Inside SEO with Mr SEO

SEO Podcast - MR SEO 1 year anniversary!

Nov 10

Nov 11th marks two special days. Besides the fact it will be Veteran’s day. ( A thank you to all those who have served and made the USA what it is today.) It will also be the one year anniversary of the Mr SEO podcast. One year and several thousand listeners later, the podcast has grown by leaps and bounds.

It has all been made possible with the help of all the loyal listeners. I’d like to take this time to thank everyone that listens to the show. What does the next year hold? We have some ideas that will continue to keep you folks up to date on all the latest SEO methods and information.

As always you can email me and tell me what you’d like to hear on the podcast. If you never listened to the MR SEO podcast you are missing out on a lot of great and free information. Take a listen.

You can read listener feedback here if you need some convincing

SEO, Podcasting, Google, Ask, MSN, Yahoo     

Do we create sites for user or the engines?

Oct 17

What’s more important? Creating sites for users or the engines? The answer is both.

Primarily a site should be designed for the user, with search engines in mind. Google tends to talk out both sides of their mouth when they say, “Don’t do anything special for the engines”. Yet, they create a webmaster tool center where you can submit a sitemap, and get information about how the engines see your site, errors and what key phrases your site ranks for. That gives new site owners a little bit of confusion.

I like sites that are easy to navigate, pleasing to the eye and that help sell whatever it is you need to. Pages should be set up as landing pages. This way you can give the visitor everything they need to make a purchase or fill out a form. At the same time you can optimize these pages for the engines and use the pages for your PPC campaigns. I believe in doing sites this way. It brings the visitor a much better experience.

The perfect site is not only user friendly, but optimized for the engines. You need to target where people go to in order to provide them with the information or product they need. There is nothing worse than having people landing on a page that is optimized for a phrase but offers no information about it.. It brings the user a bad experience and you a missed sale or lead. Once you have a page optimized, you can streamline the transition from viewing what you have to offer to facilitating a purchase. You can also provide related content and links. This, in turn, will help with you PPC because Google is now checking to see how relevant your landing pages are to the keywords you buy.

In the grand scheme of things, you do need to optimize your site. However, if you do not have usability for the user, your traffic won’t convert. Non-converting traffic is worse than having no traffic at all. It’s a webmasters nightmare.

Marketing, Google, Ask, MSN, Yahoo     

ASK launches blog and RSS search

Jun 01

ASk has launched a blog and RSS search engine http://www.ask.com/?tool=bls#subject:bls|pg:1

The results of course have the binocular feature. You can also subscribe to the feed right from the results page. You can even add the feed to bloglines, digg and other similar networks from the results pages as well.

Take a look at it. I like it better than Google’s. What do you think?

Ask     

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