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Mastering the art of SEO takes precise decision-making skills, science, research, and above all-experience. Look for guarantees that promise performance, not a particular time frame or low-cost lure. It used to take 6 weeks to see measurable ranking improvement, now it can take as long as 12 weeks to see improvement. Time frames are subject to change as often as Google makes changes to it's algorithm. In 2009 Google made 20 changes, some subtle, others not so subtle. * Don't fall for the 30 days or less trap: This is bogus. There's no such thing as instant gratification in the world of SEO. Months of work and adjustments go into a successful ranking. Just because your case takes longer doesn't make it any less worthwhile; patience pays off with legitimate SEO.

*SEO Copywriting vs Writing For a Human Audience*
Much is written about crafting quality content and improving your websites ranking in Google. Typically a marketing department (mistakenly) assumes their task is to write compelling copy to attract a human audience... ultimately it is.

*Googlebot

If you Google "real estate in (your geographical area)" or "homes for sale in X", it is depressing to see the big names gobble up most of the 10 available Google "slots".

Select just about any geographical area and type in "homes for sale in X" and you'll probably see a top listing in Google for, in this order:

* homes.com
* zillow.com
* realestate.yahoo.com

Those "real estate portals" usually take up much of the available marketing "real estate" on the front page of any given local Google search results page for this important keyword phrase.

So how does a small time blogger compete against these juggernauts with the full time SEO staff at their disposal?

how are you going to get a fighting chance against those high Google page rank domains? Long tail keywords and... a big boost:

Take the RSS feed url from your activerain blog and add it to the list below

Here's what needs to happen before we can start on your Local SEO

By taking time to carve out a winning strategy based on your unique needs, quality SEO providers can potentially send your site shooting to the top of the ranks in as little as a few months

Real Estate SEO Real Estate Professional Frederick, MD Website: http://www.frederickwebpromotions.com Blog: http://www.localorganicsearchranking.com Phone: 240 644-7530 About David Bruce Local Google Advertising Consultant Google Places Consultant Regional Search Engine Marketing Managed Company Facebook Pages

Google will spider the old, inaccurate listing and might store the wrong data in it's cache. Google has a vested interest in ensuring Yahoo stays afloat: the Obamunists would have a anti-trust field day if Yahoo "went away". Search is THE number one ultimate tool that nearly everyone uses virtually every day. "Google It" is now considered to be a verb, everyone knows what that means. * 80% percent of all internet traffic begins with a search engine; what is more dramatic is that even when users know what they're looking for many prefer to type into the search box of some search engine rather than type a URL into the browser. * 73% of internet users perform searches several times a week. * Local search and local results constitute 84% of total search volume. * 81% of users begin their internet experience at the search engine. Astounding Fact: even when people know where they want to go, they still type a query into a search box! The search box seems more inviting than the browser url box, many people aren't even aware that they can type a url into the browser, the assumption is that a search box is preferable to the browser

Wordpress.com is an often overlooked blog platform that is amazingly effective in improving local small business advertising SEO efforts. Frederick Web Promotions in Frederick Maryland uses wordpress.com with devastating results... devastating for the competitors of our SEO clients

Now Facebook will let you set up a blog for a company... and I now offer to set them up AND manage them as if they were company blogs. SEO is what I

So now, with a little 140 character to 350 character blurb (complete with a target url) you can press one button and an entire chain reaction of social networks is blasting YOUR message all over God's Creation. It is... gotta couple of quick questions for you: Is anyone actually reading your stuff? Do you unfollow someone who pounds you over the head incessantly with an offer you know you aren't interested in? Do you stay subscribed to dozens, perhaps hundreds of "friends" and "followers" only to ignore almost all of them? When's the last time you actually replied to an incoming direct message? Or a blog comment? Or an email for that matter (OK, you did see that one) Are you answering your twitter? (Did you even know you *could* answer it?)

Twitter as Ad Blaster or Serious Blog Platform? I have to fess up… I didn't really know what I wanted to do with twitter for the longest time. As a SEO professional I have a fiduciary responsibility to my clients to get their marketing message "out there" as much as humanly possible. The O in SEO is misleading, our industry has actually evolved quite a bit since the phrase Search Engine Optimization was coined almost a decade ago. The "O" is for onpage or on site "Optimization", the notion that one could "optimize" a given website to entice Google to "like it more". In the years that have passed, off page is where the real results show up in terms of improving a company website's Google ranking. (gratuitous keyword insertion intended, I DO want you to find this in Google). Link Building is an important, albeit controversial part of improving a website's positioning in search results. Industrial Strength Link Building Back links pointing to a main target used to be the single most important method of fulfilling our clients a clients desired result, social media has muddied the waters a bit but the extra "eyeballs on your site" that social media provides does not diminish the fact that all those social media links are still "back links" in Googlebot's eyes. Having your url posted in either yours or someone else's tweets does get noticed by and indexed by Google. I fear however, that that url rolls off the person's twitter page so fast sometimes I suspect Google isn't willing to give that as much credence as having your link show up on someone's page and stay there for awhile (or indefinitely) Most of you do not remember the early days of internet marketing, remember FFA sites? Free For All Sites, they used to be effective, what ever they began as they evolved into a spam friendly zone. You could post your link to an FFA site for free… the only payment required was that you had to allow EVERY other member t

Business has just caught on the the SEO value of Google+ Pages.
Google+ like Facebook has both personal profiles and company pages.

Most small businesses are aware their company needs a social media presence, most people have personal Facebook pages and assume it's easy to create one for their c

Frederick, Maryland Search Engine Marketers Want to drive more search engine traffic to your website? Find Frederick, MD search engine marketers that have been recommended by your network on LinkedIn. Connect with a Frederick SEM expert who can help promote your website using paid search listings, contextual advertising, as well as paid inclusion. David Bruce Jr Local SEO and Search Engine Marketing Contractor

Companies pay us to get their website to show up in the top 10 search results of Google (and other search engines). We have a team of professional bloggers, experts in social media, web design professionals, off site promotion staff and so on.

there has been a lot of debate on whether the drop of a website's rank by 30 or 950 spots in Google is really a penalty for adopting shady SEO methods

Check your rankings often? If you're not paying attention you'll get a very false sense of security. News Bulletin: Google Doesn't Show Everybody The Same Results! It shows you what it thinks you want to see… Google's Personalized Search is a game changer.