http://www.MethodicalSEO.com Search Engine Optimization for the small business owner Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:12:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I currently work for a Fortune 250 company, which is in the Insurance/Finance industry. Like many Fortune 1000 Companies, we use SurfControl to manage acceptable web usage for the Enterprise. SurfControl might be a quick clean solution for employers, but for web publishers SurfControl can be a nightmare. As ... http://www.MethodicalSEO.com/methodical-seo/tapping-into-high-dollar-web-traffic-and-how-to-get-your-website-around-the-corporate-firewall/ I purchased a really good URL about 6 months ago with the ‘08 US election cycle in mind. I teamed up with a friend and we decided to turn the site into a humor site where we would pick on one of the democratic candidates. About 3 months ... http://www.MethodicalSEO.com/seo-projects/fun-with-a-301-redirect/ One of the biggest breakthroughs in improving my positions in the SERPs was understanding the long tail. For years I worked on ranking for those highly sought-after keywords and would ignore the rest. My SEO efforts were spent day in and day out on optimizing all my pages for ... http://www.MethodicalSEO.com/methodical-seo/focusing-on-the-long-tail/ I found this today and thought I would share. Google is putting a lot of time and effort into their local search project. It looks like they are going the extra mile to make sure companies that submit their site for the local search are legit as well ... http://www.MethodicalSEO.com/google/google-pushes-local-search-i-mean-adwords/ I do really like the traffic that a good stumble or two can bring to my sites, but the short term effect can really put your AdSense profits in the dog house. There are many days where due to stumbling my AdSense profits plummet. For one of my ... http://www.MethodicalSEO.com/adsense-wisdom/my-love-hate-relationship-with-stumble-upon/ I just heard some search news that I would consider relatively huge. From google’s own Matt Cutts it looks like google is going to start accepting the underscore character as a valid delimiter in file and directory names. Before if you used the underscore like this: http://example.com/example_widget.html the keywords ... http://www.MethodicalSEO.com/google/google-changes-meaning-of-underscore-character/ I was reading about the creation of mini pages over at Quick Who Is and I got inspired to try a few out. I will be updating this post over the next few months with progress updates. What is a Mini Page? Mini Pages are websites that contain only ... http://www.MethodicalSEO.com/seo-projects/my-first-mini-page/ I really thought long and hard about starting a SEO blog over the last few years. I kept asking myself "Why the heck would I want to waist time by starting another SEO blog"? Seriously there are 1000’s of Search Engine Optimization blogs out there, which are probably ... http://www.MethodicalSEO.com/methodical-seo/seo-with-a-purpose/