SEO Black Magic?

I saw this cartoon on Flickr last week, and the joke of the cartoon got me thinking…

There is no black magic or spell or one or two little things you can do to become the topped rank site. Anyone that tells you “I can get your site ranked # 1″ is a flat out liar. There is no guarantee of being number # 1 on any search engine. There is a number of criteria and weights on those specific criteria for all search engines.

A lot of people out there truly believe that the following will get them ranked higher and it will not:

• Putting white text full of keywords on a white background
• Keyword stuffing
• Using link farms
• Having duplicate content

These techniques will not help your website in anyway. This lens on Squidoo can help you with valid ways to implement SEO techniques.

So to make a long story short SEO tricks, SEO guarantees, people who say they know any algorithms, and so many other quick sells are just pulling your chain. Watch those quick fixes and beware. Don’t forget to check out our blog on Technorati

Trying (and failing) to say something deep.

I never was the most eloquent person in class, however I’ve really taken the cake today.

I was randomly looking through some google blogs (damned internet, it started with a joke about bacon that led me on a search of google blogs for “flowchart” which led me to the Breezetree blog. This of course led me to a brilliant post, and my current dilemma.

You see, I’m of the opinion that sales are worth so many dozens of times more than views/leads/links (which are vital, so imagine how important I think sales are). Nick* showed the huge number of views/leads/links from google compared with Yahoo/MSN (the relevant pieces from now, Nick’s “other” is the other marketing he does). However, MSN/Yahoo delivered a greater proportion of sales (relative to views/leads/links) than google.

What’s my problem then? Well, I think it’s fascinating and I wanted to make a Squidoo lens about it, but I ran out of words.

So, I want to hear your ideas on it. Post it on the lens or on the comments on this blog, tell me what to say.

Sebastian

*Nicholas Hebb

We’ve all met Liz, who is this Sebastian fellow?

That would be me!

Hi all, I’m your local lovable Australian. You can check out my squidoo lens here.

Otherwise I’m your typical marketing student. I study and party and that’s about it. Personally I want to be as rich as possible, so a lot of my posts are going to be about how to make cash.

Great to be here with Liz, she’s a bright young thing (but don’t tell her I told you, she’ll get a big head).

Look forward to posting more
Sebastian

What is Blive?

I’m sure you are all wondering, what’s Blive?  Blive is the brand new, one of a kind Search Engine Optimization -SEO- and Affiliate Marketing blog.  The authors of this blog include myself Liz Stablein and Sebastian Graham who is all the way on the other side of the world from me.  Yes this blog is unique in that you will be getting an international perspective on SEO and Affiliate Marketing.   I am from Pennsylvania and Sebastian is from Australia.  We both will be posting on this blog so be ready for all those updates and posts from literally all over the world.

I hope everyone is as excited as we are about this opportunity! Please tune in for our next latest and greatest post.