Friday, October 5, 2007

As promised, here are the links to the key web sites we looked at during our 90 minute (PLUS 30 additional free minutes) seminar. Thank you all who attended! I especially appreciated all of the great questions.

1. Internet Statistics
2. Page Rank Diagram from Wikipedia. And here's the full page related to it.
3. Google's recommendations regarding hiring a Search Engine Optimizer.
4. Google's recommendations about how to design your site (We didn't have time to go over this document).
5. A great article from a Search Engine Guide web site regarding the steps to a successful optimization implementation.
   
6. How to add your site to Google's local search.
7. And finally, link to sign up for Google AdWords (sponsored links).

I hope you all had as much fun as I did. Let's do this again next year to discuss new ideas!

Oh, and I couldn't leave without sharing the letter Google wrote to one of our clients:

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Dear Site Owner,

We have recently moved you to number one on our search engine for basically any search phrase you could ever hope for for these top 10 reasons:

1. You have really cool flashing text on your site.
2. Your mom's blog links to you.
3. You purchased $50 worth of adwords and that means a lot to us
4. You have the most meta keywords we have ever seen. That's awesome.
5. We happened to see your bumper sticker with your domain name using our Google Earth satellite.
6. We thought your scrolling marquee was very web 3.0
7. Anyone brave enough to put fuscia text on a neon green background deserves a leg up.
8. Your email to Santa was seen by our servers.
9. So was your FWD to Santa with the inspirational poem.
10. We appreciate that your whole office refreshes your web site 10 times per day.
11. (We thought of one more) You have the best picture of David Hasselhoff we have ever seen.

Because of the nature of the interweb, we do not guarantee you will stay in the top 10 positions for your desired search terms. However, due to our deep loyalty to your site in light of the above list, we promise to have our workers continue to flip our switches in such a way to give you a leg up.

Grateful for your wonderful information regarding Polish Hot Dogs,

Google

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