Comments on: Ten Beginner’s Search Engine Optimization Tips

By: frank

frank — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:38:46 +0000

Just a brief comment on this point:
“6. If you are building a site for a local business be sure to use geographic keywords to identify where your business is located For example, “bay area” “conta costa county”, “california”, “pleasant hill”, “east bay”, etc. are all keywords that I use for the web design class site”

This really does help.

Most small businesses have local competition of only 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 pages for very important keywords in their industry.

By adding the names of all of the towns in your area scattered thruout your pages can quickly help you to get to page 1 and 2 of the search engines.

I recently have done this with a colon hydrotherapist…and she said the phone won’t stop ringing!

If you haven’t tried it yet– I would recommend it.

frank

Atlanta Search Engine Optimization

SEO Atlanta

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:14:48 +0000

Thank you Lorelle! You’re always such a wealth of information.

By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:23:40 +0000

Oh, Robin, I forgot to mention that I have a new post that will be awesome for your students. It's about finding story ideas and content for blogging, something I know of serious interest to you and your students.

By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:21:10 +0000

Great list of resources. I thought I’d add that my article, Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization is a nice complement to help your readers.

Thanks for the great information and resources you offer. I’m a big fan. Oh, gosh, I sound like a comment spammer. But honestly, really good work. Keep up the “standards”.

By: David Hucklesby

David Hucklesby — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:45:30 +0000

In item #10 you say:

log files will show … keywords that have resulted in search engine hits …

My log files show most of the recent search engine hits are from a search for “nixon minus brain equals bush”. Now what does that tell me?