Bill Hartzer

6 Ways to Get Nearly Instant Links to your Web Site

It seems as though everyone wants something done quickly, or nearly instantly. We want success quickly. We want to be successful online and we want to get links to our web sites quickly. We want traffic to our web sites quickly. There are many reasons why you would want to get ...

Search Engine Workshops Now Offering Online Search Engine Marketing Resource Center

Search Engine Academy is now offering a networking community for search engine marketers. This new networking community is the first on the internet to offer a place where search engine optimizers can meet and share strategies, access other online areas, and get the latest updated material on a regular basis. Search ...

What Does Social Media Have to do with Search? Plenty

Back in the "dark ages" of search engine optimization, way back a few years ago, actually, we created content on our websites. We then paid attention to on-page optimization, like optimizing our title tags, our body copy, and we mentioned our keywords in the copy. Linking campaigns were important, and ...

Latent Semantic Indexing – SiloMatic

The days of keyword stuffing, single phrase optimization and concentrating only on incoming links to gain traffic are slowly being phased out as a more holistic approach to judging website content comes online. This new concept has many webmasters hopping, and it should. Latent semantic indexing is quickly becoming the ...

Latent Symantec Indexing LSI is the Key To Great Search Engine Rankings

By Guest Writer Monica Hendrix There are billions of pages online today and the web is growing at such a fast rate that many sites simply can’t get ahead of established websites – but now they can. Imagine building a site to a formula that search engines are looking for and will ...

The Painful Truth About Getting Your Website to the Top of the Search Engines

By Guest Writer Ivana Katz “How do I get my website to come up on top of the search engines?” – That is one of the most frequently asked questions I get asked by clients. The truth is, it’s not easy. With millions of websites on the internet right now and thousands being ...

What Are Search Engine Friendly URLs?

By Guest Writer Dirk Lester They are one of the most important elements of web design, and one if the most overlooked. Each of the major web crawler-based search engines (meaning Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista. Excite and so on) relies on a unique algorithm, methodology or formula to settle on a given ...

Getting Out of the Google Supplemental Index

My fellow linking master buddy pal named Andy Hagans has a great post about escaping Google's supplemental index. “What exactly is that supplemental index again?” I won’t parrot the quasi-official Google answer here. (In fact, I can promise that I will never give you the “official Google answer” on Tropical SEO.) Take ...

Search Engine Marketing Traffic Jam

I was doing some blogging over the weekend and came across a blog that was sending one of my blogs (yes, I have quite a few of them) a considerable amount of traffic. Not only was it sending traffic, it is listed as the number one search result for a ...

Timing of Link Credit for New Links

I've been experimenting and doing some testing recently to try to figure out how long it takes to get "credit" for new links to your site. It appears that the organic rankings credit comes about 5 days after you get a new link to a website. To verify some of my ...

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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