Is PPC Competition Related to SEO Competition?

credit: Mareen Fischinger No, PPC competitions is not the same as SEO competition. Let's use my name, Carlos del Rio, as example. Organic Search Competition Organic content is a relatively slow moving target. As time passes there is increasing competition, and even stale content continues to compete for placement. The mass of accumulated links can keep out-of-date information high in search queries. Assessing your organic competition involves looking ...

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How Much Time Does SEO Take?

credit: F3R/n@nd0 (FJTU) One of the hardest questions to answer about an SEO project is how long it takes to see major change in the results. There are three major factors: How long it takes to implement your changes What changes your competitors are making concurrently Whether the Search Engines make a major change during your implementation Depending on your situation you should be watching the results ...

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Anchor Text For Internal Links

If you have spent any time working on search optimization, novice to guru (ha ha), then you have spent some time worrying about anchor text. Inc Magazine has an answer for you: just link the entire page to itself. The image above is an accident, I assume because it has been corrected, ...

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Advanced SEO Tips & Techniques

Last week I saw an influx of Advanced SEO posts. I think that they are all off the mark in one sense or another. To me they all seem like this guy: What Shimon Sandler thinks is Advance SEO: An Excerpt: “A silo is a vertical page linking ...

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Creative SEO

Today's SEO review is of James Kinloch site. Yesterday he stopped by to comment on "Are you Doing Opt-in Wrong?" and invited me to check out his site. He wants the phrase creative SEO. What is Creative SEO? To qualify as creative you need to be doing something that is notably out side of the norm. Link dropping in comments & forums, optimizing titles & tags, or building a site map are not really ...

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