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Top Tips from Some of the Best SEO's in the Business
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Robin Nobles
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Top Tips from Some of the
Best SEO's in the Business
. . . Learn from the Pros in this Informative Article!
by Robin R. Nobles
Have you ever wondered what types of strategies the top search
engine optimizers use for their own sites or the sites of their
clients?
In an industry like the search engine industry, where no one can
possibly know everything, it's important to learn from trusted
experts in the field. So for this article, I interviewed some of
the best SEO's in the business in an effort to share their
winning strategies with you.
Important facts about these tips
Please remember that these tips aren't necessarily the
fundamental strategies that should always be used when working on
a Web page, such as including your keyword phrase in your title
tag or capitalizing on headline tags or link text. Instead, many
of these tips are meant to be applied to the top of the basic
strategies in an effort to give you an edge over the competition.
Also, these tips aren't in any particular order of importance.
The first tip in any category isn't necessarily the most
important, and the last tip certainly isn't the least important.
I've identified each tip with the SEO who wrote it. Then, at the
end of the article in alphabetical order, I highlighted the
various SEO's who participated in this article, along with brief
information about their qualifications.
Enjoy these tips from some of the best SEO's in the business!
Basics
* Stick to the basics of search engine optimization for your
existing Web pages (i.e. optimized titles, header content,
keyword density, the order your text is presented in the code,
etc.), before you move into supplementary techniques like doorway
pages, doorway domains, and the like. The odds are that if you
have not mastered the basic skills to optimize your existing Web
pages, you are not going to be able implement supplementary
techniques successfully. (J.K. Bowman with Spider Food
http://www.spider-food.net )
* My advice to everyone is always to remember the basic, simple
things that have not changed rather than get lost in details that
may change on a regular basis. I find that even very advanced
people sometimes need a reminder of the basics to see the forest
from the trees. (Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch
http://www.searchenginewatch.com )
Content
* Focus on building useful "research content." Remember that the
Internet is constantly being used for all types of research. Take
advantage of this and develop content that will appeal to the
people who are doing the research. What is it that people want to
know? People are looking for "how to" articles, "inspirational"
articles, reference material, financial advice, technical advice,
comparison charts, phone numbers, historical information, serial
numbers, and the list goes on and on. Don't just do up a general
page on a topic. Do a little research. Talk to some real people
and see what it is that fascinates a specific group. Look for a
newsgroup and see what they talk about. From your research, try
checking a few keywords in WordTracker. From WordTracker, you can
discover trends that people are using to conduct research. If you
have a garden center online, perhaps you'll want to build a
content rich doorway page that offers detailed blue prints for
building a birdhouse or an article on "How to attract
hummingbirds to your garden," etc. If you have an online jewelry
store, perhaps you'll want to offer articles on how to determine
the real value of a diamond or a tutorial on Victorian gemstones.
(John Alexander with Beyond-SEO.com http://www.beyond-seo.com/ )
* If your site makes heavy use of graphics and has no substantial
real text content, this will severely impact your ability to get
good search engine listings because there is nothing for the
search engines to read when they index your Web site. You should
consider redesigning some of your pages to include real text
rather than graphical text. (Paul Bruemmer with Web Ignite
http://www.web-ignite.com )
* Customize content for each page. Every URL is a potential entry
point. Keep content in the header tags focused and terse.
Simplicity is so important in search engine optimization.
(Marshall Simmonds with About.com http://www.about.com/ )
* Use cgi-based date scripts to keep the site fresh. (Ginette
Degner with ServiceBrokers.com http://www.servicebrokers.com )
Directories
* Proper submission to the major directories is critical. One of
the most significant changes in search engine marketing in recent
years has been the rise in popularity of human-reviewed
directories and catalogs like LookSmart, Yahoo, and Open
Directory. Some search engines prominently display directory
listings for many popular searches. MSN is a prime example. Some
of the other major engines also list directory results
prominently, or at least emphasize them in various ways. You can
recognize directory listings since they are often called "Web
Site" results rather than "Web Page" results. Once you submit to
a directory, it's difficult to go back and correct mistakes
later. Some of them like Yahoo and LookSmart charge you for the
privilege of simply being reviewed for inclusion. Therefore, it's
of utmost importance to get it right the first time. (Brent
Winters with FirstPlace Software http://www.webposition.com )
* Get listed with the human-powered directories of Yahoo,
LookSmart and the Open Directory. If this is all you do, you'll
get plenty of traffic. All either get lots of visitors or "power"
other sites that get plenty of visitors. In addition, getting
listed with them helps crawler-based search engines locate your
site and perhaps help it rank better, because of the link
importance these sites provide to you. (Danny Sullivan with
Search Engine Watch http://www.searchenginewatch.com )
Diversify
* It's important to experiment and diversify your optimization
strategies. The algorithms of each engine change frequently to
keep content fresh -- so should your techniques. It is important
to abide by all the rules and regulations as set forth by the
engines to avoid spamdexing. (Marshall Simmonds with About.com
http://www.about.com/ )
Due Diligence
* First comes content, then optimizing your pages for the search
engines, checking your HTML code, etc. Next comes the submission
of your pages to the search engines. Possibly resubmit your older
content, depending on ranking and various other factors.
(Introduce at least some minor changes before you do.) Follow the
rules of the craft. Later, check your logs daily. Learn how to
recognize search engine spiders to see if your submissions were
successful. Check out all search engine generated hits to
determine: a) your ranking, b) what people are really searching
for and finding you under -you may be in for a surprise or two on
that score. (Ralph Tegtmeier, a.k.a. Fantomaster
http://fantomaster.com/ )
* Read, read, read - learn the trade from scratch. Test out stuff
- your mileage may vary immensely from the gurus' -every Web site
is different, or, at least, should be. (Ralph Tegtmeier, a.k.a.
Fantomaster http://fantomaster.com/ )
Frames, JavaScript, and Dynamic Delivery Systems
* Framesets need NOFRAMES content added to the FRAMESET section.
Also, sites using frames, image maps, or JavaScript navigation do
not get properly indexed by search engines because the frame
containing links to other pages within the site gets overlooked.
A remedy for this is to create a redundant set of text links in
as many of the frameset component pages as is practical, such as
at the bottom of your main content page. (Paul Bruemmer with Web
Ignite http://www.web-ignite.com )
* Build crawler-friendly. Avoid using frames or dynamic delivery
systems, and ensure that you have good internal linkage between
your pages. (Danny Sullivan with Search Engine Watch
http://www.searchenginewatch.com )
* Consider putting your JavaScript in external files. This also
will streamline your source code and make your pages load faster
and more search engine friendly. (Bill Gentry with The Selling
Source http://www.sellingsource.com )
Keywords
* Know what you want to be found for. You should know the top two
or three terms that are most important to your Web site and have
incorporated them into a 25-word description that doesn't use
marketing hype, which can then be submitted to human-powered
directories. You should also know a list of the top 10 to 100
terms you'd like to be found for and ensure that you have pages
within your Web site with good, solid content for these terms to
please the crawlers. (Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch
http://www.searchenginewatch.com )
* Don't make the mistake of picking the wrong keywords. Nothing
is more disappointing than taking the time to achieve top
rankings and then seeing no increase in traffic from all your
efforts. Also, don't pick keywords that are too popular or broad
like "games" or "entertainment." You'll not only get visitors
that are far less likely to buy your product, but the amount of
work needed to gain that ranking will not be worth the trouble.
You'll then join the ranks of misinformed critics screaming
"search engine optimization doesn't work - don't waste your
time!" SE optimization works and works well, IF you take the
time to do it right. (Brent Winters with FirstPlace Software
http://www.webposition.com )
* Research your search phrases. If you can, also check your
referrer logs or other traffic tracking program to help you. If
you don't have referrer logs, install a traffic tracking program
such as Web Trends Live on your site and let it gather stats for
you for a couple of months before you decide on your search
phrases. A program such as this or your referrer logs will tell
you which search phrases are currently bringing you search engine
traffic. You might want to use some of these for your
optimization, since you already know that people find you using
these. Then, check your rankings for the search phrases that you
researched from WordTracker, or other search phrase research
tools, as well as those from your traffic tracking program or
referrer logs. I suggest this because you may find that you are
already doing fairly well with some phrases and you may not want
to mess with those. (Bill Gentry with The Selling Source
http://www.sellingsource.com )
* Build focused pages around "real world" queries. Use phrases
exactly how they are typed into a search engine, such as "How can
I" and "Where can I." You will notice that sites with FAQ pages
like this can end up garnering an awful lot of top placements and
traffic. (Ginette Degner with ServiceBrokers.com
http://www.servicebrokers.com )
* Searching for the key phrase in Yahoo and noting the Yahoo
Categories returned can suggest key themes and words useful to
the site for optimization as well as showing the quantity and
quality of the competition. (David Johnson and Annam Manthiram
with Position Research http://www.positionresearch.com )
* I like to thoroughly explore all possibilities when researching
keyword phrases. I like to think of keyword phrases as "fuel" for
specific topics. After much study using a resource like
WordTracker (one of my favourite tools), I like to identify
several "high performance" keyword phrases. Then I try not to
simply settle for the first ideas that come to mind for how that
topic might be employed. I try to "think outside of the box."
Learn to develop topical content with a unique spin on it, always
keeping the visitors in mind. In a nutshell, understand your
visitors' demand for useful topics and then give them what it is
they are seeking. Focus should not just be on how to get tons of
general traffic to a page. Use page optimization strategies to
create useful pages with content that is "in demand" by a target
audience. When you start thinking this way, it has a wonderful
compound effect on making actual sales or achieving your site
objectives. Isn't this why you started a Web site in the first
place? (John Alexander with Beyond-SEO.com http://www.beyo nd-
seo.com/)
* Check log files for user country location and most often used
keywords in search engine search. This may demonstrate the need
to offer the site in another language (or to provide a link to
Alta Vista's Babelfish or the Lycos equivalent) if there are a
lot of hits from another country. Knowing the keywords used to
arrive at the site helps to decide on variations and changes to
the site theme. (David Johnson and Annam Manthiram with Position
Research http://www.positionresearch.com )
* Did you know that the KEI Factor used in WordTracker is an
excellent guideline to follow? According to WordTracker, an
excellent keyword phrase has a KEI (Keyword Effectiveness Index)
of 400+. Are you having trouble finding appropriate phrases with
high KEI factors? Try using one single word (appropriate for your
site) in the "comprehensive search" feature. I very often extract
excellent phrases with a KEI level well into the thousands or
even into the hundreds of thousands. Always ensure that the
search phrases you select are solidly related to site content.
(John Alexander with Beyond-SEO.com http://www.beyond-seo.com/ )
Link Popularity
* Submit to link popularity-based engines LAST after you have had
a chance to build your inbound and outbound links up. (Ginette
Degner with ServiceBrokers.com http://www.servicebrokers.com )
* Examine your internal link structure carefully. Even for large
Web sites, to the extent that it is possible, you want every Web
page linking to every other page. Complex linking structures will
work to your disadvantage. (J.K. Bowman with Spider Food
http://www.spider-food.net )
* Build links. Search for the top terms you want to be found for.
Review the sites that come up. Visit those sites and ask the non-
competitive ones if they'll swap links with you. These sites are
important because the search engines themselves are telling you
they are important, by ranking them highly. That means links from
them can help you in link analysis systems. It also means that if
these sites get visitors, you may get visitors who follow links
out of them. (Danny Sullivan with Search Engine Watch
http://www.searchenginewatch.com )
* Link exchange with other like sites, and be sure to interlink
your pages. (Rocky Rawstern)
* Develop your inbound link popularity the old fashioned way, one
link at a time. An investment of just 10 minutes per day to this
with a personalized e-mail to Web site owners of similar and
significant sites will produce immediate results. And you will
never have to worry about the risk associated with link
popularity programs. (J.K. Bowman with Spider Food
http://www.spider-food.net )
* Upgrade your site to an info hub by offering prime outgoing
links - such as a search engine portal. This will help boost your
site's ranking with the search engines. Contrary to popular
opinion, linkage counts both ways, incoming and outgoing. Check
out this free distributed search engine portal:
http://searchenginebase.com/ . The signup page is here:
http://searchenginebase.com/sbfreeportal0.html . Link to lots of
useful sites not directly competing with yours. Request
reciprocal links. Create more domains and interlink them all.
Avoid mere link farms - there's a ongoing witchhunt targeting
those currently. Also, check your linkage regularly. (Ralph
Tegtmeier, a.k.a. Fantomaster http://fantomaster.com/ )
Make it a Game and Have Fun!
* Make a game of it. I like to akin SEO to playing chess. It's a
matter of thinking three steps ahead of your competition. For
those who do this, the nip and tuck battle for the #1 spot can be
quite fun. In fact, it's addictive! So, when you think about SEO,
don't just think about it in terms how much money you might make.
If you truly become interested in the art and competitive element
of search engine optimization, you will be incredibly more
successful. (J.K. Bowman with Spider Food http://www.spid er-
food.net)
Newsletters, Forums, and Lists
* The best thing you can do to help your search engine efforts is
to stay informed via newsletters and forums. Some of those will
cost a great deal of money, and others will be free, but staying
informed of search engine developments is important. (Brett Tabke
with Webmaster World http://www.webmasterworld.com )
* Participate in discussion forums. Promote on Usenet via your
sig file if you can answer (or ask) questions in areas you are
either proficient or at least interested in. Contribute to
mailing lists. (Ralph Tegtmeier, a.k.a. Fantomaster
http://fantomaster.com/ )
Online Marketing
* Generate lots of fresh, useful content. Keep your blatant
marketing activities on economy drive (pardon the pun), be subtle
about your promotion. People will notice, and will favor, less
dumb hysteria, more openness, and honesty. Admit to mistakes if
you make them (as you're bound to), but don't cringe and don't
give the impression of reacting self-assertive or self-
deprecating for the heck of it. If you can, issue a newsletter of
your own. Never mind if you only have yourself, your wife and
your stepmother for subscribers - put it on site and submit it to
the engines. They simply adore that sort of all-text stuff!
(Ralph Tegtmeier, a.k.a. Fantomaster http://fantomaster.com/ )
* Search engine optimization in only one aspect of a well rounded
promotion campaign. That campaign should slowly broaden into more
traditional avenues. Search engines aren't the formula for long
term site success - it's up to your site to produce repeat
visitors. (Brett Tabke with Webmaster World
http://www.webmasterworld.com )
* Make sure your top scoring pages include a call to action. This
is not difficult or time consuming but it can make a real
difference in getting results. You can easily provide a visitor
with some sort of reason to take action now. If it is done well,
you can even have customers place a order from a doorway or
gateway information page. Every business is different of course,
but if you don't believe it, give it some thought and try it. At
the very least, experiment with placing your toll free phone
number (if applicable) on your top ranking pages. I have a number
of clients that do a really great business with a toll free
number displayed prominently on their top ranking pages. One of
the easiest ways to prompt action is to purposely leave an
important piece of information off of your site. At first this
does not sound too professional, but really think about it. If
they are impressed with your site content, obviously the depth of
your content has gained you some respect and credibility with the
reader.... so just leave one vital bit of information out. This
may start more phone calls and e-mail responses than you expect
but it's one of the easiest ways to trigger response. You see,
from those e-mails and phone calls, you can now enter further
dialogue with the visitor and this will often result in the
visitor becoming a customer. (John Alexander with Beyond-SEO.com
http://www.beyond-seo.com/ )
Pay Engines
* Open your wallet. If you have the money, paid placement and
paid inclusion programs can be a fast, easy way to get good
listings or better representation. But even if you have money,
don't forget to do all the basic things that can help you get
plenty of traffic for free. (Danny Sullivan with Search Engine
Watch http://www.searchenginewatch.com )
Relevancy
* There are countless tips for optimizing your page's content so
that it will be more "relevant" to a given search. Each engine
ranks pages differently, so most tips are not universal. However,
there is one tip that overrides them all: Create pages that
emulate the "statistics" of pages that already rank at or near
the top of the search results. These statistics include: a)
Frequency of the keywords on the page. Tip: This does not mean
more keywords are better. b) Total words on the page. Tip: Mimic
the approximate number of words of a top ranking page on your own
page. c) Weight of the keywords on the page. (i.e. frequency
divided by the total words) Tip: Too high a weight is just as bad
as too low a weight. d) Area or location of the keywords on the
page. (i.e., title, heading, etc.) Tip: A keyword is given more
relevance by an engine when the keyword appears in the engine's
"preferred" areas. e) Prominence. Tip: Generally, the closer to
the front of the area you can place the keyword, the better. f)
Proximity. Tip: The closer that the words of a phrase appear
together, the better. g) Off-page criteria. (i.e., link
popularity, click through popularity, etc.) Tip: Even when you've
done everything else right, don't forget the off-page factors!
(Brent Winters with FirstPlace Software
http://www.webposition.com )
* For best positioning, content should be placed at the top of a
page. However, for splash pages or pages without any content,
content can be added at the very bottom and the scroll bar can be
hidden to prevent a visitor from reading the optimized content.
(David Johnson and Annam Manthiram with Position Research
http://www.positionresearch.com )
* Keep the graphics low and the content high. All engines do two
things: index text and follow links. Give the spiders the
opportunity to do just that. Keep the content as high on the page
as possible and give relevant links to quality content either on
or off-site. The HTML title should be focused and accurately
represent the content of the page. (Marshall Simmonds with
About.com http://www.about.com/ )
* If you run a regional business where most of your business is
local, it's critical that you include your full company address
on every page of your site. Otherwise people could search for
"Ford dealer in Chicago" and you'd not appear if your company
address is buried only on your contact page. Also take advantage
of "proximity" by putting the word Chicago as close to the phrase
Ford dealer as possible. Lastly, make sure the address is in text
form since search engines can't read your address out of a
graphical logo on your page. (Brent Winters with FirstPlace
Software http://www.webposition.com )
Simplicity
* Keep things simple. Write good content and titles, and use text
links either as your main navigation or in conjunction with
graphic buttons, image maps or flash menus. It's ok to use Flash
animation on your site, but if you use it on your index page, be
sure to integrate it with content so the search engines can index
your home page. Also consider making your Flash animations
smaller where possible, such as banner size. They are much easier
to integrate into a page with content. Flash does not have to
dominate the page to be effective or add pizzazz to your site.
(Bill Gentry with The Selling Source
http://www.sellingsource.com )
* Did I mention keeping things simple? General optimization will
get you good results without a lot of extra time or effort. (Bill
Gentry with The Selling Source http://www.sellingsource.com )
Site Maps
* Web Ignite recommends the creation of a site map page that
includes plain text links to as many pages within your site as
possible. This will increase the ability of search engines to
spider your site and can result in more of your pages being
listed. A plain text link to the site map should appear on all
pages. (Paul Bruemmer with Web Ignite http://www.web-ignite.com )
Software Programs
* Consider getting SE Optimizer (http://www.se-optimizer.com).
It's a snappy little tool to help you with your optimization
efforts and helps remind you of all those things you ought to try
to do every time you optimize a page. (I am not an affiliate of
SE Optimizer or AWCS trying to sell you this program. I just
really like it and think it belongs in every optimizer's tool
box.) (Bill Gentry with The Selling Source
http://www.sellingsource.com )
Spamming
* AltaVista has been vocal lately with the statistic that
approximately 95% of all submissions are spam. Therefore, take
the time and effort to learn what search engines consider spam
and do everything in your power to avoid these violations. It
will save much grief if optimization and submission are done
properly the first time. (Marshall Simmonds with About.com
http://www.about.com/ )
Stylesheets
* Consider using a stylesheet to redefine html tags and define
custom classes. Also make this an external .css file and link to
it in the head. Doing so will streamline your source code and
make future site-wide style changes much easier. Also, consider
using layers instead of tables to further streamline your source
code. Streamlining your source code will make it more search
engine friendly and your pages will also load faster. (Bill
Gentry with The Selling Source http://www.sellingsource.com )
* Use linked Cascading Style Sheets creatively. Using CSS, you
can custom define how your HTML tags display text and links,
which is a powerful optimization advantage. (J.K. Bowman with
Spider Food http://www.spider-food.net )
Tags
* Properly done TITLE and META tags at the top of the homepage
HEAD section are crucial to your SEO efforts. When applicable,
all frameset component pages should contain those tags as well.
Properly done ALT text tags are suggested for images. (Paul
Bruemmer with Web Ignite http://www.web-ignite.com )
* Take one minute, at least, and eyeball every page in your site
when you make it, in order to write a descriptive 7-15 word HTML
title. Think newspaper headlines! You want to grab the readers'
attention when they see this title in search engine results and
convince them to click through, though you don't want to be
misleading. Look at the page, think of the top 1 or 2 terms you'd
like it to be found for, then incorporate those words into a
title. Don't worry if you go longer than 15 words or shorter than
7. Those aren't limits; just guidelines from my experience on
making your titles attractive to readers. What about meta tags?
Use the first sentence or two on your page for your meta
description tag's content, and in the meta keywords tag, list any
important keywords you think the page should be found for and
which ALSO appear in the HTML copy of that page. (Danny Sullivan
with Search Engine Watch http://www.searchenginewatch.com )
* You need to create titles and descriptions that are focused on
getting that click, not just on keyword density. The more clicks
you can get, I guarantee you the more popular your site will be.
(Ginette Degner with ServiceBrokers.com
http://www.servicebrokers.com )
Themes
* Before you touch one line of code, make sure that you have
diligently defined your Web site. You should be able to say, "My
Web site is about _____ ______ ______" without any hesitation.
You will be able to optimize for many keyword phrases, but this
single one, two or three keyword phrase theme should resonate on
every page. (J.K. Bowman with Spider-Food http://www.spid er-
food.net)
* Use lots of text on each page [over one hundred words],
specific to one extremely narrow theme. (Rocky Rawstern)
* The primary technique for good positioning is rich, robust
visible text. A theme page is much better than a doorway page,
since it emphasizes relevant body copy. (David Johnson and Annam
Manthiram with Position Research http://www.positionresearch.com )
* Create a themed mini-library that pays off in big numbers of
targeted traffic! Using WordTracker, find an appropriately
related "hot topic" for your Web site. What I like to do is to
build a little group of information rich, top ranking pages and
fashion them into a little mini-library (6 to 20 pages), all with
slightly different variations of that hot topic. They are all
linked together with a separate topical index page. The key to
success is to first research the best keyword phrases (high KEI
values), then build quality content (the stuff that folks love to
learn about). Only use topics that appropriately apply to the
overall theme of the site. Each content-rich "library page"
should also employ creative text links into different parts of
your main pages. You want lots of horizontal "click throughs" to
your entire site. Make sure each optimized page within your
themed library is for a DIFFERENT or slightly different phrase.
Also ensure your library pages are not just slapped together from
a template. Each library page should have a unique layout and
differing content to avoid penalization with anti-spam filters.
The result is a flood of targeted traffic to the "library" which
can then move throughout your entire Web site. (John Alexander
with Beyond-SEO.com http://www.beyond-seo.com/ )
Tracking
* As you learn more about search engine marketing, you'll
discover it is not an exact science. Some of your pages will rank
well the first time out, and some will not. In addition, your
rankings will fluctuate, calling for tweaks in design from time
to time. Therefore, as with any marketing strategy, you need a
method to measure your progress. In this case, you need a
convenient way to report your rankings for each keyword and
engine you're targeting, and to track the number of visitors to
your Web site, along with where they came from. WebPosition Gold
(http://www.webposition.com) helps you manage and automate both
these essential tasks. (Brent Winters with FirstPlace Software
http://www.webposition.com )
Web Design
* Design the Web site with the search engines in mind. Use text
links especially if you have image maps or frames, etc. (Ginette
Degner with ServiceBrokers.com http://www.servicebrokers.com )
A special thanks to the following Search Engine Optimizers who
were willing to share their tips for this article (listed in
alphabetical order):
* John Alexander is a Professional SEO who operates an
independent Internet consulting business in affiliation with
WorldSites.Net (http://www.Worldsites.net). John also owns
Beyond-SEO.com (http://www.beyond-seo.com/), a Web site devoted
to professional SEO's looking for tips beyond the basics.
* J.K. Bowman is the Editor of Spider-Food.net
(http://www.spider-food.net), one of the largest tutorial
resources on the Web for search engine optimization and Web site
promotion techniques. He currently lives in Mississippi, where he
also provides consultancy and positioning services.
* Paul J. Bruemmer is CEO of Web-Ignite Corporation
(http://www.web-ignite.com), a search engine traffic agency.
Founded in 1995, Web-Ignite provides search engine traffic for
Fortune 1000 dot-coms and for B2B and e-commerce sites.
* Ginette Degner operates Service Brokers
(http://www.servicebrokers.com), a Web Optimization and Marketing
Strategies firm providing expert search engine placement and
consultation services since 1993.
* Bill Gentry is Manager of Search Engine Optimization Services
for The Selling Source (http://www.sellingsource.com), an online
marketing company that offers a wide array of online marketing
solutions to a diverse clientele.
* David Johnson and Annam Manthiram are Search Engine Research
Specialists with Position Research
(http://www.positionresearch.com), a search engine optimization
firm that considers "research" an integral part of optimizing Web
sites.
* Rocky Rawstern is a Senior Search Engine Analyst with a
prominent search engine optimization company on the West coast.
* Marshall Simmonds is the Director of Search for About, Inc.
(http://www.about.com/), a division of parent company PRIMEDIA
Inc. Marshall is responsible for maximizing search engine
exposure for About's 700 topic sites which cover 1,000,000
articles. He also oversees search engine strategies for
Primedia's online properties, such as Americanbaby.com and
Seventeen.com.
* Danny Sullivan, Editor of Search Engine Watch
(http://www.searchenginewatch.com), is often considered the
Internet's "search engine guru." He has been helping Webmasters,
marketers and everyday Web users understand how search engines
work for half a decade.
* Brett Tabke of PHD Software Systems is also the owner of
Webmaster World Forums (http://www.webmasterworld.com) and Search
Engine World (http://www.searchengineworld.com/), extremely
popular informational sites designed "by Webmasters for
Webmasters."
* Ralph Tegtmeier is the co-founder and principal of
fantomaster.com Ltd. (UK) and fantomaster.com GmbH (Belgium)
(http://fantomaster.com/), a company specializing in Webmasters
software development, industrial-strength cloaking and search
engine positioning services. He has been a Web marketer since
1994 and is editor-in-chief of fantomNews, a free newsletter
focusing on search engine optimization, available at:
http://fantomaster.com/fantomnews-sub.html .
* Brent Winters is the President of FirstPlace Software, Inc. and
author of the highly popular MarketPosition Newsletter.
FirstPlace Software develops and markets WebPosition Gold
(http://www.webposition.com), the first software product to track
your rankings on the major search engines and to help you improve
those rankings.
This article was written by Robin Nobles, a professional
freelance writer and the Director of Training of the Academy of
Web Specialists. Over the past few years, she has trained several
thousand people in her online and onsite courses in search engine
positioning strategies and has written three books that can be
ordered through Amazon. Visit the Academy's Web site to learn
more about their online courses and products:
http://www.academywebspecialists.com/more_info .
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