Alberta Business Marketing

Have you heard of Jeremy Epstein?  I don’t believe he is related to Juan Luis Pedro Philippo DeHuevos Epstein at all?  Actually this Epstein is a fictitious character.   Besides being a handsome man, Jeremy Epstein is a pretty savvy Marketer from the DC area.

Jeremy shared a very interesting story of link spam showing up in his blog the other day and where it came from and who was doing it.  A while back, I was getting a tonne of link spam as well when I installed the IntenseDebate Wordpress plugin.  Stay clear of this plugin all of you WordPress bloggers, total trash and full of spammers who surely increase your comment count but not in a good way.

Jeremy shared a story about four firms who are paying some SEO firm in North Carolina to do SEO work for them.  According to Jeremy’s blog post this SEO firm employs blog commenting and linking tactics aimed to get a higher number of inbound links to their client’s websites.  First off, what about the NOFOLLOW tag Google put in place a while back designed to combat this type of behaviour?  A good SEO firm would understand this loophole has been closed quite sometime ago and link comments don’t work anymore.

Jeremy shared the names of these four firms on his blog post. But I will say this.  There are some SEO firms out there who wound rather take their clients money and run.   I wonder if these four business are even aware that the behaviours of their SEO firm just got them blogged about by my Washington, DC friend.

Question…how do you know what your SEO firm is doing out there?  This is why we are teaching our clients how to do their Calgary SEO work and our approach of education will help your business stay clear of this sort of junk that happens out there.

Buyer beware comes to mind, how are you going to employ your next search engine optimization firm?

Read the complete post from Jeremy here.

Tags: Blog software, Computing, E-mail spam, Google Inc., IntenseDebate, Jeremy Epstein, Juan Luis Pedro Philippo DeHuevos Epstein, Nofollow, North Carolina, PHP programming language, search engine, search engine optimization, Spam, Spamming, Stay, Suh, Technology/Internet, Washington, wordpress, World Wide Web
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Have you heard of Jeremy Epstein?  I don’t believe he is related to Juan Luis Pedro Philippo DeHuevos Epstein at all?  Actually this Epstein is a fictitious character unlike Mr. Epstein the blogger and marketer.   Besides being a handsome man, Jeremy Epstein is a pretty savvy Marketer from the DC area.

Jeremy shared a very interesting story of link spam showing up in his blog the other day and where it came from and who was doing it.  A while back, I was getting a tonne of link spam as well when I installed the IntenseDebate Wordpress plugin.  Stay clear of this plugin all of you WordPress bloggers, total trash and full of spammers who surely increase your comment count but not in a good way.

Jeremy shared a story about four firms who are paying some SEO firm in North Carolina to do SEO work for them.  According to Jeremy’s blog post this SEO firm employs blog commenting and linking tactics aimed to get a higher number of inbound links to their client’s websites.  First off, what about the NOFOLLOW tag Google put in place a while back designed to combat this type of behaviour?  A good SEO firm would understand this loophole has been closed quite sometime ago and link comments don’t work anymore.

Jeremy shared the names of these four firms on his blog post. But I will say this.  There are some SEO firms out there who wound rather take their clients money and run.   I wonder if these four business are even aware that the behaviours of their SEO firm just got them blogged about by my Washington, DC friend.

Question…how do you know what your SEO firm is doing out there?  This is why we are teaching our clients how to do their Calgary SEO work and our approach of education will help your business stay clear of this sort of junk that happens out there.

Buyer beware comes to mind, how are you going to employ your next search engine optimization firm?

Read the complete post from Jeremy here.

Tags: Blog software, Computing, E-mail spam, Google Inc., IntenseDebate, Jeremy Epstein, Juan Luis Pedro Philippo DeHuevos Epstein, Nofollow, North Carolina, PHP programming language, search engine, search engine optimization, Spam, Spamming, Stay, Suh, Technology/Internet, Washington, wordpress, World Wide Web
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Looking for a great way to drive traffic to your tourism business?

The latest monthly report on travel from Hitwise gives a clear reminder of the importance in providing accurate map listings and “driving directions” for tourism folk.

4 of Top 11 Most Visited Travel related Web sites are Maps

The important take away: Be sure your listing on these sites is correct!

Another important finding of the Hitwise report is the listing of most popular keywords used in travel.   The keyword phrase “Driving Directions” is a top search.

Take advantage of this keyword phrase by ensuring you have a Search Engine Optimized page designed for Travel Directions to the iconic place names associated with your business (ie: cities, parks, attractions).

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Tags: keywords, maps, travel directions
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…you know something…search engine optimization is not rocket science and you can learn to do it yourself.

On March 18th, David and I will be hosting a full day “Do It Yourself, Search Engine Optimization” course for Calgary business owners and marketing professionals.  Yes, we will show you everything we know and what we do to optimize our own websites.

Get ready to roll up your sleeves and learn from professionals who do SEO in Calgary for a living.  This is all we do, we eat, sleep and work on search engine optimization strategies for small business.  We want to teach you how to do it.  We will work with you so you learn.  Type in what we tell you into your own website and start optimizing right in the classroom.

Sign up today for the Calgary Search Engine Optimization Workshop on March 18th from 8:30 Am to 4:30 PM.

There are lots of options out there.  Do you want to learn from Professionals or someone who lures you in with a free breakfast?

Tags: Business, Business/Finance, Calgary, Internet Marketing, Optimization, Organization of Search Engine Optimization Professionals, Program optimization, search engine, search engine optimization, search engine optimization strategies, World Wide Web
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My good buddy and long time friend, plus creator of the Stuart Crawford look Richard Tubb in Birmingham, England is involved in a Microsoft scheme and needs our help.  Well at least feedback!

What are those devilish software giants in Redmond up too these days?

It looks like they are continue the scare tactics, now with UK IT services providers.  The focus remains zeroed in on the Microsoft BPOS offering and some IT partners are running scared into the vast UK wilderness.  Hey guys they did that on this side of the Atlantic as well.  Microsoft BPOS solution is a great offering for the small businesses, not only in the UK but also here in Canada.  It is ideal for the small business who doesn’t need anything complex and wants to save a small fortune in server costs plus monthly maintenance fees from their local IT provider.

Ulistic is a Microsoft BPOS partner providing Hosted Exchange, SharePoint and the rest of the suite.  Although we run Google internally we still have clients running the Microsoft hosted suite of products and we never have to support them, it just runs and runs great.

Richard is looking for some feedback on this latest Redmond driven scheme.  Read the Tubblog article here and jump in with some comments.

Tags: Birmingham, Business/Finance, canada, Computing, devilish software giants, Google Inc., microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, Richard Tubb, Technology/Internet, United Kingdom
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