http://neworleansinternetmarketing.com inlayout, LLC :: Doing Big Things in the Big Easy. Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:29:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://neworleansinternetmarketing.com/uncategorized/why-i-cant-post-substantive-content-here-anymore/ http://neworleansinternetmarketing.com/uncategorized/why-i-cant-post-substantive-content-here-anymore/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:10:51 +0000 Chris H. http://neworleansinternetmarketing.com/?p=240
The Family & Marriage Counseling Directory is my main income producing website, and TalkAboutMarriage.com is its “sister” site where people give each other free marriage advice. I started The FMC Directory about 7 years ago, and shortly thereafter a competitor started another directory targeting the exact same keywords and copying my backlinks as closely as possible. Since then, a new directory like mine springs up every year, and there are now at least 5 other sites trying to do what mine has done (drive an enormous amount of referrals to therapists) and failing miserably when it comes to SEO (the best way to do so). Amongst the ranks are Counsel-Search.com, Goodtherapy.org, FixmyFamily.com, Theravive.com, and MarriageFriendlyTherapists.com.

I’m sorry to say, that with all these guys nipping at my heals constantly, I just can’t write good SEO stuff like I intended on doing when I first started this site. There’s plenty of quality SEO information on the web, but the good thing for me is that there’s plenty of bad info out there as well, and my competitors don’t know who to follow. At least if they were following me, they’d know what I’m doing works. But I can’t give away that kind of information because it would cost me my business.

So if you’re ever wondering why I don’t post anything here these days, this is why…]]> http://neworleansinternetmarketing.com/uncategorized/why-i-cant-post-substantive-content-here-anymore/feed/ 1 http://neworleansinternetmarketing.com/uncategorized/blogcatalogcom-gets-toolbar-pagerank-penalty-from-google/ http://neworleansinternetmarketing.com/uncategorized/blogcatalogcom-gets-toolbar-pagerank-penalty-from-google/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:23:07 +0000 inlayout http://neworleansinternetmarketing.com/?p=151 posts about PageRank that may help newcomers understand the difference between “actual” PageRank and “Toolbar” PageRank, along with some of the anomalies you will see if you look at the Google Toolbar for a long time (no, not visions of Mary either, just the little green bar).

One of the things I discussed in my post “Anomalies with Google’s ‘Toolbar PageRank,’” was the fact the sometimes search results will look strange when there is a site with low “toolbar PageRank” ranking high for competitive keywords. This is sometimes due to the possibility that Google has penalized the website’s “toolbar” PR for selling links.

This appears to be what happened to Blog Catalog today. Blog Catalog used to have a PR 6 or 7 homepage, and many interior category pages that were PR5, but if you check today, you will see that they’ve been bumped down to a PR4. Is Blog Catalog really selling links? You be the judge – have a look at the top right of the “Health” section page (click here).

Will this affect BlogCatalog’s search engine rankings? Probably not.

Although it has been argued both ways, I am of the opinion that it WILL affect the “link juice” that gets passed down to all of the blogs listed in their directory.]]> http://neworleansinternetmarketing.com/uncategorized/blogcatalogcom-gets-toolbar-pagerank-penalty-from-google/feed/ 0 http://neworleansinternetmarketing.com/uncategorized/why-your-seo-campaign-should-include-outsourced-link-building/ http://neworleansinternetmarketing.com/uncategorized/why-your-seo-campaign-should-include-outsourced-link-building/#comments Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:25:43 +0000 inlayout http://neworleansinternetmarketing.com/?p=82 OutsourcedLinkBuilding.com are getting more and more popular due to the cheap price of labor overseas. Outsourced Link Building dot com in particular, has secured tons of valuable links for me in the past. Granted, there are times when I wind up paying for a few I wish I hadn’t, but the overall service is incredible for the price you pay.

The value you get from one-time fee, permanent links is so great, because when you specify a decent part of your budget for that, the links really build up over time. So does your PageRank, and so do your rankings. I’ve found so many ways to get permanent links these days, that it’s rare that I rent links. To me, renting links (paying a monthly fee) is little different from pay-per-click advertising in that you’re renting your space at the top. Don’t rent! Own!]]> http://neworleansinternetmarketing.com/uncategorized/why-your-seo-campaign-should-include-outsourced-link-building/feed/ 1