Did you get an email from WordTracker about a Link Building webinar? Is it worth your time?
Frequently SEO consultants and SEO tool providers create and circulate videos promoted as how-to or help resource videos. But a lot of time these videos have little helpful content amidst a lot of marketing. Want to save some time? This video by Ken McGaffin, Chief Marketing Officer of WordTracker is over an hour long. Here is my review of the video on linkbuilding, produced by WordTracker.
For starters, the webpage containing the video gives a list of How-To’s for the hardest parts of linkbuilding. It makes claims to solve the hardest problems in linkbuilding. However, on the outset of the video, you are given a list of some pretty elementary topics.
6 ways link building helps your website.
Why would another site link to yours
How to find quality link prospects
How to determine a quality link?
How to get organic links (backlinks without asking)
Pitfalls of most link building campaigns
How to Plan a blog campaign.
Keep reading below the video for my in depth review before you watch.
Keyword density analyzer that actually lets you find the density of a particular keyword phrase on your site, compared to your competitor’s site. Most keyword density tools just give you a list of words they find on the site and the particular webpage you request.
Yelp reviews is a vital component of 3 steps for local search (or map search) optimization. The existence of Yelp reviews, good or bad, cements your business into the local/map search results.
This video tutorial shows the basics for using Yelp business tools. However, leveraging yelp for local search optimization can be simplified to 3 steps.
5 Strategic Decisions to Get the Most Out of Automated Blog SEO
When it comes to blog SEO, everyone talks about title tags, meta tags, search engine friendly URLs (slugs, permalinks, whatever you want to call them)… That’s all pretty common stuff and there’s plenty of information about the WordPress SEO plugins to help you find them and set them up. But here’s the most important thing that no one tells you to consider – website architecture. This is closely related to silo linking, but MUCH more powerful.
Medium Blue Search Engine Marketing clients are sent my way when they need a little extra above and beyond ideas, technical recommendations and help for their organic search engine results. Clients look to our search engine marketing consultancy for advice, but make their own ultimate decisions on optimizing their website. The trend I’ve noticed is that most people are uninformed to a certain level of SEO information regardless of what their consultant recommends. The most common unknown is the magnitude of missed opportunity not optimizing their website architecture. And this is the biggest opportunity for setting up your wordpress blog so that it’s automated SEO feeds optimization for the rest of your website.
At today’s SEMPO Atlanta PPC event I had a chance to ask all the important SEO questions with a Yahoo representative (who’s name unfortunately escapes me). With the joining of Yahoo and BING, it was common knowledge that Bing Microsoft organic search results will power the Yahoo search. But how will the result add up to Google? How will Yahoo search experience change?
As an SEO professional, I know Yahoo search algorithms are noticeably more sophisticated than those of BING. However, Bing has flashy rollover previews. Will Yahoo share search technology with Bing? Read The Rest of This Article »
So I got onto Yahoo’s Wiki for Answers and decided to answer a few questions. Here’s my bio on Wiki answers for AnswersByGreg. Here is the answer to the question about CAD programs.
After 6 years of SEO, graphic design and web development for my full time client in Charleston, SC….
As of January 19, 2010 I, Greg Lee will be a member of the Medium Blue SEO team. I was hired as the Research and Development Technician to help clients with websites that are struggling. I will be researching and developing new strategies to improve website visibility where the normal good practices just are not quite doing enough. I’ll be researching new algorithm changes, studying link profiles, doing competitive website research, and overturning stones to improve standard procedures. Read The Rest of This Article »
