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Cool Infographic About Content and SEO (and Social)

Hi doods and doodettes!

Every webmaster out there should be up to speed with Google Panda updates, what they mean, what you can do to avoid/comply.

Search Engine Land is on top of this story, but I want to share a few other links for all of you to keep up on:

• http://searchengineland.com/google-panda-losers-today-show-winners-youtube-95257
• http://www.lsfinteractive.com/blog/
• http://searchengineland.com/confirmed-google-panda-2-5-update-arrived-this-week-95222
• http://www.webpronews.com/daniweb-panda-2011-09

This should help get you up to speed. Please don’t hesitate to use the comments below if you have questions or, well, comments. I would be happy to chat with you about Google Panda.

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Get Up To Speed With Google Panda

*sigh*

*humph*

*ahhh*

“…I’m so tired…”

“…c’mon!!!! What? Why?…”

These are some of the possible things you may hear from a person who’s escalating in the frustration scale. Now, this unmotivated, lazy and grumbling attitude is something that most of us are very familiar with. Some of us have realized that this negative attitude can affect our lives in, well, negative ways. Imagine That!

If you just had an “Ah-Ha!” moment after reading that, then I hope you’re open to change because knowing you have a negative attitude and not changing makes for a very frustrated life.

Back to the subject at hand, in the same way negative attitude can impact your life in negative ways, it can also impact your SEO, and all internet marketing efforts.

You probably see where I’m going with this, but really, it can, and it will. Fortunately this is an issue that we are in control of, since this is part of our own algorithm. This is a variable we can change with a few tweaks and some good optimization.

Realization is the First Step

We don’t know what we don’t know. Having said that, we have a deep innate ability to find out things about ourselves through some introspection. Look at your work and your habits while working, and ask yourself the following questions:

• Do I feel there’s a lack of spontaneity in my professional life?
• Do I feel bored and robotic doing this stuff?
• Do I ignore small signs of progress?
• Am I avoiding the community?
• Do I avoid learning and doing more SEO?

Be honest with this stuff. If you answered “Yes” to any of those questions, than your SEO skills may be compromised. Pretty basic stuff you ask? Yes, but if that’s happening for you, then you’re probably not achieving your potential for success every day, and that’s probably translating into poor, or less than great, quality work from you.

Yes You Can

Do I have your attention now? Good. Then you probably need to read this post.

After realizing this is happening to you, comes decision time. That means, you need to decide if this is what you really want to be doing, and promise yourself you’ll be really good at whatever it is you decide on.

Now that you decided to stay in internet marketing (you did, didn’t you?), fulfill your promise to be really good at it! Start by making a conscious effort to have a positive attitude. Force a smile here and there, fake it till you make it!

I Can See Clearly Now, The Rain Is Gone

Now that the clouds of negativity have been lifted, look around you and surround yourself with the right tools, people and environment that stimulate your mind in positive ways.

Be a servant leader, and an eternal learner. Look for the opportunity in every circumstance, and think of how you will step up in surprising, positive ways. Connect with good people and do for others as you want done unto you.

In the work place, don’t rush your tasks. Take time to get the job done right, and done once. Once you stop the negative chatter in your brain, your ears and eyes can hear and see things they could never hear and see before. You will notice little variables that provoke tremendous results, and you will not only be really good at what you do, but you will also love what you do!

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Your Attitude Can Affect SEO

So awesome! hahahahahahahaha

Who has gone through this before raise your hand!

ps: dunno who this screenshot is from, so if it’s yours, let me know so I can mention you.

Have a great weekend y’all!

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Actual Client Quote

There’s no other way I can start writing again on my blog without something that will convince it’s worth your time to come back. Well, I got just the thing… Das Beer Boot Commercial!

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Coming back strong!

It’s not like I’m re-inventing the wheel here. Anyone who has even worked on Customer Service knows that this is true. It’s way old school to believe that “the customer is always right”, and I’m not trying to take away the psychological truth in that.

I’m currently working with a guy who is the CFO of his company. Before we get going, here’s the Wikipedia definition of a CFO:

The chief financial officer (CFO) is a corporate officer primarily responsible for managing the financial risks of the corporation. This officer is also responsible for financial planning and record-keeping, as well as financial reporting to higher management.

Okay, so right there the problems start. First, a CFO should never be concerning him/herself with a marketing campaign. The mission of a CFO is to eliminate unnecessary budget, and typically this looks like them tapping into other departments of the company and seeing where the efficiencies and inefficiencies are.

Although they may be good at “crunching numbers” that doesn’t translate into internet marketing numbers.

Focus on the goal

If the goal is to sell more products, why would you care about the backlink count if you’re selling more products?

If the goal is to increase online exposure, why would you hold your consultant hostage over the latest change in the Google Algorithm, specially if he/she is giving you more exposure?

I just realized this post is more like me venting than anything else, but oh well.

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Choose The Right Person To Handle Your Business

Geez Louise!!!

I haven’t written anything on my blog for months and months and months!!!

In an effort to get something out there, here’s a quick update on what’s going on:

• I’ve been dabbling in a little affiliate marketing, and will have some pieces of information to share here soon.
• I’ve also been expanding my deeper understanding of PPC, which I’ll be talking about in the future as well.
• WOW, so much has happened in the SEO world since I last wrote in March! No need to regurgitate what everyone’s talking about, but if you haven’t kept up, at least find out more about the “Mayday” Update.

Hope you all are having a good 2010!!!

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Wow it has been a long time!

Search Engine Optimization as a product.

SEO as a service, is offered from professional (and hopefully good) individuals like myself, as well as from big internet marketing companies, like eVisibility. The level of service also varies, for example:

• The individual consultant is often limited to how much he/she can actually do, and the level of knowledge is limited to what that person knows.
• The big agency can offer a wide range of services that intertwine and make up a healthy campaign. The level of knowledge is vast as there is a team of clever individuals working on the same campaign (at least that’s the case for good agencies).

The SEO Buyer.

As a prospect buyer of this service, one can be quite overwhelmed with the wide range of possibilities, actual deliverable tasks, personalities, cost, and more!

One of the things the SEO buyer starts to realize, as he/she shops around for their future SEO provider, is that different SEO providers will quote different deadlines to achieve a certain goal (usually measured around rankings).

We will get your website ranked in 3 months!!! GUARANTEED!!!

… oh boy…

SEO IS FOREVER!

Dear Mr. SEO Buyer,

Are you serious about thriving online? Yes? Well I have news for you, SEO is FOREVER!!

I understand that if you heard this during the sales process, you might think that the person on the other side of the phone has gone bananas. How can you even consider spending a bunch of money on something indefinitely (or at least for as long as you have a business that needs the internet)?

Don’t freak out, let me show you a different point of view on the subject at hand..

The 6 Months Trial

Once you find an SEO provider that you can trust, make sure that you have enough budget to run a 6 months campaign. You need to give your new partner some time to get the foundation established before you can expect to see any ROI.

After 6 months you should have a pretty good idea as to whether or not this is working for your business. You should be educated enough in the process to spot the weaknesses and strengths of your campaign.

If it’s working, keep going! If you have gotten great rankings and quality traffic, keep going!! Remember, there will always be someone, somewhere, doing the same thing you’re doing and more..

If you’re serious, Mr. SEO Buyer, you can never stop SEO, it’s forever!

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Photo Credits:

SEO Blocks: Flashdaweb

Sleazebag Salesman: NVISolutions

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SEO is FOREVER!

My Pandora activity widget. I was playing around with it under my Pandora profile. They actually posted this here straight from there, and it was scheduled to be posted 8 hours from now. Kinda weird, but interesting at the same time..

Anyway, here’s my Pandora widget activity… Maybe someday it will make its way to my sidebar, we’ll see. (maybe when they stop advertising ATT on it!)

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Pandora Widget

In the last year we all saw the Universal Search feature change the way people search in Google. That was a big change, but not as big a change as what’s about to come. 

Universal Search blended results from multiple databases such as images, videos, news, etc. You’ve seen it, here’s an example below: 

What’s about to happen is an even deeper blending of information, and the end-user will have more options to filter and find more of what they like and less of what they don’t like.

The full story can be found at Dullest.com’s blog, and we should start seeing this roll out in bits and pieces during the next several weeks.

Image courtesy from http://www.dns.com.tw/

This Dance will make many SEOs out there re-think the way they build their strategies and drive force them to optimize for the various channels from where data will be pulled from.

This could result in a greater amount of spam control in sites like YouTube, and directories from Google such as Google Local. Unfortunately not all SEOs are nice and create relevant, useful and positive content…

With that said, this is a change for the better and I’m personally looking forward to this new environment – better catered to the end-user. 

There will be more and more details coming about in the following weeks, but make no mistake that it’s coming

If you have any questions, drop me a comment and check the “Notification” box so you know when I answered

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Ready for a Google Dance? Google is Ready!