Beginners SEO

How much should you spend on SEO?

It’s a tough question, especially in a bad economy.
The question really begs another question – what is your goal for your site?
If you are operating it as a real business where you hope to either supplement your current income or rely on it as your sole source of income – then you need to be [...]

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Beginners SEO, SEO

Time To Take Action!

“How does social media work with SEO?”
“ Do I really need to do Twitter?”
“How much will it cost to get my site on top of the search engines?”
“What are the best keywords?”
“Why did my traffic just take a hit recently?”
These are just a few of the questions that I hear almost every day.  Thankfully my [...]

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2010, Beginners SEO, Bing, Facebook, Facebook Fan Page, Google, Marketing, SEO, Small Business, Social Media, Twitter, Yahoo

Back To The Basics

People are always wondering what they need to do to really grow the traffic to their website.  A lot of people ask what they should do and what order should they do it in.  Here is a little blueprint to help guide you and keep you on track.
It’s important to recognize that there is a [...]

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Articles, Beginners SEO, Blogs, Facebook, Facebook Fan Page, Link Building, Marketing, PPC, Recommendations, SEO, Small Business, Social Media, Twitter, Website Content, blogging

SEO Questions & Answers

Time for more common SEO questions…
1.    What is more important – content or links?
I love this question!  My response is: why is it one or the other? If both are important to the engines (and they are!), focus on both!
I will say that the engines fluctuate a lot in what links they will credit your [...]

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Beginners SEO, Link Building, SEO, SEO FAQ

Your Results in 2010?

2010 started with a whole lot of excitement and a lot of changes in the engines.  I personally spoke with a lot of people that had great plans to take advantage of these new changes and to take advantage of social media.  This was going to be the year to really make things happen.
So, we [...]

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2010, Beginners SEO, Rants, SEO, Small Business, Social Media, Thoughts

More SEO Questions Answered

The following question was submitted by Keith Riddington:
What works the best out of all the options?
I think what Keith is asking is with so many online marketing strategies, what works best.
If we break it down, the most common strategies used are:

SEO
Blogging
Social media (Twitter, Facebook, Buzz etc)
Link Building
Article marketing/Syndication
Press Releases
PPC

(Note this isn’t meant to be a [...]

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Beginners SEO, Blogs, Link Building, Marketing, SEO, Small Business, Social Media, blogging

SEO Questions Answered (part 2)

Carolyn Winslow asked “I would say my biggest question is how do all the pieces fit together? What would be the correct order in putting the strategies to work obviously one couldn’t do everything at once.”
Answer: Its true there is a lot to focus on and everything can’t be done at once.  You need to [...]

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2010, Beginners SEO, Blogs, Facebook, Link Building, SEO, Small Business, Twitter

SEO and Social Media Questions Answered

I’ve asked you to submit your top questions related to growing your business online.  I am working my way through answering the questions.  Here are a couple to get us started:

How do I get links into my site?
An age old question that has left many site owners confused and frustrated.  Google is pretty finicky about [...]

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Beginners SEO, Google, Link Building, Marketing, Real-Time Search, SEO, Social Media, Twitter

SEO Interview

Roger from SENinja.com and I had 2 great chats about SEO. He interviewed me on some hot topics in SEO. All the questions were submitted by people that follow his Blog and needed answers.
There are 2 ways you can access these interviews:
Listen on Roger’s Blog:
Interview 1: http://seninja.com/blog/jennifer-horowitz
Interview 2: http://seninja.com/blog/jennifer-horowitz/2
Download and listen on your iPod [...]

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2010, Beginners SEO, Bing, EcomBuffet News, Facebook, Google, Interesting, Microsoft, Personalization, Q&A, Questions, Real-Time Search, SEO, Small Business, Social Media, Thoughts, Twitter, Website Content, Yahoo

What?? I Need To Keep Adding Content To My Site?

Not many things inspire such dread in my clients as when I remind them they need to be adding content to their site.  If you aren’t a writer naturally, it can be painful to have to produce content on a regular basis.
It’s important though and not just because I said so (although that should be [...]

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Articles, Beginners SEO, SEO, Thoughts, Website Content