Published on January 24, 2010
Lastnight I was reading “Crush it” by Gary Vaynerchuk, who’s known for using social media to grow his brand and wine library tv. While I was reading it I came to a section where he was talking about choosing a blog platform. The two he really focused on was wordpress, which was no surprise, and tubmlr, which was a surprise. He mentioned that with tumblr you could use your own domain and tumblr would host it for free.
I quickly went to my computer and setup a tumblr account. It was easy to use and took very little time to get started. I then asked myself “could I use this to quickly setup a search engine friendly website with no budget.
After a quick search I found that dot.tk allows you to register a free domain with no ads and found that weebly.com allowed you to make a more flexable website. Tumblr is great but it seemed to be aimed at blogging and social media rather than a static website for businesses.
This is what got me to setup what I’m calling the weebly seo experiment. Visit the website for the latest updates.
Published on January 12, 2010
At this Friday’s Pittsburgh SEO Group meeting I’ll be leading a group discussion on Recent Google Updates including: real-time search, personalized search for everyone and the New 3 Panel Google Design. We’ve been talking about these google updates around the office over the past month, especially the real-time search. It will be really great to get input from other Pittsburgh professionals.
The meeting is this Friday(1/12/10) at 2000 Technology Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15219. For more details please visit the Pittsburgh SEO Group website and RSVP while there are still spots available.
Published on October 14, 2009
Subscribe to Major Search Engine Blogs
Part of being an SEO professional is keeping up to date with major search engine updates. To keep things simple I’m just going to talk about tracking Google’s algorithm updates. Of course one of the best places to start is the official Google blog. Subscribe to the feed using an RSS reader like Google Reader. I attempt to read through my RSS feeds everyday, prioritizing each feed into specific categories. The official search engine blog sites are the first ones I read everyday then I work my way down my list; advanced SEO blogs, basic SEO news, social media news, webmaster news, etc. This way I get the most important updates (algorithm changes) first. Tracking Google Algorithm Updates continued »
Published on September 16, 2009
I was recently putting together a manual link building guide. The guide was developed to go through the process of how to find potential links using a number of different tools and strategies. Once I got the reader to understand each way to find the links I needed to also provide a way for them to analyze the page to ensure by getting a link there it would provide some sort of benefit to the rank of the website within search engines.
In the past I’ve used a number of tools and plugins Analyzing the Ability to Pass PageRank or Link Juice continued »
Published on August 26, 2009
Recently I’ve been collecting online resources that look deeper into the science behind search engines. Here are some of the papers I’ve read that I felt like really provided me with a much deeper insight into SEO. When you start out learning about search engine’s optimization you get caught up in many of the tips and tricks that are found all over the internet but after a while you start to learn which resources to trust and then you start reading between the lines. The next logical step is to start researching the history of search engines and the science behind their inner workings. 8 Advanced Search Engine Research Papers continued »
Published on August 19, 2009
Monday Rand Fishkin make a great post on the SEOmoz blog titled “Perfecting Keyword Targeting & On-Page Optimization“. I usually pass over these on-page checklists as it seems they are a dime a dozen and usually there’s a lot of opinion that over shadows the core principles. This article really stuck out Guide to On-Page Optimization continued »
Published on August 10, 2009
This Saturday will be my last day of class and my completion of the MBA program at Point Park University in downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. I have always had the urge to keep learning and this is one of many reasons to why I have found myself in the field of search engine optimization.
I often get asked by younger individuals what courses they should take if they want to get into the field of search engine optimization and internet marketing. Currently there are very few institutions that offer SEO courses and since there are very few clearly defined standards for SEO Optimizing Yourself for an SEO Career continued »
Published on August 7, 2009
At Eyeflow we find it important to develop some of your own SEO tools. There are many options out there when it comes to checking your link popularity, on-page optimization, trust, etc but there usually isn’t one tool that does it all the best and also to meet your specific needs. We’ve found that your best option is to use Developing SEO Analysis Tools continued »
