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What Happens When Someone Googles Your Name?

Ana Hoffman — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:00:45 +0000

So you’ve set up a blog. Now you are churning out great content, connecting with your readers, networking with other bloggers, building a list, and even providing excellent value to your subscribers.

How’s your bank account looking?

Still not improving much?

Why not? Why are your leads buying, but not from you?

Let’s look at the… Read the rest of this entry »

Why PageRank Doesn’t Matter Anymore (And What You Should Focus On Instead)

Ana Hoffman — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:00:50 +0000

It’s amazing how many people ask me questions about Google PageRank on a regular basis.

The main concerns people tell me are –

Why doesn’t my site have higher PR – am I doing something wrong? How come such and such site has a high PR; their site sucks! How long does it take to acquire PR?

I… Read the rest of this entry »

How Do You Build A Brand That Google Rewards With Traffic?

Ana Hoffman — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:22:30 +0000

Is it just me or have you also noticed that Google seems to be paying a lot more attention to brands these days? So much so, in fact, that it can almost feel that brand signals might be included as a part of their search engine ranking factors?

Are brands really being given more weight in Google? And… Read the rest of this entry »

How To Get Your Web Page Listed In Google In 6 Easy Steps

Sunil — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:45:40 +0000

One of the most common frustrations website and blog owners face, particularly those who are new to the space, is to get their pages indexed or listed on search engines quickly.

Because of the amount of spam and saturation on the Internet, it takes a website or blog longer to get included in search engine search results today than ever… Read the rest of this entry »

How To Find Out What Your Blog Ranks For In Google (And Bring In More Targeted Traffic)

Ana Hoffman — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:52:18 +0000

Google’s mission as stated on the company information page is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

Yet, most websites are nothing but a hodge-podge of disorganized content without any central theme.

Unfortunately, that’s exactly what makes it impossible for them to rank for any competitive (read: traffic-bringing, money-making) keywords.

Take, for instance,… Read the rest of this entry »

How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000) – Part 2

Sunil — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:00:12 +0000

In part one of this post titled, How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000), I wrote about how I came about the idea for the e-commerce website that I started, grew and sold, while on an international work-related trip.

The article goes in depth explaining the formulation of the idea, the facts… 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Your Last Chance To Get Into StomperNet Is Today

Yaro Starak — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:57:44 +0000

Today (Thursday) the doors on StomperNet Membership are opening again to fill the last few available spots that Brad and Andy didn’t fill during the previous few weeks.

In case you missed the hoopla, StomperNet is the ultimate search engine optimization and website conversion course. You know me and you know I don’t like hype and this product launch… Read the rest of this entry »

Brad and Andy SEO Launch Imminent

Yaro Starak — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:57:41 +0000

The huge hoopla surrounding the Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins product launch is coming to an end (or at least you can finally buy the product) on Tuesday USA time.

I’ve never received so many emails for one launch before and to be honest I couldn’t keep up. However there is one place where everything is being kept nice and… Read the rest of this entry »

The Google Honeymoon Period

Yaro Starak — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:46:32 +0000

I have no doubt this topic has been discussed on many SEO forums before but I’m going to give my take on it based on what I have experienced.

The “Google Honeymoon” as I call it, is the period 24-48 hours after producing a new web page where it first ranks in the Google search index. In my experience for… Read the rest of this entry »

Watch These Top Quality SEO Videos

Yaro Starak — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:56:49 +0000

Back when I began working online and learning about search engine optimization the very first source of quality information I found was Brad Fallon’s free SEO course (aff). I still recommend it as the number one place to start learning how to improve your natural search engine rankings at no cost.

I hadn’t heard much from Brad lately in… Read the rest of this entry »

Google Rank Secrets – New E-Book

Yaro Starak — Thu, 11 May 2006 04:43:08 +0000

If you are into search engine optimization there is a new book called “Google Rank Secrets” with the tagline – How to get listed in Google and Rank in the Top 10 which you may be interested in.

The book claims to help you to – “Rank In The Top 10 Search Results Within 30 Days Or Less!” –… Read the rest of this entry »

Analyzing Key Metrics in Your Web Site Traffic Reports – Part 2

Yaro Starak — Fri, 05 May 2006 10:10:38 +0000

This is the second part of a report produced by John Webster from AIM IT looking at the key metrics in web site traffic reports.

If you haven’t done so already, read part one – Analyzing Key Metrics in Your Web Site Traffic Reports – Part 1.

Referral Report

This important report shows how visitors found your web pages.… Read the rest of this entry »

Analyzing Key Metrics in Your Web Site Traffic Reports – Part 1

Yaro Starak — Thu, 04 May 2006 05:45:03 +0000

John Webster is a fellow I recently met through this blog. He came across some of my search engine optimization articles and instantly made contact with me. Turns out John is a super fan of web site marketing and SEO and runs his own firm in Australia called AIM IT.

John sent me through a solid report on analysing… Read the rest of this entry »

A Dynamic PageRank?

Yaro Starak — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:20:07 +0000

It’s probably just the Google Dance (PageRank) update still going on and if you follow your PageRank I’m sure you have noticed this too – but doesn’t it seem that PageRank is dynamic now rather than static in-between updates?

I notice when I wake up in the morning here in Australia PageRank is lower across the board and then throughout… Read the rest of this entry »

The 80/20 Of Search Engine Optimization – Part 2

Yaro Starak — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 01:11:03 +0000

In The 80/20 Of Search Engine Marketing – Part 1 I covered the first four of the Top 8 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques as explained by Brad Fallon. The first four methods were applicable to On-Page SEO, techniques you can manually apply to your website internally. The remaining four that I am about to discuss cover Off-Page SEO,… Read the rest of this entry »

My Top 8 Search Engine Optimization Tips – Part 1

Yaro Starak — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 04:16:28 +0000

I joined Perry Marshall’s Renaissance Club to get my copy of the Definitive Guide To Google AdWords at the discounted rate, however I’ve started to realize there is a lot more value in it than just the AdWords eBook, which I guess makes sense since Perry wants people to stay subscribed to his club, so he must… Read the rest of this entry »