The Organic SEO
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Search Engine Optimization and Web Design Directories
MWI has a growing number of free directories for web design and search engine optimization firms located in Boston, Utah, and California. Utah Web Development Firms Utah Internet Marketing Utah Web Design Firms Utah Advertising Agencies California Web Design Firms Boston SEO Firms Boston Web Design …
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301 Redirect for JSP / Java
To do a 301 redirect on JSP pages simple modify this code for your own purposes and place it on the page you want to "Location", "http://www.new-url.com/" ); response.setHeader( "Connection", "close" ); %>
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Utah SEO Specialist Salary Survey
I would assume that most search engine optimization professionals in Utah are earning somewhere between $60-80K. But that's all it is, an assumption based on limited factual information. So, let's all find out what we make, shall we? That way if you're not making very much relative to other SEO type …
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301 Redirects Using .htaccess File
First of all, this only works on web servers running on Linux, like Apache. It's no good on a Windows server, which stinks, because I think this is the best way to do redirects because you can manage all the redirects on your entire site from one file, and you don't actually have to create files and …
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301 Redirects for PHP
<? Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); Header( "Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new-page/" ); straightforward. I just did it for a bed and breakfast client of ours.
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What Should My AdWords Conversion Rate Be?
A lot of clients ask me whether I can point them to industry statistics showing what their conversion rate should be when using Google AdWords. Although it's perfectly understandable that a company would want to know how their conversion rate compares to their competitor's, this data is virtually im …
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301 Redirects for ASP.NET
I've had a lot of trouble finding code to do a 301 redirect in .NET, but I finally found some that works, courtesy of Keyvan. <script runat="server">Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.LoadResponse.Status = "301 Moved …
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The Value of Top Rankings
For those of you who may be new to SEO and don't know if you really believe that search engines can impact your business's bottom line, here's some interesting data from my own SEO company, based in Utah. You see, over the past years I've gotten quite a bit of business from search engines, especiall …
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Why I'm a Premium Member at SEOmoz
While there are many authoritative sources out there for content related to search engine optimization, SEOmoz is something of an authority of authorities. A few months ago they started offering what they call "Premium Content" for $50 per month. Even though I had found SEOmoz to be a valuable resou …
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Windows Live Webmaster Tools Beta
Microsoft has a beta version of their Webmaster Tools up at http://webmaster.live.com. It gives you various bits of information and tools, the most awaited of which is the ability to upload and manage XML sitemap files as we've already been able to do for some time with Yahoo! Site Explorer and Goog …
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Getting Started Building Links for SEO
It's one thing to understand why building links is important, and quite another to figure out how to do it effectively. I've found there are three primary ways to build links: 1. Create your own links 2. Recruit links 3. Buy links
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Why is Building Links Important for SEO?
Incoming links, also call backlinks, inbound links, or ???links from other sites???, are one of the primary means by which Google (and many other search engines) ranks websites. There are four ways in which incoming links can affect your website. If you're not interested in why linkbuilding is impor …
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Is Utah SEO the New Utah Web Design?
I started my SEO firm in Utah in 1999. Except back then we weren't an SEO firm, we were a web design firm, and we were at the tail end of the time when it was easy to start a web design firm, as we soon found out after the stock market crashed in March of 2000. With SEO we were slightly ahead of the …
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Search Engine Friendly Blog Titles
Do you blog for business? Heck, that doesn't even matter. Do you want people to visit your blog, whether it's for business or it's personal? Then here's a simple tip that might seem obvious, but which the majority of bloggers ignore. Use keywords to title your blog posts. Here's how...
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Who Are You Marketing to Anyway?
It's funny how you can have a thought and then see it enacted in the larger world. The last few months I've been thinking about how the majority of SEO sites seem to market themselves towards other SEO professionals, rather than people buying SEO services, and I don't know about you, but if I have t …
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Creating Content for Search Engine Optimization
A lot of what SEO is all about is the content on your website. When I say "content" I mean HTML text that can be selected with the mouse cursor. Graphics and Flash are not content in a strict sense, although that isn't to say you can't do things with either that can help with SEO efforts. But conten …
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Gooruze, a Social Network for Online Marketers
If you're in the SEO business you may be interested in checking out Gooruze. It's essentially a social networking site for online marketing types, such as myself.
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Google Sitemaps
The word "sitemap" has typically been used to describe a page on your website that has links to all the other pages on your site in one place, arranged in a hierarchical structure, like this. The sitemaps we talk about in this post are similar, in a sense, and yet completely different. Both Google …
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Good, Better, Best--Writing Content for Search Engine Optimization
A post on my personal blog regarding the practice I observed of an SEO firm creating blogs for no other apparent purpose than search engine optimization has caused enough controversy (i.e. at least one person has a different person than my own) to motivate me to expound on the matter. And thus I giv …
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SEO Friendly Shopping Cart
I don't have a specific recommendation for you. What I do have is a list of features you should look for if you're planning on building an ecommerce site that will depend on search engine optimization to attract customers and drive revenue. Lest we cause any confusion, I am using the term "shopping …
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