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I have compiled this list of 10 of the most common SEO mistakes I have noticed over my years of experience. Make sure to avoid these mistakes and you shouldn’t have any trouble getting decent rankings.

Flash
Avoid building your website completely in Flash.  Search engine spiders cannot read flash content just like they cannot read content from images.  Many developers don’t realize this as they build a visually appealing website.  A small amount of flash is okay as long as there is a text version of the content as well.  In the SEO world, content is king.  If content [...] Continue Reading…

In the last post, I talked about how to find keywords phrases that people are searching for as well as the possibility of being competitive for.  The next step in website optimization is one of the most important:  Title Tag structure.

For those who aren’t familiar with HTML, the title tags can be found in the website source code header between the <title> and </title> elements.  This is shown at the very top of the browser as well as the click able text in the search results.

Here are the most important points when it comes to writing awesome title tags [...] Continue Reading…

Let’s talk about the very basics of SEO for a minute.  When you have a new site that you need to do some optimization for, what is the first thing that you need to do?  The title of this post gives it away.  You need to research your keywords.  This means, you need to decide on the keyword phrases that you want to rank for, and then use current search statistics to decide exactly which phrases you are going to target.  In order to show exactly how I do this, I am going to give you an example with [...] Continue Reading…

I just took a quiz over at DarkGreySEO.com, in which they determine, based on you are willing to do as an SEO, if you are a Black Hat, White Hat, or Grey Hat.  And the results?
Dark Grey SEO

Pushing the boundaries to the maximum minus one fraction, your SEO campaign is as hard as it gets without getting in trouble with the law but you’ve probably been in trouble before with Google. You rarely back down when faced with conflict or a challenge.

You don’t like SPAM or SPAMMING however a comment blog SPAM or four is okay. However, you don’t [...] Continue Reading…

Through this magical journey of SEO, I will have case studies using some of the websites that I currently hold dominion over in terms of SEO. Three of the sites I will mention right now (as well as hoping that some of you will link back to).

Paternity DNA Testing
StrictlyDNA.com is a website that my friend Dan and I built and have continue to work on to bring paternity testing to those who need one. This website is just barely getting off the ground, however we have already seen some success in the pay per click advertising.

Christmas Patterns
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So, i’ve been looking for something to do with this website that will give this blog some more attention while actually giving out some useful tips and whatnot. I feel that the most qualified thing I possibly write about would be different SEO strategy. I do work for an internet marketing company as the manager over SEO, in which I am given full leeway in deciding how we go about optimizing the websites of our clients. Since I do new research every day about new strategy, and since the topic of SEO seems to be somewhat [...] Continue Reading…

I wanted to share a horrible experience I had with PayPal while I was in the Philippines last month visiting my wife’s family.  In order to get cash, we opted to use PayPal’s ATM/Debit Card since they generally have lower fees and don’t charge a remittance to convert dollars to the Philippine Peso.

For the last two years or so, if I wanted to instantly fund my paypal account (which is impossible to do with a bank transfer)  I would “send” the money to another paypal account, and then from that account I would send it back to the original [...] Continue Reading…

About two weeks ago, facebook start allowing users to create their own usernames and be able to use this in their profile URL (facebook.com/username).  I thought it would be really cool to get the username “jeff” or “jeffrey,” however those were already taken up by facebook employees (those jerks).  I ended up camping on my computer when they were released and was able to score facebook.com/ashby.

Find Me Here: Jeff Ashby on Facebook.

Also, I started using Twitter for social marketing purposes.  I don’t really see much of another reason for it, except if I am a big time celebrity that [...] Continue Reading…

Sorry, the website has been down for the past week or two.  I decided to move to another server on GoDaddy.  GoDaddy has kind of a wacky server, however it is cheap (especially with my corporate discount) and all my domains work with the hosting nicely.  I don’t however like all the advertisements all over their site.

Anyways, I ended up combining my mom’s economy hosting account with my hosting account into a more expensive deluxe hosting account in which we can have as many sites as we want.  This will come in handy for this site, Sweet Dreams Online, [...] Continue Reading…

Hey anyone who cares, we just put a bunch of pictures on facebook.