Home Page Optimization is a Scam, For the Last Time, Don’t Pay For It. Here’s Why

I’ve said it before. SEO is a Scam: http://journik.posterous.com/tag/seo and again, differently. Home page optimization is a scam too. Here’s why. Google doesn’t care about your site just like you don’t care about how much your dentist brags about his steady hands. Google, like you, only cares about what others say. Here’s a tiny caveat [...]

SEO Secrets: DIGG vs Reddit and nofollow hell that kills your backlinks

Have you ever wondered why your blog, ecommerce website, or web app doesn’t show up in Google for anything remotely searchable? Basically, there are only two factors that count in getting you to page one of a Google search. 1. Number of links 2. Words used in those links. So you think, “well, if I [...]

How Google Determines and Ranks Your Relevancy

Personally, I think this graph, as reassuring and emboldening as it is, is totally bunk, (couple more commas, thrown in, for good measure). Image via two sites I highly recommend following religiously if you are even remotely involved in web business or like cilantro: http://www.copyblogger.com/seo-copywriting-matter/ and http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization Here’s why: 1. The wedges, “Anchor text” and [...]

How to Get to Page One of Google (Roadmap Architecture)

If you thought that all you have to do is set up some meta tags and hide some keywords in background colors that match the text colors of said keywords, you would have had a chance of getting to page one of Excite or Infoseek. BUT only in the early days when there were only [...]

The #1 Biggest Dark Secret To Getting To Google Page One

Gmail. That’s it. Think about it. You try everything to increase your page relevance and ranking in Google. Google has to take a composite view of the entire web as far as it can see to accurately evaluate your webpage search result relevance. Guess what falls squarely in the middle of “The Entire Web?” (Refer [...]

Google: How to Jump from Page 2 or 3 to Page 1

Lets say you’ve already done everything in your power to get to page one of Google on a given search term. And you failed. If you got even remotely close, I have a master’s Google ranking trade secret for you. Google not only weighs the quality of the inbound links to your site to determine [...]

How to Create a High Google Page Rank Site

Most of you won’t know about Google Page Rank. It’s not what you think it is. Google has a 0-10 rating scale that basically assigns your site a “credibility value.” Get used to seeing this by downloading the Google ToolBar. In order for your outbound links to be worth anything, you’ve got to have a [...]

How to Get on Google Page One: “Short Tail”

As far as I’m concerned, there are no “long tail” keywords. SEO Experts advocate “long tail keywords” on the premise that since they are not good enough to get you into google’s page one on a popular and competitive high traffic keyword, they will get you into google’s page one under a low traffic and [...]