Almost a month ago I created a website called SEO by the Hour. I created this site because I am in the SEO/internet marketing community and I felt the need to possess a website that represented my resume or skill-set. I love my current job and make plenty of money to get by. However I [...]

I’m still all about ‘Old School SEO” especially when it comes to Keyword Placement. Keyword placement is basically what it sounds like; placing your targeted keywords in various locations on your web pages. Ideally you’ll pick 1-5 keywords to target per web page. If  you are ranking well for those terms, you could be ranking for [...]

I’m not sure why I thought of this. But what if Google Local Business Listings checks to see if your phone number matches your business address? Google could check local listings and directories to see if your numbers match up right? However, if that listing is the only listing mentioning your phone number how would Google [...]

Microsoft has always been one of the easiest engines to rank high on. I remember years back, MSN was the only engine I could check back to a week later and see results from keyword META changes and a little bit of keyword stuffing. Microsoft’s Live Search algorithm is a little more sophisticated now, however [...]

Every once in a while and depending on what website I’m working on, I’ll use different search operators to find easy links relevant to the keywords I’m targeting on the SERP’s. There are many search engine query cheatsheets and SEO Blogs that give huge list of search operators to use. So I’ve composed a list [...]

We all can agree that it’s not who has the most links that wins the race, it’s who has best variety of links. Who gave you those links, when did they give you those links and what do those links say about you are factors that really matter when building links to your site. Who:  The [...]

November of 2007, I went to New York for my very first time. Besides having the time of my life, I didn’t notice much SEO buzz while I was out there (maybe I was doing the wrong things). I searched magazines, billboards, community event centers, calendars, etc. Not once did I hear of a SEO. [...]

Ok finally, Part 3 of Local SEO for Google’s business listings. There’s not much to explain in this section because it’s really all about understanding a simple concept. Try to look at your Google profile like it is your storefront location. People pass by it, people hear about you and your services and last but [...]

So now that you have a completed Google Local Business profile. The next thing to do is to associate that profile with your city and keyword. Just like your website, your profile needs links from relevant websites. Therefore if you are trying to show up in the business results for “san diego dentist“, I recommend [...]

I have helped a number of websites get on top of Google’s local business results (just above the organic listings) by doing pretty much the same optimization strategies to all of them as I would to a regular web site. This blog post will show you how to create a SEO’d profile that has the [...]