January 2008

Keyword Elite is one of the top keyword research tools on the market. It has been seemingly around forever. The software may look light on the surface, but it packs a punch and very effective for niche marketers and SEO professionals. After having the chance to finally review the software, here is what I have [...]

Have you been in a situation where someone suggests a SEO tactic that looks good on the paper, but your gut tells you that it is the wrong approach? My experience tells me that you are better off if you go with your guts. In general here are some of the things that you may [...]

Scam Alert: 5 Things that a Guaranteed No. 1 Google Ranking Means If you know anything about SEO, you have probably heard of companies that guarantee No. 1 ranking on major search engines for nominal monthly fees. But no one should ever all for this “get to the top of search engines” scheme. But here [...]

Now this is more of a challenge than anything. For those of you not familiar with what I am talking about, if you type 2 * 3 in google search you will see something like: 2 * 3 = 6 at the top of the SERP. So, I was thinking the other day, what is [...]

Many companies underestimate the amount of planning and deliberation that needs to go in order for an SEO initiative to be a success. Many marketing mangers and directors have limited technical knowledge and as a result do not quite understand how SEO needs to be implemented in their organizations. Slapping META tags and title tags [...]

So here is the most common SEO dilemma that many face everyday: say you have a great website and you want to add a new section to it. Would you put it as www.yourdomain.com/mysite or mysite.yourdomain.com? I have heard many stories about how sub-folders are better than subdomains and vice versa. Many claim that since [...]

Many companies have trouble proper tracking their SEO efforts. These companies have traffic coming through Google Adwords, Yahoo Networks, and also from the organic side of search, and sometimes they don’t quite get the pure SEO numbers right. In addition, performing SEO competitive intelligence analysis could be difficult and time-consuming as well. Hitwise however has [...]

I get surprised when I see SEOs that come out with a template of their so-called best practices and try to apply it to every situation that they face. Unfortunately, SEO is not as simple as some of SEOs want to believe. Of course, we all know that content is king. We all know that [...]