Sometime during your SEO career you will probably find that you have to research a large volume of data. Here are some tips to make it easier to do big projects
Last week Reese Spykerman chatted with me on my GoodKarma radio show about website designs. As a follow-up to her interview, here is a guest post from her listing all the great resources she mentioned (my apologies to reese for screwing up her nice looking formatting, i’m still learning wordpress).
Browser/Design Specs
The specs you use, on everything from resolution (width of the design) to color choices should be dictated by your site’s primary audience. Read the rest of this entry »
This photo shows just how much Rae loves Bob Saget. All this time she has been pretending to hate Bob Saget but it was just a poor attempt to hide her true feelings. 
For more details check out Sugarrae’s Bob Saget love post
Recently I received a question from a listener of my GoodKarma show about Adsense arbitrage. Since my friend George Kepnick at Dotted Online has researched this area, I asked him to do this guest post answering the question. Thanks George
I’ve got a question for you…
Do you have any Adsense arbitrage sites?
George: No Comment, but I will tell you I have a few sites that make money from AdSense.
I’m curious how people are tracking conversions on PPC campaigns where a conversion is defined as an Adsense click. Obviously w/ a 100% affiliate link site you can track conversions back to specific keywords by passing SIDs…but I’m struggling to figure out which PPC keywords are producing in an Adsense arbitrage model.
I just received a nice email asking if I would be interested in doing some SEO work for an affiliate site. It is nice when I’m asked to work on projects, but 99% of the time it doesn’t make sense for me to do work on someone else’s affiliate site. Why not just build my own site(s) for that industry.
There are some exceptions to the rule like : #1 If it is an established site that has a bug that needs temporary help, #2 It is a friend asking for a favor, #3 It is a brick and mortar company with pre-built traffic that is looking to start an online presence. #4 You want to establish a long-term online presence and are willing to pay me a large sum of money to jumpstart it for you .
If your affiliate site project does not meet one of those exceptions and/or you do not have have a good reason why I couldn’t just build my own site here is some free SEO advice.
Normally I find it is best to move on and don’t waste time on spilt milk. That is why I recommend using a team of link people so no one person is critical and your investment is spread out. So when a link person goes bad on you and many will, your loss is limited and the links keep coming from the other team members. Read the rest of this entry »
I am not talking about a graphic design studio. I am talking about Nevdull’s post about Arrojo Studio (a hot hair stylist studio in NYC). I know what you are thinking why would I need to visit Arrojo Studio since I have such great hair that is incredibly sexy and always perfect. I’ll tell you why - I am doing this to set a good example for certain search engine employees. Nick Arrojo is a famous hair stylist that can improve even perfect hair like mine and definitely can help less than perfect hair.
Some search engine employees are so busy making the Internet a better place for you and me that they haven’t really taken care of their appearances. Instead of telling a search engine employee that their hair aint good, I’m just gonna be a friendly blogger and post how and where they can go to get it fixed.
I am on the hunt for some new linkers. If you have good motivation, like to spend time online and would like to make a little extra money on the side just let me know.
I have some basic link projects that need extra people. Since these are basic projects no experience is required. If you do well on the basic projects I will be happy to train you for more advanced projects.
Stay at home moms, college students and high school students are all welcome to join. If you are interested you can contact me via the “Contact GoodKarma” Link in the upper right hand corner and also answer these questions.
Get your own domain name - Many sites offer to host your content on their site. This makes you dependent on them. This may be all right now but three years from now you may regret this. Domain name registration cost around $10/year (this fee gives you the legal rights to use the domain and no one else provided you renew it every year). Pay it and start developing your own site which you control. Once you have a domain go and get yourself a hosting package. Shared hosting is good enough to start with and costs from $5-$10/month. Read the rest of this entry »
The only seo part of this post is that the pet industry is a money industry to go after.
I need some help fixing my perspective about taking care of pets. I grew up with a goldfish as a pet. When a goldfish gets sick it, it floats upside down and gets a one-way ticket to the porcelain flusher. Because of this experience my perspective WAS that pets are replaceable. My fiance has a cat which recently got very sick and almost died. For the first time I experienced the joy of a trip to veterinary hospital. The cat is doing much better and I have a $1,500 bill.
The idea of a significant bill for a pet had never crossed my mind. Remember I come from the concept of 50 cent goldfish are very easy to replace. I understand my fiance has a special place in her heart for her cat and many people see their pets as family members. Since I did not grow up with a significant pet I just never considered extraordinary measures for pets. Since this happened I learned one of my friends has had chemotherapy for several of their cats and even a hip replacement that cost over $25,000.
What is normal? How much money and effort is considered taking good, loving, humane care of a pet and at what point does it turn excessive? If you comment please note what pets if any you own.
