Bill Hartzer

How Search Engine Optimization Adds Value to a Website

Most likely, if you have a website for your business, you probably have been pitched by a host of companies about the benefits of Search Engine Optimization. And, as someone who has been actively practicing organic search engine optimization since 1996, I am probably just as qualified as anyone else ...

Search Engine Optimization and Network Marketing: How to Get More Leads

I had an interesting conversation over the weekend with Marvin, who called me to discuss Network Marketing. Somehow we had become connected through Facebook or another social networking website and he thought that since we were tagged as being friends online he believed that that gave him permission to call ...

Search Engine Optimization: Why a Blog is Important

When talking to business owners about marketing their businesses on the internet, I often get asked about why I always recommend that their online marketing strategy, their search engine optimization efforts, include a blog. There are several reasons why I recommend adding a blog, and I would equate the importance ...

Google Issues Search Engine Optimization Report Card

Google has issued what they are calling an SEO Report Card, an effort to provide Google's product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products' pages using simple and accepted optimizations. This is very interesting, because as you might recall, a while back on the Vizion Interactive Search ...

Search Engine Optimization: Why We Still Need Meta Tags

Recently, there has been a lot of debate in the search engine marketing community about some of the more simple or basic elements of search engine optimization, a web page's meta tags. When I refer to meta tags, I am specifically talking about the meta description tag and the meta ...

Search Engine Optimization: Encouraging Google to Display Real Time Web for Your Keyword

Back in December 2009, Google began showing the integration of the real-time web in the Google organic search results. Google told us that their goal is to strive to bring us "the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of ...

Top Search Engine Optimization Firms for December 2009

Every month, Top SEOs comes out with a list of what they think are the top search engine optimization firms, the top search engine optimization companies. As someone who has been in the search engine optimization industry since the mid 1990s, I can tell you that while I don't totally ...

Search Engine Optimization Horror Story Contest Launched

Do we really need another Search Engine Optimization (SEO) contest? Yes. Why? Because the SEO Contest that Vizion Interactive is launching today is not a traditional "SEO Contest" in the sense that SEOs (Search Engine Optimizers or those who practice Search Engine Optimization) are typically pitted against each other in ...

Cranberry Launches PeoplePond.com Search Engine Optimization for People Service

Cranberry, a company led by led by Internet visionary David McInnis (formerly of PRWeb), has launched PeoplePond, an Internet service that provides search engine optimized (SEO) profiles and online identity verification services for individuals. It was officially launched to the general public during the annual South by Southwest conference and ...

Net Builders Launches Sulumits Retsambew SEO Search Engine Optimization Contest

Will Spencer the owner of Net Builders has recently kicked off another SEO (search engine optimization) contest called the the "Sulumits Retsambew SEO Contest". The whole point of the contest is to test the Google algorithm. The winner will own the top-ranked search result for the "made up" keyword phrase ...

March 15th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Optimization 4 Comments

How Search Engine Optimization Adds Value to a Website

Most likely, if you have a website for your business, you probably have been pitched by a host of companies about the benefits of Search Engine Optimization. And, as someone who has been actively practicing organic search engine optimization since 1996, I am probably just as qualified as anyone else ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Marketing 4 Comments

Search Engine Optimization: Is Social Sharing the Next Link Building?

I just finished reading an interesting TechCrunch article about how Google has upgrade Google Reader, making it more visual. What's interesting to me, as a search engine optimization expert and online marketer, is not the fact that Google has upgrade Google Reader. It is, after all, pretty cool stuff. No ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Internet Usage One Comment

comScore February 2010 Search Engine Rankings

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, ...
March 9th 2010
Tags: Search Engines No Comments

CheapTweet Upgrades Its Social Deals Search Engine

CheapTweet.com, a major Twitter-based social deals search engine site, has launched CheapTweet Version 2, in celebration of indexing over 5 million deals online to offer users an better social shopping experience. CheapTweet's 2.0 rollout adds upgrades to its core search engine, voting mechanism, and a new look and feature called ...

Search Engine Optimization and Network Marketing: How to Get More Leads

I had an interesting conversation over the weekend with Marvin, who called me to discuss Network Marketing. Somehow we had become connected through Facebook or another social networking website and he thought that since we were tagged as being friends online he believed that that gave him permission to call ...

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