I’ve seen a remarkable increase in my blog traffic in the past couple of months, and if you’re a sane person doing business online, you should be interested in the reasons why.

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Yesterday just about nobody got any work done because we were all furiously trying to make sense of Google’s latest crawl where hundreds of highly ranking websites (that is Google Toolbar pagerank) lost three or four points in rank–and in some cases more….

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From time to time someone comes up with a new method of ‘getting the word out.’ Over the years, people have dreamed up some pretty unusual media for advertising. But here’s one that just might be here to stay….

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Link Building for SEO

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If you really hate the idea of learning about SEO to promote your website, there are three things you absolutely must do if you’re to succeed at all.

First: Get a search-engine-friendly CSS design,

Second: put up some quality content that people will actually want to read, and

Third: arrange for some respectable links.

This last task will probably take you a lot of time, but arm yourself with the right information and it will be a lot easier and a lot more successful. One of the most difficult, but probably most rewarding tips, is to ‘reverse engineer’ links to your competitors. This will involve looking at who’s linking to them and try and get some of those links for yourself! You could also try to get a link from colleges that have a department that teaches what you do. If you can swing it, such a link would be really useful to you as a .edu link is one of the most valuable of all.
I came across is a great YouTube video by Wil Reynolds of Seer Interactive. He has some really interesting things to say about linking, which we should all know about. Take the time to watch the video (below): you might be surprised at what you learn. If you can’t see the video from inside this post, go back to the main SEO blog page and it’ll appear above this post.
This interview with Michael Gray AKA Graywolf is a more recent post with some breaking-news information about linking. Also, take the time to look at Graywolf’s linking tips. Here’s another expert at work. That post was created in 2006, but it’s all still highly relevant stuff.

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It’s never easy to locate the right source of help when you need it. Building a list of online resources that will truly support your business takes a great deal of time, not to mention trial and error. So whenever I come across a resource worth mentioning, I make a point of mentioning it.

Recently I needed to revamp the contact page for my main business website for SEO consulting. This time I wanted to make sure I got a page that looked great, made a good impression, and if possible scuttled spam in the bargain. That’s a tall order, I know, but I’m a demanding person. So I went over to one of my favorite forums, SEO Best Practices Search Engine Forums, to see what I could find.

Withing moments of posting my cry for help, WebSavvy, AKA Deb, made me an offer. I accepted. I am now a very happy customer and will continue to sing her praises. If you’re looking for PHP programming help, I hope she has time to help you. If not, in my opinion, you’ll be taking second best whoever you hire.

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As usual, I’ve been busy, busy, busy. Please don’t hate me for sitting on this collection of wise nuggets from Rand Fishkin. He kindly sent this on to me after our initial interview (quite a bit after–he’s busy too), but since then I just haven’t found the time to post it. Still, better late than never, and as you see, Rand can be relied upon to come up with solid industry information that’s just begging to be applied …

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I’ve been quiet lately. So much to do, suffering from overwhelm! One of these days I’m going to have to give in and hire an assistant so I can take care of the really important stuff like family and SEO. Lol.

I’ve been holding out on you all: Coming up is a fabulous interview with Rand Fishkin, as a follow up to the interview I published a couple of months back. Stand by to be impressed!
Before I rush off to take care of some errands, let me tell you about an exciting source of free traffic for your blog. Blogrush is a free service that is already being used by a lot of successful bloggers and even SEO people. They had some issues with the usual spammers and jerks, so they’ve taken the time to rebuild their operation to allow only sincere and honest bloggers to take part. So if you’re a spammer, do yourself a favor and don’t bother to click on that link!

I really admire founder John Reese for his determination to keep Blogrush free of Internet lowlife and I sincerely wish him well in this attempt.

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