April 17, 2009 at 6:10 am
· Filed under Testimonials
**Updated April 14th, 2009**
flamesforum.com and stampedersforum.com have two things in common. Both are professional sports teams in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and both are owned by Distinct SEO. Since late 2006 Distinct SEO have been working with both, in particular FlamesForum.com.
"Being from Calgary we wanted to pick up some local sports web sites and do make a statement in the local market. We love our hometown teams and wanted to start new communities in a market that had room for new entrants," remarked Barry Nagassar, Owner of Distinct SEO.com. Read the rest of this entry »
April 14, 2009 at 9:33 am
· Filed under SEO
Seth Godin, marketer extraordinaire, recently blogged about SEO. You might remember him from the review we did on his book Tribes. Seth comments that the key to ranking in all the mess that's out there is to find something your good at and give it a unique name.
We'd agree, but we'd also like to point out that, given his example of plumber, going local is equally important. Read the rest of this entry »
April 9, 2009 at 4:38 pm
· Filed under Distinct SEO
We're not sure we'll create a company Twitter account, but in the meantime, we'll commit to updating our Facebook Page a bit more. Join and get to know some of our clients and blog subscribers.
Look forward to seeing you there!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Distinct-SEO/6028409076.
March 31, 2009 at 7:13 am
· Filed under SEO
***This is a repost from August 2006 with some additional insights.***
Looking for the next untapped SEO market? Well for the longest time proponents of mobile phones have pumped web access. The logical connection would be for SEOs and webmasters to start thinking about making their content available to the online world. I say for the longest time because it was 2003 when I first heard rumblings of mobile internet, but the speeds and cost issues have made the impact on the industry very slow. This is also why I'm not saying that mobile search is the 'greatest' untapped SEO market to be had. Read the rest of this entry »
March 18, 2009 at 10:00 am
· Filed under Social Media
If you aren't aware of Twitter then check out this blog. Heck, you need to add this web site to your news readers because they always have exceptional information on things web.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/17/99-essential-twitter-tools-and-applications/
March 9, 2009 at 6:15 am
· Filed under Business Strategy
Top 100 legal resources that may impact your blogging.
February 19, 2009 at 11:16 am
· Filed under SEO
How to Identify Keywords for Your Website
The old (well relatively new but old in terms of SEO age) question for web marketers is this: how do I choose keywords for my web site. There are a few methods of accomplishing this task, but we wish to suggest a different approach than the mainstream 'check out keyword suggestion tools'.
Here is an overview of common methods and their overall effectiveness. What we'll find is that some methods are more powerful in defining targeted keyword sets, or markets, than others. For example....
Some Steps to Finding the Right Keywords
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February 16, 2009 at 5:03 pm
· Filed under Web
Privacy concerns are huge, especially when you deal with consumers. When dealing with consumers you have to protect their privacy and offer assurances their information is safe. Turns out the popular social networking tool Facebook wants to own everything about you FOREVER. Don't believe me, read this article or read your Facebook TOS.
This is an example of how NOT to play the privacy game fairly.
