SEO In A Nutshell

I am down in Atlanta this weekend for NAMS 4, a 3 day conference for Internet Marketers. There are always some great presentations and workshops that teach me something new and I’m sure this go-around won’t be any different. But one of my favorite aspects of attending this event is connecting with other marketers and [...]

SEO Management Tool – Track Your Progress With SEO Elite

We’ve been talking a lot about link building this past week  and how we can use links to move up in the search engines. One of the challenges when it comes to search engine optimization is to keep track of what works and what doesn’t over time. The only way to do that is to [...]

Checking Your Search Engine Rankings

We’ve been talking a lot about link building and search engine optimization over the past few days and I realized that we haven’t really touched yet on how to check your search engine rankings. The first thing you need to know is the keywords your site is starting to rank for as well as the [...]

Wordtracker Free and Paid Keyword Tool Review

As promised, this post will be all about the Wordtracker keyword research tools. Let’s start with the free one. Free Wordtracker Tool If you’ve been doing this for a while, you may remember the old overture/ yahoo keyword tool. Once it stopped working, wordtracker stepped up with their own free version. It can be found [...]

Long Tail vs. Short Tail Keywords – What To Use When and Where

Before we move into reviews of the various free and paid keyword research tools I use, I thought we should talk about the difference between long tail and short tail keywords. The graphic on the left gives you a pretty good idea of how this works, but let’s look at an example as well. In [...]

What Is SEO

Earlier we talked a lot about how to get the right keywords or keyword research, now let’s talk about how we go about ranking for those keywords in the big search engines (google, yahoo and msn/bing). SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization Here’s what Wikipedia has to say on the topic: Search engine optimization (SEO) [...]