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Traffic for SEO

Brian Mark — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:54:30 +0000

We answer some questions that came in over Twitter about blog comments and squidoo pages, then talk about how traffic can increase your site’s rankings.

Building Ranking for Sites

David Brown — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:53:02 +0000

Building Ranking for Sites, and they help a listener define link farms and are surf sites considered link farms plus when you surf other peoples sites and for every two you visit they put up your site link for one credit.

SEO 101 at SES San Jose

Brian Mark — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:27:25 +0000

Jonathan Dingman of Google Inside gives his take on the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose as SEO broadcasts on location, plus Adam Sussman fills us in on the new local search program offered by BestOfTheWeb.

Link Building 101 Part 2

Brian Mark — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:22:33 +0000

David Conklin returns to SEO 101 with Part 2 of Link Building 101, including press releases, cherry picking links, content submissions, paid and trade links, link directories, social media and more.

Link Building 101

David Brown — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:00:09 +0000

We discuss w/ the co-founder of some company a great chart that Chad McComsey created!

Link Building and Exchange Schemes

Brian Mark — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:05:52 +0000

We discuss Link Building Schemes and Exchange Schemes with Robert Garcia from Rumblepup.

SEO on Valentines Day

Brian Mark — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:10:59 +0000

We have a little fun with the new webcam and chat on Yahoo Live plus we discuss link love, link juice and link condoms in the spirit of Valentines Day. Includes special guest Dave “Fookin” Naylor.

Pubcon, SES and KITT

Brian Mark — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:58:06 +0000

Brian, Carolyn and David discuss Carolyn’s abbreviated trip to PubCon and briefly discuss whether Ford’s sponsorship of the new Knight Rider vehicle is tantamount to paid links.

Scratch Back The Online Tipping System

Brian Mark — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:35:24 +0000

We talk to Jim Kukral of JimKukral.com and WebmasterRadio.FM’s “Video Ninjas”, about Universal Search and Scratch Back (The Online Tipping System), among other things.

Social Media and Linkbait

Brian Mark — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:26:53 +0000

Online Marketing, SEO & Social Media expert Brent Csutoras teaches us some of the things you should keep in mind when doing a social media / linkbait campaign (Part 1 of 2).

SEO Getting Tougher

Brian Mark — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:12:32 +0000

SEO Rockstars host Greg Boser joins us to talk about why you can’t always play by the rules in SEO and why he thinks SEO is getting tougher.

Rand on Paid Links

Brian Mark — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:13:13 +0000

Today, Rand Fishkin joins David and Carolyn to discuss his views on paid links and address some of his critics around the blogosphere.

No Follow Attributes

Brian Mark — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:54:56 +0000

Several blog posts have been made recently about using the nofollow attribute on internal links. There are some good reasons, but is used for the wrong reasons quite often. Listen in as we explore when to use and when not to use these attributes on internal links.

Are Paid Links Evil? If so, other linking strategies.

Brian Mark — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:46:07 +0000

After the heated debate at SES, we give our take of the paid links evil or not issue and talk about some solid link building techniques you can use for your site without fear of being penalized or banned.

Live from the SES Show Floor

Brian Mark — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:11:36 +0000

We talked to a whole lot of people today at SES. Guests include Dave Davies, Curtis Dueck, Michael Gray, Mike McDonald and some guy named Matt.

NeO here adding some content to this post… We mentioned the YouTube video and the Michael Gray “Are Paid Links Evil?” power point… so here ya go!

SEO Factor Weighting with Todd Freisen

Brian Mark — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:53:13 +0000

In this episode we talk about the weighting of different factors with Todd Freisen. We get some general ideas of what’s important and what isn’t, then move on to some talk about the Google toolbar and an upcoming reality show.

Social Media Best Practices and More with Rand Fishkin

Brian Mark — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:00:00 +0000

Rand Fishkin from SEOmoz joins us to discuss social media best practices, linkbait, the linkerati, and the incredible team at SEOmoz.

We also discussed the Beginner’s Guide to SEO which is still a very valuable resource for any Noobie out there!

In-depth keyword research and linkbuilding

Brian Mark — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:00:01 +0000

Ken and Damian from Epiar join us to discuss keyword research in-depth and a bit more advanced view of linkbuilding.

That’s a quick video where I interviewed Ken about the Epiar party bus and you can see Brian in the background impersonating Bob from Enzyte!

I also promised to upload the pics from our trip to the Friar’s club (Which was amazing!) It was really sad we went, had an amazing time and not a SINGLE one of us thought to bring a camera! So these are off of Johnny’s phone.

The Friar’s Club Registry

Ken and Rumblepup A.K.A Robert Garcia outside of the Friar’s Club

And inside the Friar’s Club getting our pamphlets autographed by Tom D’Angelo
where you can see the back of my head, Tom, Rumblepup, Damian, and up in the corner just kick’in it Brian Mark :)

Lee Odden – Discussion on NoFollow tags

Brian Mark — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:00:33 +0000

Lee Odden is back and talking about nofollow link, linkbuilding practices, and paid links. And, there’s still more with him coming next week.

Organic links via content writing

Brian Mark — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:00:40 +0000

Ever wanted to know how to get links without trying so hard? I know I have. Links take a long time to attain, unless you take shortcuts or follow the advice given out today by Robert Mineo. Writing content can be an excellent strategy for obtaining quality links, and we’ve got several good tips in this one.

Around the Forums – Why isn’t Google showing all of my backlinks?

Brian Mark — Mon, 07 May 2007 13:00:01 +0000

Google has the link: operator for showing links to your site, but they never show them all. We explain why, and what you can do to see a larger picture of your inbound links.

Related forum post: Google isn’t showing all my links

Also, I switched up the music again so I’m looking for feedback on the format. Does the music add, or does it detract? I’ve got my opinions, but you’re the listener.

The Paid Link Controversy

Brian Mark — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:00:27 +0000

Paid links – good or bad? We’ll talk about that, as well as talk about some alternative linkbuilding techniques along with Jaan Kanellis from KBK Marketing.

Inbound Links

Brian Mark — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:00:01 +0000

Inbound links. We talked about content being king, and now we’re discussing linking being the queen – or perhaps the dictator in charge. Either way, they’re important to your SEO campaign.

Useful links:

Forum signature link example:
[url=http://www.toolbarn.com/]Power Tools[/url]

Internal Linking

Brian Mark — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:00:28 +0000

What is internal linking and how do you use it as an optimization technique? We’ll examine that in depth this time around.