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Back to the basics

Brian Mark — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:00:53 +0000

In this episode, we answer a couple of listener questions, talk about the updated show format, and mention our new product launch.

Ranking an XML file, Bing, and other listener questions

Brian Mark — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:57:29 +0000

In this episode of the SEO 101 podcast, we take some questions from the listeners in the SEO 101 chatroom and from the forums and answer them live. We answer one on ranking an XML file, one about Bing.com, and a few other beginner type questions from the forums…

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SEO 101 Site Review for livdb.com

Brian Mark — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:28:49 +0000

In this episode, we take a look at livdb and give them some ideas to help improve their SEO efforts. We also answer a listener question at the end of the show.

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.

SEO 101′s IMSB Recap

Brian Mark — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:53:16 +0000

Carolyn shares a couple of presentations she gave at IM Spring Break earlier this month. The first was on the most common problems seen with potential clients, the second was on information architecture and content creation plans.

SEO 101 Site Review

Brian Mark — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:48:28 +0000

In this episode, we talk to Ian Westerman from Essential Tennis about what he can do to increase the search engine traffic to his website. He’s been busy building a great site for his users, so now it’s time to start attracting more users. Listen in as we start giving him the information to begin getting search traffic to his website. You’ll get some ideas as to where we start when evaluating a site and what to fix first for SEO purposes.

IM Spring Break

Brian Mark — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:22:49 +0000

We are joined by the one and only Dave Snyder to talk about the upcoming IM Spring Break conference – what to expect, who should attend, and what the costs are. This is one incredible value, so don’t miss out on the spring break event of the year for our industry!

First SEO Call-In Show

Brian Mark — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:06:02 +0000

Listen to our first call-in show, complete with lots of technical glitches. We’ll get those ironed out, and that should help you iron out the problems you’re having with your website’s optimization as well. Listen in (around the issues) and then ask us questions.

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.

Migrating from Vista to Windows XP

David Brown — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:46:09 +0000

Comments on the Thor Schrock blog post on Migrating the Dell Inspiron 1721 From Vista to Windows XP, plus a listener question on submitting to directories, commenting on do follow blogs and posting on forums with a signature link.

Cheap Ways to Drive More Traffic

David Brown — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:42:06 +0000

Learn how to drive more traffic in a cheap way with ideas like taking advantage of online forums and communities, trading links with other sites, and writing good content on your site, plus the team @ SEO 101 discusses promoting yourself locally, writing compelling press releases and activating your user base to be site evangelists.

Geo Targeting for Google

Brian Mark — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:35:07 +0000

Listeners asks about Geotargeting to Google and how Google indexes pages even when they are different languages.

301 Redirects for Domains

Brian Mark — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:17:15 +0000

301 redirects for domains are the main subject of listener email on this episdoe of SEO 101.

Subdomains and Aging

Brian Mark — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:27:56 +0000

How valuable are subdomains, and should you be using a bunch of them for your site? We’ll share our thoughts, including wisdom from Matt himself.

Copyright Infringement

Brian Mark — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:50:09 +0000

Can you sue a forum owner for copyright infringment? Carolyn and Brian discuss a situation a listener had to deal with and discuss if that person has any standing, plus they discuss the facebook ban of technology blogger Robert Scoble.

Keyword Tools

Brian Mark — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:26:33 +0000

We answer more “Listener Questions”and fill you in on whether open source keyword tools actually exist, and why you may rather use an alternative. We also answer questions about bundling; and how several sites can equal spamming; and Carolyn tells us why she tapes her keywords to the wall.

WebCEO Pro and Word Tracker

Brian Mark — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:20:55 +0000

We answer a listener email asking about the pros and cons on WebCEO Pro and Word Tracker and then discuss a few other SEO tools.

Key Compete

Brian Mark — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:25:44 +0000

How do you deal with competitors being able to buy your entire paid keyword list? We’ve got some suggestions, as well as a few of the services you may be interested in looking at if you haven’t already. We also get our white hats a little dirty in the second part of the show, giving out a light gray tip that can be used for PPC quality score reasons.

Carolyn is replaced by her alter ego Julie because we had like a total blond moment in the last episode.

Questions from BrainBugg

Brian Mark — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:19:44 +0000

We answer questions submitted by BrainBugg on everything from Top Level Domains to Making money with Directories.

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!

What did we mean by adding dynamic content to your site to attract bots?

Brian Mark — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:00:13 +0000

We mentioned adding dynamic content to your website a while back. What did we mean? Listen and find out.

Download the zip file here RSS-HTML. Once you’ve done that… Extract the files, read the Read Me file, and watch the RSS to HTML video… I’m also including a link to download SmartFTP (which was used in the video) If your unsure which version to get – grab the 32-bit version.

Now that you have all of the info you need to create dynamic content from RSS feeds to .html pages give it a try! If you use this tutorial and put it into action… Please leave a comment on this post and include a link to the page you’ve made it work. Also if you have any questions / problems with the tutorial please post it as a comment on this blog! We will answer as many as we can! Thanks for checking it out!

David Brown A.K.A. NeO

Listener question – How do you podcast?

Brian Mark — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:00:19 +0000

A quick run-down of the hardware and software we use (quick is relative, being a 34 minute podcast). Again, Ryan Sharrer of Level 5 Development Group is with us.

David will have to post the links he mentions in the podcast as soon as he sees this.

So Here’s David… I listened to the podcast and these are the important links ;)

* 12 pack of coke
* Brian’s podcast set up
* TotalWebNews Podcasting 101
* PSCT 4 slot
* Audacity
* HotRecorder

And of course an image of the Tubes Brian uses to ‘Warm the voice’

User Questions Answered

Brian Mark — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:00:21 +0000

3 questions are answered here.

We had a question from Yourweb of the Yourweb Shopping Mall on why someone would do black hat SEO.

Rumblepup of cushions and umbrellas asked what can be considered duplicate content, and what is valid (x)html and why is it important?
- Important link: validator.w3.org

Also asked by Yourweb was how someone knows what keywords to use.

We’ll answer those in detail this time around.

The difference between High PR and High SERPs

Brian Mark — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:00:39 +0000

We were asked a question by Chris from edumucation.com. He asks, “What is the difference between High PR and High SERPs.” The answer is night and day, but we’ll explain more in the podcast.