86,674 unique visitors over a ten month period representing an average of 320 visitors daily, visiting on averaging 2.49 pages spending 3 minutes and 40 seconds per visit, all SEO traffic (no paid traffic or SEM traffic at all), can this be improved?

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In the last two years online spam has increased exponentially. Until a few months ago, I used to get a 1:1 ratio of spam messages relative to personalized messages, addressed to me. Somehow, when I post comments on external sites or list an email address online like at the LinkedIN OpenNetworker Group, these email ids tend to attract “lottery winnings”, “15M transfer to my bank account”, “great stock picks” and the many other mails not worth mentioning.

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While I had contained my email spam problem, recently someone asked me how I manage Drupal comment Spam, as they got 45 spam messages over a few minutes. It is a fact, as your blog ages, you attract higher spam comments. She was expecting me to solve her problem, when I told her that I use a sophisticated Drupal SPAM module and I then moderate the comments.

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Almost once a month I get question on RSS, what it is, how to read rss feeds and should I use rss. This blog answers this question. First let’s start with what it is:

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This a $700 dollar video! I got an email from a reader of SeoEcom that she had a quote of $700 to add an email subscription to her drupal blog site. If you can follow along to this video, you can learn how to

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With the embark of the cut throat competition and hunger for affluence, social relationships were on the point of gradual extinction, when suddenly the twist in the doomsday had the thunderous breakthrough with social networking emerging from its embryonic cocoon.

You find youngsters and business networking people hooking up to these for their own reasons. Virtually though, the connectivity has soared by simultaneously widening the dimensions of its existence and erasing out the need of face-to face once needed encounters.

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After two months of giving Blogrush a full chance on my site, placing it above the fold as recommended, I have joined the ranks of Court and others who have given it the boot. I will explain the rationale and how this could possibly work for you, and its drawbacks.

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Gone are the good old days for Microsoft where they could just buy competitors and dominate the market. Remember how Foxpro was acquired by Microsoft and at that time FoxPro was superior to Microsoft Access. Now Foxpro doesn’t exist any more, perhaps some legacy databases exist some where, that’s it. Since the Microsoft’s anti competitive practices case, Microsoft has become near extinct with Google online domination of search and online properties, until now.

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Most would have seen this coming after the purchase of Urchin by Google, it is time to brand the urchin product as Google, wipe every trace of Urchin. What is changing? Everything, Should you change? Well you have till December 2008. First off, let’s look at what the change is, its benefits, how to make the change and how to confirm everything is well, which is the scope of this article.

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Over the Christmas holidays I chose to add a video to our home page, that describes the benefits from a training course I developed – called the Online Business Blueprint. I decided to jump on PowerPoint and convert the PowerPoint video to flash and later uploaded it to Youtube. Kathy, however, didn’t think much of my video creation skills and insisted that I get it redone. There are many comments on the web around having home made videos as opposed to professional ones.

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As 2008 came upon us, we made our resolutions. By now, we have either made plans on how to achieve them, or maybe, discarded them this early. For businesses, "Where to find the next customer?" is a common problem. Some, if not most, small businesses simply rely on sheer luck, putting away their lead generation plans because they don’t have the budget that large corporations do.

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A question that we often come across often from our clients is this: Do we use Salesforce.com as our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool or use Sugar CRM (which is an open source tool with similar functions).  While many have heard about Salesforce, less have heard about Sugar CRM. Many may even ask why use a CRM?

The benefits of using a CRM solution are – enhanced productivity, reduced costs, increased revenue, improved customer acquisition, service, satisfaction and retention.

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Google has been cracking down on paid link building and penalizing sites engaging in selling links with a PR drop. The latest PR update appears just to be a PR drop for many sites, which is bound to have some influence on search results. Here is the list of sites from seomoz

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The year is slowly coming to a close. In another month, we are yet again, close to the wrapping up of another year.

So sitting back in my chair, I decided to make a list of all the things that we, as SEOs will be doing in the coming year. Will things change all that much from what it was in the beginning of this year?

Social Networking

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I came across a funny post that I have added below. It highlights the importance of a search engine friendly site in a light hearted way:

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Do you want a global toll free number for your business? Everyone in United States is aware of 1-800 or 1-888 numbers that are toll free, meaning the business owner pays for the incoming calls. This works great in United States, however many countries cannot even dial these numbers directly. Lately, more and more countries have the option to dial a US toll free number, with the caller absorbing the phone charges. Most US based businesses are global; however the local Telco companies haven't kept up with this demand. This is not a simple problem to solve for a Telco, as they would need to work globally for a solution - not likely in the near future!

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Perry Marshall

The most precious commodity in business today is attention.

Don't sell people what you think they should want. Sell them what they want.

Because no matter how motivated you are, the laziest guy in the world can still move more dirt with a borrowed bulldozer than you can with a shovel!

Most people just imitate their competitors, and everyone just gets dumber every year.

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Its official. The internet has become the accepted medium of advertising and more businesses are turning towards the web instead of the traditional newspaper, radio and tv advertising which are becoming unaffordable especially for small entrepreneurs.

According to Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) that released the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report, advertising revenues from Jan to June 2007 was nearly $10 billion. This is a 27% increase than last year, at the same time.

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If you have not heard or used Google maps yet, let me tell you, it is a lot of fun! You can zoom in and out of locations and privacy issues have been questioned. But its still a useful tool and has many uses apart from the obvious.

With the popularity of mobile browsing, having your business listed in Google Local/Maps has its advantages. Businesses that have a local brick and mortar business benefits from being listed here.

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When was the last time you decided to rope in open source to help you out of a software requirement?

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There is much hype about Web 2.0. So what do the internet users really think? Or rather, what are the corporates doing? Are they using it to its maximum potential and rolling in cash?

Lets look at the current scenarios. In the current landscape of the business environment, almost all office tasks involve online or information technology transactions. The office landscape has been completely modified, and there is nothing companies' management can do but acknowledge the trend.

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If you have not realized it yet, there is a Web 2.0 widget revolution going on. Advertisers are competing for your web space in creative ways with nice fancy widgets. You can add these free widgets to your website at Myspace, blogger, typepad or any website without hardly any HTML skills. The benefit to you is that it spices up your web page with functionality that would otherwise be difficult. 

Below are my top five in no particular order:

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Building links to increase traffic / optimization / links can be segregated into two buckets: On page and Off page optimization.

Once the website is optimized, meta tags, headings, img alt, everything has been neatly labeled and submitted for crawling, the next focus is on off page optimization.

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