We live in an age when everything tends to be faster than it was in the past. Speed is of the essence, most of the time. So when it comes to doing things that take up our valuable time, and are a bit boring too, many of us kid ourselves that there is a faster, better way, and we don’t need to bother with it.A

A classic example of this is submitting to the online directories. Again and again consultants advise their clients that getting listed in as many online directories as possible is critical, particularly if you want a good Google ranking, yet few pay any attention tothis.

I challenge you to submit your website to 20 online directories, wait a month, and tell me your Googlepagerankk hasn’t improved.

Oh, and if you can’t find a list of twenty directories, just drop me a line and I’ll send you a list.

There has been a trend in some circles to accept Pay Per Click as the solution to the problem of how to get traffic to your website. The current difficulties regarding Pay Per Click rates, along with widespread Pay Per Click fraud mean that many are rethinking this position.

Have you noticed that when you do a search, you click on the organic results on the left rather than the paid ads to the right? I’m assuming you do that, because a whopping 60 percent of the time this is the case. Coupled with the likelihood that if you choose Pay Per Click, you’re going to come up agains fraud at some time or another, I think that good, solid SEO practices are far better than Pay Per Click. I see pay per click as a supplement to, rather than the answer to achieving good ranking. In the end, once you’ve achieved your SEO goals through the services of a good SEO copywriter and other methods, you’ll be able to disregard PPC once the wheels are in motion. You’ll be getting your traffic at no cost whatsoever!

Was leaving my website in the care of someone else. Granted, that person knew a lot about HTML and other markup languages. But she was not clued in about SEO and how to make a website attractive to the search engines.

Because I was spending a lot of time writing, I had no room in my schedule for my website. I thought it was “secondary.” I only realized quite late in the game that I’d made a big mistake. The damage done by my erstwhile webmaster has taken me two full years to repair, and even now I’m still not where I feel I should be.
Starting out I had a Google page rank of 3–that was in the beginning before I had acquired SEO skills. Now, for two years I have had a page rank of 2 for my home page, when all my other pages are ranked 4!

Who knows what insults Google perceived from clumsy website creation.

Now I know better. I’d never leave my websites in the care of someone else. If I don’t have time to do something, then it simply waits until I’m free. Doing nothing is better than doing the wrong thing as far as SEO is concerned.

A successful website is now a major goal for nearly every business. A well-designed, easy-to-read, popular online presence is key to establishing online branding.

One of the best ways of achieving a high-profile online presence is promotion. This is a lot easier than most people think. Having your site mentioned on one of the social bookmarking sites is mighty powerful, especially if a number of your visitors do this. Here is a list of the most popular Social Bookmarking sites

If you are finding my posts helpful, informative, or even just inspiring, please comment on them. I would really, really appreciate it if you’d also recommend any of my pages to one of the Social Bookmarking sites listed. In fact, if you do, send me the link to consultant [at] marketmou.com, and I’ll send you not one, but three valuable ebooks on starting and running an online business, with lots of essential information for getting your website noticed. Not bad for five minutes work!

For months I’ve been working on my Google ranking for my main keyword for my wellwrittenwords.com website. Finally I made it to page 1! I’ve been #2 and #3 on Yahoo and MSN for some time, but this one took some work. Just goes to show that if you plug away with organic SEO techniques, you’ll have success in the end. And it is a fact that 60 percent of people searching on Google will go for the ranked sites, rather than clicking through on the ads to the right of the page. SEO is a great investment for any business website.

Oh, by the way, my main keyword for that site is “SEO copywriter”

Don’t forget to drop me a line if you’d like me to help you get a Google page 1 ranking!

I’m not sure what to think of this. Any comments? Death of Adsense.

it’s not news that the Internet has revolutionized business for many people. But the extent to which this is true may come as a shock to big business. If you haven’t read Read more

There’s still time to get yourselves organized to take part in OneWebDay if you’re interested. Might be fun to take a look at just how the Internet has impacted all our lives!

If you’re like me, you’ve often agonized over whether your page is set up for the best possible response from your visitors. Now you can see what they see, and watch where they go.

Crazy Egg” promises to help you “Track, evaluate and improve your site.”

You can try this service out for free right now, but it looks to me as if it’s well worth upgrading if you do a lot of work with web pages.

If you’re not using Google Analytics to track traffic to your website, you’d better be using something else! Only by noting trends on a daily basis can you take decisions about what’s working, what’s not, and where you should go from here.

I have the Google Analytics script installed on all of my web pages except my blog. Up until now I couldn’t figure out how to intsall it on WordPress pages. I just discovered a great little script though, that I hope will solve my problems. I’ll keep you posted.