December 2007

Well, finally decided to add Digg functionality to SEOABC after preaching it for quite some time now. I didn’t want to get down and dirty with WordPress’ PHP code, but it turned out that Digg integration is fairly simple and straight forward except you want to pick the right color. The moral of story here [...]

Affiliate Marketing has become a hot topic in recent years and many have quit their day jobs to try their fortune in the affiliate marketing world. Advertisers have also become more aware of techniques to strengthen their sales through Affiliate marketing. Successful affiliate marketers act as an extension for the advertisers marketing teams. While affiliate [...]

As we go deeper and deeper in the Web 2.0 era, new traffic strategies come out everyday. One exciting way to drive organic traffic to your website is using StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon is a web 2.0 community that allows people to find terrific sites in their interest categories based on what the community has voted for. [...]

SEO is a science and an art and in a sense all of us make mistakes that can be avoided. That’s why companies that have used multiple perspectives on SEO have realized more bang for their bucks. Here are some of the mistakes that I think can be easily avoided: 1. META Tags are important [...]

Aaron Wall had a cool collection of SEO tools that used data from Overture and WordTracker to provide keyword estimates. The tool was not functioning quite well for a while due to Overture keyword tool becoming unpredictable. Now Aaron has relaunched his SEO keyword tool set and I highly recommend using it if you are [...]

A few days ago, I was asked this rather unusual question after offering a SEO copy to a company. I was told that the company’s e-commerce team needed to test the SEO copy against their current landing pages and do some A/B testing on the SEO page that I had presented them with. So basically [...]

Just had a chance to browse Amazon for the latest SEO books, and SEO Bible seems to be the latest SEO book available on Amazon. The funny thing about this book is that it was supposed to be released on December 13th, but Amazon claims that there is one more left in stock! I am [...]

Just using a keyword is not going to rocket you to the top of the search engines. Knowing what keywords to target is essentially one of many pieces of your SEO strategy. Once you know the keywords that you are targeting you need to use in the right place and on the right page. Keyword [...]

I have been meaning to write a series about how to properly use WordTracker, and why you even need a subscription keyword research service. But before I get to that, and that could take a while, you may want to take advantage of the promotion that WordTracker is running for December. They are giving 15% [...]

Search engines are smart and stupid at the same time. While search engine algorithms are fairly complex, there are certain things that search engines have trouble with. For instance, Homophones or words with multiple meanings can trouble search engines. Imagine talking about a baseball bat on you blog and getting ranked for the word bat [...]