I was playing a little recreational poker ($1-$2 Texas Hold’em) the other day and a couple of younger folks were arguing about the advantages of pursing a career in either Marketing or Finance. One of them told the other that you can only go into marketing if you are ‘artistic’ – I chimed in with Read more about Creative Search Engine Marketing[…]
Once in a while you find a splurge of traffic coming from a strange place and none is more suiting then in the statistics of one of my test blogs, AllWeirdNews.com – If you follow my case studies this site is one that does quite well in the search engines and traffic in general with Read more about Traffic from an Unexpected Place[…]
Everyone knows these days it really pays to be flexible and multi-talented. As an SEO I am expected to chime in on all things related to the web, either directly or indirectly but what happens when something lands in your lap that is marketing related but has nothing to do with your core or peripheral Read more about Digital Marketing = All Around Marketing Guy[…]
As some of you might know, or not – I finished up an in-house contract with CryptoLogic Inc. back in April. At that time I took on a few of my own clients and in addition I kept my eye out for any challenging in-house SEO positions that might pop up. A few weeks ago Read more about My New Position[…]
A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to win a Google Top Pick Knol Award for my article titled “Top 10 – Ten SEO Tips” This Knol is a introductory look into ten of the most important things to consider when beginning SEO for your website. Equally as exciting is that I have now Read more about I won an award[…]
June 21, 2009 – Some ‘weird’ things have been happening for the term ‘odd news’ I spent another few days down on page 3/4 and now am back to the home page in 6th position. I am starting to wonder if the big ‘G’ is doing some hand editing on these results and moving up Read more about Tinkering with Title Tags[…]
I was sifting through my stats for one of my test sites, AllWeirdNews.com and noticed that I was receiving a large majority (13.2%) of my search traffic from the key phrase “odd news” – the interesting thing about this is that I don’t rank very high on the first page for this term (usually in Read more about Google First Page VS. Google Top Results[…]
May 20, 2009 – Roughly 5 weeks has elapsed since my small change in the title and I have to say that the results are definitely positive but a little on the inconclusive side. Rank position overall in my keywords has improved slightly but I did not really see any initial drop in visits. This Read more about Search Engine Rank Comparison[…]
I have a couple of sites that garner the majority of their traffic from front page search results of an image. Optimizing Alt image text has been a tool of good SEO’s for quite a while and I am going to try and figure out all the reasons for these images ranking so well for Read more about Google Images Drives Traffic[…]
Promoting my websites through Google News is my most recent case study project. I just started so I can’t confirm all of the potential results but I am hoping I can perfect this method of promotion to provide backlinks, trust and traffic. Below is a screen-shot of my press release showing on the first page Read more about Google News Promotion[…]