Old Posts Are Being Closed To Comments

October 28, 2009

I have been slowly closing old posts to comments. I had left them open to comments so that my readers could comment on some of the better older posts. However, that is changing due to spam. Yep, the only reason that most older posts get comments is people are trying to spam old posts for links. I would not mind if the comments were useful, but they never. People don’t realize that the blog is moderated and that all comments have to be approved. This way I have complete control over the blog.

I have finally gotten tired of deleting these useless comments. I just wasting my very limited and valuable time. So I simply wait till someone leaves a useless comment on an old post, then I close it to comments. This saves me lots of time, especially since the blog has over 300 posts. It is a sad fact of being a blog owner. People don’t care that they waste your time so you must protect it.

It seems that I have been talking about spam a lot lately… and it’s true! It is a never ending battle!

Eventually only the most recent and most commented posts will allow comments.

We at Tucson SEO Solutions 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 backlinks as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”

We are now using the Scratch My Back Marketing plugin. This anti spam plugin simply requires that your comment be at least 150 characters in length or it is automatically rejected. It’s that simple. We are now forcing commenter’s to do what we were requesting for months on this blog! The blog also uses Keyword and Comment Luv. Please note that if you only include keyword your comment may be used put you will not obtain a link!

The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment. We then will provide you with an anchor text Do Follow Link. 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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Backlinks Building Services Affordable Website Designing Tucson

If your business is located in the US, Tempe, Phoenix, Glendale, and Scottsdale, Arizona or beyond and you would like to learn more about how your website can benefit from a blog, SEO, Niche 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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Blogging For Links What You Need To Be Successful

October 24, 2009

I am writing this post from life experience. I work at link building 7 days a week. Yes, that does mean that I am a workaholic and I have a great need to succeed. I do not recommend that you attempt to emulate my work ethic but I have some pearls of wisdom to share today.

My link building methods have been honed over three years. In the beginning I left my share of “nice post” comments. I was being truthful, as I had read the blog post and I agreed that it was a good post. I was looking at this from only my perspective. I needed links and the quicker that I could work the better. In most cases I added to the conversation but not always.

I am not a very good writer and if you have read my blog for a while you already know this. Grammar and spelling are difficult for those who are dyslexic which I am. I had to spell check dyslexic while writing this post. Thus it is very easy for me to make a mistake when leaving a blog post comment, especially if the comment was made when I am tired. Sometimes I come upon my old comments and cringe.

Then in May of 2008 I became a blog owner. I quickly learned what blog commenting behaviors that I liked and that I didn’t. The blog was No Follow for the first 10 months so I approved just about everything. I figured that it didn’t matter because the link was mostly useless. Think about it; when the last time you visit a website of someone who left a “nice post” comment?

Having my own blog taught me that there are good ways to leave comments and there were also not so good ways to leave comments. I now was making a concerted effort to leave a useful comment everywhere I went.

Then the blog became Do Follow in early 2009. This would eventually lead to the link building and marketing program that I call Scratch My Back Marketing.

Since the blog was now providing useful links I began to ask that commenters leave a 20 word comment at the end of each post. I started calling this requirement Scratch My Back Marketing. I expanded on this to make it our way of building links. The basic idea was to create a link building program that focused on link building as a branding and advertising opportunity. I knew from experience that a great relevant comment can lead to business. I also like to multitask so the idea of doing multiple things while link building was a no brainer for me.

That comment length requirement that I asked for was almost 100 % completely ignored. I got frustrated with my commenters after all; I was providing an anchor text Do Follow backlink and was using Comment Luv. I figured this kind of link was worth leaving a good comment. It’s what I would do, but I was wrong. People were only coming to the to comment for a link and they were not willing to work for it. They seldom bothered to even read the post.

That didn’t make me very happy. I even considered going back to No Follow, but I decided to create an anti spam plugin instead that I called Scratch My Back Marketing. It allows the blog owner to set a character threshold on comments before they are allowed a link. On this blog it currently requires a comment of 150 characters in length or the comment is automatically rejected.

The current problem that I am currently addressing is the use of only keywords only in the comment field. I have had comments that were several hundred words in length that were rejected. The blog uses Keyword Luv and it requires that a name be used along with your keywords. Yet, every day the blog receives a dozen or more comments that only use keywords. If the comment is useful and relevant I will use it without providing a link. I have been recording the daily results in the post, It Is Hard To Find A Useful Comment.

So then how do you successfully blog comment for links? That I will get to in Part 2 of this post! I needed to whine before I got to the serious post. This post will appear tomorrow.

Are You ready to be a successful link builder?

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Affordable Backlinks Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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It Is Hard Finding A Useful Comment

October 22, 2009

Really, if you were able to see the comments section of this blog you might be surprised by the lack of links that have been awarded this month. It has gotten so bad that I have been considering going back to No Follow again. No one bothers to read the comment policy, and those that comment on that post, even these don’t read it or care. Maybe the Scratch My Back plugin gives them a sales sense of security. None the less, a non quality 150 character comment will not get you a link. This is a moderated blog.

The biggest offenders are those who ignore how to use Keyword Luv and just include keywords. You will never get a link here doing that. The list is very restrictive, but why not, after all, Do Follow links that allow anchor text links are extremely difficult to find on blogs theses days. That doesn’t stop these lazy bums. So I figure it like this, I will stay Do Follow and I will use these spam comments to my advantage.

I simply remove the backlink and use the comments anyways. Then I include a short explanation and a link to the comment policy. These people are so greedy and short sighted that they fail to notice. Maybe, they do it just to waste my time. I don’t know, but what I do know is this. I get about 10 of these a day. I rarely get a comment that is worthy of a link anymore. Yet, these spammy thoughtless and clueless comments are doing me a big favor. Especially the guy who represents a lawyer he leaves 6 – 8 comments at a time. He even comments on the same posts over and over.

Here is how they benefit the blog. The blog targets the keyword phrases Phoenix SEO and Niche SEO. Both these these phrases rank in the top 5 of Google and these rankings are powered by spam! Without these comments this page would not rank nearly as well. These spammers have tuned out to be a great source of fresh content, bad content, but content never the less!

So I will readjust my attitude and enjoy the high rankings. The only real downside here is that it makes writing quality posts much more difficult to get motivated. So I now check the search rankings for these keyword phrases before I start writing… And that gets me plenty motivated.

Update: 10/20 – 11 Comments 1 Useful Comments 8 Trackbacks Update 10/21/2009 16 Comments 2 Useful Comments.Update: 10/22/2009 15 Comments 1 Useful Comment. Update: 10/23/2009 13 Comments 1 Useful Comment. Update 10/24/2009: 16 Comments 2 Useful Comments. Update: 10/26/2009 16 Comments 2 Useful Comments Update: 10/27/2009 18 Comments 2 Useful Comments

Does anyone see a trend here?

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Backlink Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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Do Follow Comment – Keyword Luv – Scratch My Back Marketing

September 27, 2009

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Then Try The Do Follow Websites

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Finally, after several long drawn out months we have completed the upgrade to this blog. We have added all of the following plugins Do Follow, Comment and Keyword Luv. We have added all of these plugins to make our blog a friendly place to comment.

It is part of what we have been calling Scratch My Back Marketing.” The idea here is that you scratch our backs with use comments of at least 150 characters in length. We then scratch your back with useful Do Follow Anchor Text links. If you are a blog owner with an RSS feed enabled you will get an extra link.

We now are using the Scratch My Back Marketing plugin. It is an anti spam plugin. It has been developed to halt what is commonly known as drive by comments such as “nice post” or “thanks for the link.” I have been wanting this plugin for about six month and now. It is here for Beta testing. It will soon be available on WordPress.

Whose back are you scratching?

We are now using the Scratch My Back Marketing plugin. This anti spam plugin simply requires that your comment be at least 150 characters in length or it is automatically rejected. It’s that simple. We are now forcing commenters to do what we were requesting for months on this blog! The blog also uses Keyword and Comment Luv. Please note that if you only include keyword your comment may be used put you will not obtain a link!

The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment. We then will provide you with an anchor text Do Follow Link. 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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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It’s Still SEO – The Long Tail

September 22, 2009

There are a lot of ways to look at SEO or search Engine Optimization. It all depends on your perspective. A professional may talk about organic or natural SEO where as the general public might actually just refer to SEO. I like the niche versions of SEO. They are more likely to be less competitive and if you have been around here you know that I prefer Niche Markets. In fact, the site currently ranks both #1 and #2 for Niche SEO. We also rank well for Niche Search Engine Optimization.

I point this out not to say we’re great at SEO, but to get you to think in broader terms about your own niche markets, or how that you can be competitive in your own markets. I previously managed a website of a manufacturer. This company sold dust collection equipment but not just any dust collection equipment they manufactured industrial equipment, or industrial dust collection equipment.

This company wanted to land on the first page of Google for the search dust collection. When I took a look at the market I consider this an unrealistic goal.The reason was that this term covered several industries and not just one. They were competing with home units and vacuum cleaners, as well as with their own market. I reasoned that industrial dust collection would be a more realistic goal, and it was. Their site easily soared to the # 1 spot for this keyword phrase with Google. Amazingly, I was actually able to get them high up onto the first page of the Google results for just dust collection. This beat my own expectations.

You can likely do the same in your markets if you go after what is known as the “long tail” of search. This means that you are going to go after keyword phrases that contain three or more words. Yes, there will be much less competition for these keyword phrases but the longer the tail the more likely this the visitor is a hot lead. If someone has entered industrial dust collection equipment, that person is more likely doing serious research rather than just killing time. These are the folks that are doing serious searching with intent to purchase.

Tucson SEO provide SEO service professionally so we are more likely to try to define a smaller niche within the SEO industry. Like any good SEO we could rely on our keyword development skills to create long tails for our keyword phrases that define us best.

In our industry some people go after Organic SEO or Organic Search Engine Optimization, and others will add location into the mix, as with Tucson Search Engine Optimization. When you go local it is sometimes called local SEO or Geo-targeted. These are areas that we specialize in.

Here are some other ways to define Search Engine Optimization or SEO. I have already mentioned Local SEO and Niche SEO. Then there is Geo-targeted SEO. I could have easily referred to Geo-targeted as well as Geo-targeting. In reality Geo-targeting appears more often in the Google search results, but I target them both. Essentially it is just another expression for local SEO.

Here are a few more to terms to consider such as SEO services, SEO Solutions, or perhaps Business SEO. The tail could grow to include Small Business SEO Services. I think that you may be getting what I mean here. For us there is a huge pool of perspective clients who need our services yet they have no idea what SEO is and many have likely never even heard of the term Search Engine Optimization. Yet, these people understand marketing, they have a website, and they use the internet and most of their business is local. To reach these potential markets we peruse long tails such as local internet marketing services. This is a search that is more likely to be used by our clients since we target small businesses.

The hardest part about SEO is trying to determine what your target customer might actually use when searching for your product or services. You can try using all the keyword tools in the world and still can come up short. Keyword tools only respond to what you enter into them. If you don’t enter the proper keywords to begin with these tools are of little value. Finding your most effective keywords requires the ability to understand how your target audience thinks and that’s where these tools often fail. The best solutions is to do focus groups of real people (potential clients) and ask them what they would use to search for to find your websites business online. Now, with this information in hand you will stand a better change in the search traffic game.

So let me ask this, could you use good some long tails?

We are now using the Scratch My Back Marketing plugin. This anti spam plugin simply requires that your comment be at least 150 characters in length or it is automatically rejected. It’s that simple. We are now forcing commenters to do what we were requesting for months on this blog! The blog also uses Keyword and Comment Luv. Please note that if you only include keyword your comment may be used put you will not obtain a link!

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

Posted by Urban | Filed Under Uncategorized, Website Design | 6 Comments

A What’s New Update

September 19, 2009

I thought it was time to give an update at what’s going on at Tucson SEO. We are just about ready to launch our new plugin that I have named Scratch My Back Marketing. I had requested that commenters leave a comment of 20 minimum to get a link here. This request appeared at the end of each blog post for about 8 months. This request was blatantly ignored. So I created this plugin that forces commenters to leave a comment of 150 characters in length.

The site has been testing it for about 3 weeks. It has stopped the short “nice post” type comments completely. However, spammers are onto the plugin and are now beginning to Exploit it by leaving huge amounts of periods or other symbols instead to defeat the plugin. It doesn’t work as the blog is moderated, but it does require that I delete the comments. I had expected this reaction and we will be updating the plugin to deal with this development.

I have a new technical person who built the plugin for us and I want to give Pablo a shoutout for his great work. On another front we have run into some development delay in launching the Scratch My Back Website and the Do Follow Network sites. We have also opted to create a third site. This site also will be marketing Do Follow resources.

Along with developing these sites I have picked up some new clients that are also demanding my time and attention. I am definitely not complaining here. I just wanted to explain why I haven’t been blogging lately.

We are now using the Scratch My Back Marketing plugin. This anti spam plugin simply requires that your comment be at least 150 characters in length or it is automatically rejected. It’s that simple. We are now forcing commenters to do what we were requesting for months on this blog! The blog also uses Keyword and Comment Luv. Please note that if you only include keyword your comment may be used put you will not obtain a link!

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

Posted by Urban | Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Can You Meet Or Exceed These Search Results – September

September 1, 2009

Can You Meet or exceed these search rankings 0901 2009

It’s the first of the month again and it’s time to report on how well Tucson SEO Solutions has done in the search ranking. This report represents the keyword phrases that we target on a regular basis. Only recently have we began to track certain phrases associated with internet marketing outside of Tucson.

I had discovered by accident, about six weeks ago, that we were ranking well for several keyword phrases that we had not been targeting. I wasn’t sure if what I was seeing was a temporary hiccup in the results or if it was a permanent situation. I decided to work on phrases like local internet marketing and it has paid off. As it turned out what I had noticed was not a temporary situation for these keyword phrases.

On the flip side of things six other keyword phrases had taken a dive and I was very concerned. These phrases are much more important to our business. I target the phrase local SEO on our home page. The site has been ranking # 4 for this search for a long time. Then I edited the home page and this phrase dropped the next day down to # 17. I freaked out. I thought that I had done something terribly wrong but I knew that I hadn’t.

I also lost ground, and lots of it, for the searches Niche SEO and Holistic SEO. When I checked all three of these phrases today they all were restored back to their high rankings. I’ve read about this happening to others but I had never experienced this on our site before. There were also three other more local searches that included the Phoenix area and Arizona that had also dropped and they are back as well.

I am an SEO guy and I know that usually these keywords will eventually bounce back, but until today, it was only theory. I had been praying that the results would be restored by the time I was to do this report, and amazingly it was. We rank on the first page of Google for an amazing 49 keyword phrases. Some of these are extremely competitive and some not so much.

So here is the latest on how Tucson SEO Solutions ranks in our home market:

Tucson SEO we rank both # 1 and # 2

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

Internet Marketing Tucson # 1 and # 2

So here is the latest on how Tucson SEO Solutions ranks across Arizona:

Arizona SEO we rank # 7

Arizona SEO Services we rank # 4

Arizona SEO Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2.

Phoenix SEO we rank # 7

Scottsdale SEO we rank # 7

Flagstaff SEO we rank both # 4 and # 5

Yuma SEO we rank both # 3 and # 4

So here is the latest on how Tucson SEO Solutions ranks nationally:

Affordable Link Building # 1

Affordable Link Building Services # 1

Affordable Link Building Training # 1

Affordable Link Building Solutions # 1

Business Search Engine Optimization Solutions we rank # 1

Business SEO Solutions both # 1 and # 2

Comprehensive Website Audit # 1

Comprehensive Website Review # 1

Detailed Website Audit # 1

Detailed Website Review # 1

Ethical Link Building # 3

Ethical Link Building Services # 1

Ethical Link Building Solutions # 1

Ethical Link Building Training # 1

Geo-targeted SEO # 2

Geo-targeting SEO # 7 and # 8

Holistic SEO # 1

Holistic Search Engine Optimization # 2

Local business SEO we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local SEO we rank # 4

Local SEO Services we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local SEO Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Small Business SEO Services we rank # 1

Local Small Business SEO Solutions both # 1and # 2

Local Website Marketing Services # 3

Local Website Marketing Solutions # 1

Niche SEO we rank we rank # 1

Niche SEO Services we rank # 1

Niche SEO Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Niche Search Engine Optimization we rank both # 3 and # 4

SEO Solutions we rank # 1

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

Do Follow Lists we rank # 1 out of 189 Million results.

Do Follow Blogs we rank # 4 out of 166 Million results.

Do Follow Blog List we rank # 4 out of 146 Million results.

Do Follow Forums we rank # 6 out of 173 Million.

Do Follow Forum Lists # 1 out of 118 Million results.

How well is your website ranking?

We are now using the Scratch My Back Marketing plugin. This anti spam plugin simply requires that your comment be at least 150 characters in length or it is automatically rejected. It’s that simple. We are now forcing commenters to do what we were requesting for months on this blog! The blog also uses Keyword and Comment Luv. Please note that if you only include keyword your comment may be used put you will not obtain a link!

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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Website 101 – Get Your Website Indexed Early

August 30, 2009

This is a feature that we are implementing with each post. It is here because we provide small business SEO solutions all across Arizona. At this time we would like to thank our friends and clients for their support. If you have landed here looking for our Internet marketing or SEO services in Prescott or Yuma, then please follow this SEO link.

Don’t Worry About Getting Your Website Indexed Early

This is one of the best pieces of advice I could ever offer to someone who is in the early stages of building a website. Do not wait until your site has been constructed and launched to start developing a link building program. Start the process now.

That’s right, most successful websites have a well structured link building program that they implement on a regular basis. What I am suggesting is that you start your link building efforts early, as in the very beginning.

Once you have established your domain name you need to point it to you name servers. Then put up an under construction page, but not just a generic page. This page should include the page title and description that will be used on the home page. You will then create an H-1 tagged header.

Now, you will need to write a paragraph or two explaining that you are open for business, what that business provides (keywords here), and that you are under construction. Make sure that you also include your targeted keyword phrase and contact information.

Now, start building links. It doesn’t really matter where you develop your links because this will likely be a learning curve for you. Try, a wide variety of options to see what suits you best. A good place to start would be social bookmarking sites, but with no content

The big benefit here is that your site will already be indexed by Google by the time it is launched. The secondary benefit is that you will have a fine tuned linking program in place. You don’t want to be putting a linking program in place while you are trying to manage a new website and run your business.

Are you ready to get your website indexed early?

We are now using the Scratch My Back Marketing plugin. This anti spam plugin simply requires that your comment be at least 150 characters in length or it is automatically rejected. It’s that simple. We are now forcing commenters to do what we were requesting for months on this blog! The blog also uses Keyword and Comment Luv. Please note that if you only include keyword your comment may be used put you will not obtain a link!

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

Posted by Urban | Filed Under Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Obsolete SEO/Website Marketing Practices

August 27, 2009

The first obsolete practice that comes to mind is the use of submission services. I have written about this before as being a waste of money, and it is. Since Google, Yahoo, and MSN make up nearly 93% of the search volume in the U.S. these search engines are where your efforts need to be focused. The process is very easy and it’s free. Yet, I just down loaded a free demo product that includes search engine submission services. The product is called Traffic Bug it is included in The 30 Day Challenge. It also include submissions to non human edited directories. There is a positive here. The software claims to be submitting to bookmarking sites. That’s not such a bad things if these sites have any traffic or if they are Do follow.

Like I said it was free software and I wanted to see how legitimate this 30 Day challenge is. I will reserve that opinion for later. It’s just that many programs that assist in internet marketing, and specifically niche marketing, rely on lots of obsolete practices. The search engines really only give value to links from human edited directories and I doubt that these programs aren’t using many if any of these.

Then there is the search engine submission option. This lame duck keeps making the rounds. Its so old that it was human it could say that its had an AARP card for decades. These submission services saved enormous amount of time and thus provided a valuable service during the early years of the internet. Every thing changed with when Google built a better search engine. That was way back in the last century folks. Google, Yahoo, and MSN have dominated search for some times now. The Ask search engine is a bit player with few % points of the market. Bounden that it really doesn’t matter. AOL gets a few points but actually a search engine. It’s results come from Google.

So there you have it two obsolete practices being promoted as solid marketing methods. The program does have some value in that it can also choose to automatically submit to Bookmarking and RSS directories. Now, these two have some real merit if they are executed properly. At this point two of the four submission options with this software are obsolete.

Social bookmarking is a valid option if the sites that are getting submitted to have some page rank. That means Google is likely to be actively crawling these sites. There is also the risk that their are a fair amount of these sites are on auto pilot. I have seen probably 6 – 8 bookmarking sites this week that were accepting submissions to adult sites. That why I like to personally visit these sites

The services is free so I thought I would check it out. It also includes submitting to directories which is basically an obsolete practice as well. If the directory is human edited then it is a waste of time because anyone can get in.

There was a day, way back before Google hit the scene when using a submission service made sense. Heck, there were hundreds of search engines vying for attention. So one stop shopping made sense, but now the practice is obsolete.

Stuffing your keyword Meta Tag with words unrelated to your website. This practice involved using the hot search topic of the day and placing it in the Keyword Meta tag. Websites would include words like porno or Britney Spears, and it worked for a while. Yes, SEO used to be the wild wild west on of internet. Anything and everything was used. Search engines back then were not very sophisticated. They also used to hide text by making it the same color as the background. This way the text could only be read by the search engines.

Then when it was discovered that links played a vital role in the big picture all kinds of linking schemes began to surface. Even today, people offer three way linking schemes that by the very structure are doomed to fail over time. The internet is full of all sorts of linking schemes.

People searching for porno often would end up at sites like, “Dogs Are Our Business” which was a pet grooming service. The old-timers, as in pre this century, still love to wax poetically about these past adventures. But as search technologies developed these shady tools became obsolete.

Do you have an obsolete story to share?

We are now using the Scratch My Back Marketing plugin. This anti spam plugin simply requires that your comment be at least 150 characters in length or it is automatically rejected. It’s that simple. We are now forcing commenters to do what we were requesting for months on this blog! The blog also uses Keyword and Comment Luv. Please note that if you only include keyword your comment may be used put you will not obtain a link!

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

Posted by Urban | Filed Under Uncategorized | 5 Comments

A New Kind Of Spam?

August 26, 2009

Today, I discovered something new in my spam filter. It was a series of comments from different websites that at first glance looked like a trackback. They all ended in mid sentence using three periods like this…

What struck me is that for the most part the comments made sense and were relevant to SEO. They even included references to SEOmoz.org and Search Engine Watch, both well respected sites. However, they were not clever enough to fool the Askimet spam filter. Even if they had our comments are moderated and we always catch this garbage.

All four of these spam comments, arrived back to back and were easy to spot when I cleaned out the spam filter. Out of curiosity I visited each of these websites and they were generic blogs that had no comments. However, I noticed that they all had a PR of 3. None of these blogs had much of anything to link to as far as quality content goes.

What this shows is that this kind of spam does indeed work for these sites at least in gaining some PR. Which is sad, but it is what it is. So if you see these names appear in your comments you can be assured that it is from a spammer.

Ronsonbg
Things to do for your boy friend
Russmir
Humor Religion

I know this will not make much of a difference, but I can only tolerate so much of this crap before I have to speak out. It also shows how easy it is to game Google’s Page Rank. These sites then pass link juice along to other sites that they own.

Update 08/18/2009 I no longer have to deal with this fake auto spam after I installed Tan Tan Noodles it all went away. You might want to consider adding it yourself!

Call me an old fashioned white hat kinda guy but I rather enjoy earning links.

We are now using the Scratch My Back Marketing plugin. This anti spam plugin simply requires that your comment be at least 150 characters in length or it is automatically rejected. It’s that simple. We are now forcing commenters to do what we were requesting for months on this blog! The blog also uses Keyword and Comment Luv. Please note that if you only include keyword your comment may be used put you will not obtain a link!

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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Websites Are Like Apple Pies

August 22, 2009

This is one of my favorite posts. It was originally posted to our site when it was a static site. I like it so much that I update and recycle it occasionally.

Today, we are looking at the correlation between websites and apple pies. Software advances have made building a website like baking a pie, in that it can be done in an evening. I done this on a couple occasions myself with both pies and websites.

However, motivation alone does not make a good apple pie or a useful website. When making a good apple pie you need all the basic ingredients and the knowledge of how to mix them properly. Mixing the ingredients properly makes all the difference when baking a pie. The same is true about building a website. Sites also require some basics such as layout, navigation, and fresh quality content and that’s just to keep your visitors happy.

Getting the website to work with the search engines to acquire traffic through high search rankings is a whole other proposition. Many an attractive site has withered along the Internet super highway due to lack of traffic. Building a website is like making a pie is relatively easy these days but that doesn’t mean that either will be any good.

Just like that apple pie sitting on the baker’s shelf, it will never sell if hungry customers can’t find it. Even the best looking pie, if the flavor isn’t there, will be rejected after the first bite. A website can suffer a similar fate, if it fails to meet or exceed the visitor’s expectations. You may have all the right ingredients but fail the taste test.

If you’ve ever watched the Food Channel then you know exactly what we mean. Give five chefs the same ingredients and someone will always produce a super pie, some pies will be ok, and others will disappoint. The same can be said about a website It may look great but it may fail to meet expectations.

Are you ready to create a tasty highly trafficked websites that deliver results?

The 109 Day Link Building Program has been moved. It will now be appearing as a newer expanded version on two of our other sites.

Are you a website owner looking for Do Follow Solutions? Then consider our Do Follow Network.

Do you have an active Do Follow blog? Then consider our Scratch My Back Marketing site.

If you are interested in becoming a Beta tester please email me though the Contact Page

The Do Follow Blog Network will feature 10 Do Follow social media websites every three days. Thus every month you will gain access to 100 Do Follow websites. All of these sites allow user generated content in exchange for valuable Do Follow links. Most of the sites chosen will allow you to use anchor text links.

Each group will have a moderator along with 20 other members. The idea idea here is to keep everyone accountable. The program is based on the principals of Scratch My Back Marketing. Comment spam will not be tolerated. Anyone found to be leaving drive by comments or that insert links into the comments will be immediately banned.

Thanks,
Urban

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.

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

If your business is located in the US, Tempe, Phoenix, Glendale, and 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!

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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How Would You Like To Acquire A Free Do Follow Link From Google?

August 19, 2009

No, I have not been drinking any electric Kool-aid nor have I been smoking any wacky tobacco. I am actually reticent to let out this little secret for the Google Gods may realize their error and make adjustments to their site and correct this oversight. But if I don’t mention it someone else will. So here we go.

First off Google Knol stands for a measure of knowledge. It was developed to allow highly educated individuals to write about there areas of expertise. You simply register and begin to post. In many ways it is like the website Scribd.com. It seems to be a little bit of wiki and Blogger rolled into one.

Late last month (October 2008) Google quietly opened its Knol service to the general public. There hasn’t been a lot written about the subject lately. However, I was visiting another obscure blog when I saw a post about Knol. So I took the time to visit and to sign up and to start posting. That’s when I noticed something unusual.

The article that I had read noted that Google seemed to be giving a lot of authority to articles posted on Knol. It went on to state that Knol could be used effectively to acquire a first page listing in the Google SERP’s for niche keyword searches. Since Niche SEO markets are our bread and butter we figured that we should take a look around.

I surf the web and most of the time I do so using with SEOQuake enabled. It will indicate if a link is no follow or do follow. We noticed that links to the posters profile were no follow, but the permalink was a do follow link. This seemed odd to me so I dug a little deeper into Knol and started reading some of the posts.

Much to my amazement and shock I discovered that links embedded in these Knol’s were actually “Do Follow” links. Google has forced no follow links on blogs and most major sites that are social media in nature. It has made life very difficult for many websites to gain links that pass link juice that affects their algorithm and thus the search results. So the fact that they are not applying these principals to their own website seems a bit hypocritical to me. I am certain that many others will agree with me.

Now here is where this discovery begins to go south. I have 2 choices to make here. I could simply re-write my hundred or so posts and place them in Knol and snag a bunch of do follow links from Google and wait until someone else brings this to everyone’s attention. Then watch this benefit dissolve or I can bring it to your attention and see how long it takes for Google to re-act. Well, if you are reading this then I decided to share what I discovered.

Now, nine months later Google’s Knol is still do Follow and there has hardly been a whimper from the SEO community… Now, that is indeed odd!

Speaking of sharing…

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

If your business is located in the US, Tempe, Phoenix, Glendale, and 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!

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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Creating Fresh Content For A Static Website

August 18, 2009

This is a question that we hear often at our SEO and website training seminars. A static website is a site that was not created to be updated. These sites suffer in the search rankings because they have nothing new to offer the search engines. You see, search engines like fresh content.

It is much easier to obtain and maintain high search rankings if you update your website on a regular basis. The easiest way to provide fresh content is to place a blog on your website. However, many small business website owners don’t want anything to do with a blog. They either do not understand what a blog is or does or they are unwilling to manage a blog. Blogs do require time to implement properly.

One solution is already available to website owners who use a newsletter to market their business. Let’s say you have a monthly newsletter and you write the articles for this newsletter over a one month period and then email this your readers.

What we suggest is that you place these articles on your website as they are written. Then pull these articles into your newsletter when you are ready to email them. Then you start the process all over again. Depending on how you have your web hosting set up this could be a simple or a very difficult process. These article should includes links to your main sales pages to be most effective. That way when the search engines crawl this new content they will follow these links to your other pages.

To complement this process you will need to have am XML site map on your site. This sitemap will need to be updated when you add new pages to assure that it gets crawled and properly indexed.

The same process can be used for an FAQ page. The whole idea here is too generate new content on your website. If you choose the FAQ page for updating make sure that you include links to your sales pages.

Most quality web hosts allow you to readily edit your web pages through a file manager. Whenever, you are editing websites files first copy them into a text edit such as notepad, in case you experience a problem when saving your files. Once you have saved your updates then visit your website to view the changes. You may need to refresh your browser first. If you experience a problem you will have a saved copy in notepad to copy back into your file manager.

Some web host companies require that you use an FTP client to load your updated files. If this is the case then this process is best left to an experienced webmaster.

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.”

Are you ready to take your static site to the next level?

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?

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

If your business is located in the US, Tempe, Phoenix, Glendale, and 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!

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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Link Building: Anchor Text Style

August 15, 2009

Today, if your reading this now, this is way a old post but worth mentioning again. I have updated it to reflect what is going on now. While searching for resources for our “Do Follow List OF Lists” (no longer exists) my partner discovered a blog, http://www.affiliatewatcher.com. The blogger used an image of someone who was ranting about Do Follow Blogs. It has an eye-popping graphic of someone pulling out there hair, that I really liked.

Specifically, he was going off on blogs that have the “u comment i follow” logo on them. This logo was created by Randa Clay to indicate that the blog would pass link juice for any link resulting from commenting.

This person was ranting about how the blog owners should remove these logos if they are on longer relevant. When we are blogging for links we use SEOQuake which produces a line through links that are “No Follow.” So this doesn’t bother us much. There are lots of reason why this might be occurring. It could simply be the plugin is no longer working after an upgrade or hasn’t been set up correctly I’m also sure some of this is intentional, if not most.

What really got my attention was when he continues his rant about those people who don’t use their real names in the name field of the blogs comment section. He was calling it spam. This is where this story really begins. You see, link building is its most effective and powerful when it produces an anchor text with the link. The name field of blog comments creates that anchor text link. When the anchor text can not be aligned with the websites content, the search engines devalue the link. If I go to a blog and use Boris that link is useless in gaining higher search rankings.

When the anchor text matches the content you now have a very valuable link. So for example when we use “Tucson SEO” in the name field it doesn’t mean that we are spamming (too me.) It merely means that we want the link to be given a keyword attribute that is related to our website. When I use the name Boris, the search engines can not match the name with this websites content and the link is less useful. Now, each blog sets its own rules on the comment policy. You really have to pay attention here or the comment will be deleted. I delete a half dozen or so comments each day over this issue.

Like anything good it can be abused. This is a growing trend that you can expect to see more often. Getting links is becoming more difficult almost daily. Thus we are seeing an increase of keywords being used in the name field. I believe a perfect balance can be found by using the Keyword Luv plugin. It uses both a name and a keyword phrase when used properly. We use it here. That being said, everyday I get comments that just include the keywords. Since these commenters can not follow directions they will never get a link. I may use the comment but without a backlink included.

Many people have a real sense of community in the blogosphere. They grumble every time they see a keyword or keyword phrase used in the blog comments, just as this writer was doing. They believe that your real name should be used exclusively. That’s ok, but it only creates problems and frustrations. I have tried to find a happy balance by using Keyword Luv, but most people still will not take advantage of it. They will never get links here. We also require a 20 word comment but that gets ignored as well.

These commenters fail to realize with the advent of “No Follow” and Google’s crusade against paid links it has made acquiring links much more difficult. This shrinks the opportunities to acquire links. So we in the SEO and SEM industries must make the best possible use of the links that we are acquiring. That’s why you are seeing an increase in this practice. I believe in ethical link building and I promote leaving quality comments that follow a blogs comment policy. Yet, everyday people abuse this privilege here. This is why so many blogs go back to No Follow. Way to many people don’t care or they don’t pay enough attention.

Now, having said that, I am letting you know that we are working on a plugin that will eliminate drive by comments. This should help a whole lot of bloggers! Stay tuned for this one is could potentially be huge.

All good things can get abused so lets make it a point not too abuse link building opportunities.

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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Websites Are Like A Car Salesperson

August 12, 2009

This is one of my favorite posts from 2008. I use this example when discussing website marketing ans the need to use a sales funnel. The whole purpose of your web pages should be to bring your visitor to make a buying decision. For those who have been in sales this process is known as a features and benefits presentation. In print is often called a sales funnel.

Now, to the original post updated!

Salespeople sell that’s their job. Well, a website is no different it’s all about selling or should be. It makes no difference whether you are peddling products, services, or ideas. You must actively be selling to succeed in website marketing. Just throwing facts and descriptions on your website is wasted effort.

I tell this story every time we talk to a perspective client. Imagine that you are going to visit a new car showroom. When you encounter the salesperson they will do several things during your visit. When they start their presentation they will explain the features of the vehicle. They then will explain the benefits of those features. Finally, they will ask you for the sale.

This is basic sales 101. It is know in the industry as the features and benefits presentation. You know when you go to the car dealer this is what you will encounter. The salespersons job is to sell. You as a website owner need to be selling. Sadly, very few websites sell. This is because most websites are created without input from a sales marketing professional. How many websites have you visited that do a complete sales presentation? It is likely that you have ever seen a good sales presentation on the web. Does your website sell?

I offer solutions that incorporate all the elements of a good sales presentation on existing websites as part of our SEO services. I call this process Holistic SEO. I also instruct our website design and redesign clients on how to write their content to sell. You might be amazed by the blank stares that I get when I suggest rewriting their content so that it sells.

I will not provide our SEO services to a websites that are not willing to make the necessary changes with the sites content. Our belief is this “Why bring traffic to a broken website.” Your website needs to be more than just information. You have to actively bring your visitor to a buying decision. This means creating a sales funnel.

I view our clients as partners rather than customers. I want them not only to have increased traffic, but I want that traffic to have the best opportunity to convert into business. SEO and web design should be a collaborative process or that’s my view of things. I simply would not want to take a clients money for SEO if their sites is properly prepared to sell.

Is your website broken? Do you actively sell or do you just provide information and hope for the sale?

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

If your business is located in the US, Tempe, Phoenix, Glendale, and 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!

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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Fresh TV

July 19, 2009

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Fresh TV

Well, I don’t write about entertainment shows so what the heck is Fresh TV? It is a human edited website directory. Now, I have never been a big fan of directories and I have compared them to link farms. Unfortunately many if not most directories are not human edited. Thus they end up being filled with a bunch of crappy useless websites. I have been preaching against them for as long as I have been in this business.

Recently, I came across a video by Matt Cutts on the subject. Matt is the Google spokesperson on all things related to SEO. About this time last year Google pulled its support for using directories to build links in its webmaster guidelines. He was again addressing how Google deals with directories. He noted that only directories that are human edited will be useful for link building purposes. He noted that directories where anyone gets in are useless. Yes, I felt vindicated.

So why then title the post about Fresh TV. Well, it just happens to one of those human edited directories. What sets them apart from the crowded field is this. Your sites home page must have at least a PR of 2 to be considered for their directory. They also offer a free listing. So you might want to consider this directory in your link building portfolio. Very few directories make this requirement so a link here just might be useful.

I still am not a fan of directories for several reason. They are useless for networking and branding purposes which are at the core of our link building philosophy. Also the ROI – Return On Investment is minimal. I believe that there are lots better ways to build links. Now, having said that, Fresh TV does a very good job by placing a PR 2 requirement for acceptance into their directory. I have never seen this before.

Have you been wasting your time on non edited directory submissions?

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

If your business is located in the US, Bisbee, Phoenix, Glendale, and 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!

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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Testomonials For Tucson SEO Solutions

July 14, 2009

At Tucson SEO we always like to say that We Talk The Talk and We Walk The Walk, in other words we do what we say that we do. This can been evidenced by our posted Google Search Results.

We are very proud of what we have accomplished. With success in mind, we thought that it was time for you to hear from some of our clients. This Video is from Johnny Wyatt of JJ & J Perpetual Marketing of Tucson, Arizona.

This testimonial is from Tyler of BioSolutions of Arizona.

I am very new to the whole SEO world, specifically link building. I have gone back and read many of the previous posts and learned an amazing amount. I also got a chance to check out your posted results from your Google searches, very impressive. Its nice to see, because that is where I desire my company to be in our industry…In a short amount of time you have really helped our company out and proven your SEO abilities. Thanks!

Sometimes, is best to let the clients to the talking for us.

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

If your business is located in the US, Tempe, Phoenix, Glendale, and 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!

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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A FireFox Feature Gets My Attention

July 14, 2009

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A FireFox Feature Gets My Attention

I have written lately about being careful who you link too. Especially in the comments section of your blog. Generally, when a link appears in the context of a post these are generally considered safe. The writer has established some kind of relationship or experience with the site that they are pointing out in their post. While it is possible that any site can be infected with malware these are usually safe to visit. However, the older the post is the less safe any link will be.

A commenter on this blog rightfully pointed out that we need to be extremely careful. He noted that the site that we were linking to could have been sold. It could now be any number of things that we would not desire to be linked to. I see this everyday when I’m doing research or simply link building. Roughly 15% of the sites that I visit in any day are no longer what they once were.

It becomes a whole different ballgame when we are considering user generated content such as blog comments. In most cases the person leaving the comment is linking to their own site. It is possible that their site could have been exploited without them being aware of it through some java script, plugin, or through other avenues. This is one of the reasons that I visit sites that are being linked to in my blog to verify that they are worthy of my links. I would rather find the problem than have you end up with a nasty surprise.

Even being diligent can never assure safety on the internet. A site could be compromised long after a comment is left. This can not be controlled, so I check all sites for your safety and ours. I have very good anti virus software that presents us from acquiring most malware when visiting other sites. But that happened way to late for us.

Today, I discovered that we have another layer of protection that I was unaware of through the use of FireFox 3.5. Although it has lots of problems opening this new version it has extra protection feature in place. I discovered this by accident today. Someone left a rather unusual post comment that said this person wanted to hire us. This is not the kind of statement that would be most potential clients would make on the blog. Those wanting to discuss services usually go to the contact page. So I was suspicious.

I was skeptical of the comment. You can get jaded very quickly as a blog owner. Since the comment needed a follow up I naturally followed the link to the site. FireFox denied access to this site and delivered up a bright red warning box. It read Reported Attack Site and it had additional information. I was both surprised and relieved. What I thought was a bogus request was merely a ploy to direct me to a site that could have caused some serious problems. Now, I am fairly confident that our anti virus program would have protected us but you never know.

Then strangely I find an email alert in my inbox that discussed this FireFox feature that I was unaware of. One thing is certain I am on high alert these days. The site was hacked last month and I have been writing about spam and spammers lately. They don’t much like it when you call out their negative behavior. So in this sense we have a target on our site. We have adopted somewhat strident security measures on the site recently but again you never know.

These people who do this don’t care that its your business and livelihood that they are messing with. It’s all a big joke to them. Now, having said all of that I will attempt to continue to be a positive influence on our industry. I will continue to develop our ethical link building programs and write for the small business owner.

Have you seen this feature?

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 solutions and venture further.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO

Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions

Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

If your business is located in the US, Douglas, Phoenix, Glendale, and 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!

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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Social Media Done Right – A Contest That Helps Promote Your Business

July 7, 2009

I don’t believe that I have ever written about a contest on another site so this is a first for Tucson SEO. Yesterday, I received an email from a site that I reviewed on Day 29 of the 109 Day Link Building Explosion. This site, Start Up Nation is an absolutely wonderful resource for the start-up entrepreneur.

I became a member during the review process for the 109 Day project. I have returned many times over the last few months simply because it is jammed full of useful information. This is just one example of the many ways that the link building program has assisted our business.

Since I am in their database I get periodic email updates. So when I saw their email in my inbox yesterday I immediately opened it and I am glad that I did. The email announced Start-up Nations Home Based 100 Competition. It is a competition to be named the best business in 10 different categories. The competition includes these business groups.

The contest is very simple and straight forward. You are asked to provide an explanation about why you should win. You simply provide that information and then submit it. You are then sent a verification email when you click on it you are taken to your profile page. Where you should vote for yourself. When you vote you will see a pop up box. It asks if you want to receive daily email notice to vote.

What I think is very interesting about this contest is that there is no prize. When I mentioned this to my business/life partner she looked at me like I was crazy. As in why would you want to enter a contest without a prize. The site explains the no prize approach this way ” First off, the publicity is priceless.” It went much further than that but the whole idea is about publicity, for both you and their site.

Keep in mind the site is geared towards start-up businesses that are likely to be short on cash and struggling to get visibility. Personally, I think that this is a great marketing opportunity for both the site and for those who participate.

When you join the competition you are asked to enter two categories. I entered the Recession Busters and Boomers Back In Business as these two seemed to be the best match for Tucson SEO. I am also considering adding out Tucson Small Business Networking Group site to the competition as well.

Is a competition like this for you?… Maybe, and maybe not. I believe that the site is worth a visit and I recommend that you visit it now. I would also ask that you visit our profile page and to give us a vote.

Are you ready to join the competition?

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?

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What the Bing Is Going On Here?

July 5, 2009

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What the Bing Is Going On Here?

As most of you already know Microsoft was launched it new search engine called Bing. Oops! Make that decision engine. The question for me is how will this affect my site and business. Will enough people searching for our targeted keywords make a difference to me? Bing can gain all the market share it wants but if it doesn’t directly affect our site then I really don’t care. Everything else is just interesting stuff.

The site as always ranked better with MSN than it did with Google or Yahoo, but so few people used it for our keyword it didn’t make a difference. Below I have outlined four keyword phrases that we target to make my point. This information is part of a weekly.

I am experiencing trouble with my tables today. So I will explain rather than just show you are chart of the results.

I checked 4 different keyword phrases

Local SEO

Arizona SEO

Phoenix SEO

Tucson SEO

Our site ranks better with Bing than it does with the other two majors in 3 out of these four searches. The other keyword phrase, Tucson SEO, the site ranks # ! across all the major search engines. While this is nice the question remains, what does this mean for website traffic. We had almost no traffic from Microsoft so any improvement will be statistically significant.

Last month the site had 15 visitors a month from MSN Live that has jumped to 60 over the last 30 days. That is a nice jump and it is traffic that we may not have acquired any other way. It will take some time to discover if that was just the SEO crowd checking things in Bing or not. If those numbers reflect real potential clients then Bing might begin to affect our bottom line.

Personally, I like Bing. It has some new features that will likely be added by the other majors.

Bing might actually be able to grab some market share in the search wars. I sure hope so since they have put 100 Million dollars into the advertising budget to promote its launch.

How is your site or blog doing? We’d like to hear from you.

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 solutions and venture further.

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Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson

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Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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