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Inside SEO with Mr SEO

New Mr-SEO.com

Aug 19

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Hello,

A lot has happened behind the scenes here at Mr-Seo.com. You may have noticed that there has not been much input from us, and for that we apologize. What have we been up to? Well, for starters, Joe and Alan decided to turn the business over to someone new, and that person is me. My name is Greg Gaskill, and I have been working with Joe and Alan for some time now migrating everything over to my ownership and management.

What does this mean for you? First, the things that won’t change - the commitment to bring the truth to the market of what SEO & SEM are and what they are not! As you know, there is a tremendous amount of disinformation floating around the internet. The one size fits all, or get your site in the top ten for $100 crap advice screws things up for website owners, and makes the real job of doing quality, sustainable work harder because we have to undo a lot of widely publicized but incorrect beliefs in order to establish trust with our clients. The cornerstone of Mr-Seo has been truth, and that will not change.

Ok, so what is new? A new website to Web 2.0 standards. Our blog, Podcasts and Discussion Board are now all served by our host, rather than somewhere else. With one login, in one place you can access all of our resources.

We also now offer our Complete Website SEO Evaluation Report - with a Better Than Free Special Offer. This report covers a ton of key areas which are critical to getting top ten listing in Google and other search engines. We give you the good, the bad, and the dirt on your competition, all in one in-depth report. The best part is that when you buy this report for $495, we give you $600 of our services free. We figured it was a great way to help companies find out what they needed to be doing, and then offer a great deal to have us do all the work - everybody wins.

We put in place a News Brief - Surviving Online, SEO and SEM trends. This News Brief is just that, brief - for the simple reason, we all are busy and really don’t pay that much attention to newsletters anyway. Why not just send you the stuff that is important, and forget the hype?

We put in place a simple questionnaire at registration for any of our services so we can better understand who you - our visitors are, and what you would like us to address on our website or in our News Brief. In addition, we will be emailing a questionnaire, and would really appreciate your taking a moment to help us understand who you are, and what you would like to get from us. Also feel free to post ideas and suggestions on our Blog, or Discussion Board. We strongly believe in supporting you, our audience and customers.

We are now monitoring and posting often to the Discussion Board and Blog. After all, these are only valuable if they are used regularly, so it is our commitment to you to maintain them with active participation.

In the near future, we will add some E-courses for SEO and SEM which you can opt-in to on our website, and in an email in which we will announce it to you.  The purpose of these mini courses, will be to bring awareness to various applications of SEO and SEM in addressing various business issues. We hope you find these courses helpful.

Finally, I would like you all to know that I stand committed to deliver quality services in a fair and ethical manner. It is my commitment to work with each customer to ensure that they receive the best we have to give them. We will be up-front about what we can, and can not deliver, what we can, and can not control, and in some cases we may need to advise potential clients that we can not help them. There is far too many con artists out there promising the world, and under-delivering, and I refuse to be one of them.

Best wishes to all for now,

Greg

SEO     

Latest News From Mr-SEO.com!

Aug 14

Hello,

A lot has happened behind the scenes here at Mr-Seo.com. You may have noticed that there hasn’t been much input from us, and for that we apologize. What have we been up to? Well, for starters, Joe and Alan decided to turn the business over to someone new, and that person is me. My name is Greg Gaskill, and I have been working with Joe and Alan for some time now migrating everything over to my ownership and management.

What does this mean for you? First, the things that won’t change - the commitment to bring the truth to the market of what SEO & SEM are and what they are not! As you know, there is a tremendous amount of disinformation floating around the internet. The one size fits all, or get your site in the top ten for $100 crap advice screws things up for website owners, and makes the real job of doing quality, sustainable work harder because we have to undo a lot of widely publicized but incorrect beliefs in order to establish trust with our clients. The cornerstone of Mr-Seo has been truth, and that will not change.

Ok, so what is new? A new website to Web 2.0 standards. Our blog, Podcasts and Discussion Board are now all served by our host, rather than somewhere else. With one login, in one place you can access all of our resources.

We also now offer our Complete Website SEO Evaluation Report - with a Better Than Free Special Offer. This report covers a ton of key areas which are critical to getting top ten listing in Google and other search engines. We give you the good, the bad, and the dirt on your competition, all in one in-depth report. The best part is that when you buy this report for $495, we give you $600 of our services free. We figured it was a great way to help companies find out what they needed to be doing, and then offer a great deal to have us do all the work - everybody wins.

We put in place a News Brief - Surviving Online, SEO and SEM trends. This News Brief is just that, brief - for the simple reason, we all are busy and really don’t pay that much attention to newsletters anyway. Why not just send you the stuff that is important, and forget the hype?

We put in place a simple questionnaire at registration for any of our services so we can better understand who you - our visitors are, and what you would like us to address on our website or in our News Brief. In addition, we will be emailing a questionnaire, and would really appreciate your taking a moment to help us understand who you are, and what you would like to get from us. Also feel free to post ideas and suggestions on our Blog, or Discussion Board. We strongly believe in supporting you, our audience and customers.

We are now monitoring and posting often to the Discussion Board and Blog. After all, these are only valuable if they are used regularly, so it is our commitment to you to maintain them with active participation.

In the near future, we will add some E-courses for SEO and SEM which you can opt-in to on our website, and in an email in which we will announce it to you.  The purpose of these mini courses, will be to bring awareness to various applications of SEO and SEM in addressing various business issues. We hope you find these courses helpful.

Finally, I would like you all to know that I stand committed to deliver quality services in a fair and ethical manner. It is my commitment to work with each customer to ensure that they receive the best we have to give them. We will be up-front about what we can, and can not deliver, what we can, and can not control, and in some cases we may need to advise potential clients that we can not help them. There is far too many con artists out there promising the world, and under-delivering, and I refuse to be one of them.

Best wishes to all for now,

Greg

SEO     

The “Web Guy”

Feb 25

Everyday it seems we have to contend with the limited knowledge of some “jack of all trades, master of none” hack with an outdated understanding of how SEO works. This person is known around our office as the “Web Guy”.

“My web guy suggested we do 301 redirects on every page”

Did he now?

“My web guy said we should dump these PR 7 URL’s because they have a question mark in them”

Hmmm, no kidding?

“My web guy wants to check your work and make sure your not doing anything that will hurt our existing rankings”

You mean the poor rankings you just hired us to raise?

We absolutely love the Web Guy because we can almost always pinpoint his attitude toward outside entities within 5 minutes of our initial meeting. The Web Guy thinks we’re pissing in his territory. The Web Guy knows barely enough to be dangerous and wants us to know that he knows what he knows as he thinks his knowledge stretches a lot further than it actually does (Whew! That was a mouthful). The Web Guy likes to question us on every point and wants definitive proof of why we do things the way we do. In short, the web guy is the sort of fellow that puts his arm around his girlfriend in the presence of other people…not because he genuinely wants to, but because he feels the need to “let everyone know that what’s mine is mine”. We’re not sure if the Web Guy is a designer, coder, programmer, network administrator or what, but we’re sure he’d have no qualms about putting all those down on his resume. We’re also fairly certain that he rubs vasaline on his chest, pats it down with coffee grounds and tops it off with a gold medallion prior to an open shirted night at the club, but that’s only speculation at this point.

Now, of course, this is a bit of a generalization. Not all web guys are “Web Guys”, and many have been quite helpful and pleasant. Some are just genuinely inquisitive and many ask if we can impart some details on what we’re doing so they can understand for future reference. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that and we love talking shop with anyone who isn’t combative about our company being brought in. But every once in a while, we do run across a “Web Guy” who genuinely works against his own best interests and is a serious pain in the ass in the process.

And when that happens, we’re lucky enough to have our own in-house foil, who we affectionately refer to as “Accounting Guy”.

“What? You got an additional charge on your monthly bill for all the excess hours we had to spend dealing with your Web Guy? Oh…right…well, that’s just our Accounting Guy. He keeps track of the consulting hours and bills according to our contract. Yeah…he’s a real stickler for noting the time spent dealing with Web Guy, but what can I tell ya…he pays for himself.”

Accounting Guy doesn’t come into play with most clients, and he never comes into play without a warning, but if called upon, he’ll be at every phone call with calculator in hand, an eye on the clock and a smile on his face. Accounting Guy loves to charge Web Guy for completely wasting our time at length, and he keeps detailed records of all of Web Guy’s long winded Q & A sessions in case there are any issues with the bill. Best of all, Accounting Guy never misses an opportunity to point out when Web Guy is working in a contradictory fashion to his employer’s wishes. Like Beyonce’ Knowles, Accounting Guy can be counted on to show up everywhere to point of nausea.

Once the employer understands how much Web Guy is costing them, they usually keep him on a leash and we simply drop the fees. If you experience the same situation, it’s important to introduce your Accounting Guy to the employer sooner rather than later. Don’t waste more of your time than is necessary explaining what you are doing instead of doing the actual work itself. It’s also not fair to the unknowing employer to present them with a bill for the excessive time you’ve been forced to waste on their Web Guy when a much earlier phone call from Accounting Guy would have likely solved the problem to everyone’s satisfaction.

SEO     

Free Web Site Evaluation

Nov 19

Yup, you read that correctly. There is one catch though…we will be doing the review on the podcast. So, if you don’t mind us picking apart your site (we will be professional and kind as always) post your url in the comments below. We will pick one lucky site to discuss on the podcast.

So, hurry the next podcast is soon. Start posting. This may even get you a free link on this blog without no-follow.

Podcasting     

BlogRush Owes Me!

Nov 01

I logged into my account today and realized blogrush owes me over 20k in traffic. With all the talk of how fast the blogrush widget has spread, I am still in the red. When will I get my traffic? I don’t think I am the only one. Are you seeing traffic from blogrush and how much are you owed? I’d love to get a tally going.

Misc     

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