I’ve talked with a number other Bloggers and it has been determined that writing fresh content on a daily basis can be a challenge for many.  Common questions include, “How can I manage to write every day?” “I need some fresh ideas, how can I come up with some?” Continue Reading »

A doorway page is basically a page built to feed a bunch of text and keywords to a search engine algorithm. On top of the page you’ll find a link to another website, usually the website belonging to the person that made the doorway page, if not produced by a hired black hat SEO consultant.  Using doorway pages is grounds for being banned by search engines. You may ask, does it still work? I’ve found it does for some people, for maybe a week depending on keyword competition.  When competitors find out your ranking above them, many will look to find out why.  If they find you’re using a spam method, eventually one will report your site to Google. Then your site probably has about a week of life left before it drops off the charts.  One SEO guy contacted me concerning another site of mine saying he could guarantee my website top placement for 10 localized keywords of my choice for the cost of $1600.  You know, for $1600 I could pay some top industry editor to write me up super resource articles on the subject, post them on my blog and reap the white hat benefits.  Quality will in most cases outlive any blackhat technique.

Have you ever thought how when someone reports a website to google, google benefits without paying back the person who reported. Its like they have a huge number of spam staff employed that they will never have to pay back, with money anyways. I guess that’s when you know you’ve reached success, when thousands work for your company free of charge.

I figure the weekends are great for taking a break from the SEO and Marketing discussion.  Yesterday I had to stop by my Mom’s home to drop off my nephew.  My wife and I decided to take the kids to see bolt earlier that day.  It was a good movie, the kids enjoyed it.  When II went to drop off the kid my mom was baking cookies for a church holiday party.  She said they were here candy cane cookies.  I told her, Mom they dont look much like candy canes…  What do you think about them?

I’ll have to ask her if she decided to leave that batch home…

This next week I’m going to touch a little bit on subject of doorway pages.   Considered an outdated strategy, many seo firms are still using doorway pages as a method of ranking for descriptive keywords.  I’ going to discuss their overall purpose, effectiveness and of course the dangers of using them.

So today I wanted to talk a little bit about online marketing without SEO. I’ve been putting more focus lately on ppc (pay per click) and cpm (cost per thousand impressions) advertising strategies.

You gotta love seo and earning an income online from a website naturally ranked in search engines. However, there is a flip side to this coin. What if the search algorithms change causing your site to drop a few pages. Continue Reading »