those who are regulars here already know that I am no fan of SEO or related automated tools. I mention this simply because the amount of backlinks information for any site I think tops out at 50,000 per search. So this is a good option for those whose competition has more than 1,000 links. The report can also be downloaded to a CVS file like Excel. That huge many trail versions never allow you to download anything.

It is much better to start a link building program where you already know links have been obtained than just doing a Google search for Do Follow blogs. What a huge waste of time that one is. Those lists produced by doing a Google search are so very used and abused that they quickly become obsolete. I should know I have used many of them in the past. Blogs that end up on these lists often get sick of all the spammy posts that they switch back to a No Follow status. This problem is only getting worse.

Before you begin a link building program you should set some realistic goals. My personal goal is to acquire 100 links a day. I will not fulfill this goal today, as I have decided that my blog need some more attention. It isn’t important that you meet these goals every day. It is important that you have goals and that you try to fulfill them.

The old saying “if you don’t set goals you will surely never obtain them” is so true. The higher the goal, as long as it is realistic, means that you will be more successful than if you set easily achievable goals. The idea here is that 75% of 100 is much better than 75% of 50. I personally find achieving these daily goals very rewarding.

That was written a while back and I found that since I am no longer using blogs my link building success and daily volumes have dramatically improved. Still unless I was willing to spend lots of time on forums that wasn’t a realistic goal. The obtainable goal is closer to 60 a day.

Even if your goal is only 5 links a day it will have a positive effect over time especially over time. Link building, to be most effective needs to become a regular part of your marketing plan. Blogs especially, fold on a regular basis or they get tired of all the spam associated with being Do Follow and they return to No Follow. Those links that you had last year may need replacing this year.

Last year I lost a huge amount of links when Ning recently made profile in their network sites No Follow. That really hurt as I had way too many eggs in my Ning basket. I will have a hard time replacing them before I run my monthly ranking report on the first of November. It will be very interesting to see how much ground that we have lost.

As it turned out thousands of links were lost this way for me. A similar fate befell those who had been using the social media platform Kick Apps. Most sites using this software made all links No Follow. I mainly missed this one as I had chosen Ning as my link machine. The loss of Kick Apps really hit many link builders hard. You could drop links into video and picture description. The bio and other sections also allow links. If that were not enough you it offered bookmarking links as well.

The moral of these platform tails is this. Spread yourself around. Like someone who knows a stock portfolio you need to spread your assets around. It also looks like a more natural link pattern for the search engines.

Now, that you have a huge amount of resources available to you will want to record where you left comments hoping for a link. I would also recommend using a password manager program like RoboForm. This is an especially good option if you have to register on a blog to leave a comment. A better choice is creating a spread sheet or a Word document where you list the exact post where and when you made a comment.

Then you will want to return to these blogs a week or so later to verify if your comment was approved. If your comment was not approved then there is no reason to return to this blog. Simply delete these from your database.

You will also want to pay close attention to see if the blog has a comment policy. If it does, then do take the time to read it. I reject 85 to 90% of all comments left here because the commenter’s failed to pass our comment policy. I even get people commenting on the comment policy post and doing it wrong! If you want to have an effective link building program you absolutely must follow the comment policies. where you find one.

Finding a Comment Policy on this blog is easy on this blog as it appears along side the comment box. That often is not the case on most blogs. Many blogs never bother to write one so what should you do then? I simply observe the comments that are already appearing on the blog if those comments include keywords then it is a good bet that your comment will be approved if you do the same thing. If you only see names it is better to move on as a comment with keyword will not be approved.

It amazes me that all day long people leave comments here and never bother to read the comment policy. They also fail to notice that most comments approved do not include a link. I am a real big fan of doing things that will directly benefit this website. So leaving a comment that isn’t likely to get approved is a big waste of time for me. The difference between leaving a useful comment and a short comment is usually 30 seconds or less. So Why not take the time to leave a useful comment?

Also if you take the Scratch My Back Marketing approach and view comments as an advertisement for your site you will find the benefits very rewarding. It really comes down to do unto others as you would have them do to you! This isn’t pie in the sky stuff here. But it does require a certain level of common sense.

After all if you have gone through the paces to leave a comment why not take a little longer to do it right and be rewarded? I call that win/win marketing?

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Do You Play To Win V 2.0

March 9, 2010

We believe that the process of search engine optimization will help almost any website soar in the search rankings. Given enough time and resources it is possible for almost any website to rank well in the search results, by that we are talking about the first page of the Google results.

Any successful SEO provider knows that if you go where the crowds aren’t you will be successful. That’s why so much effort goes into Keyword research.The huge benefit here is that using long tail search you have less competing sites and that your visitor is now highly targeted and motivated to buy.

A good example of a long tail search would be the search for “increased website traffic Tucson” There is no doubt that the person using this search query wants more traffic to their website and that it has a Tucson customer base.

Do you play to win?

Update 03/09/2010:

That was a very simple though that I blogged about a few years back but it speaks to my philosophy On Search Engine Optimization or more specifically Google SEO. I always reference Google because they are the search market leader world wide. About the only market that Google does not dominate is China.

I take a game approach to SEO and I play to win for myself and my clients. This is why we rank for over 90 Keyword phrases. It is also why we have never failed to get our clients website onto the first page of Google for multiple keyword phrases. I often see this business as a professional sports team. And like a professional team we train daily to stay on top of our game. We regularly review our analytic’s to see where we are strong and where we might improve with a little tweak here or there.

We also are constantly manually monitoring where are at the the search results compared to our competitors. If you rely on automated search rankings tools you will only get results on the site that you are monitoring. You will miss out on the big picture in your markets. In sports this would consider this to be reviewing game film. I want to know if we have any new competitors in our markets that may pose a threat to our dominance.

Everything that we do has a specific purpose. I never want to be surprised by a competitor and allow them to gain an advantage. I love winning and I want my clients to be in a position to win as well. This diligence is why all of our clients have ended up on the first page of the Google results. If you allow a competitor to sneak up on you they will become embolden and more difficult to dissuade that your market is too difficult to overcome. In my home market there has been dozens of new competitors over the last year or so. Many of them have already abandoned this market as I am not willing to allow them to gain any traction.

One of the long time players here has just about given up any hope of getting any organic traffic in Tucson. This has forced them to search nationally for visitors by paying for their traffic through Google AdWords. Because we play to win we have never had to use Pay Per Click and we likely never will!

Do You Play To Win?

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Our Arizona Services:

Local SEO Internet Marketing Services Tucson – Phoenix

Yuma – Flagstaff Arizona SEO -Internet Marketing Services

Scottsdale SEO – Glendale internet Website Marketing Services

Marana – Sierra Vista – Green & Oro Valley SEO – Internet Marketing Services

Nationally we offer the following services:

Local SEO Internet Marketing Services Tucson Phoenix

Geo-Targeted Geo-targeted SEO – Search Engine Optimization Services

Affordable Quality Ethical Links – BackLinks Building Services Training

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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Do You Appreciate Your Readers?

January 23, 2010

I have written about this subject in the past and I thought it was time to take another look at this subject.

I have visited thousands of blogs and forums over the last two years. There are two trends that always appear on my radar screen. They are a large group of blogger’s who want more comments on their blogs. The second group of blogger’s don’t seem to care who is commenting or what is being said.

The whole idea of social media which includes forums and blogs, as well as many other types of sites such as FaceBook or MySpace is about being social. Being social is about connecting, discussing and carrying on a discussion. A discussion requires ongoing input to be effective. That’s where many forum posters and blog authors fail.

I see it all the time, someone starts a conversation on a forum or blog and abandons the conversation. You know, someone starts a topic and let’s say its about marketing on Twitter. Then others begin to make comments and some ask questions, but the questions go unanswered. I’ve seen this many times over and over again. Blog posted are started all the time, the discussion begins, and questions are asked but they are not answered by the blogs author.

The problem is that so many blog owners and forum posters don’t follow the post or thread that they started. So these valuable questions go unanswered. The net result is that there is no real conversation. I don’t know about you but I am less likely to return to a blog that has chosen to ignore me or if I see others regularly ignored.

Most of these blogs are not moderated and the comments generally are posted immediately. Now, if that is how these folks want to treat those who leave comments that OK by me. I prefer to take the time to answer the question because I feel it my responsibility, after all I started the conversation and I want to show my appreciation.

These people I believe are missing the whole point of social media. Then there is the second group of blogger’s who needs, wants, and desires to have more comments on their blogs. For this group I have a few easy to implement suggestions. The first one is that you need to reward your visitors for making comments.

I am going to make some suggestions here that are basically useless if you have lousy content. It is better to post great content every three days or so or maybe once a week than to waste your time posting just to post. People respond when you post ads value to their lives or stirs up emotions.

You then must learn to promote your blog. I have read hundreds of really useful blogs that lacked comments. We all have heard content is king but that only true if it is found and read. I am not going to go into detail about how to market a blog that’s been covered way to many times by others. If you new to blogging and blog promotion then go to Google and search for something like blog promotion tutorials. You will find lots of useful info.

The easiest way is to increase comments is to make your blog Do Follow. Yes, it will increase spam that’s the is the price you pay for attempting to acquire more comments. Here is how you make Do Follow work for you. First, your blog must be moderated so the spam doesn’t appear on your blog. Then you will need to add a plugin to protect yourself from bot spam. You might want to look into the Bad Behavior plugin.

This plugin will do nothing to stop comment spam from low wage countries such as China, India, Eastern Europe, or from unscrupulous link builders. Most of these comments will end up in your spam filter and will be easy to discard. This blog was averaging about 250 spam comments a day until I installed Bad Behavior. That has been reduced by about 95%. Be careful to actually review these spam comments. I usually pull several comments out of Akismet everyday. They are easier to find when I don’t have to sort through hundreds of comments to find the good ones.

Now, you will want to add the Comment & Keyword Luv plugins. The Comment Luv plugin pulls a permalink from your blogs latest post automatically. The newest version allows you to pull a much wider variety of posts from up to five different blogs. That permalink is added to the end of their comment. So others blogger’s are rewarded with a second link. Other blogger’s tend to leave better comments and they just might write about you if you have a great blog.

The Keyword Luv plugin allows you to use your name along with your anchor text link of the commenter’s choosing in the comments name field. This is an extremely valuable incentive for someone to leave a comment especially if they don’t have a blog. However, many purists will never use this plugin because they believe people should comment solely based on the posts content and that they should use a real name. Keyword Luv allows you to use both.

While I respect that opinion I think this position misses the dynamic changes that are occurring in the industry. Acquiring links that allow link juice to flow (Do Follow Links) are increasingly more difficult to obtain. This is especially true since Google began waging war on the practice of buying and selling links. Blogs are now ground zero in the link building game. So why not use this to your advantage?

Finally, there is one final piece of this puzzle to be put into place. You should consider thanking your commenter’s in an email. I am not talking about using an auto responders here. What I am suggesting is a short email response of a sentence or two that expresses gratitude for the commenter’s efforts. This shows that you genuinely care about the person who left a comment. This will encourage them to return or maybe even mention your blog on their blog. OMG what a concept, showing that you care!

If someone asks a very specific question I often will often answer that question on the blog. I will then respond in person with an answer or I will provide a link back to the answer on the blog. This encourages this person to return to the blog to see your answer. This approach was provided bunches of accolades from my readers. They often are very surprised to get a response. I can’t begin to express the huge amount of good will this has produced.

Now, I will admit that when I get busy I can not respond to all comments. Thus I get a bit choosy when responding. However, if someone has left a truly worthy comment that got my attention I will definitely response. I am still new enough to blogging that I really enjoy most of the comments that I receive here. What really makes my day is when I read the return emails thanking me for responding personally. These are often very real, warm, and heart felt.

In closing I have one more suggestion for you to battle comment spam. I placed a minimum requirement on comments to obtain a link from this blog. The commenter must leave a 20 word comment before I will approve it. Anything less and the comment usually will get deleted. If the comment is short but useful it will be posted without a link.

What this posts is really about is treating your visitors with respect and giving them an incentive to comment and then rewarding them when you get the desired results which are great comments.

Update 06/10/2009 – There was another point that I would like to mention. I verify almost every website that wants a link from me. You need to be careful who you link to these days. While I am verifying if the website is worth linking to I often leave a comment on the blog if they have one. That’s really shows appreciation and really spreads good will.

Update 01/24/2010: I have not done any of what I have suggested over the last few months. This has been due to the fact that Geri, my life partner, is critically ill and has been in and out of the hospital over the last few months. Yet, this has also been a lesson about appreciating your readers. Many of those whom I have personally thanks for there comments have returned in our time of need and shared their caring and warm support. So being nice and appreciating your readers can pay off in ways that you never imagined.

Are you ready to grow your blog comments and possibly your search rankings?

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Google Trusts Anchor Text More Than Text On Your Websites Pages

December 22, 2009

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Google Trusts Anchor Text More Than Text On Your Websites Pages

There is a seldom known fact that your targeted keywords don’t actually need to appear on the page for you to rank for that keyword. Let me explain this one for you. The search engines and Google specifically trust anchor text in a link. So much so that they will rank a page for a keyword that doesn’t actually appear on that page. This isn’t some joke or something that I made up but it is a well known fact for those that have been in a link building business for some time.

This goes against everything that you will likely have ever heard before. Here is how I discovered this quirk in the algorithm. I compete for the keyword phrase “Niche SEO.” We had been ranking # 1 for this keyword phrase for months when we where overtaken by a directory site. I was curios what was going on so I visited the site. The acronym SEO appeared several times on this page but the word niche did not.

This really got my attention so I did some research by visiting the forum, SEO Chat. I started a thread to inquire how this site could rank for a word that never appears on their website. I would soon discovered that this forum is full of some intelligent but rude people. I got my answer but I was worked over pretty good in the process. Warning: do not use this forum if you are new to the industry and you don’t have thick skin. The answer was in the anchor text that was being used in the links pointing to that page included the word niche.

As it turned out the person who owned that directory also owned several forums. Many of the links in his signatures said niche directory or niche SEO directory. So Google was giving more weight to the anchor text then the actual text on the page. I was blown away by this revelation. This like any trick used to fool the search engines eventually fails. The search engines figure out what you are doing and downgrade your web page. After about three months this site disappeared from the first page of the search results and eventually into oblivion in the ranking results.

Still that was not enough evidence to satisfy me. I did and experiment on this site to verify what was learned. I had created a page that included our Do Follow list. That page was very active and got multiple comments everyday. I also wanted to crack the first page of Google for the search, Phoenix SEO. So I renamed the page title to include the phrase Phoenix SEO. Then I added the phrase into that page several times.

This little procedure worked like a charm. It was almost like it was something conjured up by Harry Potter. Within just a few days that page made its way onto the first page of the Google results for Phoenix SEO and it stayed there for 3 months. Then almost to the day the page slowly began to descend the search rankings. I had now verified this quirk on my own site. I then changed the page title to reflect what was actually on the page, the Do Follow list.

Now, I am not suggesting that it is a good practice to fool around with Google. I just thought that you might be interested in hearing about this quirk that I discovered.

Have any of you ever come across this before?

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How Has The Recession Affected Your Part 2

December 11, 2009

How has the recession affected you? With that in mind I will get things started. I realized about this time (December 2008) that our biggest contract was expiring and that it would not likely be renewing. I had gotten caught up in the economic crises and the election. I was rarely blogging and was paralyzed by the lack of business inquiries. I knew the gravy train was ending and I had to do something to stir-up interest. This contract covered 70 % of our business. We were very grateful to have it, but now we were running on empty.

That’s when I decided to too do a link building promotion that I would call the 109 Link Building Explosion. For 109 days I would do short review a combination of 5 blogs, forums, or social media sites that provided Do Follow Links. This program caused traffic to soar more than 300%. This increase wasn’t paying the bills. However, visiting all of these sites did provide some much needed business.

A comment that I placed on a blog was read by someone who liked it and followed the link to my site. That lead and inquiry. That inquiry ends up leading to the biggest project (by pages) that I have ever completed. I had discovered that it really does pay to leave quality comments.

This became an epiphany for me. This inspired the link building program that I call Scratch My Back Marketing. It involves leaving quality comments or content on sites that allow you to acquire Do Follow links. You give them something of value and they return the favor. It also involves treating link building a if it where a branding, marketing, or advertising adventure.

This however, may be the biggest advantage of taking on this financial challenge that required me to drum up business in the bleakest economy that I have ever known. It keep me so busy doing the research and writing that I didn’t seem to have time to worry. I averaged about 4 hours of work on each post.

The research also allowed me to fine tune my link building efforts into a well oiled machine. I was really getting into exploring these sites most I which I was visiting for the very first time. I was discovering thousands of social media sites that were Do Follow and new to me.

I know that leaving quality comments or content would require more time to implement. So I began a process of refining my link building processes. I would compensate for the extra time that quality requires by working smarter. It was a series of small improvement that would end up having a huge impact. These new resources meant establishing dozens of new social media profiles daily.

After the link building program ended I found that I now had a lot of free time since the reviews didn’t require my attention. It was then that my full attention was placed on becoming one the most skilled manual link builders around. I am not a known “guru” in my industry and I don’t speak at conventions. So I don’t get the flux of links that are associated with these speaking gigs. No, I have to earn links everyday.

The point here is that when backed into a business corner I was able to come up with a plan for promoting this business. In the process of executing this plan I became an expert, a guru of sorts on link building. I am not a master linkbaiter. In this department I’m batting 50/50. I tried 4 linkbait projects for this blog and only two have been successful.

I am not the worlds most organized guy but I have learned to overcome this weakness when it comes link building. I currently have seven different link building efforts open at this time. I will work one until I meet my goal for that day or till I get bored and then there are the client’s projects. I never lack for things to do.

I simply could not accomplish this without being organized and using the right tools for the job. My password manager RoboForm makes this all possible for me. It stores all of my logins and contact information. So the site registration process usually requires only that I properly execute the capthca properly. That is the part that really slows me down. I get these things wrong everyday.

I will usually will begin a project by opening 3 to 5 websites at once. Yes, I am talking link building on steroids. Social Media sites are generally graphic intensive and very busy. This causes the user to wait, and wait, and wait. I just end up moving rapidly from one task to another so I don’t have to wait. While one site is working on my logins I move to another site. I do this all day everyday. I call it maximizing my efforts or ROI. Because I can move seamlessly from one site to the next I generate large time savings. These minutes saved allow me to practice Scratch My Back Marketing. It also helps to have hundreds of blogs posts that can easily be rewritten and used.

My business crises forced me to hone my skills and to get organized. When the 109 Link Building Explosion ended the site was ranking on the first page of Google 31 times for our target keyword phrases. That number now exceeds 80. This transformation has occurred in less than 4 months. I guess that explains why Tucson SEO ranks # 1 for backlinks building services. People were not calling for SEO services but they are still interested in link building. That why I started the Do Follow Websites so I could generate some income. It hasn’t been the biggest success but every sale helps 9 bucks at a time.

Many of these keyword phrases are not very competitive and that’s ok with me. I have always preferred to be a big fish in a small pond. If this success can be sustained I believe we will be well positioned when the economy bounces back. I never intended to become a link building expert, but I was and am highly motivated. It just kinda happened. I believe part of my success is simply that the economic stresses have gotten to many of my competitors. When you are in a survival mode it is easy to forget what got you where you were.

I hope that if we can retain our # 1 ranking for Local SEO Services, Local Internet Marketing Services, and Backlinks Building Services then I believe we will be in a solid position to obtain new business. I like our prospects a whole lot better this year than at the end of 08.

In my world I have reason to hope because lately with the serious illness of my Geri… Hope is all we had…And I (we) are hoping for a better 2010. Everyday is a new adventure as Geri learns to live with an to adapt to a chronic illness. I have to do much more on the home front and I’m very much OK with that. I came way to close to losing her to give up now.

Sometimes hope and faith is all we have.

What about you? What’s your inspiring tale or two. I really would like to hear from my readers, those few great visitors who actually read this blog.

That’s my story… For now!

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