SearchSpot tests out Google Wave

A friend of SearchSpot gave us an invitation to Google Wave. It looks like it could have some search engine optimization and online advertising uses by real time collaboration of content creation, ideas, work flow, etc. SearchSpot looks forward to putting it to good use!

P.S. Happy Thanksgiving for all who celebrated today.

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SearchSpot running strong.

Things have been working out great here at SearchSpot. Rankings improving, customers are happy, and the work keeps coming... nothing to complain about! It's been a slow crawl forward, but every inch of the way has been rewarding. There are a lot of shortcuts and tricks to SEO which aren't exactly looked lightly upon that many people try. I'll admit I've attempted one or two of those methods on test domains just to see if they work. Some do, some don't, but the point is, if you want solid long-term profitable success, you do it the right way, the first time. You hand write solid content with informative details that people want to read. The rankings will follow.

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SearchSpot Busy but uneventful today.

SearchSpot spent most of today doing additional tests with little results. Putting up high quality content seems to be the best way to please Google, as that's what they look for - a good user experience. I was thinking today about how it's silly to be impatient when it comes to Search Engine Optimization; Google deals with probably hundreds of millions of new pages of content per day, and I'm sitting here frustrated that a blog post isn't indexed within 24 hours.. Ah well, it's all a part of the learning curve, right?

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SearchSpot LLC has good luck indexing today

Been running some experiments on google for what they look for in quality content in order to index your page with proper, completely white hat SEO and have been having good success. My best success of the day was under a minute from letting Google know my site exists, it was indexed. I'm waiting on 4 more pages to get indexed and am tweaking my strategies accordingly; Google is a strange beast to conquer (but we love you!)

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SearchSpot Long day today

It's been a long day; setting up an entirely new domain, writing content, SEOing the html, etc. The site looks terrible as I did it purely in HTML and is, to be honest, the first HTML site i've ever written.. previously I did the few websites I made myself in microsoft word or frontpage.. back in '96 :). After all of that was said and done, I talked on the phone for a while with the web programmer of one of my clients about the best way to SEO his website, as currently he has all kinds of 'no no's on his site, such as going 6 subfolders deep, using an H1 tag for damned near everything, etc. The web guy was really nice and SEO compliant, and I think we can really turn his site into something much bigger and get better results out of it.

Search Engine Optimizing the URL structure seems to be a really big issue with these bigger sites using dynamically generated content. I don't know how it works on their end, but everyone seems to say it's a huge deal to turn something like www.example.com/xq/asp/index.asp?cat=one/av/blahblah.asp into something like www.example.com/product/product-sales-page.html

That's why I'm not a coder, just a SEO.. consultant? I guess SEO consultant describes what I do for people on top of the background work I do for them advertising wise. But it's hard to build up a base pointing to a website that itself has a weak foundation. That's what I'm trying to work with these sites on; building a solid foundation. From there we can optimize their keyword networks using various techniques and link building methods.

It's a lot of work and it's time consuming, but it will be worth it in the long run. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy, is it?

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SearchSpot LLC back and settled down.

So I'm back from Las Vegas Pubcon 2009 and eager to kick off next week by putting into use everything I learned from Pubcon. I plan on launching a few test websites and tweaking them as I go for a local Arizona business that's already generating some income offline. I bought 5 domains this evening and plan to get at least one of them set up over the course of next week, fully search engine optimized and geared to go. Search Engine Optimization is quickly becoming a hobby of mine as well as my source of revenue, which is always a great combination.

Until something else interesting happens,
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SearchSpot 3 hours early to get a seat

So perhaps I overdid it today by arriving at the convention center before it even opened to reserve a seat, but no matter. At 10:15, Matt Cutts will be doing an interactive site review of an audience member's website. That means Matt Cutts himself will take someone's website and do a SEO analysis of it, live. That, my friends, is exciting... (for me, at least). While it's nice to be here early and all, it's kind of pointless. I can't even get in and sit down in the room he will be speaking in, because the center isn't even open yet.

No matter, it will all be worth it in the long-run. It's all invaluable info that I'd probably never be able to learn via internet forums, which, by the way, is all complete b.s. compared to what I've learned in a mere few days here.

SearchSpot LLC will be going places: that, I assure you.

SearchSpot, LLC in Vegas - Day 3

So far day 3 has been a bit weaker then the previous search engine optimization tracks, but there's still a speech about SEO tools coming up here in an hour with the CEO of SEOMoz. Tomorrow (Thursday) should be a big day; there's a speaker on "Rogue SEO", link building, dynamic sites and architecture, then finally to finish off the whole deal is a speech by Matt Cutts from Google... looking forward to that; it will probably be PACKED.

Until tomorrow.

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SearchSpot, LLC Vegas day 2!

Today was the first day of PubCon Search Engine Optimization training (yesterday being an exclusive, extra special type deal my client was kind enough to send me to in addition to the rest of the week). There were a few pretty awesome SEO track conferences I attended for some good information. Tomorrow should bring a lot more to the table; looking forward to it.

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SearchSpot LLC gets the opportunity to go to a SEO convention in Las Vegas, NV

SearchSpot, LLC has been given the rare opportunity to visit Las Vegas for a full week of Search Engine Optimization at PubCon. SearchSpot is extremely new in the grand scheme of SEO (about 2.5 months of seriously trying to learn the 'science' of search optimization), so today was a bit overwhelming. A client of mine that I've been doing various advertising work with over the last 9 months or so (who basically got me interested in SEO to begin with) sent me to this convention with the primo platinum full on package which included an awesome exclusive training seminar all day today. There were only about 80 people in attendance today compared to the expected 1400 I was told would be attending the rest of the week's conference.
The rest of the week should be a great experience, especially for someone just starting out in this field.

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