Category: DIY SEO

This was the first time I noticed this and I spend at least 10 hours on Google a day. Anyone else notice the new Twitter results on Google?

Whats a Squeeze page? It’s the internet equivalent of the “As seen on TV” TV commercials.  But Wait, If you order now we’ll throw in the slicer dicer and not one but three pink widgets.

As stupid and annoying as these commercials are they would not still be running them if they did not make their creators large sums of cash.

The basic anatomy of a squeeze page includes the following:

I just sat through an hour and a half webinar from Dan Thies formerly of Stompernet and all I really got out of it was his theory of “First Link Priority” which he believes to be a Google bug where the search engine values the first link on the home page more than any other link on the page. I guess everybody who has “Home” as their first link is screwed.  Other highlights from the show? Page sculpting is not something you need to be doing unless you have thousands of pages on your site, Content is king, Make your viewers love you, Duplicate content is bad, duh - nonetheless Dan seems to be down with OPC or Other Peoples Content and using their RSS feeds to fill his spam blogs. I guess as long as you change the title and add a paragraph it’s not content theft;)  Dan also mentions that It’s better to rank in the Top Three of Google than the Top Ten.  Amazing stuff…

I’m a  miser and there’s nothing I like more than free things.

With about 10 minutes of work you can create free blogs at wordpress.com and Vox.cox All it takes is an e-mail address and a little creativity.  These are not as SEO friendly as hosting your own wordpress blog on your own server but they are 100% free with zero hosting fees.

While I’m on the subject of great free things I’m sure most of you realize that g-mail is the greatest free thing since sliced bread but if not I highly recommend creating an account(s) for your SEO Campaigns.

The best free thing on the planet has to be the Firefox  browser and all of the free SEO tools that are available, my favorite of these being Search Status which allows quick access to meta data, nofollow highlighting, whois, indexed pages, backlinks, keyword density and more.

Speaking of Firefox I used to suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder with all of my different on-line persona’s for different SEO Campaigns. These days I just set up a different Firefox Profile for each of my clients.  To set up a new firefox profile all you have to do on a windows box is select Start -> Run and then type firefox.exe -P and hit enter. For more detail take a look at the following link: http://lifehacker.com/231646/geek-to-live–manage-multiple-firefox-profiles

That’s all I have for now, I’ve got some Saturday morning kid sitting to do and it’s feeding time at the funny farm.