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Article summary: What's the best way to learn website content writing or to hire a company who provides it? By taking some tips from a veteran website writer. Here come some now! The other day I did some highly advanced computations to determine how much website content writing I've done over the years. Okay, so I guessed. By my estimation, I have produced somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000

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Many webmasters come to the same stopping point along the path to website completion. They get the website designed, put it online, and then realize they lack content. Obviously, this will stop a website project in its tracks. You need quality content for your website in order to inform your audience, establish your brand, promote your products and services and more. Without content, a website

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Article summary: An explanation of the main parts of an Internet web site marketing program and how they interact with one another. Any type of business can benefit from a strong web presence. That's where Internet marketing comes into the picture. By promoting your business online, you can reach a much larger audience than ever before, and with relative ease (compared to the pre-Internet days)

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Article Summary: A look into what makes a "professional" SEO consultant, as well as some of the things you should expect from such a professional. So you have a new website and you're ready for traffic and online success. You've done some research and discovered that search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the ways to get web traffic, so you are now searching for a professional SEO

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Message on home page: "Our strategic website marketing services are designed to help you leverage your resources in a way that maximizes your response while ensuring optimum performance at all times." [Usually supported by a stock photo of chess pieces on a board] Jargon-free translation: "Our website marketing services are designed to work." If you've been operating a business website for

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I see a lot of companies offering strategic Internet marketing services these days. And I know from my own keyword research that a lot of people are researching this subject online. But what makes and Internet marketing service "strategic" to begin with. Let's explore this further... A Strategic Approach to the Web In my mind, anybody who launches an Internet marketing program without a solid

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In the Wizard of Oz, people were mystified and amazed by the powers of the wizard. But when they looked behind the curtain, they realized he was no wizard at all, and that his powers were all smoke and mirrors. Unfortunately, this concept is alive in well within the search engine marketing industry. Let me give you a real-life example of what some SEO companies will do to drum up business. Then,

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Recently, we were fortunate enough to have a Client Services Manager join our ranks. This "liberates" me to offer a broader range of services to clients. The latest addition is our web maintenance service for small business websites. In the past, we have only performed website maintenance tasks for our SEO clients, and only in conjunction with certain SEO tasks that made the maintenance

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I am well aware that India has been undergoing an Internet boom in recent years. Being in the Internet marketing field myself, I can't help but notice such developments. As the owner of more than 35 websites, I get a ton of spam emails from SEO companies based in India, and they all seem to make bold promises about search engine rankings that I would never use to attract clients -- the kinds of

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I've recently begun to put my new book online and make it available to everyone ... for free. You can download the entire book in PDF format, or you can read it online. Actually, I'm still working through the online part. There are, after all, about 140 pages of content to format for web viewing! Check out the Table of Contents to see what's online already. I wanted to share with you a section

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We love our clients. We love them so much, in fact, that we are happy to give them the "shout out" here on our blog. And since we are an Austin-based company, we are especially pleased to feature a local client in today's blog post. M&M Super Moving is an Austin mover that serves the entire state of Texas. They can also help with interstate moves within the United States. I thought this would

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I recently finished a new tutorial on increasing website conversions and posted it to the articles section of the main website. In my line of work, I deal with a lot of different Austin businesses -- ranging from landscaping companies to mortgage companies, and everything in between. It seems to me the concept of website conversions is poorly understood by many Austin companies ... and even

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Nothing drives Internet search patterns like the media. And if you're smart about the content you publish on your website, you could capitalize on this fact in order to increase your website traffic. Here's a real estate example of what I'm talking about. If you've been watching the news at all over the last few weeks, you have no doubt heard all about the mortgage crisis in this country, that

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Just a quick note to let you know that I've recently launched a business directory for companies in Cedar Park, Texas. It's called Cedar Park Today and it gives businesses in that city another way to promote themselves online. I know most of my clients serve the Cedar Park area (as well as Austin and elsewhere). If this is true for your company, then you may wish to list yourself in this new

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Search engine optimization is becoming increasingly popular among folks in the mortgage industry. It only makes sense. After all, thousands of Americans go online each day to research mortgage rates, types of home loans, the home refinancing process and more. So a little SEO can go a long way toward helping mortgage companies grow their businesses. That's why mortgage SEO is one of my areas of

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I own a handful of real estate websites and blogs, so I'm always keeping tabs on Internet search patterns and media coverage with regard to real estate. One of the things I've found is that nothing drives Internet search patterns like media coverage. Let's take a real estate example. Some of the most popular topics in real estate right now are (1) mortgage foreclosures, (2) subprime mortgage

Brandonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05191494856860854055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210559.post-43354907672194543502007-10-27T08:28:00.000-07:002007-10-27T08:46:12.335-07:00

I've worked with a lot of web design folks over the years, and it seems that a lot of them don't understand the fundamentals of building a search-engine-friendly website (SEO web design techniques). Or else they have the false notion that an "SEO-friendly" website has to be ugly. Nothing could be further from the truth. It's actually quite simple to design an attractive website that is still

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I've just finished reading the SEO Book by Aaron Wall, and I am happy to recommend the book to you without hesitation. It's full of up-to-date SEO advice and resources, but that's only the beginning. If you want to skip past me raving about the book and download it for yourself, you can do so at Aaron's website here. I've been working with Internet marketing and search engine optimization for

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I just updated the clients page on the main website to feature some new companies using our SEO services. We are happy to welcome both an Austin Realtor and an Austin mover to the world of search engine optimization and online success! Would you like to be the next satisfied client of the Austin SEO Guy team? We would love to talk about your website, your goals, and your future online success.

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I often tell people that proper search engine optimization (SEO) is not complicated. But it does take a lot of time and effort. SEO campaign management is the ongoing act of improving a website's search engine ranking through various SEO techniques. And while it may not be overly complicated or technical, SEO campaign management requires dedication and persistence. So what does it take to manage

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Passive leads can be a blessing for most businesses. By "passive leads," I'm referring to inquiries you receive from prospective customers without actively seeking them. For example, if somebody finds your website while conducting an Internet search for some topic related to your business, and they contact you ... that's a passive lead. Okay. So technically there's no such thing as a 100%

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There has been a lot of talk lately (or should I say argument) about a website's usage data, and how it affects the website's search engine ranking. I think usage data is an important concept to understand for SEO purposes. But more importantly, it's an important tool in measuring your website's overall usefulness -- which in part will determine your website's success. So just what the heck is

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I'm sure the search engine optimization (SEO) "industry" is like other industries in one regard -- there are some good apples, and some bad apples. But lately, I can't tell you how many people have contacted me about my services, only to recount a bad experience they had with some other SEO provider. It seems there are a lot of semi-qualified folks out there charging an arm and a leg for SEO

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Picture this Internet marketing scenario: You are standing behind your company's website, ready to accept a new customer / client. A prospective customer is standing on the other side, in front of your website. She is looking for exactly what you provide, and is willing to pay for it. The only thing is, you don't know the prospective customer is there in front of the website. How could you know

Brandonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05191494856860854055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210559.post-36854700322696747342007-05-06T08:24:00.000-07:002007-05-07T06:15:12.056-07:00

Baby's all grown up! There is nothing better than seeing a website get the search engine ranking it deserves, after weeks, months and years of hard work. That's what is happening with one of my educational websites, Home Buying Institute. I launched this website in January of 2006, and in that short time it has become one of the Web's largest libraries of home buying advice. Now, after a lot of

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