tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90210272011-04-21T20:29:33.133-07:00Ground Level SEOPaste Pot Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453698352939224886noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021027.post-1103162535026737752004-12-15T17:13:00.000-08:002004-12-15T18:02:15.026-08:00Well, I think this is funny...googlebot.com...but you won'tThis is pretty much SEO "inside baseball" (which is itself a terribly misused term that should leave the lexicon, now! if you don't mind). But here it is.
There's plenty of evidence that Google has had trouble in the past year with 302 redirects, so much it has spawned a whole new strategy to ruin search
Probably this got the most attention when business.com failed to do it's homework on Paste Pot Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453698352939224886noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021027.post-1103051413833467972004-12-14T11:02:00.000-08:002004-12-14T15:28:21.673-08:00Google wants you to know...what your keyword range really consists of and how big your search landscape is. Google Suggest is really one of the more helpful webmaster tools I've yet to see. Good for Adwords, great for content page building. (thanks to my ed for the link)
This is an extremely pro SEO move by google. An absolutely great tool for keyword research.
Paste Pot Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453698352939224886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021027.post-1102722658416956002004-12-10T13:05:00.000-08:002004-12-10T15:50:58.416-08:00Don't use paid search keywords for natural search optimization.Here's the best tip ever. Use paid search and use paid search keywords to try and figure out where to advertise. But, don't use paid search keywords with a mind toward optimizing for natural search positions. Paid search is a dependable source of traffic that you should go and get, no doubt but popular keyword tools like the Overture keyword selection tool are not the ultimate answer for youre Paste Pot Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453698352939224886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021027.post-1102652063181517952004-12-09T20:10:00.000-08:002004-12-09T20:14:23.180-08:00primary keyword list cont.ArtBroker from the Wholesale411 forums has posted a great keyword list for content optimization.
Paste Pot Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453698352939224886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021027.post-1102645871741220132004-12-09T18:30:00.000-08:002004-12-09T19:12:57.990-08:00engine spam#1 results for 'search engine spam' in the various search engines:
Yahoo!- When I went the domain could not be found.
Google - Same domain, same result.
MSN Beta - Quite a bit better. The #1 result is from clickz. I'm not going to promote it because frankly it doesn't need it. But it's a good summary of the situation, except it fails to mention how bloody successful search engine spam is rightPaste Pot Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453698352939224886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021027.post-1102038327273341782004-12-02T17:19:00.000-08:002004-12-02T17:45:27.283-08:00A Keyword list for my desired primary keyword.I have made a keyword list for the wholesale industry. I used a very simple method of my own devising but I think it worked out very well, I'm going to try and use it in an old site I'm revamping
Wholesale Index
Here's a link to the kw list.
http://getribbons.com/wholesalekeywords.txt
I'll explain more about how I use it later, I'm going to go use it.
Paste Pot Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453698352939224886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021027.post-1102035336581697462004-12-02T16:49:00.000-08:002004-12-02T16:55:36.580-08:00This is not blogspam.I just wanted to make sure that everyone who sees this blog realize that it is not an attempt to manipulate Google or any other search engine. This is what my day is about and part of it involves using helpful file storage devices and communication platforms. Blogger is a beautiful way to accomplish those tasks. I'm going to link heavily to the site I'm working on, yes but I'm going to do it Paste Pot Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453698352939224886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021027.post-1101858084476125382004-11-30T13:04:00.000-08:002004-11-30T15:41:24.476-08:00Title TagsThere's not much more important to proper SEO than title tags. Here's the title tag specification
Here's two articles to chew on. I prefer the presentation and content of the SEOlogic SEO FAQ site.
But, Jill Whalen gives very simple and direct title tag advice. I don't disagree with her significantly about branding, but believe me, you don't always want to brand everything you put out there. Paste Pot Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453698352939224886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021027.post-1099690124464787542004-11-05T09:40:00.000-08:002004-11-17T17:57:47.503-08:002nd level directoriesLet's continue with link-building for a second. More accurately, let's continue with link-building for the rest of my career. Your pages are nothing without links. It used to be simple find a like-minded site and trade links, do this for a long time and you were in good shape. Google now devalues 'reciprocal links' in favor of one way links. The good news is one way links are quite easy to get.
Paste Pot Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453698352939224886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021027.post-1099675919325859382004-11-05T09:01:00.000-08:002004-11-05T09:39:32.010-08:00Yahoo! and DMOZ If you want to rank well. You'd be foolish to ignore Yahoo! and the ODP. For commercial listings, you must submit to Yahoo! Express to be included. Today, that costs $299 (the fee recurs annually). Non-commercial sites can submit for free, just go to the category you want to be in and click on the 'Suggest a Site' link (the wait for inclusion will generally be a long one, thus the 'Express' fee Paste Pot Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453698352939224886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021027.post-1099674055959353952004-11-05T08:43:00.000-08:002004-11-05T09:00:55.960-08:00Baby StepsMy first step is to look at the the resources that exist for the site right now.
Wholesale 411 is a very popular wholesale search engine. They display a number of relevant results for product categories like wholesale apparel, wholesale jewelry, wholesale DVDs etcetera etcetera. Even though I just started, I know from my previous experience in the field that both customers and advertisers are Paste Pot Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453698352939224886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021027.post-1099657775748016352004-11-05T04:06:00.000-08:002004-11-05T04:29:35.746-08:00In the beginning....Hello and welcome to my SEO blog. Obviously this isn't the first, biggest or best SEO blog, but I have an angle. This blog is going to try and give you a pretty robust picture of the day to day to day to today activities of a professional search engine marketer as I work with a website.
I just took a new job, with ALDnet Media Group, their principal product is a specialty PPC search engine - Paste Pot Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453698352939224886noreply@blogger.com0