We've had a few customers inquiring about price point sheets--documents that depict a service and corresponding cost. We don't have any set flat rate price point sheets because quite frankly SEO can't be done on a flat rate. One size never fits all in search engine marketing. What works for site a) is not going to work for site b) mainly because of size difference and market differences.

Fear not though, we offer something better. Rather than an informal price sheet, we welcome you to review the services we offer, and if you think that sounds about what you're looking for, feel free to give us a call or drop us an email. It's that simple, we'll figure out a web marketing solution unique your business so we can ensure meeting your online goals will happen.

Well we put together back to back interviews for the first time in a month and a bit. Not bad considering the two voices we reigned in for responses. This we welcome Pops from Design Refugee. Let's not waste any time.

Shameless plug about yourself:

After a dozen years creating websites, I have way too many personal sites scattered around:

• Business site: http://www.studiojmc.com
• My cartoons: http://toonrefugee.com
• And I help my son out at http://www.seorefugee.com

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Looking for a quick and inexpensive but highly valuable method of identifying the key areas your site lacks in on-page search optimization? Do you want to ensure your current SEO consultant has included all the necessary changes and hasn't missed something crucial that may affect your rankings? Are you stuck with a ranking problem and can't seem to find the solution and your traffic is going down every day? Do you have the ability to implement SEO changes yourself but aren't sure precisely what those changes are?

SEO Web Reviews for your Business - Save Your Money

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We've had a delay since our last SEO interview installment, I admit I've been slow on the uptake to nail down writers. We were releasing one per week but now it's like once a month :P We'll try to pick up the pace though. Who knows, maybe we'll do some videos soon too cause we just bought a new whiteboard!

This time around we welcome Randy who moderates SEOChat.com. His web site is: 1stsearchenginerankings.com if you want to take a look.

1. Defining SEO should be more than 'on-page and off-page' components. If you had to describe the industry to someone new what would you say?

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We try our best to provide testimonial reviews from clients who agree to offer a referral. As you may know getting client's to agree to a testimonial is pretty hard since most don't want to publicize their web sites or are just plain lazy. Lucky some are happy to lend a review for our benefit after the help we give them.

I want to introduce you to Stephanie, owner of Snapaholics.com. She is a small business owner who came to us looking for a solution that fit her budget. Together we put together a marketing solution she could afford and that increased her web site's value. Here is here testimonial.

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I'm not one for ranting and raving, well maybe only occasionally, but I can't help myself right now. I need to share just a quick note about Adsense and Google's non-attempt to clean up the industry. Over the summer months Google has apparently gone to great lengths to remove think affiliates on their Adsense networks. If you're an advertiser this is good news, the cheapo clicks that send users to other web sites that are nothing more than a landing page full of more Adsense ads are being removed--or so we thought

Thin Affiliates Really Losing Adsense Accounts?

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How Does Google Treat Nofollow?

In January 2006 Google went widespread with the Nofollow tag designed to give the impression (to search engines that respect it), 'I do not vouch for this link'. All outgoing links now added the following to ensure they would not be penalised for chance of linking to a bad web site (that may hurt you rankings) or simply to be a blog snob.

EDIT: We've added some new information as of August 8th, 2007, so check it out.
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If you understand web marketing and SEO then you'll know there are some skills and strategies to rank web sites in local searches as well as global. Generally, if you're searching for local products or services Google will be happy to return relevant results and may even throw in some quick helps like contact details and maps to aid your search. But there is a fundamental issue with Google's attempt to better search for the user--it potentially harms overall sales for top ranked web sites.

How Top Rank for Local Search Can Harm Sales

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Well we've taken a bit of a Summer's lull in offering new SEO interviews but we've kickstarted things with a new addition. Enjoy!

1. Your vitals:

Name: Gazzahk (from SEOChat)

2. Defining SEO should be more than ‘on-page and off-page’ components. If you had to describe the industry to someone new what would you say?

SEO is about balance. Take a holistic view. Ranking without conversions are useless.

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Google has removed their supplemental index which should mean more pages in the general index which equals more overall traffic for your web site. Before, Google used the supplemental index to classify web pages that did not have enough mustards (links) and/or content (duplicate) to meet he standards of the main Google index.

Google had this to say:

The distinction between the main and the supplemental index is therefore continuing to narrow. Given all the progress that we've been able to make so far, and thinking ahead to future improvements, we've decided to stop labeling these URLs as "Supplemental Results." Of course, you will continue to benefit from Google's supplemental index being deeper and fresher.

There were pros and cons to the system. Well now it has been removed, which brings to light another set of pros and cons.

Pros and Cons of Removing the Google Supplemental Index

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