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I have an extensive collection of articles that are geared towards the beginner to intermediate search marketer called SEO-101.

The articles are separated into two sections, paid listings (Pay Per Click) and “natural, or “organic” listings, and are easy to follow for even the complete rookie.

The first article I’d recommend reading is called Top 10 SEO factors, and gives a very good overview of what I consider to be the most important fundamentals that every website should have. I’ve also begun doing some free website review videos based on those SEO fundamentals, which may help with your understanding of the concepts.

Even if you read only that first article, you should be able to get a good handle on what you need to do to your website to improve your Web visibility and search engine rankings.

That section is good for learning the fundamentals, but if you’re already comfortable with most of the basics, you probably want some theory and opinion to go along with your facts.

Therefore, I’m happy to offer mine regularly, and here are some of the latest additions from the SEO category of my blog. It’s not all I write about, but it seems to make up the majority.



SEO App for Android
The SEO Automatic URL Review for Android is finally available, and it covers all the same ranking factors that the web version does. Just like the iPhone app, the only difference between the free version and the paid version is that ...

Skewed Search Counts?
Last week users began reporting that Google’s search results (and the PPC ads) began changing right before their eyes. I just saw it for the first time, but then it stopped immediately and hasn’t done it again. As users ...

Fetch As Googlebot Shows Something Wrong
Inside of Google Webmaster Tools, there is an option called “Fetch As Googlebot” that is supposed to go crawl that page and return what it sees. Until this moment, I’ve never had much use for this, but that’s...

Subdomain or Move Entire Domain?
We have a client that has been using OS commerce forever, and we have a good number of links established to the various sections of their e-commerce store. For various reasons, they are looking for a new e-commerce system, and appear...

What is Your Local Marketing Message?
I received a marketing e-mail that was cleverly worded, and since I’m interested in local marketing, I clicked the link. When I got there though, the message I received wasn’t exactly a perfect sales pitch. The e-mail I g...

WordPress Forces 302 Redirect
I love WordPress, I really do, but i just screwed up a site by changing a bunch of permalinks to 302′s. Worse, WP won’t allow me to change it back without digging into the database, so I effectively rendered my child page...

Link Wheels | Authority Hubs
Simply put, a Link Wheel is a group of pages on different hosts, that are about a specific product, subject or service, which all link to each other, and also link to a particular URL, or “money site”. Some call them R...

SEO Review on an Iphone
This week marks our release of the SEO Review Iphone version of SEO Automatic, and it provided unlimited access to run as many urls as you wish. If you’ve never used my instant SEO review before, then you should probably check...

Local Search Ranking Nuggets
Last night my kids had football practice, and I had an 8pm commitment too, but I wanted to attend last nights monthly SEMpdx event, which was David Mihm’s presentation on local search. Recently, I’ve found myself working ...

Asking Google For Reinclusion
While browsing through the stats of some (very poorly maintained) sites of our own, I found one that had zero traffic for quite a few weeks. Visiting the site, I saw no site, and just a “Cannot connect to database” erro...