Monthly Archives: February 2010

NASCAR, M&Ms, and Me

We went to the NASCAR race at California Speedway last Sunday. It was cold and rainy most of the day. I’m fan of Tony Stewart and have been for years. He used to drive for Home Depot, so my wife, … Continue reading →

Posted in marketing | Tagged Blogger, California Speedway, Car And Driver, Car Driver, Elliot Sadler, Entertainment Industry, Hasn, Hats, Home Depot, Industry Billions, Jimmy Johnson, Last Sunday, Lowes, M Ms, Nascar, Nascar Race, Rainy Day, Stickers, Straight Championships, Sunglasses, Tony Stewart, Winner Of The Race | 3 Comments

Search Engine Ranking Factors | SEOmoz

Written by Conrad Walton

Here are the top 5 factors, out of 24, that are important for SEO on a page. These were ranked by their panel of experts (people smarter than me.) Click through to read the whole list. The whole site is … Continue reading →

Posted in SEO | Tagged Anchor Text, Article Search, Consensus, Contention, domain name, First Word, Keyword Ranking, Link Anchor, Moderate Importance, Page 47, Root Domain, Search Engine, Search Ranking, SEO, Title Tag, Wordpress | 2 Comments

How to Build Links Fast: 101 Tips & Strategies | SEO Book.com

Written by Conrad Walton

This is a great post with a lot of solid ideas for building links. Please click through and read them all, both the right ways and the wrong ways to build links. There’s a good introduction about the value of … Continue reading →

Posted in SEO | Tagged Bottom Line, Elements, Few Short Years, Fool, Google, High Quality, Inspiration, Mad Props, Mdash, Msn, Score, Search Algorithms, Search Links, Seo Book, Shtml, Spirit, Spoof, traffic, Web Ring, Yahoo | Leave a comment

Sell Handmade Stuff On The Internet – Build a Web Site

Written by Conrad Walton

To sell stuff on the Internet effectively, you need a web site. The web site is the truck of the tree, the thing that holds it all together, the thing that you hang everything else on, the things that everything … Continue reading →

Posted in sell on internet | Tagged Bad Reputation, Balancing Act, Build Site, Building A Web Site, domain name, Google, How To Make Stuff, Internet Site, Keyword Name, Mermaid, Metaphor, Purse, Register, Sea Glass, Sell Stuff, SEO, Sidebar, Site Internet, Site Web, traffic, Web Stuff | Leave a comment

Before You Do ANYTHING Else…

Written by Conrad Walton

If you want your site to rank for a keyword, before you do anything else, you must first decide that that keyword is! Which keyword should you focus on? I’ve gotten a couple people asking me that very question in … Continue reading →

Posted in SEO | Tagged Backdrop, Blah Blah, Clothes, Desires, Different Ways, Fabric Store, Focus, Google, Google Adwords, Google Maps, Green Grass, How Many People, Keyword, Mom, People Search, Stuff, Trees, Video Tutorials, Web Pages | 1 Comment

Sell Handmade Stuff On The Internet – SEO Part Three

Written by Conrad Walton

We need to talk about how a search engine works. It sends a robot out to read each page on your site. As it reads the page, it will evaluate it and try to figure out what it’s about. It … Continue reading →

Posted in sell on internet | Tagged Ambiguity, Clarity, Cues, Density, Front Page, Keyword, Mumbo, No Doubt, Phrases, Relationship, Robot, Score, Search Engine, Search Engines, Sell Stuff, SEO, Tip Number, Web Page | Leave a comment

Small Business SEO – Sea Glass Jewelry- Keywords and Competition – Part 2

Written by Conrad Walton

This is the second in a series that I want to revisit. The original article outlines exactly the research we did on one shop’s competition so we can plan out how to beat them in the search engines. Why Do … Continue reading →

Posted in SEO | Tagged blog, Blogs, How Many People, Keywords, Original Article, Rsquo, Sea Glass Jewelry, Search Engine Rankings, Search Engines, SEO, Site Explorer, small business, Target, Web Business, web design, Yahoo | Leave a comment

Sell Handmade Stuff On The Internet – SEO, Part Two

Written by Conrad Walton

Now that you have a list of keywords, we need to look at the competition for those keywords and create a strategy to beat them. Do a normal Google search on each of your keywords. Write down the top 10 … Continue reading →

Posted in sell on internet | Tagged blog, Blogs, Competitor, Google, Google Search, Keywords, Love Links, Magic, Mathematical Analysis, Search Engines, Sell Stuff, SEO, Third Grade, Urls | 3 Comments

Small Business SEO – Sea Glass Jewelry- Keywords and Competition

Written by Conrad Walton

Since we just got a bunch of new subscribers from Etsy, I wanted to revisit a post that I wrote last Summer about doing research on keywords. Keywords are the root of SEO. Picking the correct keyword is critical. You … Continue reading →

Posted in SEO | Tagged All Sorts, Beach Glass Jewelry, Competition Web, Correct Keyword, Doing Research, Etsy, Excerpt, Flood, Glass Beach, Glass Jewellry, Google, Keyword Tool, Misspellings, People Search, Phrase, Rsquo, Sea Glass Jewelry, Search Term, Selling Jewelry, Trickle, Wikipedia | 1 Comment

Sell Handmade Stuff On The Internet – SEO, Part One

Written by Conrad Walton

Getting a domain name and a web host are not the first things you do to get your stuff sold on the Internet. The most important, and first, thing for you to do is to figure out a strategy for … Continue reading →

Posted in sell on internet | Tagged Ads, Balancing Act, Business Model, Credibility, domain name, Exercise, Google, Guess, Internet Domain, Keyword Tool, Keywords, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engines, Search Optimization, Sell Stuff, Seo Optimization, Site Google, Target, traffic, web host | 2 Comments

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