SEO Page 1 Blog

We have been experimenting with various image optimization techniques for search - specifically we have been attempting different things in order to come up on the first page of Google’s image search.

Lately we have noticed a significant amount of search traffic from images.google.com. Searching for the term “SEO” on Google image search has confirmed that we now come up on the first page of Google images. Here is a link to view the search results yourself - http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=seo&gbv=2

On that first page of image search results is the image from our homepage, which is this:

Because of the eye catching nature of this image, it seems to be getting a lot of clicks from image searchers. Most of those searching for SEO on Google images are probably those that are setting up their own SEO websites, so they aren’t the greatest leads or traffic from us, but the end goal and confirmation is the same - we know what we are doing when it comes to search engine optimization and now,  image SEO as well.

We also see a lot of traffic from other SEO companies doing searches for SEO proposal formats, SEO invoice examples, etc. It seems that everyone is trying to start an SEO company. My advice to you all is to outsource your SEO work to someone that knows what they are doing. This practice is called Private Label SEO. You can visit our niche site for our Private Label SEO Services at http://www.privatelabelseo.net to learn more about how this works.

Our organic page 1 search results are available at http://www.seopage1.com/seo.pdf. This PDF file is now 42 pages long and contains thousands of top 10 search results. Although this is a lot of work to track this many results, we feel it is worth the effort. This gives you an opportunity to view our performance for yourself.

Anyone can say they know SEO, but can they prove it? See for yourself by viewing our latest page 1 search results and decide for yourself.

Attention India - We are not interested in outsourcing our web design and SEO work. Please stop calling.

Thank you.

A new site/blog is launching that will contain free computer training videos and quick start guides. - EmployMentality.com

TechCrunch reports that Adobe has finally solved the problem of Flash files being invisible/non-indexable to searh engines. This means that Flash SEO is now a reality.

Matt Cutts, Google’s SEO liason, has just posted an entry about Improved SEO Documentation on his blog. As always, a very informative read and highly recommended.

I ran across this post speculating about the end of SEO, courtesy of Google. This article is written with the premise that SEO consists of simply paying for links to your site. Once again, it is evidence of clinging to the outdated belief that the way to get to the search engines is to focus on link building and PageRank.

This isn’t the end of SEO, but simply people finally catching on to what I’ve been saying for up to three years now - link buying, link building, linking strategies no longer work with Google. They caught on to this trick many years ago, and most SEO companies are just now figuring this out. The reason this is is because they make significant revenue by selling their clients on Link Building.

So this isn’t the end of SEO. Far from it. It’s simply a call to focus on one’s own site, creating great content, and optimizing your own site for search. Let’s quit worrying about PageRank and Link Building and focus on the task at hand — SEO.

To say that Search Engine Optimization is an industry in constant flux would be an understatement. Since we provide bi-weekly search performance reports for our clients, we continually monitor thousands of keywords across hundreds of sites. The one thing that is consistant is that search results changes. The main goal for us is to be sure those changes trend upward instead of downward.

I’ve always been curious just how often Google makes changes to their algorithm, and now I know, thanks to this article - Google Tweaked Search 450 Times in 2007.

In Google’s continuing quest to organize the World’s information, they have now added WhoIs lookup. Looking up WhoIs information reveal “who is” the owner of a domain name. This is especially good news given the recent front-running of Network Solutions (in a nutshell - if you look to see if a domain name is available on Network Solutions, they quickly register it so that you have to buy the domain from them at a ridiculously high price).

Simply type “whois” in the search field in Google, followed by a space, then the domain name in question. So for example, “whois Google.com”.

 Kuddos to SearchEngineLand for alerting me to the Whois feature now in Google.

The most popular blog platform, especially for Search Engine Optimization is WordPress (also referred to as WP). WordPress recently upgraded to version 2.5, and it seems the more they upgrade in order to plug security holes, they introduce new ones. There also other miscellaneous technical issues being reported with this latest release.

What I like about WordPress in particular for SEO is the ability to easily create categories. Another nice features is the ability to associate tags with a topic, and each of these tags are then organized in a nice, search engine friendly, keyword relevant structure. For example, here is a link to all of our posts that have been tagged with the term Organic Search Engine Optimization. I’m tagging this particular blog entry with that term, so you should see this post at the top of the page if you follow the link.