Comments on: Another 20 Hard Core SEO Tips

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:47:44 +0000

The idea behind the tip is that you should develop the kind of proposal you would take to your government. They would expect it to be very thorough, detailed, and professional.

I have written SEO proposals on the fly in email. They didn’t look professional at all although they admittedly got the job done. My point, however, is that even if you can write a persuasive proposal on the fly, it’s good practice to write a great formal proposal that covers all the basic points (without giving away a free site analysis or link analysis).

By: GetInNepal

GetInNepal — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:31:10 +0000

Great Post! I am starting my new site ( LINK REMOVED BY MODERATOR) and is applying most of the above mentioned theories but still a lot of them need to be applied. I am very careful about on site optimization but now exploring more about offsite optimization and site architect.
But did not understand about this “Write a proposal to the U.S. government for optimizing the Library of Congress, the White House, and the Congressional Web sites.”

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:41:54 +0000

Thank you all for the supportive comments.

I agree about social media. I am, in fact, often asked about it and the recent announcements about Twitter, Facebook, and Bing, Google, and Yahoo! have brought me many inquiries for my opinions.

Frankly, I think there is a little too much turmoil in the landscape these days for much in the way of Karate Kid SEO Blogging on social media and search. Mr. Miyagi wanted Daniel-san to learn fundamental principles, and the fundamentals are changing in the Search-and-Social-Media world.

And as for PageRank, well, I’m waiting to see (but not holding my breath) if Google will drop it from the Toolbar. That would be a great day for the Web.

By: seowithfries

seowithfries — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:12:43 +0000

Great post Michael……At first I was wondering where it was going but you pulled it off with detailed descriptions later. I see the strategy. but you might want simplify the delivery next time. If I hadn’t read you before I may have stopped mid-way, but I knew you had something coming of value (You usually do).

They are almost all great tips but you are missing emphasis on the two biggest things in SEO going these days, and I realize this is not a complete list, but how could you not bring up the importance of social media (like yahoo and bing incorporating twitter results), and more importantly, creating news. News always makes it to the top, every time, when done right with meaningful content. The Google Page Rank thing is also a little late with recent developments (ex. Google dropped PR from webmaster tools for good reason).

If you did nothing else but emphasized on those two ares you would smoke all the other SEO tactics out there combined in my experience.

Regardless, you are a great writer friend and your wit, composition and knowledge always impress. A+

By: james

james — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:26:39 +0000

Great post. Thank you for this useful information. I will detailed study this again and I will try to apply in practice. I hope that this will improve my work.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:03:03 +0000

Thanks for this information. Great post !!

By: chriscd

chriscd — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:38:35 +0000

First time visitor. Came over from a comment you left on Marketing Pilgrim. Was that item#3. :O)

At first I thought this must be a joke. Send links to my competitor?!? I’m glad you explained each one though. I plan on working on a few of these. I’ll let you know how it goes.

My first one maybe the 200 word, meaningful sentence.

cd :O)

By: ShawnB

ShawnB — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:56:03 +0000

Heya. I don’t have much to say, other than that I really like your blog and the attitude. Keep it up. And thanks for the posts on Google Webmaste forums. We’ll see what happens.