If you are a blogger, internet marketer, or website owner, I'm sure you have interest in knowing where you stand in Google. I remember when I first started understanding how to use keywords for my website, I would search for my website using that keyword and ultimately show up on page one of Google. Great, right?! Wrong! It showed up on the first page because Google sometimes customizes your search results based on your past search activity. This usually includes searches you've previously done and the results you've clicked on. Well, of course since I was constantly doing searches to see where I fit in from the search results and always visiting my own site, it was listed on the first page. What all of this means is if you have previously visited a website, there is a possibility that your browser has ...

Have you heard the news?  Google has now fully integrated Social Search into its search results as of February 17, 2011! What is Google Social Search? It simply means that your search results will display related entries from your friends and peers in your social networks -  if you are logged in with your Google account that is. Here's a brief look into what it looks like. But guess what? Facebook, one of the world's largest social networks, was not included. Yes, Google and Facebook are still not playing well together and are warring over the issue. Can I Claim That Google is Killing SEO? Well, if you really think about it, if more search results are going to be from social networks and integrated directly into the organic listings, then less time, money, and energy is needed to optimize for search engines. So keyword stuffing, all the expensive search engine optimization techniques, and any other ...

These days, I see so many people (bloggers and small business owners alike) concerned with what the search engines think of their websites because "so called" experts tell us that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is everything. Frankly, I'm tired of all the "experts" and self-proclaimed SEO gurus that keep popping up from the wood works everyday telling us that SEO is the bee's knees! (I love that phrase by the way!) LOL Now before you start to pull your hand waaaaaaaay back to get ready to hit me with your hardest slap and knock me back into reality, hear me out. Who would you rather read your site - search engines or human beings? Who are you attracting and doing business with  - search engines or human beings? You might say, "Well, Kesha, we need search ...

Some web sites receive hundreds or thousands of unique visitors a day, whilst others only get a handful or none. The reason is often because the web designers or Webmaster has built the site in one ‘really bad way’ or other. This can end up hindering the potential success of the web site. If you want to make sure your site is not a ‘traffic flop’ then here are some simple rules to follow. Bad Move 1: Build the site using a frameset. (Didn't this go out in the early 2000s anyway : ...

Calling all Bloggers!! Here's another great reason to use Firefox, the faster, more secure, and fully customizable browser and soon to be number one browser! Okay, enough about Firefox and on to the real reason for this post (wink). If you blog and write posts (about anything; it doesn't matter the topic!) and want to make sure you optimize each post to the appropriate keywords, then look no further than the SEO Blogger plugin for Firefox. SEO Blogger is a free Firefox plugin that gives bloggers a mini version of the Wordtracker keyword research tool in their editing window. It saves you a lot of time, allows you to stay focused on your current task (writing that next great article), and compares keywords instantly - all without leaving the Firefox window! The image below shows my screen as I'm writing this article and using SEO Blogger in the ...