States we Serve Update
We have updated our states we serve page to include the following states SEO in Massachusetts, and Alabama SEO Services.
States We Serve Page For SEO Purposes
Create a States We Serve page
Looking for a great way to bring a lot more traffic to your website, build a states we serve folder and create seperate pages for every state in the U.S. or any other contry. By doing so you can create highly targeted landing pages for each state like the Michigan SEO page, we have also updated our Massachusetts SEO page.
This may seem like a lot of work but just like everything in life, the more you put in, the more you get back. Give it a try and post you results here for others to see.
100+ Free Press Release Sites, Free Backlinks
100+ Free Press Release Site to Gain Free Backlinks
Here is a list of over 100 free press release sites to submit to. Doing so will help you gain a major amount of free backlinks. On many of these sites your press release may get placed into an archive very quickly, but still great sources for backlinks. Save yourself some time andd use an auto form filling tool to help you submit to these quickly.
http://articlecity.prwebdirect.com
http://bizeurope.com/pressrelease.htm
http://businessopportunity.biz
http://dbusiness.com/pressrelease.htm
http://devpress.com/addNews.html
http://express-press-release.com
http://ideasiteforbusiness.com/cpress1.htm
http://internetworldstats.com/press.htm
http://lunareclipse.net/pressrelease.htm
http://macgo.net/news/submit.php
http://majon.com/advanced/advanced-pr.html
http://media-press-release.com
http://opportunityupdate.com/articles
http://ourworld.compuserve.com
http://powerhomebiz.com/BizNews/pressrelease.htm
http://pressreleasenetwork.com
http://press-release-writing.com
http://promaxum.com/promaxum_newsflash.html
http://pr-scotland.com/addpr.htm
http://softwaremarketingresource.com
http://software-review-center.org/act/addnews.php
http://softwarewire.com/SubmitRelease.htm
http://store.1choice4ystore.com/articles.html
http://symbcity.com/new/public
http://upload.it/shareware_soft_000005.htm
Local SEO Services now offered by Astonish SEO
Local SEO for your business
Astonish SEO is proud to announce the launching of a new service dedicated to local seo / geo targeted seo. Optimizing for localized search terms is considerably easier than broad terms, thus more cost effective.
If you are interested in targeting localized search terms this is for you!
Check out our Local SEO/ Geo Targeted SEO Services
Duplicate Content Issues with Ebay Postings
Duplicate Content Issues with Ebay Postings
It’s embarrasing to admit, being a fairly well known seo company but recently we ran into a duplicate content issue with our site Astonishseo.com posting an ad on Ebay. Below we will explain how it happened as well as how to avoid this yourself.
How it happened
We recently started offering a new service for realestate agent websites called IDX/RETS MLS Real Estate SEO. When we started offering this service, naturally we created a new page on our site devoted to MLS Real Estate SEO and started blogging about it. The site was in Googles index within hours and ranking #1 for “mls seo” and “idx seo”, as well as #3 for “seo for realtors”. These where pretty amazing results for a couple hours of work.
Duplicate content was posted to Ebay
An employee in our company posted a classified ad to Ebay to help get the buzz out as well a backlink. Here is what went wrong. When the employee posted the ad he basically copied and pasted the code from our IDX/RETS MLS SEO page into the Ebay classified ad posted here. To him the ad looked great and was functioning perfectly.
To Google, the exact same content was now on 2 domains and had to make a decision on which one to X out of the SERP’s. Well not much to our surprise Google choose Ebay (page rank 9) over our much lower page ranked site and totally removed our page from the index.
What we plan to do now
Now that we know we have duplicate content on Ebay, we devised a strategy to resolve the issue. Here it is:
- Replace duplicate content on Ebay with fresh content
- Change around our IDX/RETS Page
- Blog about this with links back to both the Ebay listing and our page (doing this now)
- Wait for Google to recrawl and Reindex
Well here is the test and if we thought this out correctly we should be back in Google before the end of the day.
We feel that this will work well because google will get pinged the second this post is published, from there they will crawl the Ebay listing and notice it has been changed, then they will crawl our modified page and see it has changed. Once this is done where reindexed.
Pushing publish now, cross your fingers.
**Update** It’s October 28th the very next day (under 24 hours later) and the page is back up. It is also ranking better than it did before. Check it out “mls seo” #1 Google.
New IDX/MLS Real Estate SEO Service
Astonish SEO is proud to announce a new IDX/MLS SEO Service for Realtors. We have developed a way to use your MLS/IDX data and generate 1000’s of highly optimized listing pages that are hosted on your website. Here is how our software generates listings on your site:
Our service will generate 1000’s of pages hosted on your site from your IDX/MLS Data. With these listings hosted on your site you can capture them as a lead, and work with them untill they are ready to buy.
Check out more on this at Astonish SEO, IDX/MLS Real Estate SEO
Real Estate SEO | Astonish SEO Launches New Service
Real Estate SEO
Astonish SEO is now offering our outstanding seo services for realtors.
SEO for Realtors
There are many resources that real estate agents have access to, that go un-utilized. We have developed a way to incorporate MLS Data into your web page listings. What this means is that you will have 100’s or even 1000’s of highly targeted listings pages, generated for certain search phrase’s like “2 bedroom house in ma”.
Real Estate SEO Features
The best part about this is, as your MLS Data changes so do your listing pages. As part of our real estate seo services we will post your new MLS Data for you, generating your new pages. If you are interested in our SEO for Realtors packages please visit Astonish SEO.
Real Estate SEO | SEO for Realtors | Affordable SEO
Google Analytics Installation Guide
Google Analytics Installation Guide
This post is intended as a walkthrough for the installation of the totally free visitors tracking software we recommend to all of our clients, Google Analytics. It is intended to help the average to low skill level webmaster install this tracking software that enable you to track conversions and goals for free.
My site is PHP will Google Analytics work for me?
Whether your site is in plain HTML or a Dynamically driven site like PHP or ASP you still should be able to use this guide. Before installing Google Analytics you will need to sign up for a free Google Analytics Account. If you you already have one then skip this step and log into your account.
Should You Handle Your Own SEO?
Should You Handle Your Own SEO?
Everyone is trying to save money in today’s economy - but sometimes when you think you are saving money you are actually losing so much more than you save.
If you are considering handling your SEO, that is only a good decision if;
a) you have the time to do the work and actually get it done and b) you can get the results you need so you actually improve your traffic from top rankings.
1. Can you work within simple HTML? At a bare minimum, you need to be able to add Meta tags to an HTML document. Ideally, you can also bold text, set up links, change formatting, rename images, move java script into a .js file etc.
2. Do you have enough time to make your site search engine friendly? Plan on a minimum of 3 hours for sites that are in great shape, and up to 25 hours (or more) for sites that may need a complete overhaul. In our experience, 3 - 6 hours seems to be the norm for time spent on updating SEO friendliness issues.
3. Will you have this time for SEO friendliness work within the next week? Typically, if people don’t take action in the immediate future (within the next 5 business days), the project ends up being delayed indefinitely. You need a clear scheduled start date for your SEO work - especially when the holidays are approaching! You need to get things going!
4. Can your business afford to “lend” this time to SEO without experiencing some other negative impact? If the time is not truly extra time you have, then you would be “borrowing” the time from another area of your business. Can you do that without harming another area of your business?
5. If your SEO project becomes bigger than you initially anticipated, will you have the time and attention to continue dedicating to it until completion?
6. Are you an experienced and competent copywriter? If you said no, do you feel you can quickly master writing compelling copy that is also keyword rich?
7. Is the content already on your site something you feel comfortable altering? Often people that have paid for high-end marketing copy on their websites do not want to make any SEO alterations themselves, for fear of altering the effectiveness of their current copy - and therefore affecting their conversion rates.
8. Do you have any prior SEO experience?
9. Do you have the tools or know where to purchase the tools that will help you in keyword selection, site analysis, reporting and current industry information?
10. Would you rather spend your time working ON your business (i.e., growing it) than IN your business (i.e., taking care of the nitty gritty details rather than the big picture)?
11. Do you have a plan in place to make sure you stay current on all SEO trends and changes so you can maintain your rankings on-going?
Now let’s take a look at your answers and what they mean:
1: Can you work within simple HTML?
On-page optimization requires that you work within the HTML on your website. If you are not able to work with an HTML document and feel confident that you will not cause any errors or malfunctions, then you simply can not handle your SEO at this time.
You would need to learn HTML before you could consider handling SEO. Please note, if your site is more complex than simple HTML, you would need to be comfortable working within the code used on your site.
2, 3 and 4: Do you have enough time to make your site search engine friendly? Can your business afford to “lend” this time to SEO, and therefore experience no significant negative impact? If the time is not truly extra time you have, then you would be “borrowing” the time from another area of your business.
You will also later need to write content, alter content and handle various optimization techniques, but to get started - before you can do anything else - you need to make the time to get the foundation ready for SEO. If you don’t have time to do this, your project simply won’t get off the ground.
Do you truly have the time, or are you just taking it from somewhere else. If you are taking it from somewhere else, that may be fine - you just need to be sure that you aren’t harming your business in other ways. Getting rankings, and ultimately traffic to your site will not benefit you if your business falls apart while you work on the optimization.
The remainder of the questions are details for you to consider. Basically, the more No’s there are, the more likely it is that you should NOT handle your SEO in-house.
If your results determined you can handle your SEO, here are the final details you need you consider:
1. What is your time worth per hour? Which option is more cost effective for you - hiring someone or spending your time?
2. Can you recognize when your choice is not working for you and are you willing to try the other option at that time?
3. You must commit to educating yourself and learning all that you need to know to truly run a successful SEO campaign. Inadvertently spamming, or using a questionable technique can result in a temporary loss of results or a permanent ban from the engines. Be 100% sure you aren’t endangering your business.
If your results determined you should outsource your SEO, here are the final details you should consider:
1. Make sure you know what questions to ask the SEO firm you hire.
2. Plan on spending anywhere from $300 - $1000.00 per month to run an aggressive SEO campaign.
No one but you can decide - we just wanted to arm you with some things to consider. It is all in the details, and you should consider them carefully before making a decision.
If you need help with seo servies for your website please check us out at Astonish SEO.
About The Author
Jennifer Horowitz, Dir. of Marketing for EcomBuffet dotcom
Google Algorithm Update Needed To Remove Scam Sites
We posting this because of a recent issue we had with a company online that dominates Google’s natural listings for competitive search terms. The company in question is ProjectorLampCenter.com and they rank very well for terms like “projector lamps”, “projector bulbs”, etc.. They are a known scam site and you can read all about our report and others at RipOffReport.com.
The question in hand is that natural search results have been and should always be trusted results, due to the fact that you actually have to work and genuinely care about your site in order to rank. Any one can pay for rankings in PPC on Google or other search engines to rank well but we have sold our services on the basis of customers trusting natural listings over paid listings. Due to potential customers trusting natural listings over paid, there is a higher click ratio, thus more visitors.
Companies generally do not start off being great and then switch to a scam site, they usually have prior intentions. Maybe this is true maybe not. But when a company has been scamming people since 2006, why is Google still ranking this site well in it’s Search Engine Results Pages (SERP’s). If users can go to RipOffReport.com and find out if a company has a scamming report, why can’t googles bot do a quick check and see if they have a pre-determined amount of negative reports and decrease rankings accordingly. When a company resolves these issues Googles bot will recrawl and improve results.
I personally think this would be a great update into they’re algorithm and will reduce a lot of scam sites out there from continuing to make money. This could even be incorporated into the paid results, pretty sure they would never do that though.