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Choosing SEO Consulting Services Comes Down To Common Sense [Tips]

By on August 4, 2011. Leave a Comment
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SEO consulting services can help a webmaster boost their websites presence by bringing in professionals who understand what it takes to create on-site and off-site optimization, however it’s important when choosing a service provider that you first investigate their past successes and understand their approach to site optimization. Start your search by first examining how the SEO service ranks for keywords found on their own website. If an SEO “expert” isn’t ranking for basic terms such as “SEO” or “SEO Services” and “SEO consultants” it should raise a red flag. Speak with several representatives from the company. While a one man [Read more…]

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Freelance Writing for the Web: A Change is Gonna Come. Are You Ready?

By on April 15, 2010. 23 Comments

Make a point of learning more about why potential clients are looking for a writer in the first place and study the hell out of the marketplace and the kind of changes in advertising, search, social media, and all of the other things that are going to force changes in the way people conduct business and information acquisition on the ‘Net.

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SEO Experts and Freelance Writers: Interview with Kieran Flanagan

By on April 7, 2010. 5 Comments

Kieran is a great guy with whom to work and his perspective on writing and search engine optimization is indicative of what I tend to encounter when dealing with the “right” people. He’s the kind of person I’d recommend to anyone looking for someone to provide link building services.

Don’t get any funny ideas about stealing my client, either. I’ve asked Kieran to tip me off if anyone tries to muscle in on my turf, lol!

Without further ado, here’s the Q&A:

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Freelance Writing Opportunities in SEO Content

By on March 17, 2010. 12 Comments

The morals to the story: There’s gold out there for those willing and able to mine it. It’s a mistake to dismiss SEO content as nothing more than half-assed articles that happen to use the right words. If you bring your A-game to SEO content and hook up with the A-level masters of the craft, you can have a chance to do good work at a good rate.

And, if you understand why exceptionally good content can be a fantastic SEO tool, that should be a part of your pitch to many clients.

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Are We Still Supposed to be Using SEO?

By on October 9, 2009. 29 Comments
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I’m really bad with the SEO. I know we’re supposed to be using it to stay on top of the search engines, but I’ve been lucky enough to get good search traffic without using obvious SEO techniques. I try to use my keywords when I can, but the truth is, I don’t want to sound too keywordy, if that makes any sense. Sometimes, obvious SEO titles are just silly. When they’re used five times in a paragraph, it looks spammy, at least to me. When I do use SEO I try and find the words and phrases sounding most natural. [Read more…]

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