All “A” list bloggers know the importance of a great title for your blog posts-and you should know and practice it with every post! Back on November 7th I wrote a post about my speaker buddy, Brian O’Malley. The title was Team Building Speaker. The post was short and mentioned team building speaker a few different times to support the title of the post. Did the search engines reward the post? Read the rest of this entry »

Brian O’malley is a professional speaker and an expert on corporate team building. He honed his team building skills while attempting to summit Mt. Everest. Brian is a master at encouraging teams to take risks while building confidence and purpose for corporations. His team building message comes from not only his ascent of Mt. Everest Read the rest of this entry »

We recently completed a custom blog for John Sileo, America’s  top identity theft speaker. John experienced identity theft not once but twice and has a full speaking schedule helping corporations prevent data breaches. If you are a corporation there is nothing worse than reading about yourself on the front page of the Wall Street Journal-detailing how your corporation lost millions Read the rest of this entry »

I first joined the ranks of internet marketing when I decided to sell my custom crutches online. It was about seven years ago and I was able to have a website built for me that Google was never able to find! Fortunately, I found the best coder in Colorado Read the rest of this entry »

Darren Rowse of Problogger had an interesting post in April about Custom vs Premade Blog Themes.  For those doing everyday blogging just for themselves-the decision is pretty easy to take the free blog templates with the wide selection and new themes occurring daily. However, for those who are doing some serious Internet marketing, in very competitive categories, Read the rest of this entry »

A recent visitor to my site found it by doing a Google search for: “best keywords for new site.” I applaud the forward thinking of this visitor. While I’m not sure whether their intentions are to find great keywords for search marketing and pay per click campaigns or they have seen entire web sites built with no keywords to be found!

Here  are a few of my most popular articles on search marketing Read the rest of this entry »

Using Google AdWords can be an effective way for new web sites to get online exposure. If used correctly, they can increase the chances of your Internet marketing efforts succeeding. We all know Read the rest of this entry »

One of my favorite SEO reads is Rae Hoffman, also known as Sugarrae. Today she has a great post on A note to my fellow women of SEO - with a subtitle of Rants in Bitchland! Rae know how to attract readers and encourage foolish men to comment :0  But not me! Read the rest of this entry »

I’ll be categorized as an Internet marketing speaker - not a search engine optimization speaker. This was the gist of a conversation that took place with a Speakers bureau this morning. She told me that most seo speakers either go into Internet marketing or Ecommerce - how could I argue with that? By the way, don’t even think of asking about search engine marketing speaker or blogging speaker - it’s not going to happen - unless Danny Sullivan wanted one of those categories added! Read the rest of this entry »

Search engine optimization experts often find many things to disagree about-sometimes it seems there is little common ground! Here is one thing that we all agree on-For your web site to end up on the first page of a Google search it must have unique and authoritative content. We have discussed the importance of having great keywords on your title bar and how it is the first thing search engines normally read. The meta description is also a powerful tool to help you with search engines and potential customers as well. If you don’t know what all that means-that’s OK, just be sure you hire someone that does. Read the rest of this entry »