We All Hate Link Building

Go ahead, admit it. When you wake up – if one of your major tasks for the day is link building you’re likely to hit the Snooze button, pull the covers over your head and procrastinate for just a few more minutes. We all know it’s important – but I don’t think it’s anyone’s favorite […]

Part Ten of Ten: Keeping It Up by Jim Hedger

Welcome to part ten in this ten part SEO series. The ten parts of the SEO process we will be covering are: Keyword Research & Selection Competition Analysis Site Structure Content Optimization Link Building Social Media PPC Statistics Analysis Conversion Optimization Keeping It Up Sustaining Search Rankings and Increasing Site Conversions Over the past three […]

Step Six Of Ten: Social Media

The most recent article in the series of ten was published today by Li Evans of Search Marketing Gurus. I first met Li at an SES event some time ago, have interviewed her once for Webmaster Radio (as I will get to again for the accompanying show to this article so be sure to catch […]

Part Five of Ten: Link Building

Welcome to part five in this ten part SEO series. The ten parts of the SEO process we will be covering are: Keyword Research & Selection Competition Analysis Site Structure Content Optimization Link Building Social Media PPC Statistics Analysis Conversion Optimization Keeping It Up Note: Part five is a reprint of a Semmy winning article(Link […]

Part Three of Ten: Site Structure

Welcome to part three in this ten part SEO series. The ten parts of the SEO process we will be covering are: Keyword Research & Selection Competition Analysis Site Structure Content Optimization Link Building Social Media PPC Statistics Analysis Conversion Optimization Keeping It Up Overview Website structure and SEO are a combination of topics that […]

Part Two of Ten: Competitor Analysis

Welcome to part two in this ten part SEO series. The ten parts of the SEO process we will be covering are: Keyword Research & Selection Competition Analysis Site Structure Content Optimization Link Building Social Media PPC Statistics Analysis Conversion Optimization Keeping It Up What is a Competitor Analysis? Have you ever wondered how a […]

SEO Step One Of Ten: Keyword Research

Back in October 2004 I launched a series of articles outlining the ten crucial steps to a well optimized website. The steps were: Keyword Selection Content Creation Site Structure Optimization Internal Linking Human Testing Submissions Link Building Monitoring The Extras (all those things that didn’t fit in the first 9 steps) Well in case you’ve […]

Tying It Together: SEO For The Big Three

This article is part four of a four part series on optimizing your website for the three major search engines. Part one, titled “SEO For MSN” covered optimizing your website to rank highly on MSN, while part two, titled “SEO For Yahoo!” covered optimizing your website to rank on Yahoo! and part three, titled “SEO […]