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Strategy #1:
- Affiliate marketing:
- Blog agency:
And just tell them “Hello, we’re this & that & we want to sell ads”. Contact them and see what you get out of this.
Strategy #2:
Another strategy would be to go to companies that would be interested in your kind of visitors (banks in Romania, private medical services in Romania, stuff like this) and approach them directly.
In my opinion, the best method to do link building is: create great content. I find there are lots of good reasons for this:
- People will love your web site.
- Once on your web site, people will tend to link to it more, if they found a great content.
- Google probably has algorithms to detect (especially for English-written pages) how good content is. Google might have a look on your content and rate it – Good /Bad.
- People will remember you and might come back. Even if they do not become loyal fans, they might want to come back to your web site from time to time.
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Hello, I’ve seen a pretty good infographic (created by AYTM) on SEOmoz‘s blog post about the price of SEO services. Here goes. +Continue Reading
The following infographic shows why great SEO services are rather hard to find, and thus, deserve to be expensive.
It’s one of the best infographics I’ve seen about SEO, showing tips&tricks on how to get a good SEO service (as a client) and how to avoid SEO selling mistakes (as a service provider). +Continue Reading
There are a lot of factors when it comes to SEO – from having a lot of good links, to making sure that search engines can crawl a web site fast & find what’s good about your content to make it rank.
But, to me, the most important & simple at the same time element is this – the title attribute. It’s simple, basic, and sometimes ignored.
The rules for it are simple:
- Less than 65 characters (with spaces);
- The targeted keyword(s) should be at the very beginning of the title;
- Put at the end of the title your brand name (or, if you’re a huge brand, right at the beginning);
- Don’t over optimize – don’t try to work with 6 keywords at once; for a regular page – 2 keywords maximum, homepage? OK, you can have 3, but no more;
- Don’t do keyword cannibalization – avoid optimizing more than one page for the same keywords;
Avoid having too many keyword synonyms – stick with the basics;
Do this, and you’ve easily done a change with a big impact for the search engines. The change has one of the highest ratio between results and efforts.
Read more on keyword cannibalization:
and on general title tag information:
Happy titling in the New Year!
Hello,
Sometimes I comment on other people’s blogs. From my experience, it’s best to read what others have said after you. There is more than one option to do so:
- (if the blog clearly allows it) Subscribe via email to comments on the blog post – I dislike this method because after two weeks from a message, further replies are irrelevant. I don’t care what people say 3 months after I’ve written something (1) and it’s also hard for me to remember the specific context I said something 3 months ago (2) and people don’t expect me to read & follow-up after 3 months (3).
- Let’s say a blog doesn’t have a “Subscribe via email to the comments” option. You can use the method below to generate the email subscription yourself, although it’s a bit complicated:
- You can subscribe via RSS to the comments of a specific blog post. If the blog author, hasn’t displayed it, you can usually find it with the method described here:
- (my favorite method) After I leave a comment, I copy the URL and create a Google Calendar event the following day (so, I will reply to any quick & intense comment left after my comment. I also create a Google Calendar event ~7 days after that specific day, so I will get most of later comments. If, during that time I get no reply to my comments, I stop checking the thread. If I do receive comments, I put subsequent reminders. I get a reminder for each event via email.
So, here goes – a best practice to commenting on someone’s blog is to follow-up.
OK, let’s say you want to do a SEO campaign to increase rankings; according to Search Ranking Factors (by SEOmoz), you need links and internal SEO (optimizing your web site); what’s more important is that the links are much more important than internal SEO (for rankings, about 80% of the importance goes to links, and only 20% goes to the links themselves);
OK, so how to get links? A good solution is: Back Link Service (a service by Linkvehicle.com).
What’s good about the service?
- They have a vast range of web sites you can buy links from;
- Their services have been ranked by others as of good quality (they’re still on the market, aren’t they?);
- You can get targeted traffic to your web site, not only benefit from the links;
- It’s fast – in a matter of a few days you can get real results;
- The bloggers to have to freedom to write about anything they want, within some limits (you can say, for example, to write only positive things);
- It’s quite a brand, and you can trust them for a good service; Google them for details;
- They have a team of SEO experts on board.
How about you, how do you feel about this?
In movies, a lot of times things are simple – the bad guy does the bad thing, the good guy does the good thing; in books, it’s the same; you get some hints on who the bad guy is and you feel attracted to good (most of the times).
Yet, in real life, things tend to get more complicated; I try to do good; but sometimes, social norms give me the hind that I’m evil & twisted, and what seem to be wrong doers are actually the good guys.
Partially, this can be explained (see I liked this book: “The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil” by Philip ZIMBARDO – Get a result now!); but it’s more than this, it’s not just social & norms; what the answer is – life is complicated.
I don’t claim to know the answer, I just want to point out that, sometimes, doing good makes you the bad guy; in SEO and not only.
I do feel bad for some of the ethical things I’ve done (or, at least, this is how I consider them to be).
Dorin BOERESCU had the following tip at his presentation at GPEC: most of the online stores in Romania don’t do upselling (Wikipedia) &/or cross-selling (Wikipedia);
What they currently do is answer a few basic questions about product availability, delivery, costs;
What they should do is offer suggestions (we don’t have X product, but product Y has similar capabilities, for a better price; we don’t have this product on stock, but would you be interested in our best selling product for the requested category, which has these advantages and is in stock? do you know an extra battery for that video camera is only X lei? do you know a photo camera works best with a tripod?)
We do need more upselling.
In my opinion, an Internet marketing company should provide more than one type of service – from SEO to PPC services, from online PR to reputation management, from social media presence to ad planning.
You can see the services of such a company here:
As you can see, more than one service provided by one company; so, as a first tip – more than one service is required for a holistic experience as a company. +Continue Reading
Dorin BOERESCU had the following tip at his presentation at GPEC: scarcity sells; you can have different types of rare items:
- Limited time frame for an offer (buy until 23:59 today!);
- Limited quantity (only 3 left);
- Pick your audience (we only sell to …);
- Unique product (only us, in the whole universe …);
- Exquisite conditions to get an item (you have to do something, you have to pay a price, you have to put yourself on a waiting list);
Scarcity sells; just have a look at collectible luxury items – you can only buy them for a certain time frame, they are in limited quantity, they are very expensive; lots of conditions to get an item.
Apple sells expensive and unique products (only they …).
Dorin BOERESCU had the following PPT:
at his presentation at GPEC.
The main idea?
If you are an online store, you should make an effort to provide online customer support for more than 9-17; strive to have someone online to answer request after 17:00; see the above graph for the reason behind this.
(idea by Bryan EISENBERG at GPEC) Rather than having one idea and perfecting it, you should focus on having lots of ideas, trying them all, and focus on those that give you the best results;
You can easily apply this in SEO, by trying to figure what solutions for SEO work best.
So, try a lot => chose the best ideas => focus on them.
So, what do I like about DataFlurry.com? (in 10 SEO ideas) +Continue Reading
Let’s say you have the following keyword: ”Winter tires”;
How should you get links to this keyword? +Continue Reading
There are a lot of solutions for SEO services; what I think works best is over delivering results.
It’s not easy, and it’s not pleasant; “why should I work more than requested?”
Let’s put it like this – if you want, one time, a client, you need to work and deliver; if you need that client to work for you and promote you, and sell your services, you need to do more than this – you need to over deliver.
I find it that the best SEO service providers do this thing; you may say “Hey! The best SEO service providers also have some of the highest prices on the market”; I think that’s the trick – you can do both – ask for good money and still make your business partners feel they are receiving more than they are paying.
It’s not easy; SEO is all about hard work, lots of knowledge, insights & due to the uncertainties in the SEO world, some luck.
Do keep in mind that over delivering, in the SEO world, may be the best option to deliver.

Let’s talk about RankPay, an SEO company who has helped hundreds of web sites to rank for thousand of keywords. +Continue Reading
For the following links:
how about putting some ads? +Continue Reading
Let’s take a group of web sites:
What’s so great about the “About us” page they all link to? +Continue Reading