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Sorry for the unannounced let down in regular posting folks. I don’t really have an excuse other than I got busy. There is certainly no shortage of topics to write about!
One of the things that has been keeping me busy is the re-branding of my SEO company. Starting today, Feb 1, 2008, Mike, The Internet […]

In case anyone had doubted the power of an image link with an alt tag passing juice, here is an excellent example. My friends at timeforcake creative media, a Frisco Colorado Web Design Firm, were wondering why Full Frame Design was ranking for the search ‘frisco colorado web design‘. Full Frame does not have the […]

As you may have noticed from the buzz lately SEO for video is becoming more and more popular. With the invasion of Google Universal Search (including videos etc inside organic search results), marketers are starting to notice the advantages of using video online. This includes using video as a part of an SEO campaign. […]

I just did a search for “bay area liposuction on Google” and the same website came back with the top 2 listings. While the indented listing was clearly a page about liposuction, the meta tag described it different as a page about “labiaplasty”. Now this could have easily turned off a user from clicking on […]

Lee Odden has an brought an interesting issue to light in one of his latest blog posts. The issue at hand is client/web designer/SEO relations and responsibilities. I wanted to expand on Lee’s topic for a moment and discuss a few of my recent relationships with clients and their web designers.
Client #1 - a local […]

6 different web designers have asked me about making Flash SEO friendly in the last month, so I’ll post some tips here. Most SEOs would agree that Flash is not really SEO friendly(yet). This is because all the content(text) is inside the flash movie and the spiders can’t read it or at least usually choose […]

As this year is coming to a close I thought I would recap what I thought were the best blog posts and articles on local search engine optimization in 2006. 2007, should be a big year for local SEO. The search engines and search engine optimizers are really ramping up to meet the demand of […]

Once again Mike Blumenthal has given business owners some food for thought in his latest quest to uncover hints for high rankings in Google Maps. In his latest research Mike has demonstrated that ‘links’ to “local websites” , don’t even really need a live link pointing to your business website to get some bang for […]

Bill Slawski posted an excellent summary of a new patent application from Google which discusses how an SE ranks websites for a ‘local’ search. My lesson from this patent is that the center point method of calculating proximity in local search may now be obsolete. The new method which appears to be highly reliant […]