Simplify the Web

Easy Blog Integration. Three simple words. When you search for them on Google, there will be somewhere close to 2,000,000 websites listed. When you search for them on Yahoo, there will be somewhere close to 51,000,000. DotComOnomics isn't one of them, from what I can tell. I stopped looking after 1,000 search results. After all: I wanted to know how easily we'd be found when someone searched for "easy blog integration". If you're not in the top thousand results, chances are good that nobody will...
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10 days. That's all it took to move DotComOnomics from >1,000 to #1. What am I talking about? I'm talking about a Search Engine Optimization experiment that started on May 14, 2008...eleven days ago. At the time, DotComOnomics wasn't in the top 1,000 results on either Google or Yahoo for the phrase "easy blog integration". There were 2 million results on Google and 51 million on Yahoo, and we were nowhere to be found. Our flagship product, PageProLive, allows us to integrate a blog into vir...
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It's been just over a month. I forgot to check the listings four days ago, and just remembered. What am I talking about? It's an experiment in Search Engine Optimization that we dubbed Easy Blog Integration. Yes, I know it's not that creative. You can read the original article, and you can read the first follow-up. Essentially, Thomas and I decided to test our theory that we're just as good as - or better than - Search Engine Optimization professionals. Not at doing busy work or creating report...
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A simple phrase that many are trying to be found. Denver Real Estate is a term that many agents in the Denver area are trying to be found in the result pages for the Internet. We are going to stage another experiment in Searh Optimization by simply writing about Denver Real Estate. We searched online in the top 1000 positions for Denver Real Estate and found us lacking in all major search engines for the phrase. Google, Yahoo, and MSN have nothing linking to us for the phrase. So, with nothing ...
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It's about time for another follow-up on the original Search Engine Optimization experiment. The phrase? Easy Blog Integration. The task? To raise our rank for that search phrase from below 1000 to the first page of search results. The reason? To make sure we actually know what we're doing. We don't have any clients who pay us for Search Engine Optimization. We keep telling them that they don't need SEO. Why? Because: if your website has good code and good content, people will be able to f...
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Most people don't know how to design websites. There are millions of people who know how to make a website, but very few who know how to design one. Because that's true, two new industries exist: the pay-per-click advertising industry the search engine optimization industry In the early days of the web, before the search engine became the primary mode of transportation for surfers, big businesses noticed something odd. They weren't listed at the top of the search results, despite being ...
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We have done posts before on this topic. Easy Blog Integration 1, Easy Blog Integration 2, Easy Blog Integration 3, and Easy Blog Integration 4. It's been almost six months now since the last update, (July 3rd, 2008), let's see how we are doing now. As of the end of this year, 2008, we are currently in first place on google for the search phrase: Easy Blog Integration. We have had a pretty successful year overall and this experiment seems to have gone very well for us. Again, as we continually ...
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After some recent efforts working with a company on improving its SEO visibility and overall performance it has come to my attention just how important it is to make sure EVERYONE in the business has some cursory knowledge and understanding of Search Engines and how they search. Knowing the basics will help the business to keep its mind aware of what some decisions can do to impact the standings of their site on the web. Even down to the developers, yes, that's right peoples even the developers...
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SEOMoz put together quite a decent article about SEO and how it fits into the development life cycle. Very simply put, if you don't think about it as you develop, you will wind up making a ton of changes later. Take the time when you start a project, when you start a website and figure out what you would like to say and how you would like to say it. Great article, great illustration, take a moment to read it! http://www.seomoz.org/blog/building-seo-into-development-process ...
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