March 2003

Robin Nobles

A New Pricing Structure for SEO Companies

One professional SEO, Barry Lloyd, has experimented with pricing structures for several years, and he’s arrived at a plan that works extremely well for him. Paid performance....

Jill Whalen

Should One Request Links to Inner Pages?

Regarding your link building campaign, you don't need to go out and start an entire linking campaign around that one military gifts page. Having most links point to your home page is perfectly fine and works very well to build your PageRank....

Kalena Jordan

What SEOs Expect From Their Clients

Once you've located a top performing SEO, don't expect to call the shots. Search engine optimizers have certain expectations of their clients. Let me run through a few of them....

Scott Buresh

Building Link Popularity Improves Search Engine Ranking

A properly executed link building campaign will help boost your ranking with many search engines, but this is only part of the benefit. The quality sites that have agreed to link to you will also send you highly relevant traffic....

Jill Whalen

Using Keywords to Optimize Titles and Descriptions for Search Engines

Every page is unique, and every optimization is unique. Therefore there will never be an optimum number of times to use any particular keyword or keyword phrase in any of the tags or in the page copy. You should use them in the way that makes the most sense for the particular page you are working on....

Ross Dunn

Working Well With Your Search Engine Optimization Firm

A successful SEO enriched marketing campaign will require a few simple but crucial elements: timing, organization, and commitment. Understanding these elements and having realistic expectations is critical to the success of your search engine marketing efforts....

Andy Beal

Search Engine Optimization Basics Part 2 - Title Tags

Not only is the structure and content of the Title tag used by the search engines when calculating your webpage's relevance, but it is also displayed in most search engine results pages. It therefore needs to be carefully constructed in such a way that it influences your website's position in the SERP, but is also attractive enough to encourage a surfer to click on your link....

Scott Buresh

Managing a Responsible Pay-Per-Click Campaign

It is crucial to the success of the campaign that you pay a reasonable price for each visitor, that each visitor is highly targeted, and that you monitor your positions to maintain your exposure over time....

Andrew Goodman

Will Content Targeting Work This Time Around?

Google's mixed up some new secret sauce to better target keyword-based ads to topical content, but it seems as if this is a partial, evolutionary step towards fuller incorporation of semantic analysis into search....

Andrew Gerhart

Search Engine Optimization Campaign Results and Expectations

Many people are becoming more and more knowledgeable of SEO, but do not know what the process entails and what they should expect for results....

Jill Whalen

Keywords in Hyperlinks Improve Search Engine Ranking

It's important to discuss why keywords in hyperlinks are helpful to the search engines. To do this, we have to do my favorite thing, which is to think like a search engine....

Eric Lander

Getting Started in Search Engine Optimization

If you have decided that you want to optimize a web site, do yourself a favor and read up on resources available online. Typically, all resources are free and the knowledge gained can be invaluable....

Daria Goetsch

Sitemaps and Hypertext Links: Food for Search Engine Robots

Sitemaps and hypertext links are 'food' for search engine robots. We will look at the value of text links for optimal spidering, and the importance of using a sitemap in order to help search engine robots reach your website's deeper pages....

Scott Buresh

Avoiding Risky Tactics - A Long Term Approach to Search Engine Marketing

The beauty of the content-driven approach is that there is no risk, and what works well today will almost certainly work well in the future. On the other hand, many of the current techniques employed to manipulate rank are likely to become just as obsolete as hidden text is today....

Ross Dunn

Will Search Engine Acquisitions Impede or Intensify Innovation?

Perhaps these moves will open the doors for new products to emerge to fill vacuums left by the old. However, given the state of the Internet economy, the moves of the past months are more likely to produce even more instability as the market struggles to define and redefine itself....

Scott Buresh

Monitoring Your Search Engine Positions - Five Tips

Monitoring high rankings, once attained, is critical to the ongoing success of any search engine marketing initiative. It is also important to approach your monitoring efforts with a solid strategy and a proper mindset. The following five tips can help....

Jill Whalen

Can Search Engines Follow JavaScript Pop-up Links?

I am a photographer with an image based website. The pages on my site use JavaScript to open pop-up windows when viewers click on the thumbnails on those pages. Can the search engines follow those links to those pages?...

Kalena Jordan

Interview With Dakota Sullivan of LookSmart

Mr Sullivan reveals how the Yahoo/Inktomi deal will affect LookSmart, the new features LookSmart will be introducing for Small Business Listings customers shortly and why he thinks WiseNut is a better search engine partner for the major portals than Google....

A New Pricing Structure for SEO Companies

Should One Request Links to Inner Pages?

What SEOs Expect From Their Clients

Building Link Popularity Improves Search Engine Ranking

Using Keywords to Optimize Titles and Descriptions for Search Engines

Working Well With Your Search Engine Optimization Firm

Search Engine Optimization Basics Part 2 - Title Tags

Managing a Responsible Pay-Per-Click Campaign

Will Content Targeting Work This Time Around?

Search Engine Optimization Campaign Results and Expectations

Keywords in Hyperlinks Improve Search Engine Ranking

Getting Started in Search Engine Optimization

Sitemaps and Hypertext Links: Food for Search Engine Robots

Avoiding Risky Tactics - A Long Term Approach to Search Engine Marketing

Will Search Engine Acquisitions Impede or Intensify Innovation?

Monitoring Your Search Engine Positions - Five Tips

Can Search Engines Follow JavaScript Pop-up Links?

Interview With Dakota Sullivan of LookSmart