[Note: This is our eight post targetting the keywords 'internet marketing seo' on SERPS. This is part of a live website experiment on how to do Search Engine Marketing.]

A basic rule of Internet Marketing and web site promotions is getting links. One great way of getting links for a website would be to submit to online directories. The following directories came from the v7n website forums. The are ranked based on the Page Strength tool of SEOMOZ.com.

Page Strength 10
http://dmoz.org/ (free)

Page Strength 9.5
http://dir.yahoo.com ($299 per year)
http://www.business.com/ ($199 per year)

Page Strength 8
http://botw.org/ ($149.95)

Page Strength 7.5
http://www.exactseek.com/ (free)
http://www.joeant.com/ ($39.99)

Page Strength 7
http://www.avivadirectory.com/ ($34.95 / $74.95)

Page Strength 6.5
http://www.alivedirectory.com/ ($34.95 / $74.95)
http://www.chiff.com/ ($59.95 per year)
http://www.elib.org/ (50 Euro)
http://www.gimpsy.com/ ($40)
http://www.goguides.org/ ($39.99 / $69.95)
http://www.relmaxtop.com/ ($20 per month)
http://www.sevenseek.com/ ($40 / $99.95)
http://www.skaffe.com/ ($44.99)
http://directory.sootle.com ($19.99)
http://www.uncoverthenet.com/ ($39 / $199 per year)
http://www.wowdirectory.com/ ($35 / $55 per year)

Page Strength 6
http://www.2yi.net/ ($5.95 / $24.95 per year)
http://www.dir777.com ($25 per month)
http://www.ezilon.com/ (free / $49)
http://www.familyfriendlysites.com/ ($4.95 per year + recip / $49.95 per year + recip)
http://www.goongee.com/ ($19.99)
http://www.haabaa.com/ (#30 / #50)
http://www.qango.com/ ($50)
http://sbd.bcentral.com ($49 per year)
http://directory.v7n.com ($79.95)
http://www.vxbox.com/ (free)
http://www.webworldindex.com/ ($25)

You might just want to submit your website in the directories above. Please note that the sites listed above have no links and are therefore, not clickable. We did this so as not to dilute the links for the page since we are also experimenting whether we can get top search engine spots for very competitive keywords (like ‘internet marketing seo’). Our previous post specifically targetted consultant internet marketing seo services site strategic web.

An SEO Consultant would provide provide you with the following strategic Internet marketing services:

  • SEO Tools – what tools would you need to be able to implement an effective web promotions campaign
  • Suggestions For Product/Service landing pages – how to create and improve web site pages to increase conversion rates.
  • Domain Name Advice – information on applicable domain names for the product/services that the company wishes to highlight.
  • Domain Registration & Hosting – if the client requires a domain name and webhosting, web consultants can typically offer the registration and hosting services.
  • Keyword Selection Advice – Finding the right keywords for the product and the target market.
  • Site/Page Optimization – making sure that the webpages in your site are search engine friendly.
  • Registering With Directories – part of the grunt work of SEO is to submit to online directories whenever applicable.
  • Link Building – and the other part is to get links for your site. This might include a link bait or viral marketing program.

At least that’s what we would do if we were consultants. We think those are just the right Web Site Services that an Internet Marketing, SEO Consultant should provide. :D

Sometimes SEO work, Web Marketing and web development come hand in hand. If you are not knowledgable about HTML, CSS and other web terms, it may just be best to get an web developer. SEO and Internet marketing is become a regular part of web site services that companies offer.

Remember, web marketing can do wonders for your website. You can earn money from the Internet by just making a simple website and selling items. We personally know of someone, a business acquaintance, who attained US$100,000 Gross sales through his website. He looked for a supplier at alibaba.com. He contacted the supplier and arranged for drop shipping. Drop shipping is the blind shipping of merchandise from the manufacturer to the end-user to save time, rather than to the distributor, who would have to forward it to the end-user. In effect, he acted simply like a broker.

Funny thing is, he didn’t do web marketing yet. He didn’t know about Search Engine Optimization. Just imagine how much more he would’ve earned if he knew about SEO. SEO and web marketing can be quite profitable. Learn about it. If not, get services from a reliable internet marketing and SEO consultant to help you out.

Hello. This is our fifth post in our quest to top for selected and very competitive keywords. We are still targetting the keywords ‘internet marketing seo’. For this week until next week, our focus is intrasite link-building. We create 10 posts with the related keywords and have them link to each other. That’s all we do for now.

Were we crazy to go after the keywords ‘internet marketing seo?’ Probably. The phrase has around 17 million other webpages as competition on Google. We believe, however, that the process itself, can be quite educational.

Oh, if you were actually looking for a consultant for internet marketing and seo services, be aware of what the experts say (Check the link).
By the way, we didn’t check for how we fared on our first experiment (targetting the phrase “seo experiment”) for Yahoo and MSN. We only checked Google, remember? Well check these out:

Internet Marketing SEO Yahoo Experiment ResultsTop 1 on Yahoo

Internet Marketing SEO MSN Experiment Results2nd Page on MSN

Apparently we fared pretty well. Let’s see if we will do well for ‘internet marketing seo’.

What’s a consultant? This is person who provides professional advice or services for a fee, but normally not as an employee of the engaging party. An Search Engine Optimization (SEO) consultant provides advice specific to helping company’s websites more visible online with goal of making more conversions.

According to the webmasterworld forums, be wary of SEO consultants that:

  • Guarantee Results
  • Autosubmit webpages
  • And promise to get you 500 or more links in a month or two

No one can really guarantee results since nobody really knows the algorithm that search engines use to rank websites. The word ‘guarantee’ is often used to make clients feel comfortable.

Autosubmitting and promising 500 or so links in a short time span can actually be quite dangerous. Getting too many links to fast can raise a red flag to search engines and get the website banned.

So be careful when choosing a Search Engine Optimization consultant.

On another matter, one more lesson we learned what that reciprocal relevant links still do matter. If you have an SEO or web marketing related website. Feel free to link with us. Just click on the link tab on top of this page (We won’t put any other URL links here since this is still part of a links SEO experiment). For more info, check out: Google, Internet Marketing, SEO.

This is our third post in our attempt to top Google Search Engine results for ‘internet marketing seo‘. For the newcomers, this is part of our series of seo experiments to show how to achive top ranking on the various search engines.

Althought Internet Marketing targets all search engines. It is an extremely good sign to be on top of Google. This search engine is said to control 43.7% (the largest share) of all searches on the Internet. Any web promotions program should have Google at the top of the targets list, but should not ignore the other search engines. Yahoo has 28.8%, while MSN is at 12.8%. That still accounts for an estimated 87 million searches a day.

Going back to this SEO Experiment. Last week we were able to get to the top of the search engine results in Google for the keywords “SEO experiment.” A day later, it suddenly disappeared from the first page and we couldn’t find it in the subsequent pages. Checking it again today, we find it back up on first page:

October 23, 2006 SEO Experiment on Google SERPS Back on First Page for ‘SEO experiment’

Some of the SEO experts we talked with indicate that this really seems to happen. They have experienced something similar in their work. The theory is, you can get to the top ranks of Google but after a while, Google will kick in some filters that would cause your webpages to disappear on their results. If they pass the filters, you get back up.

We see that this theory somehow proves correct. This is an informative lesson for our Google Internet marketing and SEO work.

[Note: This post is the second part of a series of experiments to top Search Engines for the keywords "Internet Marketing SEO"]

This is our next keyword set – ‘internet marketing SEO.’ This sets of keywords are much more competitive. We want to find out if we can rank well for these keywords by finding out related keywords and having them cross-link within the site.  This means that we needed to find out the related phrases first (which we did two days ago) and then prominently display it within continuous posts. We would then create a URL link that would link to the previous posts’ keywords.

In the previous post, we used ‘ 1 internet marketing seo ‘.  You will notice that we have it linked here. See that underline in the first sentence of this paragraph? There’s some underlined text there. You click on that and it would lead you to the first post on ‘internet marketing seo’.

The process that we are doing here is to address Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). Apparently, search engines like Google are smart enough to know what set of words are related to what users type in a search form.

One tip we’ve learned is that when you use the tilde sign (~) before  a word that you put in Google search, the resulting pages will show some highlighted text. The highlighted text are said to be semantically relevant to what you searched for. In the example below, we searched for related Google terms to ‘apple.’

LSI Example on Apple

This indicates that Google finds the highlighted terms Apple, Apple Quicktime, Windows, and G4 to be related to ‘apple.’

We’ve applied the sample principle for our series of posts for ‘internet marketing seo’.

By the way, a Google search for ‘internet marketing seo’ today shows us this:

Internet Marketing SEO

 

[NOTE: If you are looking for an information site using the words "1 internet marketing seo" on Google, MSN, Yahoo or any other search engine, then we have been successful.]

Internet marketing seo – refers to generally how to become more visible on the web. For this particular post we use those keywords as an example of whether we can top search engines results pages for these and related phrases. This is actually our second set of SEO and web marketing related experiments. We chose a unique set of SEO-themed keywords to see if we could reach top SERPS. In this case, we targeted “internet marketing seo”.

You will notice that we used the keywords for our title, which has the H2 tags. We’ve mentioned it significantly within this text body. By tomorrow, we will create an intralink (a link coming from the same domain) to this post using the keywords noted above. This post is Search Engine Optimized.

Let’s see if we can get 1 internet marketing seo.

Today, we disappeared from the first page of Google’s Search Results. What could’ve caused this? We checked the backlinks, we still have 30 inlinks according to Yahoo and 11 according to MSN. The only major change we did here was to edit the source code of the META tags file so that they show a META tag based on the article/post’s content. Previously, when you looked at our site’s HTML code, you would see similar keywords/description meta tags.

Could this have caused the slip? We will see if this continues in the next few days. If it does, we will return the old META Tags.

Let’s keep monitoring.

For those who missed out. This is a summary of what we did for the first 8 days of the website test that allowed us to top of our initial target keywords ’seo experiment’ :

By doing that, we were able to get to the first page for the term ’seo experiment’ against 3,320,000 other web pages (according to Google).

ScreenShot Google ExperimentGoogle Screenshot – SEO Experiment

Our next set of experiments aims to get relevant ranking for ‘internet marketing seo‘ and related phrases.