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SEO 101 | The Beginning SEO Podcast �

Ranking an XML file, Bing, and other listener questions

Posted by Brian Mark on June 8, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast [ 45:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download In this episode of the SEO 101 podcast, we take some questions from the listeners in the SEO 101 chatroom and from the forums and answer them live. We answer one on ranking an XML file, one about Bing.com, and a few other beginner type questions from the forums…

Filed in: Listener Questions

Knowem – Social Media Identity Theft Protection

Posted by Brian Mark on May 18, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast [ 30:46 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download We talk to Michael Streko about his new service to run a username check on multiple social media sites called Knowem.  He also tells us how to sign up for announcements of some upcoming features that are sure to be blockbusters based on the sneak peek we got tonight.

Filed in: Industry Issues, Reputation Management, Social Media

Ranking an eCommerce Site

Posted by Brian Mark on May 11, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast [ 45:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download We discuss why it really doesn’t matter which platform you’re hosted on, but we do give a suggestion as to one you should most certainly take a look at when considering starting an ecommerce site.

Filed in: Industry Issues

SEO 101 Site Review for livdb.com

Posted by Brian Mark on April 27, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast [ 44:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download In this episode, we take a look at livdb and give them some ideas to help improve their SEO efforts. We also answer a listener question at the end of the show.

Filed in: Consulting, Listener Questions, Site Reviews

Traffic for SEO

Posted by Brian Mark on April 20, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast [ 41:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download We answer some questions that came in over <a href=”http://twitter.com/”>Twitter</a> about blog comments and squidoo pages, then talk about how traffic can increase your site’s rankings.

Filed in: Blogging, Linking, Listener Questions, Twitter

SEO 101′s IMSB Recap

Posted by Brian Mark on April 13, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast [ 44:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Carolyn shares a couple of presentations she gave at IM Spring Break earlier this month. The first was on the most common problems seen with potential clients, the second was on information architecture and content creation plans.

Filed in: Conferences, Consulting, Content, Listener Questions

SEO 101 Site Review

Posted by Brian Mark on April 6, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast [ 43:09 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download In this episode, we talk to Ian Westerman from Essential Tennis about what he can do to increase the search engine traffic to his website. He’s been busy building a great site for his users, so now it’s time to start attracting more users. Listen in as we start giving him the information to begin getting search [...]

Filed in: Listener Questions, Monetization, Site Reviews

Keyword Research

Posted by Brian Mark on March 30, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Starting out with a site, you need to know what to rank for. In this episode, we discuss some keyword research tools, both free and paid, and talk a little on how to select a good keyword out of the list that gets generated.

Filed in: Keyword Research

Cloaking revisited and a big announcement

Posted by Brian Mark on March 23, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download As we start our 3rd year, we revisit our first topic and dicusss why cloaking is still bad and a newer way people are using it, which is still bad if things go wrong. We also make a big announcement for the upcoming year, so listen in to find out what it is.

Filed in: Cloaking, Conferences

PubCon South, Twitter, and Multivariate Testing

Posted by Brian Mark on March 16, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast [ 42:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download We discuss what happened at PubCon South last week, talk some about Twitter, and then answer a listener question about Multivariate Testing.

Filed in: Conferences, Multivariate Testing, Twitter

IM Spring Break

Posted by Brian Mark on March 2, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast Play Now | Play in Popup | Download We are joined by the one and only Dave Snyder to talk about the upcoming IM Spring Break conference – what to expect, who should attend, and what the costs are. This is one incredible value, so don’t miss out on the spring break event of the year for our industry!

Filed in: Conferences, Listener Questions

Show starting up again…

Posted by Brian Mark on February 24, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast [ 41:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download We’re going to start the show back up after a real short time away. We think the bugs are worked out with the new network, so this was mostly a test episode, but we also do talk a little SEO.

Filed in: Duplicate Content, Industry Issues

First SEO Call-In Show

Posted by Brian Mark on January 26, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast [ 47:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Listen to our first call-in show, complete with lots of technical glitches. We’ll get those ironed out, and that should help you iron out the problems you’re having with your website’s optimization as well. Listen in (around the issues) and then ask us questions.

Filed in: Listener Questions

Twitter Welcome Page Site – tw33t.me

Posted by Brian Mark on January 20, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast [ 29:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download If twitter answers the question “What am I doing right now”, then tw33t.me answers the question “Why should you follow me right now”. Learn about this great new website that puts the personal into twitter and lets you see who’s behind a name.

Filed in: Reputation Management, Twitter

New Show? Sort of.

Posted by Brian Mark on January 13, 2009 ·

Standard Podcast [ 29:43 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download We talk about our show moving to a new network, Carolyn going to some upcoming conferences, new seo tools being released to public beta, a new show that is just starting up, Carolyn owning Perdue.edu, and translating from marketer to developer.

Filed in: Announcements, Conferences