Search Engine Optimization(SEO) Mr SEO's Podcast

I talk with Alan and cover a lot on SEO. Somethings we agree on and others we don't. I ask Alan... When is it a good time to hire an SEO company vs. an in house individual? What is one of the most important factors to getting a site to rank well? On page? Links? PR? What would you say is a common mistake made by novice SEO's Should people focus on just optimizing for Google? Buying links? Worth it? When is it worth it and when is it not? ... and much more. This is part one of a 2 part series.

I talk with Alan and cover a lot on SEO. Somethings we agree on and others we don't. I ask Alan... When is it a good time to hire an SEO company vs. an in house individual? What is one of the most important factors to getting a site to rank well? On page? Links? PR? What would you say is a common mistake made by novice SEO's Should people focus on just optimizing for Google? Buying links? Worth it? When is it worth it and when is it not? ... and much more. This is part one of a 2 part series.

Local search. Is it worth optimizing organically for. Links - what types of links are there. Which links do what and how they effect your optimization.

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Joe and Alan go over link building, articles, submissions, feedback, social bookmarking and much more.

Joe and Alan answer some SEO questions: How can I achieve a better ROI on my site pages? Why have my pages all of a sudden gone supplemental? Google adsense has launched new TOS and much more

Joe and Sequita tackle listeners questions and problems. Some of the questions we answered were: I read having anchor text is important on a site when describing other pages. Is this correct? What is the best way to do that? I want to put my product descriptions in a pop-up window, is that bad for SEO? My company has been doing link exchanges for over a year now, but our rankings have not improved. What are we doing wrong? ..and much more. You can also read the answers to these questions on my blog http://www.mr-seo.com/blog/2007/01/q-and-with-mr-seo.html

Joe and Sequita tackle listeners questions and problems. Some of the questions we answered were: I read having anchor text is important on a site when describing other pages. Is this correct? What is the best way to do that? I want to put my product descriptions in a pop-up window, is that bad for SEO? My company has been doing link exchanges for over a year now, but our rankings have not improved. What are we doing wrong? ..and much more. You can also read the answers to these questions on my blog http://www.mr-seo.com/blog/2007/01/q-and-with-mr-seo.html

Joe thanks everyone for supporting the podcast in 2006. He also tlaks about upcoming events and course of MR SEO in 2007.

Joe thanks everyone for supporting the podcast in 2006. He also tlaks about upcoming events and course of MR SEO in 2007.

We revisit this and cover some common mistakes with newbies when building a site. We also cover myths and what most people may not know when optimizing a website. We also touch on XML sitemaps and talk about the video cast. Watch a supporting video cast here http://www.mr-seo.com/Common-SEO-Mistakes.html

We revisit this and cover some common mistakes with newbies when building a site. We also cover myths and what most people may not know when optimizing a website. We also touch on XML sitemaps and talk about the video cast. Watch a supporting video cast here http://www.mr-seo.com/Common-SEO-Mistakes.html

After 1 year of offer an excellent SEO podcast we are now taking it one step further. This is the first SEO video cast. Please email me comments and suggestions. We will do our best to bring you the best video cast on search engine optimization. The size of the podcast will seem small on podomatic. It should be fine on itunes. You can also download video casts on our site www.mr-seo.com Show notes: Information on XML sitemaps Please note that the Sitemap Protocol supplements, but does not replace, the crawl-based mechanisms that search engines already use to discover URLs. By submitting a Sitemap (or Sitemaps) to a search engine, you will help that engine's crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site. Using this protocol does not guarantee that your web pages will be included in search indexes. (Note that using this protocol will not influence the way your pages are ranked by Google.) Can I use an XML sitemap as a substitution for a robot.txt file? No, you must still use a robots.txt file to restricted the engines from pages and folders you do not want them to index. Will submitting an XML sitemap increase my pagerank? No, it will not. An XML sitemap has nothing to do with pagerank. Will submitting a sitemap get me out of the sandbox or supplemental index? No, it will not. Submitting a sitemap will not help you with either of these problems I've submitted a sitemap and may site is still not being fully crawled. Why? There could be other factors involved. Check your sites navigation. Make sure all your links are accessible and spiderable. To generate a sitemap go to http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ http://www.sitemapdoc.com/ To upload your file to your server you can use an FTP program such as FileZilla It's free http://www.download.com/FileZilla/3000-2160_4-10308966.html Submit a sitemap to Yahoo http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ Submit a sitemap to Google www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/

After 1 year of offer an excellent SEO podcast we are now taking it one step further. This is the first SEO video cast. Please email me comments and suggestions. We will do our best to bring you the best video cast on search engine optimization. The size of the podcast will seem small on podomatic. It should be fine on itunes. You can also download video casts on our site www.mr-seo.com Show notes: Information on XML sitemaps Please note that the Sitemap Protocol supplements, but does not replace, the crawl-based mechanisms that search engines already use to discover URLs. By submitting a Sitemap (or Sitemaps) to a search engine, you will help that engine's crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site. Using this protocol does not guarantee that your web pages will be included in search indexes. (Note that using this protocol will not influence the way your pages are ranked by Google.) Can I use an XML sitemap as a substitution for a robot.txt file? No, you must still use a robots.txt file to restricted the engines from pages and folders you do not want them to index. Will submitting an XML sitemap increase my pagerank? No, it will not. An XML sitemap has nothing to do with pagerank. Will submitting a sitemap get me out of the sandbox or supplemental index? No, it will not. Submitting a sitemap will not help you with either of these problems I've submitted a sitemap and may site is still not being fully crawled. Why? There could be other factors involved. Check your sites navigation. Make sure all your links are accessible and spiderable. To generate a sitemap go to http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ http://www.sitemapdoc.com/ To upload your file to your server you can use an FTP program such as FileZilla It's free http://www.download.com/FileZilla/3000-2160_4-10308966.html Submit a sitemap to Yahoo http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ Submit a sitemap to Google www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/

Joe talks about top 7 SEO mistakes new site owners make. He also covers some Google news, ODP meta tag, SEO in India and much more.