A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about SEOing a site on a limited budget and one of the points I made was that the moment a price is mentioned prospective clients seem to get scared away.
Landon found this post thanks to our recent review on ProBlogger and made the suggestion:
It would be [...]
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Recently, Darren from ProBlogger started a Community Blog Consulting project where he gets his 37,000+ subscribers to constructively critique a blog. Many of these subscribers have successful blogs of their own (spanning countless industries) so when the consulting project was launched, I jumped at the opportunity to have the SiteMost blog reviewed.
The [...]
Local Tax Deductible Linking Opportunities
Published by December 17th, 2007 in Link Building. 1 CommentBefore I get started, I should point-out that purchasing links purely to improve your search rankings is not a good idea. Google has recently been penalizing sites that have done this and eventually such links will stop passing rank completely.
The techniques discussed in this article aren’t designed to manipulate the search engines – they [...]
Every month I receive a few enquiries from small businesses who don’t really understand what SEO is, but they know it’s important and want to find-out more… until a price is mentioned and then they run for the hills.
This isn’t because our SEO prices are outlandish – the client simply doesn’t understand how keyword research, [...]
Over the past few posts I’ve discussed some more creative ways to build and bait links, so I thought it was time to go back and cover a basic, yet essential topic – On-Site SEO.
Before I go too much further, I should point-out that there are 200+ factors to be considered when doing a full [...]
As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, things have been pretty busy lately and I let my blog posts fall a week or two behind.
But even though I was slack, it certainly didn’t stop everyone else from writing some great posts… so here’s a monster recap of all the great posts I’ve read over [...]
I fall into the category of Generation X (although some could argue that it’s more like the MTV Generation)… I work with another Gen X, a Baby Boomer and a Generation Y.
Because of this reasonably broad cross-section, it’s made me aware of how different generations purchase products and the things that motivate different age groups.
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What rank checking and nose picking have in common…
Published by November 22nd, 2007 in Keywords and SEO. 3 CommentsWhat does picking your nose have to do with regularly checking where you rank for your selected keywords?
Both are bad habits but for some reason a lot of people partake in both activities – and to make matters worse, they do it on a daily basis.
Why shouldn’t you check rankings?
Don’t get me wrong – it’s [...]
Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance
Published by November 21st, 2007 in Blogging. 0 CommentsThe Six P’s
I would always leave assignments to the very last minute and inevitably every imaginable thing would go wrong.
On one such occasion my teacher told me that I should have applied The Six P’s. He then went on to tell me that The Six P’s were: Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
Whilst this [...]
It’s Friday and as is the custom on SEOmoz, they have a Whiteboard video-session covering some of the weekly happenings. This week Dave Naylor made a guest appearance and it was very good – Whiteboard Friday – “Pardon The Fookin’ Interruption” (The Complete Trilogy)
Whilst we’re on the topic of video posts, SEObook do one [...]
