Thursday, July 26, 2007

Seo Help

There are no "hooks" here. I spend a lot of time talking to new prospective clients on the phone or by email almost every day and that often eats into my production time. So, I figure if I can do a good job of explaining the basics, it will save us both time, keep my projects on schedule and let me make a little more money.
You might decide you don't need my help and that with this free information you want to do SEO yourself. Good for you, go for it. On the other hand, you might decide that you need my help or that you want help that goes beyond what you want to learn to do yourself. Good for both of us.I have links to information in this page and in my SEO free information I will send you where I am an affiliate for the products or services I recommend. It is important to me to tell you that I actually USE these products and services. You can consider my recommendation a personal endorsement. If you click through and buy something, I get a commission, thank you. If you decide to sign up under me as a fellow affiliate for any of these goodies, I may get a little spiff when you sell something. So, this is an income opportunity for me and maybe for you, too.Beyond saving time and making a little money, there is another motive for providing free SEO advice, and that is helping folks get started on their way to success with their website. Compared to 1995 when I did my first web, the internet has millions of times more content online and new folks starting out have a really tough challenge to compete. It's not easy any more, which is probably why you are reading this? There are folks who helped me starting out. I am passing on the favor. Remember that movie with Helen Hunt? Paying It Forward?I have another reason for doing this. Unfortunately, there are a lot of folks providing "services" like submitting your website to a ga-gillion search engines (a total waste of time and money) or folks who have hung out their SEO shingle who may know less than you do. Like any emerging and rapidly moving field, a lust for the opportunity to say I ARE ONE is not necessarily supported by knowledge or value to the customer. This often gives our SEO industry a bad name and makes folks skeptical about my abilities and my services. I don't like that. I want that to change.So, now that you know where I am coming from, let me tell you a little about me so you will be able to judge the value of what I am giving away for free here.When I put my first web online in late 1995 I started out doing SEO the hard way (meaning self taught) by trial and error, experimenting, reading and looking at what successful webs were doing. I got some good results for both my own webs and for my clients. I realized some time in late 2004 that keeping up with all the changes taking place in techniques and algorithms was getting very, very challenging. This is a FAST MOVING game? You betcha, and it's getting faster and more challenging all the time.After considerable research, I decided to attend Search Engine Workshops and get Advanced SEO Certified. Search Engine Workshops' curriculum is university approved and eligible for college level CEUs or continuing education units. John Alexander and Robin Nobles do a great job and have become real friends as well as mentors. They treat their students like family. Let me tell you, it is great to know and be friends with gurus. Yes it is.Robin and John teach only ethical SEO techniques and start at the beginning in their training programs for folks new to SEO. They have a 2 day course for beginners followed by a 3 day course for advanced learners and an ultra advanced workshop for folks who really know optimization. If you do the whole 5 days I guarantee your brain will be in a kink for a couple of weeks. There is a lot to learn, they teach it well and they teach it all.