SEO Tips by the Vancouver Search Engine Optimization Professionals

Why Don’t I Have Top Search Engine Rankings Already? - Part 2 of a Series

Andreas Hagener — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:50:20 +0000

In Part 1 in this series we covered the selection of the right keywords. With your optimal list of ‘power’ keywords selected, reviewing your SEO plan is the next step in your quest for top rankings on Google, Yahoo!, MSN and Ask.com. Your SEO Plan You want to prioritize your pages first. Lack of focus in SEO can [...]

SEO Best Practices

Andreas Hagener — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:49:51 +0000

Here’s an Affiliate Summit clip I came across on YouTube. Hope you find it helpful. (Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) Andreas Hagener SEO Commandos

Why Don’t I Have Top Search Engine Rankings Already? - Part 1 of a Series

Andreas Hagener — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:23:58 +0000

Despite what the spam emails will tell you, getting to the top of Google, Yahoo!, MSN is going to take time. And staying there is going to require a continual investment. Anybody who promises you top ten (first page of search engine results) rankings on Google, Yahoo! and MSN for all of your target keywords [...]

Flash and SEO - Can Your Flash Web Site Rank in the Top-10?

Andreas Hagener — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:22:12 +0000

Contrary to what the anti-Flash naysayers would have you believe, Flash web sites do achieve top rankings on Google, Yahoo! and MSN. At the SEO Only we have specialized in Flash SEO since 1999. Many of our happiest customers own 100% Flash websites, yet enjoy top search engine rankings and the resulting traffic to their [...]

Broken Links and SEO

studio12 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:01:39 +0000

In order for your website’s links to be of value they must be related to the content of the page and they must be active, linking to real websites. Broken links can lower your search engine ranking. Choose the sites you link to carefully based upon relevance. Ideally you should deep link to the most [...]

SEO is War

Andreas Hagener — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:42:52 +0000

SEO is a declaration of war. It is driven by your intense passion to be the best, to outposition your oponents; rising victoriously as a leader in your industry, seizing market share in battle after battle. As you go into battle you want a mercenary (skilled SEO marketing professional) at your right hand, not an [...]

The Importance of Being Listed in Yahoo! & DMOZ

Andreas Hagener — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:41:30 +0000

Having your site listed on Yahoo! and the Open Directory Project (DMOZ) is one of the best ways to gain high quality backlinks. Being listed on these top directories also influences your placement in other search engines and directories. Yahoo! charges $299 annually for a listing in their directory. They do however guarantee that your site [...]

SEO Shortcut - Purchasing an Aged Domain

Andreas Hagener — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:15:22 +0000

The Internet and search engines have reached a new level of maturity and sophistication. Search engines are putting more and more weight on the age of the domain in their algorithms. If you purchase a domain that ranks reasonably well, but where the owner has failed to monetize the site or convert visitors into buyers, and [...]

Three Types of Internet Searchers to Optimize For

Andreas Hagener — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:57:54 +0000

There are three unique types of searchers who visit the search engines you are targeting. 1) Navigational Searchers Navigational searchers are searching for a specific website. Sometimes, it’s because they have visited the site before or perhaps someone described it to them. Often, they have heard of a particular company or its products. Perhaps they [...]

How Much Should You Pay for SEO?

brandon_forsythe — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:55:40 +0000

SEO experts and Internet marketing consultants don’t always agree on SEO pricing and budgeting, but on average the SEO budget recommendation works out to 4 - 5 times the cost of the website. In other words, if a company’s annual website budget is $15,000.00, SEO and Internet marketing should be between $60,000.00 and $75,000.00. To their [...]