SEO Crimson

I know there are a lot of real estate agents that read this blog and give me lots of great comments. I also know it’s to a large extent due to publicity from RSSPieces.com. I also know you guys like your .EDU links, but who can blame you?
But now I need something from […]

Cyndee:
What is the most effective ways to build backlinks? Is there a speed at which you should or should not do them? Like some offer directory submissions for you and they make me nervous like a big “dump” on google - lol
I think what you want to make your goal is adding a certain number […]

I’ve been getting a great number of comments recently and appreciate everyone’s help in turning this blog into a conversation about SEO and internet marketing.
To that same end, I want to offer anyone with any questions on SEO a chance to ask via the comments box.  I’ll then make my next post my best response […]

In the constant search for traffic, finding uncompetitive or untapped sources of search market share is a great tool for increasing traffic. And on the Internet, traffic means cash.
One of the absolute most relevant sources of what’s going on in the world is Google Trends, particularly their Hot Trends, which monitors sharp increases in […]

ProspectMX has a great post in which they show a link building chart that helps put the different sources of links into perspective.
This is what it looks like:

It includes all of the major ways of building links, like linkbaiting, social communities, paid or traded links, cherry picking links and content submissions.
This PDF version of the […]

The web analytics program I use to track visitor stats on this blog is a Wordpress plugin called Slimstat.  While fairly rudimentary compared to Google Analytics and a variety of other software programs that can help you moderate a site’s traffic, Slimstat nonetheless provides some useful information such as “recent search strings.”  Recent search strings […]

One of the most amusing aspects of SEO is that there are consistently people talking about black hat, gray hat, white hat, fairness, unfairness, spam, legit and so on and so forth. The funny thing is, there are so few American laws that have anything to do with SEO: you can’t spam and […]

There has been a huge amount of controversy recently online about whether or not .edu links are still particularly valuable. I want to explain why they’re still worth their weight in gold. But first, let me backtrack and explain why your links are important.
If you’re not familiar with the importance of linking on […]

Today SEO Crimson jumped to page 8 of Google for the keyword “search engine optimization.” This key term is by far the grand daddy of all SEO keyword terms, racking up an impressive 18,000 daily searches on Google alone. My immediate goal is to make it into the top 20 results. If […]

I’ve added a substantial amount of search engine optimization content to the front page of SEOCrimson. In addition, I moved this blog off the front page. The idea is to give new users a basic introduction to SEO and its benefits. Please check it out and feel free to give your thoughts […]