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Do You Have What It Takes To Be An SEO Analyst?
As much as getting in the industry is quite easy for all you need to learn are a few tricks and the whole process that goes along with it, it really is quite difficult to be really known and to have a name in the industry known as search engine optimization.
So how do you go about finding a job as an SEO analyst? Well, here are some tips you may want to consider:
Learn basic HTML and Java. While these are… More »
Content: Just How Does It Matter
When doing search engine optimization on your site, it is important that you also do take into account the content. Well, what would a site be without content? Do you think visitors and guests to your site would love going back if there was no content? I honestly think that I would not be going back to a site without worthwhile content.
Now, that’s the thing that we have to consider. A site’s content is important. It is actually very important… More »
Build Your Web Site With SEO
Yes. And I mean, you should be building your web site with SEO already in mind. In a news story from Direct News, it has been discussed that you would be able to be successful when you already put in SEO aspects as you go on building what you want your website to be.
Julie Batten, an expert on the subject, has also claimed that if you do such, the effects would be greatly maximized. Now that is something that most… More »
The Worst Kind of Scraper Sites
As an SEO, I don’t mind my content being scraped as long as those sites have a link to my site. For me that’s a good one way link.  However, there are sites that not only scrape your content but worst is that they “no follow” your links.  Those are the worst kind of scrapers in my book.
Here’s one of those leeches.
You can see this page at http://www.free2surf.org/?p=250<– this link definitely has a nofollow.  I don’t want to send… More »
3 Popular Music Search Engine
I’m checking out 3 popular music search engines (songza, seeqpod, and skreemr).    Among the 3, I seem to like songza more.
When using a music search engine, I expect to search either for a specific song, or I enter an artist and expect to see a list of songs by that artist.   I don’t want to see wikipedia articles or news about those artists.
I tried doing a search for “Duran Duran”, one of my favorite bands in the 80′s and… More »
Things That You Need To Know About SEO (Part 3)
This should be the third installment of this series of posts. It is interesting to note that there are some truths to what the Web Professor is saying and there are some that are quite debatable. Anyhow, it’s his list and those are his opinions.
Google is not as smart as it seems.
Just because a search engineer is nice, smart, witty and reasonably honest doesn’t mean he isn’t your adversary.
Forums are good for getting clients. Help people out when you can… More »
Things That You Need To Know About SEO (Part 2)
Here’s the second part. As I have mentioned in my previous post, I would be sharing the entire list bit by bit. Any reactions on the whole deal would be welcome.
I’d rather spend time promoting my stuff than a clients. If I fail its my problem and at least I didn’t have to listen to my client
SEO is not a panacea for not having a product of your own.
Go to a conference its so much better discussing this stuff in… More »
Things That You Need To Know About SEO (Part 1)
I came across a really interesting post and after reading the whole thing, I decided that it was worth sharing with you guys. See, this post is about the 73 things about SEO which has been penned by the Web Professor.
I’m going to be sharing the list bit by bit and I would like to hear reactions about what you may think about the list.
Search Engine Optimization is fairly straight forward there are no secrets.
Search Engine Optimization is marred by… More »
Microsoft Is Not Yet Done With Yahoo
This just got in, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) approached some media companies for a possible partnership to cook up a new deal with Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO).
“It’s clear that they’re still interested,” said Neele, who doesn’t hold Microsoft or Yahoo shares. “Microsoft still has this tiny problem in search: They’re losing market share to Google. If they want to deal with that seriously, they need to buy market share or invest in it themselves and that hasn’t been successful so… More »
Adsense Referrals Will Be Retired By August
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Adsense Referrals (not Adsense itself) will be retired by end of August.  This was due to the integration of Doubleclick to Google Affiliate Network. They would like to focus more on the Affiliate network.
Adsense referrals works like an affiliate program wherein you make money when a new person enters the adsense program and make money.  Such income was supplemental to the monthly adsense income publishers get and I believe a lot of people are going to miss… More »
Nichewatch: A Look At The Competition
It is not just important that you take a look at what your site has to offer and how your site is doing in the search engine rankings. It is also important that you do take a look at how your site is faring compared to the competition.
One site that could help you check our your competition is Nichewatch. According to Search Engine Journal, Nichewatch could actually help you compare these things:
their backlinks to the domain in Yahoo
backlinks to the… More »
Top 20 Most Expensive Keywords
After tackling the most popular keywords for yesterday, I now would like to share with you some of the most expensive keywords that the world of the Internet has known. So if you are just thinking of building a site, you can try taking a look at these keywords and see if these could give you an idea on what kind of site you would like to have and what keywords you would be working on.
Here are the top 20… More »
Today’s Top Keywords
It is just right that you put in some of the hottest keywords in your site so that you could be able to bring in more readers and visitors. However, it does not mean that once you have the hottest keywords, your site would really have a boost in its rank. The thing is, the hottest keywords for the day could help you gain the readers that your site just may be needing. Just think that the top keywords could… More »
Careerjet – The Little Job Search Engine That Could
Careerjet is a global job search engine you probably haven’t yet heard of yet, even though it currently features around 5.5 million job listings for the U.S. alone. Careerjet’s current international network includes separate search engines in over 20 languages, for 56 countries. Each search engine features an interface and job listings in the language localized to the job seeker audience. Job listings are crawled and aggregated using semantic analysis technology, a powerful new trend in online search.
Currently celebrating its… More »
Ethical SEO
In whatever industry that you are working in, there would always be a set of ethical rules that one would have to submit to or use as guidelines in his everyday tasks. Now, in the world of SEO, there hasn’t been quite a really specific set of rules that one would have to adhere to. But I did find a list of principles on doing ethical SEO.
Don’t do any harm and engage in aggressive techniques. You don’t want to hurt… More »