Here is  a great article on Enterprise SEO and In house SEO, more on the specifics later, enjoy:

http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/02/05/seo-at-the-enterprise-level-a-major-flop/

I didn’t know what Chiclets are until just now.  I am falling behind in my forefront, well maybe not.  And, I have let 13 days go by without blogging, ouch that hurts.   Well, you could say I am too busy at my real job working in the real Internet advertising/marketing business.  Now we know why people don’t blog all the time, they are busy:-).  Enjoy this great aticle on  Chiclets:

Socializing Your Banners With Chiclets (click here to see full article)

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We all know the lines between social media and online media are blurring. One noticeable way social media marketing is creeping into traditional online display is by incorporating sharing, bookmarking, and syndication chiclets into banners.

Do you know what chiclets are? They are those little Digg, Facebook, Delicious, and Twitter buttons you see nestled around blog posts and articles or consolidated in aggregators like ShareThis.

The definition according to Word Spy is “a small image that links to a syndication file for a web site, particularly a blog.”

Here are a few:

So what do chiclets do? Basically, they enable users to quickly bookmark or share Web content by automatically posting articles, photos, video, and content to your bookmark page or profile. The cool thing is that besides using them in blogs or content sites, you can actually put them in banners so people can incorporate your advertising into their social environment!

I’ll show you how it works with a SnaggableAd rich media banner from Clearspring. You can see this stuff in action for yourself here.

Here’s how it works: a banner like the one below for the movie runs all over the Web (served via PointRoll or another supporting platform). The user interacts with the banner, watches the videos, and decides to share the ad with friends. So he clicks on the “share” button and all the sharing chiclets appear.

So the debate continues, and Google is saying it’s not evil, but is that really the case?  If they start using their monopoly position in search, as they have with copying books etc, you will see a troubled Internet.  Check out the following article from Information Week:

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/12/google_calls_th.html

Enjoy and fight for your rights to compete with the big boys!

You have to watch it, called Community Organizers:

The Second Video, got added by mistake, but to be fair to McCain I am going to leave this in:

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The title attribute vs the alt attribute which is the better choice for SEO? most individuals in the SEO arena know about the importance of the alt attribute for images. It describes what an image is to a search engine and is useful in creating better accessibly for text based browsers by providing information that make contextual sense instead of completely ignoring the image.

The title attribute is used to hold the “tooltip” in a link or image.

Title attribute in a link: <a href=”http://linkurl” TITLE=”LINK TITLE” />
Title & Alt attribute in an image: <img src=”/path /to/image/image.jpg” TITLE=”LINK TITLE” ALT=”ALT TEXT” />

compare the alt attribute to the title attribute you can see that both provide information, but which one is more useful for SEO? Aaron Wall from SEO book has written an article where he relays his experience with alt and title attributes. His assessment is that that alt attribute is weighted more heavily than the Title attribute
read Aaron Walls the full article in context.

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Using SEO to target a specific geographic areas are key in hitting some niche markets, especially for small SEO campaigns competing against large players in a market. lets look at one way to do this.

we’ll assume that is an established company out there who was running a website selling Vacation and Vacation Rental packages. The company is based in California and is currently running a national SEO campaign. for Vacation Rentals They recently found that there was a particularly large market of people in St. Louis, MO who were buying up vacation and vacation rental packages. now what could they do to enhance their SEO campaign in St. Louis, MO. **sponsored by VRBO, Background Check, & Website Design St. Louis**

Lets get Relevant!

the company is planning to create a dedicated page that only deals with vacations packages and vacation rentals in St. Louis to increase their relevancy.
Their keyword research shows that the best set of keywords is “vacation rentals st. louis”
create a new page to hold the relevant content the page
1) The new page has the URL of http://companysite.com/VACATION-RENTALS-ST-LOUIS/

2) Next they tweak the pages title tags, they add some location information to their TITLE meta tag with their keywords
<title>Vacation Rentals St. Louis, Mo – Company Name</title>

3)they now create content that is relevant to vacation rentals in St. Louis they figure out what vacationers are looking for when they visit St. Louis and present that content, perhaps weather, the favorite local spots, tourist attractions, etc. The page essentially becomes a real resource.

4) they link to this new page from the homepage of the current site with “Vacation Rentals St. Louis Mo” as the anchor text of the hyperlink. The company also starts a local link campaign for the same set anchor text. they target local businesses that are related to vacation rentals, restaurants, transportation, tour companies, etc.

this would be a great start to creating a geo targeted SEO campaign. I encourage YOU to comment on this post!

Take some time and watch this Matt Cutts interview. Matt answers the following:
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1. Find out what was Matt’s first encounter with spam,
2. What does Matt think are the biggest problems that search engines will encounter in the next 5 years
3. Matt gives his take on how small webmasters can compete with large players in their market
4. Matt tells us what every webmaster should know
5. Matt talks about how google interacts with webmasters in other countries.
6. Does Matt check for paid links that pass PageRank on each site he visits?
7. Find out one of the funniest questions that Matt recieved at a conference
8. What would Matt do if google killed all the spam.

enjoy!

Where are you listed on the web

Google’s Local Business Center – start here, add your business information to google’s index, upload photos, videos, and let people know what kind of payment options you take even add a coupon or two. after the information is filled out verify your business and your done. Now that you’re listed in Google for a business SEO yourself and reinforce your business presence on the web.

Online business presence reinforcement – adding yourself to Yelp, and CitySearch is great. I also recommend craigslist in the services section for your city. while craigslist is some work to keep up I’ve had results with a well SEO’ed advertisement that you consistently post. Take a look for reputable business sites that fit your niche, get into to those communities and post your profile, making sure to SEO yourself where appropriate. it’s also great to check out the more traditional places to get your business listed, such as join your local chamber of commerce, do they have a web presence? do they list their businesses online? Get creative and get out there!

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