SEO Blog by San Diego SEO Consultant; James Harrison

If you are looking for a place to find the latest search engine optimization tips & tricks, consider reading James Harrison's SEO blog. James' SEO blog is jam-packed with tons of resources for all SEO's, from beginner to expert. With great posts like 13 Search Operators for Ultimate Linking & 16 Free Link Building Tools for Strategic Linking, it's easy to understand why his blog is one of the most popular SEO blogs online. Whether you are businessman looking for ways to generate ROI through social media or a seasoned link building expert, James has something for you.
James' SEO blog has the largest list of free online SEO tools, the greatest link building cheatsheet, professional search engine optimization services, colorful web designer resources, thorough SEO videos, full checklists and much, much more. Just browse 2 pages of James' SEO blog, and you'll for sure find something you like.
James Harrison is a San Diego SEO consultant specializing in link building & pay-per-click management. He has worked for several years at 2 of San Diego's top online marketing agencies. He has extensive, professional search marketing experience working on top fortune 500 companies and providing top search engine rankings for his clients. Currently James Harrison is a San Diego SEO freelancer sharing his SEO experiences with his readers at JamesSEO.com.
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Link Building Experts

Link building plays a very important role in a successful online marketing campaign, however if done incorrectly it can destroy a site's rankings. Building links to your site is one of the best ways to improve your search engine rankings. There are a variety of reasons why you should hire a professional SEO firm for your link building and site promotion. A link building expert concentrates on acquiring backlinks pointing to your site from other websites. Although link building sounds simple enough it is extremely difficult and time consuming; simply because of how Google filters out the value of links.

Most link building "experts" and SEO companies only acquire directory and reciprocal links. However, even when done correctly, directory and reciprocal links alone will not fulfill the full potential of a competitive and robust link building campaign. Self optimizers, inexperienced SEO's and business owners usually do the poorest job of link building, simply because they have just enough knowledge to screw things up. Far too often we have witnessed amateur link builders erase high rankings and bury good websites by submitting them to the wrong directories or associating the clients' sites with 'bad neighborhoods'.

We create natural backlink profiles and only submit our clients to directories that help in search engine rankings and actually drive traffic to their site. As Google continues to figure ways to find real and relevant links, it is our job to continue to understand the algorithms, identify which links count and create a variety of links pointing back to your web site utilizing the most innovative white hat linking strategies..

1. We create link building campaigns aimed to help sites rank high for keywords
2. We create link building strategies aimed to drive more traffic to your website
3. We are link building experts with SEO techniques that have proven to work for ANY industry

Link Building Video About Anchor Text & Reporting

Here's a video brought to you by California SEO; SEO by the Hour . :) Learn the importance of back links in order to dominate the search engines from a real link building expert. Link building is a very important search engine marketing factor to consider.

This video is posted in many social networks so feel free to embed them on your site using whatever network is your favorite. I'm only using Vimeo here because I'm using the YouTube and Blip TV versions in other places.

When it comes to embedding videos and aesthetics, I prefer Vimeo & Youtube over all the other video networks.

Middle of the Night SEO

It was interesting to see that DP had the most users ever online at 4am in the morning.



Nice to see I'm not alone.

I guess that can be all the early bird eastcoast SEO's and everyone else in the world not on the west coast.

Ok, it's not surprising.

10 Steps to Top Google's Local Business Results

Recently, I noticed that a couple sites I do SEO for start to show up in Google's local business listings on the 1st page of Google's search results. These listings are prime positions not only because they rank higher than the number one organic search listings, they also show your geographic location and phone number on the actual SERP. Potential customers can see your listing and business info before they even have to stroll down.

I'm real excited about these listings because the website owners' excitement has brushed off on me.

Not too long ago I asked on this blog how to achieve local business listings on Google. No one responded or even sent me a link. But, here are 10 things you can do to better your chances at these top positions.

1. Create a Google Local Business Listing Here.
2. Add keywords you are targeting to your profile.
   
3. Get customers to give you reviews and to write you good ratings.
4. Link to that profile from your web site.
5. Make sure your URL in listed.
6. Phone number should be a local number. *important
7. Get some back links to that profile.
8. Make sure physical address and city and zip on your website.
9. List all towns you cover somewhere in your site.
10. Make sure every section is filled. Even pictures, videos and specials... Everything!
    

I went way deeper into this in my other (SEO) blog if you want to understand this a little better. But, pretty much just treat that page as regular web site and SEO the heck out of it!

Hope this helped someone out there.

Web 2.0 Tags + SEO = Search Engine Love

TIP 5: SEO & Tags

Tags are very important when it comes to SEO and the web 2.0 world. Tags are labels web users give web pages, pictures, posts, etc. They represent community anchor text votes.

So when submitting sites, posting blogs or uploading pictures, make sure when tagging it, you tag it with the keywords you use in your metas and with the most popular tags people search for on that particular site.

This step focuses on making sure your site is listed under your targeted tags;

If you Google the terms "design" "tags", "graphic design" "tags" or graphicdesign "tags"

This will bring sites with the most relevant lists of websites tagged with graphic design. Add your website and tag it with your keywords and make sure everyone is aware your site is online and that your site deserves to be tagged "graph design" also. Many times these popular tagged-named pages on large web 2.0 sites will show up in the rankings without typing in "tag" or "tags".

Well, this finishes off Google's 4th bullet

"Make sure all the sites that should know about your pages are aware your site in online."

Just remember one thing, when you have a legit relevant site that people in your field will enjoy, it's only right that you let all of them know you are there for them. Right???

Blogger Buzz: I Link, Therefore I am

I wrote an article on my New Wordpress Blog about a post I found on Blogger Buzz about how blogging could help your career. Well, while reading through Blogger Buzz I came across this interesting article title; I Link, Therefore I am. Being a SEO, I had to read. And yes, I found it to be very good. (even though it is old)

Knowing Search Engine Robots' Names - Beneficial to SEO's?

I was thinking about creating separate optimized webpages for each search engine robot to crawl. Creating meta tags to direct each robot to only pages that are specially optimized for that bot seems like it can be a very benificial optimization technique.

Then I wondered if it's worth researching each search engine's algorithm and creating pages specially created for each of their robots. Not to mention that some of these engines probably don't get the traffic worth aiming for.

Seems like a lot of work... (or maybe not)

Does anyone know how else a SEO can benefit from knowing each robot's names?

Here's a nice list of the Search Engine Robots from Search Engine Dictionary.

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I Finally Joined Stumble Upon

I been hearing a lot lately about StumbleUpon.com. It's a web 2.0 site where users are allowed to make friends like with myspace and bookmark websites like in Digg. It's good for traffic because you can get a ton of friends to check out your bookmarked pages. And it's good for SEO's because if you you can bookmark your site and get links from a major web 2.0 site.

Stumble Upon has a Google Page Rank of 8 and is ranked 293 in Alexa. The site gets tons of traffic with over 5,000 links on the net pointing to it. Try StumbleUpon out!

Video About Facebook's Worth

Rumor has it that Google is bidding against Yahoo & other major internet companies to purchase facebook
$2 billion is the where the bids are now.

I'm not a Web Designer; I'm a SEO: Keyword Architecture

I'm an SEO, but I recently got offered a job to rebuild a site for my client Miller's Carpet Care. I'm not a designer, nor do I fully understand HTML & CSS. But Bill was my SEO client and everyone knows content is key to great search engine rankings.

My job is to place Miller's Carpet Care on the top of Google for various keyword queries, such as "carpet care riverside". "san diego carpet care", "carpet cleaning san bernardino". This was my chance to build a very SEO friendly website.

I made sure I mentioned all the words through out the Title, Tags, Description & Content. Then I made sure every page had links pointing back to the home page with the keywords in the anchor text. Then I gave all the other pages some love by getting every other page to link to them with that page's keywords in those links.

By making sure your keywords are throughout the page, each page is getting a link with the keywords back to them & no broken links are in your domain, your site is ready for offpage optimization.

Just doing this got Miller's Website to the top 30 of anything relating to carpet in southern california.

SD Search Engine Optimization | (619) 251-2649

I do search engine optimization here in San Diego. I find sites (or web owners find me)that get no traffic. I talk to the owners, work a deal, then help them get their site to the top of search engines.

First we schedule an appointment were I give you an inclusive report on what changes should be made to your site
-who’s linking to you
-how site looks to search engines (title, description, Meta tags, alt tags)
-who should be linking to you
-your page rank
-anchor text, link exchange
-search engine rankings for your site on all search engines
-alexa traffic rank
-best keywords for your site
-directories your site can be submitted to

-and I can answer every website/search engine questions you have.

Then, if you realize what needs to be done to your site and like what I can do. We set up a payment plan and I get you site on top of the net.