Search Engine Optimization

August 26, 2007

  • How to quickly show up on Google

    The other day I posted something on this blog and sent Ryan an email message about it. A short time later, I received an alert from Google (I have signed up to be notified whenever my name shows up on the web somewhere) saying that Ryan’s blog had a new mention of my name. When [...]

May 4, 2007

  • Overture and WordTracker keyword tools: What’s the difference?

    During the Santa Fe Bootcamp, Bill and I (Ryan) demonstrated how to use both Overture and Wordtacker to find “niche” keywords. A question arose: How do the two tools differ?
    In brief, Overture’s search engine gives you data for an entire month. So the numbers that it give you are higher than what you see on [...]

April 7, 2007

  • Using the Oprah Winfrey Show to bring traffic to your website.

    In a previous post, I showed a small example of how to use Wordtracker and content-rich blog posts to bring more traffic to your website. My example was modestly successful. The post ranks #1 on google for “how to information marketing” and it brings in steady traffic to the Web Whisperers blog.
    Remember though, that the [...]