Micro-Site Myth Revisited
September 10, 2009 - 5:13 pm by toddjensen
I hear SEO’s and SEO companies occasionally recommend micro-sites, landing sites, splash sites or some version of the same. They hope to create several geo-targeted or keyword-targeted sites that bring immediate success and high placements. I usually discourage such actions as I feel it’s an attempt of SEO companies to simply generate more work for [...]
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Link Building Tip: Ask Your Customers
September 4, 2009 - 1:55 pm by toddjensen
We all know that building links to your page is how to win the popularity contest within specific SERP. A tip I’ve heard bouncing around the SEO world is simple and easy, with good potential. Just ask for a link in your customer emails. After a purchase, marketing emails or any other email sent out [...]
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Competitive Link Finder- Great Link Juice for our Clients
September 2, 2009 - 11:13 am by toddjensen
We all know links are crucial to getting value from your content and improved positions in search engines. I stumbled on this great link building tool. I’m excited to start using it to help out our clients. Basically, you put in the website you are link building for, add 4-5 competitors and run the program. [...]
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Content is King! Okay, how do I do it?
August 31, 2009 - 11:33 am by toddjensen
At TK, we really push new, unique, fresh and relevant content. Getting ideas for content, understanding the do’s and don’t and knowing what content to write is a bit daunting for many. SEOmoz, in their weekly whiteboard video, address some of these issues. It’s great for helping content writers, or those that try to add [...]
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Google, Yahoo or Bing: A Blind Test
August 31, 2009 - 10:23 am by toddjensen
Much has been written about the comparisons between Google, Yahoo and Bing. Many feel that Google still reigns supreme as far as quality search results. Others counter that Google benefits from their brand in this debate, and with a blind test, they argue, Bing competes very well. So, instead of giving our opinion, we leave [...]
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Google and No Follow w/ some SES Chatter
August 22, 2009 - 4:32 pm by toddjensen
Matt shares some great advice on No Follows, and how Google is looking at it these day. As you know there has been a lot of chatter about this as Google’s has been a little ambiguous about this over the last 8 months. Now people are getting some solid footing on the topic. They throw [...]
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Yahoo and Bing Combo Video
August 7, 2009 - 4:06 pm by toddjensen
Some nice background and analysis about the Bing/Yahoo search deal.
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SEO Benefits for Webmasters v. other methods
August 4, 2009 - 9:46 am by toddjensen
I found a nice seo snippet about the advantages of seo for targeted traffic, but also for our link building efforts. Webmasters are searching for link partners and they are searching on search engines (obviously). From SEO Update: “SEO also brings in targeted traffic because webmasters assume that when visitors arrive through search engines, they [...]
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Large eCommerce Sites and SEO
August 4, 2009 - 1:04 am by toddjensen
I like this video about large eCommerce sites and SEO. Trying to get large numbers of products on a site and still have the site relatively ‘flat’ is a difficult thing. These guys share some good tips on doing it with sitemaps and more. Check it out. SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Architecture for Commerce with [...]
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Yahoo & Microsoft Going After Google
July 29, 2009 - 10:09 am by toddjensen
Yahoo and Microsoft have finally teamed up to take on Google. We’ve been watching these two try and dance together for a long time and they finally are making it happen- thanks to Bing showing so strongly as of late. Together they could claim up to 25% of the search market and be a thorn [...]
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