SEO

As a Search Engine Marketer and Professional, I am searching Google dozens of times a day (sometimes hundreds). I am monitoring results, making changes, and coming back to see more results all the time. At any given time, I have 4 or 5 key phrases that I search just before I go to bed and right when I wake because of the anticipation of those results. I love my job and treat SEO like a game, and I want to win this game.

Recently, we re-wrote the copy or content for a local real estate agent as a result of our discussion about writing effectively for the web and gaining the most from your website by carefully using the keywords or phrases that the major search engines will find as a result of a search request. Let me show you an example of a page we re-wrote for his Real Estate BUYER page...
Buying a Home in Savannah

Today we were proud to lead a lunchtime lecture on Search Engine Optimization hosted by the University of Georgia SBDC. We had a sold out crowd of 25 and some great participation. The main speaker was our CEO, Chuck St. Arnaud, with me playing second fiddle :)

Topics covered include:

• Twitter, Facebook, and other Social Networks
• On-Site SEO including some real basic coding topics
• Landing Pages
• Blogs
• What not to do
• a bunch more!

A quick experiment led me to this topic this morning. I'm terrible with holidays, birthdays, etc. As such, I'll often do a quick Google search to bring myself up to speed with upcoming holidays. This led me to my morning SEO experiment: Father's Day SEO.

The World is buzzing today about the launch of Bing.com, Microsoft's newest try to compete with Google. Bing is a search engine that will try to offer more than just the regular list of results. It's going try to provide relevant options that tie directly into other sites.

For example, if you search for a travel related phrase, not only will Bing display links of websites (which is where Google ends), it will also try to pull rates and dates from various travel websites so that you can investigate right inside of Bing, thus cutting down on clicks and (so they say) confusion.

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a buzzword in Internet Marketing these days. Most businesses we come across who have had websites for a certain amount of time find that they're just not producing the results, direct or indirect, that they would like. Whether it's sales or viewers or subscribers, without optimizing your website for Google and the rest of the crew, you're not going to see the results you want. Systems Connect stands by the claim that we are the Savannah Search Engine Optimization Leaders.

After 14 years in the Internet business and talking to a large number of website owners, I have found that there are five common themes emerge as the keys to turning their website into highly successful ventures.

Tip #1 - ON PAGE INTERNET MARKETING