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The Real Skinny On Duplicate Content

Bryan Clark — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:00:22 +0000

The issue of duplicate content is a rather contentious one in the world of Search-Engine Optimization. There were for many years – and perhaps still to this day – myths floating round about duplicate content penalties.

Essentially, folks were told that if they produced duplicate content then they would be punished, and many thought that this meant you could… Read the rest of this entry »

Direct From Google: How To Build A Quality Website In 2012

Ana Hoffman — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:00:44 +0000

I hear a lot of webmasters complain day in and day out about all the changes that Google constantly makes to its algorithm and how they affect our search engine placement.

Let me break it to you: it’s not all about what Google has done and will do to update its algorithm.

It’s about what you SHOULD BE doing.

I… Read the rest of this entry »

The Research Is In: How Important Are Facebook And Twitter For Your Google Rankings?

Ana Hoffman — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:40:07 +0000

Today, our triangle of the most important ingredients to ranking well on Google, as suggested by SEOMoz’s search engine ranking factors report and interpreted by yours truly, will be finally completed as we drill down into how social media influences our search engine rankings.

By the way, I’d love for you to let me know how well I… Read the rest of this entry »

Revealed: The Secret Source For Winning Google’s Love

Ana Hoffman — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:41:56 +0000

In my last post on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com, we talked about the big fat truth – without unique, fresh, and lengthy content your blog search engine rankings are as good as dead.

Check out the previous post here:

Blog Writing 101: How To Satisfy Readers And Deliver Top 10 Google Rankings

This time I will take it a step further… Read the rest of this entry »

Blog Writing 101: How To Satisfy Readers And Deliver Top 10 Google Rankings

Ana Hoffman — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:38:41 +0000

My name is Ana Hoffman, and if I learned anything after many years of building an online empire, it’s this: the online business industry is a scary place. A place where many a mighty business owner has fallen.

Including me.

That’s right, I’ve had some online business flops in the past, until one day I realized that my business was… Read the rest of this entry »

A Step-By-Step Guide To Rank #1 On LinkedIn Search

Aziz Ali — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:00:04 +0000

My fourth article on EJ, and the love I have been receiving from this community is amazing. I feel really welcomed, so thanks to you all. I wish I could meet you in person and thank you personally. I hope one day I will.

Enough of the pep talk Aziz, time to get down to the meat!

Today I have… Read the rest of this entry »

How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000)

Sunil — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:37:06 +0000

In my previous post, Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?, I wrote about the various business ventures I have tried and tested over the years. One of those ventures was the creation, establishment, growth and sale of an e-commerce business. In… Read the rest of this entry »

How To Get Backlinks To Increase Your Traffic – A Case Study

Leslie Samuel — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:55:20 +0000

Traffic is, and will always be, a hot topic in internet marketing.

You can have an awesome website that solves the world’s problems, has the solutions to world hunger, in addition to helping men understand women fully (can you imagine that?), but if you don’t have traffic, I would venture to say that your website means NOTHING.

Ok,… Read the rest of this entry »

Market Samurai Review – How Keyword Research Can Increase Your Traffic

Leslie Samuel — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:57:57 +0000

Ever since I started blogging, I intentionally stayed away from keyword research. It just seemed like one of those things that could take up too much of my time. I understood the principles of keyword research but felt that in order to do it effectively, I had a lot of work to do. I opted to take the “lazy” way… Read the rest of this entry »

Do You Want A Copy Of My Definitive Guide To SEO For Bloggers?

Yaro Starak — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:03:39 +0000

It was early 2006. I had been blogging for over a year and felt I had achieved something.

My blog had recently surpassed 1,000 RSS subscribers (what is RSS), making it at the time the most popular website I had ever built. The income was solid – up to $2,000 a month at best – and it was… Read the rest of this entry »

Get Stomping The Search Engines 2 For Free (sort of…)

Yaro Starak — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:05:00 +0000

Apologies if you got this notice from my newsletter yesterday around 2PM. It appears Andy and Brad had some technology issues so people haven’t been able to take advantage of this one until today. The links in this post go to an active page where you can order.

You can skip the background story and go straight to the good… Read the rest of this entry »

Google Keyword Tool Gets A Whole Lot Better

Yaro Starak — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:19:45 +0000

I’ll just slip this in before I head off and work on my launch video since EVERYONE is going nuts on Twitter about it (Ed Dale is of course the craziest).

Google’s keyword tool just become a goldmine for accurate keyword data. Go have a play with it now and you will see what I mean -

Google

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A Free SEO Tool From StomperNet, Competition From A Cow and Advice For Beginner Bloggers

Yaro Starak — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:17:45 +0000

Three quick updates for you today, starting with a way cool video and tool from StomperNet’s latest Going Natural 3.0 launch series of videos (if you haven’t opted in to get these free videos, go do it now – you’re missing out!).

Assessing Your Website’s SEO with Stomper Site Seer

Today (Friday USA time) StomperNet are making available a… Read the rest of this entry »

Build Back Links Using These Blog Mining Tools

Yaro Starak — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:25:19 +0000

A quick short post today as I’m busy getting ready with my final preparations to head for Canada (more on this soon).

If you are into search engine optimization you know the importance of back links. In a newsletter I sent out to my email subscribers back in February (you have to be on my blog tips newsletter)… Read the rest of this entry »

How To Build Traffic Without Marketing

Yaro Starak — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:57:18 +0000

There’s something I’ve come to realize about most of my fellow bloggers – you guys and girls are not great at marketing.

Don’t take offense, marketing is not something that comes naturally and most people enter the blogging world as writers or hobbyists, not business people.

Some look at marketing as advertising and their current perception of advertising is akin… Read the rest of this entry »

How I Got My PageRank Back

Yaro Starak — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:54:16 +0000

You may have noticed this blog is back to a PageRank 6. Back in October 2007 my site was one of the blogs hit with a PageRank penalty because I had paid links. I dropped from a 6 to a 5 and then later when the big sweep happened, down to a 3.

This article sums up my speculation during… Read the rest of this entry »

Why Your Website Design Sucks

Yaro Starak — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:34:59 +0000

Update: Since they added a new video to this series, you have to click the “view playlist” button in the video player and choose the video with Andy Edmonds presenting StomperNet Scrutinizer to get the video I am referring to.

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Andy Jenkins and his team at StomperNet are at it again, releasing more great free videos, this time… Read the rest of this entry »

Possible Explanations for the PageRank Penalty Sweep

Yaro Starak — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:49:34 +0000

I’m not entirely sure I want to write this article. I think one of the best ways to reduce the impact of Google’s PageRank is to talk less about it. If you ignore something it loses all power.

However, people still seem to care about PageRank. Webmasters care, bloggers care, search engine optimizers care. Even bloggers who are writing… Read the rest of this entry »

How To Optimize Your E-Commerce Site For Top Search Engine Rankings

Yaro Starak — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:20:31 +0000

People who run e-commerce sites – sites that are focused on making sales of a product – have a history of great difficulty when it comes to search engine optimization. We are told to build links to improve search engine rankings, yet why would a person link to a site that is essentially a glorified shopping cart?

One of the… Read the rest of this entry »

Did I Get Hit With A PageRank Penalty?

Yaro Starak — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:49:56 +0000

I just can’t seem to get it right about this whole PageRank update thing. First I thought PageRank was updating, then I noticed it was just some sites dropping in PR, then I thought it was updating again when this blog dropped from a 6 to a 5, but now it seems it could have just been a… Read the rest of this entry »

SEO Essentials Book Review – Can This E-Book Deliver A Top 10 Search Engine Ranking?

Yaro Starak — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:59:26 +0000

Michael Kwan is fast becoming a review king and he’s offered to help me out here at Entrepreneurs-Journey too. In this review, Michael investigates an e-book by Eric Brown called “SEO Essentials For a Top 10 Search Engine Ranking”. Read on to see if Michael thinks this book will help you improve your search engine rankings…

SEO Essentials e-Book by… Read the rest of this entry »

PageRank Update In Progress?

Yaro Starak — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:39:04 +0000

Update: I’ve added a question mark to this post because it appears perhaps the PageRank update is NOT in progress. I thought I saw enough signs – a few of my sites have changed, John Chow’s changed too and a couple of blogs were talking about – but perhaps these are just random events and not indicating a full update… Read the rest of this entry »

Wordze Review – The King of Keywords

Yaro Starak — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:37:01 +0000

This review is by Robert Kingston.

As you may have heard, keyword research is one of the fundamental parts in the process of search engine optimization. I know a lot of the readers of this blog seem to be interested in drawing more search traffic so I found it only fitting to take on this sponsored review.

Today, we’re going… Read the rest of this entry »

StomperNet Taking New Members Again

Yaro Starak — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:03:03 +0000

If you are on the StomperNet mailing list (you can sign up by filling out the form on this page you have no doubt already received news and links to more great free videos for the re-launch of the program.

As an affiliate for StomperNet I received a neat little PDF that explains what has been going on behind… Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome New Sponsor Search Engine Guide

Yaro Starak — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:51:52 +0000

A quick welcome and thank you to the latest sponsor of Entrepreneurs -Journey.com, Search Engine Guide.

You should already see there banners floating around here and if search engine news and education is your cup of tea, or you want to learn how to optimize your small business for search engines, spend some time at SearchEngineGuide.com.

… Read the rest of this entry »

The Top 16 SEO Tips From A Yahoo Insider

Yaro Starak — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:16:25 +0000

Recently in the private forums Rich Schefren provides for his Strategic Profits clients there was a discussion started about search engine optimization.

The topic initially began with two questions. The first was about whether non-Google search engines penalize sites that advertise with Google AdWords (false) and the importance of having an “aged domain” and how it relates to… Read the rest of this entry »

Should Bloggers Accept Money For Reviews?

Yaro Starak — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 04:17:24 +0000

Wow, this is interesting however I don’t know what is the best way to approach the situation so perhaps you can help me, in fact I really think you are the best person (people) to offer feedback since ultimately it’s you I care about and I believe this situation could damage our relationship if I went down this path.

Let… Read the rest of this entry »

SEOBook Review

Yaro Starak — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:07:54 +0000

Review of SEOBook by Aaron Wall

You can find a listing of all the reviews and links to the products and resources I use in the Resources Section of this website.

Search Engine Optimization Book by Aaron Wall (SEOBook.com)

Name: SEOBook by Aaron Wall
URL: www.seobook.com
Purpose: Search Engine Optimization education

Iâ€™ve meant to… Read the rest of this entry »

Conducting Competitive Intelligence Using Search Status: A Search Extension for Firefox

Yaro Starak — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:19:58 +0000

If you read Rich Schefren’s latest free e-book – The Final Chapter (aff) – you will have come across a link he provided to a great tool called Search Status for the Firefox browser.

You can download Search Status here

It’s a neat little Firefox extension that provides you with some handy shortcuts for things like PageRank, AlexaRank,… Read the rest of this entry »

More Evidence Of The Google Honeymoon Period And Why Blogs Rock At SEO

Yaro Starak — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:48:48 +0000

As is glaringly obvious I was promoting Brad and Andy’s StomperNet launch on my blog recently (thanks to those who signed up under my affiliate link too – I suspect you will have tremendous success over the next 12 months if you implement what you learn and work with the StomperNet community).

The first post I made about the launch… Read the rest of this entry »