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Watch A Top Los Angeles SEO Company Build Backlinks

seo_writer_mc — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:08:07 +0000

OK, it’s not often that a top-ranking Los Angeles SEO company goes into any amount of detail about what exactly it does when you hire it to put your website on the first page of Google. Every SEO company likes to pretend it has it’s own super-secret proprietary information that only it can use to succeed in a way that no one else can.

The truth, however, is much simpler: most SEO companies do exactly the same stuff. The difference is almost never in the techniques they use — it’s in the details, like customer service, speed, accuracy, and quality of content. The details that separate an all-American company from an outsourced train wreck.

Here’s what our company does when you ask us to guarantee first page placement for your website:

Analyze Your Website: We check out your website to see how it conforms to the rules of on-site SEO, and to make sure that it’s professional-looking and ready for the public.
Alter Your Website: If it’s not, we’ll give you the specific HTML changes you need to make sure the SEO is spot-on…and we’ll offer a few suggestions to make it a bit more polished if need be as well.
Keyword Research: The most important part of ANY SEO operation. We take our time on the keyword research, making certain the phrases we’re going to target will be money-makers as well as being within your site’s grasp.
Quick Links: Once we know what keywords to target, we split into four groups. The first group pumps out swarms of small, quick links like social bookmarks and directory submissions. These fast links give Google evidence that your site is growing and isn’t going to go anywhere anytime soon.
Slow Links: The second group starts putting together content and distributing it across the best content directories on the Internet. These slower links are stronger individually and cast a wide net with which to capture customers.
A Blog: The third group will create a blog for your company, SEO-optimize it, and start putting out fresh content on a regular basis. This helps remind Google that you’re an active and evolving company that deserves frequent attention.
PPC Management: The last time uses pay-per-click marketing to get your website on the front page of Google instantly and keep it there while the other three teams’ efforts kick in to give you a natural, organic ranking.

That’s the entire plan — sounds simple, doesn’t it? Of course, every one of those parts has an immense amount of experience and expertise that goes into it, which is why companies like ours exist.

Get Your Organic SEO And Put On A Good Public Face At The Same Time

seo_writer_mc — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:29:50 +0000

It might be that we’re drilling a little too hard on this concept lately, but it seems like people are having a really hard time understanding the realities of the new organic SEO market. Things don’t work today like they worked a few years ago.

A few years ago, it was easy to buy cheap traffic. Google’s Adwords and similar markets hadn’t been discovered by the corporations yet, and so it was open season for any small business to pop out $.15 per click and get good traffic to their site. At the same time, genuinely good content was hard to find — most $.02/word writers were from the Philippines or Bangladesh, and if you wanted content done well for your business, you basically had to do it yourself or pay a small fortune and hire someone to do it.

Today, it’s switched. The recession has driven thousands of unemployed people from the UK, the US, and Australia online — and as many as have become entrepreneurs, even more have become content producers. That means that content isn’t that hard to acquire anymore — which means, in turn, that the average quality of content online has shot up. At the same time, corporations have taken over AdWords and other PPC networks, which means traffic, which used to be relatively cheap, is at a premium.

That has created a unique effect on SEO. At the same time that it’s become even more important to small businesses (because PPC isn’t an option), it’s also become higher quality (because of the surplus of native English content writers.) Sure, you can still get cheap one-off backlinks pumped out by SEO companies in Bangladesh, but today, if you want a high-quality, relevant-content backlink, chances are some stay-at-home dad in Washington State will write you a piece for a press release service at $.02/word quite happily.

What that means for YOU, the business, is that you should be able to count on your SEO company to produce backlinks that not only give you authority on Google, but also bring traffic directly to your table — because they’re written by intelligent, English-speaking people who have a basic grasp of how to market to their peers. If you’re not getting that level of service from your SEO company, you need a new SEO company.

Why Every Website SEO Company Needs To Master Public Relations

seo_writer_mc — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:07:07 +0000

If you intend to do any serious amount of business with your website, SEO is only one small part of what you need to succeed in today’s internet business environment. Having backlinks used to be the be-all and end-all of SEO, but with last year’s Google update codenamed Panda, lots of things changed — and each successive update Google performs, from increasing the number of secure searches to punishing content mills, only pushes SEO further into the realm of PR.

Here’s what I mean. It used to be that you could outsource a few dozen 250-word articles to your friends in Bangalore, get them spun into a dozen articles each by some other friends in Calcutta, and post your 144 articles to 144 different article directories to get 144 unique backlinks with controllable anchor text and LSI — and it would matter. Not anymore.

Panda has killed thin-content pages — especially those on weak websites (like almost any article directory that’s not on the Top Ten Article Directories list.) You can still do that whole process, and it’s even gotten cheaper and quicker as automation software and outsourcing quality has improved; it just won’t actually bump your traffic much at all. If you want to see improvement in your rankings, you have to play to Panda’s demands — and that means real content on quality websites that pass legitimate juice through your backlinks.

So how does that force organic SEO and public relations to join hands? Simple — if you’re creating fat content, people will read it. If your content is looking like it has being written in the Bangalore, people are going to associate that level of quality and knowledge with your company forever. You never know which piece of content will be the one that a given surfer will find and use as his first impression of your company — and you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

In other words, every ‘fat’ backlink you post needs to be something you would proud to have your customers see. And that means hiring an SEO company that knows a little something about PR.

Just Like Food: Organic SEO Is Better For Your Health

seo_writer_mc — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:00:16 +0000

Have you ever talked to a nutritionist about the difference between organic food and non-organic food? They’ll tell you without hesitation that organic food has a lot of things going for it that non-organic doesn’t. It’s got more nutrients per bite, which means that you don’t have to eat as much for your body’s cravings to be satisfied.

Organic SEO is very much like organic food for your website. Websites don’t get hungry, of course, but all websites compete for space in the search engine results pages (SERPs) in the same way that living creatures compete for resources in the wild. The difference is that creatures evolve very slowly — but every organic backlink your website gains is like a new boost of energy it can use to climb up the SERPs and obtain alpha status.

You might be asking what the alternative is — if organic SEO is like homegrown tomatoes, what exactly is a McNugget in this increasingly tortured analogy? There are actually a few different answers.

Pay per click advertising is the equivalent of going out to a high-end restaurant to eat every day. You’ll probably see good results, and (especially if you get a good PPC management team) you’ll see them fast — but you’re paying an awful lot for that success.

Traditional advertising is like generic supermarket food. You’ll see good things…eventually. But it’s nothing special, and everyone is doing it. Email advertisement, banner ads, and similar tactics are everywhere — you’ll never get ahead using tactics like these.

Black Hat SEO is the worst of the worst. You know those companies that put stuff like hydroxypropylmethylcellulose and bisphenol-A in their food? That’s these guys. Their “nutrition” might sustain you for a few weeks apparent online dominance, but when it fails you, you’re out of business for good.

If you want your website to succeed, give it the tools it needs to go alpha. Get some organic SEO under your belt, one way or another, today.

Need Money? Got a Website? SEO Turns Websites Into Money.

seo_writer_mc — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:58:30 +0000

There’s a set of tools out there for everyone who wants to turn a profit with their website: SEO. Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is an umbrella term for any technique or system used to cause a website to rank more highly in the results pages for specific keywords.

For example, let’s say your website is all about Venezuelan Criollo cocoa beans and the chocolate that’s made from them. You might be on the 4th page of Google if you search for “Venezuelan chocolate”, the 2nd page for “Criollo beans”, and the 23rd page for “Criollo chocolate”.

Anything that you can do to improve any of those ‘Xth’s up there falls under the desmesnes of SEO. Follow a variety of SEO techniques (on-page, off-page, backlink building are the categories, but there are a lot of specific items within each category. For example, on-page SEO means writing copy with an eye toward keyword density; it means watching the contents of your metatags, and it means adhereing to the customer-oriented philosophy of the latest Google requirements.

The result of a few months’ SEO work is the eventual ascension of your website onto the first page of Google for some of your choicest keywords. That, in turn, will cause an explosion of traffic to your site, which you can then turn into money using a variety of techniques from AdSense to affiliate sales to selling, say, Criollo cocoa beans through the mail.

Without traffic, you have no visitors to monetize. Without SEO, you can’t get respectable levels of traffic — unless you replace SEO with some other traffic system, all of which require significant upfront investment (advertising) and/or have a profound potential to fail and cost you a load of money with no real benefit (pay per click marketing).

So website owners who want to turn their sites into cash are left with two options: spend money getting professional organic SEO performed by a respectable SEO company, or do it themselves. Either way will eventually work (assuming in the latter case they do it right), but the point is that if you want to make money on your site, get to know SEO — it’s how websites turn into money.

Thinking Rich And The True Meaning of Affordable SEO

seo_writer_mc — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:55:08 +0000

There’s a reason why most Internet Marketing forums and websites have just as much time devoted to financial or business self-help as they do to details like mobile website design — it’s because getting started in an online business takes a particular kind of attitude. Or rather, it takes a specific kind of attitude to succeed.

The chief attribute of people who succeed online is that they think ‘rich’. In other words, they know the value of their money, and they don’t waste it. They know the difference between an asset (something that creates more money) and a liability (something that costs money.) The famous example is a car — many people think of a car as an asset, but it’s a liability, because it costs money (gas, repairs, etc.) without making money (except when you sell it, but even then it won’t make nearly as much as it cost.)

SEO can be either an asset or a liability, depending on a lot of circumstances. You can pay a company to get you ranked for the wrong keywords, or you can pay them to get you ranked and then not have a website that converts traffic into sales. On the other hand, you could turn over a small fortune and find that you’ve earned it back at the end of the month because you got a flood of visitors and turned it to a continuous stream of sales.

What does it mean, then, to have affordable SEO? It certainly doesn’t mean the absolute cost of the operation, because if the work fails, it doesn’t matter if you spent $5 or $5000 — your RoI is zero. When it comes to SEO, affordability is answered by one simple question: did it make you more money than it cost?

The question is harder to answer than it seems, because SEO is cumulative. Your first few months of SEO might seem like total flops, but then in the third month it picks up and by the seventh month you’ve made quadruple your total investment and you’re still building on that.

People who think rich look for a company who can do SEO right — who has a reputation for doing SEO right — and then they commit with the understanding that in the end, their expenses will be more than paid back. In the end, they are the ones who succeed.

Article Writing and Distribution is the Foundation of Long Term Success

seo_writer_mc — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:22:07 +0000

When you get going with a Web-based business, there are two separate tacks that people take in order to establish their success. The first is to spend money on advertising, get people to come visit their sites, and hope that they make more than they spent on advertising. The second is to work, spend a lot of time building backlinks and raising their rankings through organic SEO, and hope that they rank high enough to start bringing in enough money to pay the bills.

Then, there’s article writing and distribution. It’s both at once, and it works wonders.

In general, you can pay someone to write the articles, to distribute the articles, or both — though frequently it won’t be the same person doing both parts. That’s because the kind of people who find it easy to string words together with flowing eloquence tend not to enjoy sitting there and mindlessly clicking “submit” over and over on dozens of different article directories, and vice versa.

Once you find the people who can tag-team the job appropriately, however, you’re golden. Here’s why: when you have a well-written article and you submit it correctly to an authoritative article directory, you get the total package. Your article will likely rank quickly for it’s chosen keyword (assuming you did your keyword research correctly, of course). Once it’s ranked, you’ll start getting organic traffic through it as people click from it to your homepage.

That’s targeted traffic, and it’s worth quite a bit. Moreover, every article provides you with a context-controlled backlink with the anchor text of your choice, generally from a quite reputable source. (If you’re submitting to Jackopff’s Article Bucket, you might want to reconsider and see what it takes to get onto EZineArticles.com or another major article directory.)

Repeat the process, coming up with quality topics, solid keywords, and reputable directories every time, and you’ll soon find yourself with a quite functional web-based business. It’s a lot of effort, and it takes both creativity and technical knowledge, but once you know the game, it’s very very worth your while.

Local Internet Marketing Is Good Small Business SEO

seo_writer_mc — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:38:01 +0000

In the vast world of small business SEO, there are some practices that are obvious, and some that are overlooked by many small businesses. For example, it’s commonplace for small businesses to have a website and for that website to feature a blog. That’s just good SEO. But one thing that many businesses seem to completely overlook is the power of local internet marketing.

Local internet marketing is essentially the art of convincing Google and the other search engines that your business exists at a specific location. The result is that when people in your area search for a keyword related to your business, they see your website in the rankings. The second result is that when people someone else search for a keyword related to your business alongside a keyword related to your locale, they’ll get results that include your website.

The reason why local internet marketing is good small business SEO is simple: it’s easier to be a small fish if you’re in a small pond. A florist in remote Forks, Washington can reach the top of the local rankings with about twenty minutes of concentrated effort — compare that to the 55 million results for “floral delivery” without the location in mind. Even if you live in a big city like Los Angeles, local internet marketing can cut your competition by as much as 90% compared to the generic form of your chosen keyword.

Local internet marketing also has a bigger benefit to your business than generic internet marketing does. That’s because local internet marketing sends people through your front door. Broad-keyword internet marketing sends people to your website. The conversion rate from visitor-to-buyer on a website is excellent at about 5%. The conversion rate for visitor-to-buyer in a brick and mortar store is appalling at 5%; it’s average around 40%. So local internet marketing is easier to rank with and converts better.

If you own a small business, you have every reason in the world to look into local internet marketing — but just in case you need one more, here goes: most SEO companies charge less for local internet marketing than they do for broad-spectrum SEO work. Check it out for yourself, and jump on the bandwagon before someone else in your town takes the number one spot all for themselves!

The Latest Changes to the Rules of Organic SEO

seo_writer_mc — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:12:59 +0000

Organic SEO is changing even as we sit back and try to keep up. Google released a new algorithm called Panda in March, and has updated it several times since then — and Panda has changed everything. Until Panda, it was enough to follow a complex but definable set of rules regarding everything from keyword placement and density to creating a natural link profile.

Today, however, there is an art to SEO that simply didn’t exist before. That’s because Panda suddenly put rules in place that takes the “user experience” into account. For example,
EzineArticles.com used to look like this:

And now, it looks like this:

See the difference? The largest and most profitable article directory on the Internet did away with two navbars, and 3 different blocks of AdWords because Panda slapped them downward in the rankings until they complied. Their profitability is down because the AdWords are gone, but the other choice was to have it tanked completely because their pages simply wouldn’t show up on any search engine results pages.

Why did this happen? Simple: because according to Panda, your user experience sucks if you have a bunch of crap interrupting or distracting from your main content. There exceptions; Panda loves social bookmarking buttons and other ’share-me’ stuff and won’t penalize you if you’ve got it alongside your content, for example. But by and large, modern SEO means creating clean, easy-to-use pages just as much as it means creating keyword-dense, heavily-backlinked pages.

But wait — there’s more. Panda doesn’t just check your content pages for user experience. It checks every single page on your site and gives your entire site a weighted ‘usability score’ — which means that your entire site can get penalized if just one or two heavily-visited pages have a poor user experience.

What that means for SEO in the modern world is profound, because Google is now forcing us to juggle between satisfying the demands of Panda and being able to effectively monetize our sites — how easy that ends up being has yet to be seen.

First Page Placement is Within Your Grasp

seo_writer_mc — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:27:51 +0000

When you just start to get a website off the ground, the notion of getting your site first page placement for even a few keywords can sound like pie in the sky. Truth be told, however, it’s both easier — and harder — than you might think. That’s because there are multiple ways to get that first page placement, but none of them are entirely without complexity.

Organic SEO
The first route is your standard organic SEO magic: you build a vast array of backlinks. You make sure you present a natural backlink profile from a wide variety of websites, including directories, articles, blog comments, social bookmarks, web 2.0 properties, and more. The process takes an immense investment in time, not just in terms of man-hours, but in terms of allowing months to pass in order to convince the search engines that your site isn’t just a fad.

Organic SEO is complicated because there are a lot of ways to screw it up. You have to know the basic process of building backlinks, but that’s just the beginning. An artificial link profile (i.e. all of your links traceable to the same IP address; all of your links appearing around the same time of day/days of week; etc.) is a surefire way to get all of your work undone in a hurry, and it’s hardly the only one. With Google’s new Panda update, you have to worry about details like how your page looks to incoming visitors as well.

Pay Per Click Marketing
Pay per click marketing — also known euphemistically as ’sponsored placement’ — are the ads you see at the top of each SERPs page that aren’t the natural results. Every search engine has them, and anyone willing to bid on the keywords can get their site listed in them. Of course, it’s not an easy process to wrap your mind around, much less explain in a few words.

The key to doing PPC correctly is to not do it at all. If you’re going to rely on PPC marketing to get your traffic flowing to your site, just bite the bullet and hire a qualified PPC management firm. These people know the pay-per-click game inside and out, and the fees they charge are nothing compared to the money you’ll lose if you try to get into the PPC game unaided.

In short, first page placement is right there for you to have — but be prepared to work with the experts to get there, plain and simple.