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Search engine optimization is more important today than it ever was. There are those out there that will disagree, but as a marketing professional, I rely on hands-on knowledge rather than industry gossip.

Without search engine optimization and search engine marketing, a company can easily end up going out of business before they get their feet off the ground. That’s why every internet marketing campaign should include the search engines.

I am providing this as a general article rather than blogger-specific because many bloggers end up getting into the niche website business. This article will benefit everyone looking for information on search engine optimization and search engine marketing.

Onsite seo factors that matter

The following issues must be taken care of before the offsite marketing can commence.

Meta Tags - While many seo professionals (and I use that term loosely) would disagree, meta tags still matter. As a matter of fact, they matter now more than they used to. While it used to be easy to manipulate the serps with meta tags alone, that is no longer the case. Your meta tags can make or break your results however. It is a must that your keywords and descriptions match the page that they are on. Mismatching these items can result in a penalty. Not having the tags can also hurt your site. Matching them however, can result in a boost in your results.

Alt Tags - If your images are lacking alt tags, then you are leaving a huge seo item off the table. You will also hurt your rankings by not using the alt tags. Search engines like to know what an image is saying to the real people viewing your page.

It also helps the blind with accessibility because of text-to-speech technology that is available today. Having alt tags will increase your visibility in the search engines, and perhaps some directories.

Keyword-Rich URLs - Those dynamic urls that look ugly at the top of your browser aren’t as bad as they used to be. Search engines have come a long way since php and other languages were introduced. But it is still a must that dynamic urls get changed to be search engine friendly.

It is important that keywords are introduced into the urls of the pages they are relevant to. This makes it look as if your dynamic website were actually static html. There are plugins and modules for many scripts that are available, and provide this seo-friendly functionality.

Anchor Text - The anchor text is all of that text which is linked. For example, if a link said “click here”, then the words “click here” are the anchor text. Of course, click here is not a good keyword.

It is important to use keywords in your anchor text that match the page or website they are linking to. An example of this would be if you were linking to a website about Michael Jackson Memorabilia, then you would probably want to use that as the anchor text.

Using anchor text that matches the content of the actual link will benefit you by telling search engines that your website is as relevant as it gets. Avoid using general keywords like click here when linking to something.

Anchor text works for both internal links, and external links. If you are doing onsite optimization, you want to link to pages on your site using keyword-rich anchor text. If you are a web designer and have multiple services, then you want to link to the service pages like this… Graphic Design; Web Design; PHP Development; etc. Those are keyword rich anchor text linking to relevant pages, and are more likely to help you rather than using a general term.

Outbound Links - Outbound links matter a lot. Anchor text is just one issue you need to consider. More importantly, never link to another website that you feel is questionable. Also, it would be wise to not link to unrelated websites. Linking to a website that turns out to be bad can end up costing you. Remember, you are the one that’s vouching for them, so you are responsible if they do something bad in the eyes of Google.

Offsite seo factors that matter

Article Marketing - There are many websites out there that allow you to publish articles with author links back to your website. Some of them will allow keyword rich anchor text to be used in those one-way links to your website too.

Social Networking - Google relies on social networks to tell them how popular a blog or website is. For example, if there are 20,000 tweets on an article, it has more social network weight than one with a hundred tweets.

It is wise to sign up with all of the major social networks. They not only provide backlinks and provide traffic, but the shares actually matter more than you can imagine.

Social Bookmarking - Social bookmarks are similar to what social networks do for you. It shows Google your popularity. Sites like Digg and StumbleUpon are a couple of the majors, and a must-have in your search engine marketing arsenal.

Video Marketing - Youtube is a very important tool to utilize when marketing. When you create a video, you can benefit from the traffic that Youtube already has, but also get some good links through your video description.

Video marketing is more than link building though. You can use it to generate a crazy amount of traffic. If a video goes viral, it can really explode your traffic and result in many people linking to you on their own websites.

Link Building - This can be done in many ways. The best way is through one-way links rather than reciprocal linking campaigns. To build links, you can do many things including but not limited to:

• Directory Submissions
• Forum Participation
• Blog-Hopping
• Guest Blogging
• Link Baiting
• Web Template Sponsorship

Direction submissions are easy, but can be very tedious work. You can find a good list of directories that are free by doing a quick Google search for “free directories” or something similar. If you have an auto-fill feature on your browser, then the work can become easier for you over time.

Forum participation is tough to get going because you have to establish yourself on a forum as a decent contributor rather than a newbie spammer. Take part in actual topics on the forums, and only include your link in your forum signature. I promise you will get traffic this way.

Blog hopping is something I do often. Commenting on an article on a blog is a great way to get backlinks and traffic. Make sure you actually contribute with a thoughtful comment, and not just a “me too” comment. You want to get links and traffic, not blocked.

Guest blogging is one of the best ways to get backlinks, and a ton of traffic. You are establishing yourself as an expert this way, and putting yourself out there in a manner that gets results.

Guesting on some blogs can also result in your article being copied across the net with your link in-tact which results in even more backlinks. I have had every guest post on ProBlogger copied against their rules, but I still benefitted from the stolen article. It’s when people steal and take off your link that you should be offended and in pursuit of justice.

Link baiting is all about writing in a way that turns an article into a viral machine. Such things can happen with resource posts where you link to a lot of useful resources that people just can’t resist referencing.

If you use something like Ninja Affiliate when linking to outside resources, you can easily change those links in the future to ensure they never become broken links.

Web template sponsorship is a trick I have had up my sleeve for years. As a web designer, I have been able to create some nice templates, and offer them under the Creative Commons license for free as long as my designer credit remained in place in the footer. This allowed me to get backlinks using the anchor text that I desired. People love free!

If you want to jump in one template sponsorship, I actually offer the service of designing such templates with your link credit in the footer.

Remember that seo matters

These tips are just the tip of the iceberg. When done correctly, seo can transform your website into a money-making machine. Whether you just want to collect leads, or you want to generate an affiliate revenue, seo will decide how effective you are in your pursuits.

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I said I wasn’t going to do anymore contests until people started interacting more on this blog and the forum, but I just couldn’t resist. This latest contest is your opportunity to win a brand new Kindle 3G from Amazon.

Contest Rules:

1. Write at least 1 guest post for brandonconnell.com on blogging or blog marketing, and it must be unique rather than something that is re-hashed over and over.
2. Publish a supporting article that references this guest post on your blog, and link to it.
3. Promote your guest post, and the supporting post in order to get as many comments and video comments as possible on your guest post at brandonconnell.com
4. The contest ends on August 30th, 2011, and the winner is the blogger with the highest response on their guest post (most comments, backlinks, social media response, etc). This contest winner is determined by many factors this time rather than relying on comments alone, so go all-out!

To join this contest, login and submit a guest post if you already have an account here. If you don’t, then contact me to have one setup. Make sure you fill out your bio and profile completely before submitting your article.

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In case you haven’t noticed, I have not been posting on my blog lately. Ever since my trip to Atlanta, I have been busy building my new business @ http://leads2localsearch.com, and that takes a lot of time and money. The new business offers clients a 300-1,0000% increase in business, and the target market is service-based industries that rely on local customers in their region.

Here at the blog, I have posted a few guest articles as a part of a contest. That was the extent of my involvement here, other than a little bit of back-end marketing.

My comeback will be much more noticeable though. I decided to kick it off by submitting a new guest article to ProBlogger about the fastest route to making money online. I will update everyone when that is published. I will also be making my rounds with guest posting on various other blogs where I have appeared in the past, and possibly a few new ones.

Keep an eye out for some serious updates.

Back in February, I posted the contest to win 50 free ad banners. Surprisingly only 1 person took part in this contest, but her 3 guest posts could have stood their own ground if she had competition. I do however, want to note that this is the last contest on this blog for awhile, until I see more people taking part in things here. If I start seeing more legit activity on the free marketing forum or commenting on articles here on the blog, I will start doing contests again.

Mandy from Learn to Blog is the contest winner, and will be able to specify the sizes of the 50 ads that she wants. Check out her own blog and show her some love for taking part in this contest.

I know this isn’t my tech blog, but my audience is made up of people who use the computer on a daily basis. With this in mind, I felt the need to warn you about the Google Redirect Virus. It is a nasty little thing that got ahold of one of my laptops not too long ago. What happened is that it hijacked every browser I had installed. I couldn’t get ANY antivirus to kill it. It was horrible, and I had to use a totally different computer to do my work.

There is a solution to the google redirect virus though. You can get a software through this link that will eliminate that sucker, and give back control of your machine. Download the program, and use it. Otherwise, you will find that every anti-virus and anti-spyware software out there is unable to delete the hijacker. I have used multiple anti-viruses including AVG Professional, Spybot Search & Destroy, Lavasoft, and the list goes on…

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This isn’t the usual blogging and marketing advice that you are familiar with on my blog. I did however, feel a need to get this message out because it has changed my life in a major way.

For years, I have been bombarded with messages of positive thought, but I totally ignored them. I believed in “the secret” of transforming positive energy into reality, but I simply didn’t have it in my soul to follow through with it. Every day, I got up with the intent to reach my ultimate goal, then kill myself. I had no passion to live, only to do what I felt was my purpose in this life.

What changed?

Almost 2 weeks ago, I flew out to Atlanta for the second time. The first time was for depositions a month before, in a lawsuit I was hired as an expert witness in by the plaintiff. Instead of getting a hotel, I stayed with the owner of the company that hired me. This guys positive way had some sort of effect on me.

I can’t explain it. All I can say is that a week later when I was ready to fly back to Chicago, my core being was somehow changed. I no longer cared about these “little things” in life that seriously bothered me. I truly felt at this point that if something is going to happen in life, it will happen. I stopped trying to work against it, but still managed to make things work in a way I wanted without going against the grain. Does that make sense?

I think that going into a federal court every morning, and knowing that my testimony was what won the case told me that I was needed. I got on the stand and spoke to the jury with conviction, and showed that I really was an expert in my field. It was an amazing experience, and I want it to happen again!

Before the change

It is hard to make you visualize where I am now if you don’t know where I was at before I made that second trip. Firstly, let me tell you the state I was in before and after I made the first trip in February. I was suicidal. I felt like crap, and I knew the end was coming very soon.

My days were spent trying to find some happiness, and when I couldn’t, I wanted to be alone to listen to depressing music and try to cry the pain away so that I could feel good again.

What changes I made in business…

While I was in Atlanta, I somehow knew that anything I did from then on would be successful. No matter what project I took on, the outcome would be something to make note of for generations. I was in it to win it.

I have since made some decisions on where I want to go in the business world. One of my major goals is to get my message out, and turn others on to a positive way of life. While I have not yet started on making this goal a reality, it is something I am working on in the very near future.

One thing I did do, was realize the business that I truly loved. That business is internet marketing. I was already in the business, but my actions were only robotic. I did what I knew had to be done in order to get the client the traffic and sales they desire. I didn’t run the business in a passionate manner though. To get past this issue, I created a new company. The website launched yesterday, and can be found at http://leads2localsearch.com

A part of internet marketing that I love, is helping local based service companies reach customers that they never would have dreamt of reaching. Local search engine marketing is something I know how to do well, and something I am very passionate about. I am so serious about this business that I have not only spent the day pushing it hard on the net, but also spent a great deal of money on paid marketing to get it launched quickly.

How can you use this to make money?

Money is something that is very easy to make. I have been self-employed since 2002, and I know what the ups and downs of the industry are. I also know that the positive and outgoing experts are the ones in the top of their industry.

You need to realize that money is easy to make before you can really go after it. You know the saying… “when you don’t think about money, it comes to you”. In order to employ that saying in it’s full effect, you need to have a passion for what you are doing. If you have the passion, then you will have the drive and attitude to put yourself in a position to where money just chases you. This is a fact.

To transform what I said into a case study, I will tell you where I am at personally with this. My positive attitude and passion for my industry is what will determine how I spend my days going forward. Those days will be spent putting my knowledge on blogs and other sites where people are looking for my message. I will engage fully with them, and ensure that my positive thinking rubs off on them. I will promote a positive message, and even go out of my way to make sure they fully understand the paths to take to reach their goals.

Can you do the same?

Getting the change you need

I know you are thinking now, “how do I go about changing drastically the same way you did?”. I will tell you. What made it happen for me was that I previously felt like I wasn’t needed. I felt like a nobody who had no reason to live. I felt no purpose in life other than my daily obligations.

The first step you need to take is to figure out what makes you feel down. What is keeping you from thinking positively. Is it that you aren’t making enough to pay your bills? If so, then you need to change your way of thought. Know for a fact that you will pay your bills. Once you know it for a fact, your actions and attitude will make it happen somehow.

When you are depressed about something, that feeling totally clouds up your mind. You have no imagination at that point, other than imagining the bad things like an impending eviction. You wouldn’t think to call up your landlord with a positive outlook, and try to negotiate a deal with them that gives them what they need in the end, and gives you time to fix your financial situation.

Remember that life is not that bad. Your life may feel bad, but it’s important to realize that depression multiplies that feeling by 100. Remove the mental obstacle and transform the way you think. Trust me, if I was able to do that, then anyone can.

Keep your head up, and make a drastic change today.

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I got home last night from my week-long trip to Atlanta. I was there as an expert witness in a Federal copyrights and patents case. My client had a very successful e-commerce business, and his website was stolen and sold to the competition. In the end, there was a large settlement.

What made me start to think was that I first started out with an online store, and I failed miserably because I lacked the simple knowledge it takes to succeed in product sales. Sure I was good with seo, but that doesn’t mean anything in the consumer based industries.

Now that I am aware of what it takes, and a will to give it a go again, I have started searching through my massive database of wholesale dropshippers to locate the right product(s). The hard part is getting up the website, because online stores take a huge amount of setup and data entry. Even with product import, there is still a lot of data entry on things such as sales tax configuration, store details, branding, etc. Luckily, I have this down to a science.

Online Store Marketing

Promoting an e-store is different than promoting a general website, blog, or service. The game is different in the way that you have to target not only a specific niche audience, but also the specific product they are looking for. For instance, I would not promote my store with a general ad on Google Adwords or Facebook Ads. I would promote a single product with a title, description, and price of that specific product. That way, I am targeting a specific sale and will not waste my money on random clicks.

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I will build anyone an online store, stocked with products from a wholesale dropshipper, and complete with a domain name and hosting if you do not already have it. Price = $1,500 one-time cost.

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Many people are working online with Google these days. Sure, it’s tougher to make lots of money with Google Adsense now, but with the right training, you can be one of the heavy-hitters.

Making money with Adsense is all about numbers, placements, and content. Combine the three, and you can quit your job in just a few months. I am NOT exaggerating on that either. You just have to be consistent in your work-flow on a daily basis, and truly believe that it can happen. If you do that, it will.

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In Closing…

Everyone here knows that I rarely post an article dedicated to just product promotion. Regardless of the fact that I am linking to affiliate products where I will make a commission, I only do so every now and then in a dedicated post, and only when I have products to brag about.

If you take this Adsense stuff seriously, you will make some huge money. If you have questions, feel free to ask in a comment. I am always here to assist!

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