I recently had a conversation with an pre-launch startup where they discussed how SEO was going to be really important for them. And to me, there seems to be a lot of confusion by founders of startups around search engine optimization (SEO) and how it works for a startup. I won't say that I'm truly an expert on SEO. Still having worked with a lot of different startups and especially a lot on SEO and especially long tail seo , I'm going They went on to describe a fairly common type of site that has some original content, but not much. They are in a space

Last weeks Social Media Club gathering focused on using SEO in your social media strategy’s.  Tony Sites and tools referenced during the panel that you might want to check out: SEO Book.com SEO Toolbar Tony Adam, Jeffrey Henderson, Barbara Boser and Sean Percival were invited to share their tips and trade secrets. Here’s a little taste of what you missed:

I went to a meetup yesterday that was on the topic of Internet Marketing / SEO / SEM. The meeting had a decent case study and some pretty good discussion around the room of different tools that you might consider using. What's interesting about that opinion is that there were people in the room who were more than happy to share their ideas around tools and techniques to use as part of the discussion. Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. It felt like a bad time share presentation. At the end, he said that going

Tony Adam , Yahoo’s SEO Manager , is responsible for helping the company optimize so it could get more search engine traffic. Wrong: Click here to listen to a related SEO interview with Wil Fernandez. Right: Listen to my related SEO interview with Wil Fernandez. As one of the biggest content creators on the net, Yahoo wants to rank high in Google and other search engines. In our interview, he gave me some basic search engine optimization tips that anyone could use, including:

SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. if that was my chosen messaging platform. In fact, if Ning cared about making a really powerful tool for distribution discussion, it would allow the discussion to range across all of the channels with each user controlling the flow of the messages. Instead, they are trying to optimize for page views (and ad views) and creating a rather limited tool for discussion. Bottom line I talk to a lot of founders of startups. My initial conversations normally focus on the core of

Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools “ Wherever possible build a simple, value adding, easy to use widget that others can include on their blog or website, a la the docstoc embed documents tool. 3.) Be creative and persistent. Import your users’ contacts, and have easy tools for them to post and share links with friends and across the web. 4.) BONUS: set up auto-emails that “If You Build It…They Will Come” may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company.

To learn how to do that, I spoke with Hiten Shah, Partner at ACS SEO . Here are some techniques we discussed for making a web tool more viral. (Listen Can’t talk alone - Communication tools spread virally, because they can’t be used alone. That’s why tools like GE’s online whiteboard spread virally. Imagine having your site spread online like a benevolent virus. His company has helped grow online traffic for big brands like TechCrunch, Guy Kawasaki, HP and Samsung.

Marketing Trend #5: Increased use of analytics tools (e.g., free) search engine optimization (SEO) content targeting. While the economy in 2009 looks challenging for most companies, the outlook of marketing executives is rather bright and upbeat. Deborah Kania and her team at Brightworks Interactive have just released results of their survey of marketing executives' plans for 2009.

Twitter can already be a great tool for networking and collaboration, so I’m surprised the service hasn’t been tapped for this already. Neil Patel in SEO CSI [link] Lead by Search Engine Forensic Neil Patel,  the audience will watch and learn all the intricate details of a SEO crime lab. As reported by Variety ,  a Twitter-themed television show is now under development. It’s being described as “putting ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive format.”

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