Professional SEO Specialist - janet bartoli roussos

I have been saying this for years!  To tell them SEO rankings is the most important factor,  is ridiculous in my mind - its almost always a means to an end, not the end itself.

I worked for a particular SEO VP, who shall remain nameless, that told our clients time and time again with such enthusiasm, “we can rank you on the 1st page for that keyword if you want” “we love a challenge we can get you to the top of the SERPs in no time” I pushed back on this person a little (Okay a lot, who am I kidding?), and asked “Why would you have our clients believe this is our sole purpose here? That to have our clients believe that’s all we do is rank them high on the SERPs is the be all to end all is plain stupid and so 1996.” Ever hear of conversions? or I don’t know, traffic increase month over month?

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Greatest Living SEO… just a little game here, if you go to Sri’s website where he talks about his contest he had with some old DG’ers -

Justy playin along, so far Sri has #1 spot in Google, Yahoo and… 3rd in MSN .. so time will tell.

If your not familiar with compete.com, you might want to check it out. With your “pro” status you can view 2 years worth of information. To start with, login and then add in your site.

Using this as a competitive analysis - “compete” get it? You can see how your site stacks against its competition in the form of people visits, page views, visits monthly, rank monthly etc. Continue reading »

Thanks Yahoo!

Back in 2006, I took and passed the Yahoo Ambassador certification - I contacted them numerous times to find out where my actual certification with the Yahoo letterhead was. I was told they were “processing” this in Europe somewhere - weird answer, but anyway here’s my logo, that according to Yahoo, I can still display..

The Yahoo! Ambassador program was specifically developed to help marketers drive sales leads to their clients. For the last four years, Yahoo! has made an effort to enhance the program to provide the greatest added value to our users. After a thorough evaluation of the program, we have decided to discontinue the program. The Ambassador Program, except for the limited use of the Ambassador Logo as noted below, shall be terminated as of September 30, 2008.

So, I wrote a post 32 minutes ago, see … (Google search was “international seo smart tips”)

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