Website Promotion is not Voodoo

As it turns out I have a spared full pass to SES San Jose. One of my team mates couldn’t make it.

So, anybody who’s been procrastinating rejoice! You’ll have to sport the brand of my friend Mike Jansma’s online jewelry store Gem Affair. They have a great selection of birthstone jewelry by the way.

Private Links Builder is trying to help me rank better for Plastic Surgeons New Orleans. I’m highlighting some particularly amusing stuff.

These are actually pretty good from a sales perspective. What they lack is any kind of real preparation and review.

See also: Links Hog and High Web Rank

Subject: I visited your searchinfluence.com site and had a question

I got this email from a friend and web designer.  It’s no wonder SEO sometimes gets a bad name.  I do wish my conscience would allow me to include the redacted points but you get the point.

Subject: Another SEO that sucks

http://www.XXXXXXXX.com/

They claim to rank #4 for XXXXXXXX on their web site…

I spent last week traveling including a visit to San Francisco for SMX Local Mobile.

All I’m saying is I don’t know why more of you weren’t there. As far as I’m concerned this was a big time win for anyone in attendance. I got some great tips from the speakers and an equal amount of good stuff from the attendees, some of which will be the focus of future posts.

High Web Rank is trying to help me rank better for Chiropractor New Orleans with their 13,000 sites.

For a little background please see my Links Hog post.

Hello,

I was looking at websites under the keyword ‘ chiropractor new orleans ‘ and came across your website http://www.ifindsales.com/. I see that you’re ranked number 2 on page 15.

I’d like a little help here please. Like my friend, Portland OR Web Designer, David Mihm I needed a head shot for SMX Local Mobile where I’ll be on a panel with a fine bunch of fellows on ranking factors for local search.

I went to see one of our clients Jessica Johanningmeier a New Orleans Wedding Photographer to have her shoot a few.

I placed a comment on Greg Sterling’s writeup of the Yelp issue pointing him to my post.

In a reply to my comment Greg Sterling says, and I totally agree:

“There also need to be clear rules at these sites to that SMBs understand the “Hows” and the “Whys” of these systems and they’re not surprised by something they thought was OK.”

In I got this link by email from one of our clients (for Botox, San Francisco folks can’t go wrong with Dr. Roy Kim - yes, it’s a blatant link-drop) and it got me going on a pet peeve of mine:

Small Business owners giving up control over their own online destiny.

I happened to stop by Mihmorandum, the blog of Portland Oregon Website Designer David Mihm and David solved a problem I didn’t know I had.

Wordpress Spam Injection = Google Penalty for My Blog (But Not Website)

I had been wondering for about two weeks why I was no longer ranking for “Locomotive Consultant” and reading David’s post made me check my code.

This post is in response to a request for Business How Tos at Sparkplugging.com in response to the question “How can I increase the profitability of my business?”

A little background

Way back toward the end of my time punching someone else’s clock I had an idea for a service I was calling “Outsource My Brain”.