One of the very best ways to ensure you are getting the best out of SEO is to follow blogs in that field which will help inspire and inform. Many of these blogs offer the opportunity to become part of the debate, which can add real value to your own business. Not only that, you have a chance to learn, share, and grow. I wanted to share some of my favorites, organized below.

Online Marketing and SEO Blogs

SEOMoz

This is one of the key SEO blogs out there and is particularly good for those new to SEO. It has covered pretty much everything you will need to know when starting out and also makes a great stopping off point as you become more SEO savvy.

Vertical Measures

Vertical Measures are experts at creating intelligent Internet marketing solutions. While not exclusively aimed at beginners, they are a great place to get an idea of what’s out there and how SEO can transform your business. Get used to using it now.

Jaffe Juice

A fun site that covers many of the topics below and is perfect for an overview of the world of online marketing. Nice use of video makes it great for the beginner. Continue reading »

Wow…it’s been quite a long time since I’ve posted any new content here, and for that I apologize.

For the past couple months I’ve been working with the extremely talented team over at Vertical Measures, and I have to say that getting readjusted to actually going into an office wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Working from home for years was great, but it was definitely time for a change.
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I recently had the urge to move my 4 year-old WordPress blog from JasonHendricks.com over to a fresh WordPress install on this site, and I wanted to use a newly created directory named /blog/. Why? I didn’t like the layout of the old site at all, plus it makes more sense to blog here than from my own personal domain.

I knew this would be a challenge from a 301 redirect perspective, due to the fact that I decided to go with a completely different permalink structure AND have WordPress installed in its’ own directory instead of the web root like it was on the old site. So I figured I’d share my experiences…
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For the unaware, the Google Home Income scheme (Google Work from Home, Google Cash Kit, Google Money Tree, etc.) is basically a recurring billing rip-off that operates by enticing people looking to work from home and somehow convinces them that they’ll make thousands of dollars per month for only a few hours of work posting links. As with anything that sounds too good to be true, it’s a scam.

Here’s the skinny on how this hustle works from snopes.com:
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I’m currently in need of a search engine API programmer for a couple of small projects. Previous experience with search engine APIs (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask) required, and I will need to verify your experience with working URLs. Project involves updating an existing web application to use the latest search engine API functionality from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask as well as a few feature additions on another site that uses Yahoo’s API.

If interested, please use the contact form on this site and be sure to include your phone number.

UPDATE: this project is completed, thanks to all who emailed.

Since there’s an upcoming session at SMX advanced titled “Buying Sites for SEO“, I figured the timing is finally right to hit the publish button on a post I wrote long ago about finding quality sites to purchase for SEO benefits.

The first time that I published this was about 2 1/2 years ago, and I was quickly asked by a well known SEO expert and friend (I won’t name any names, but he’s on the panel at the “buying sites” SMX session) to remove the post and wait until buying old virgin sites was common knowledge.
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It’s a new year, and with that comes the annoying task of updating the copyright dates in the footer of all of your sites.

So this year make a resolution to never, ever do this again and just insert some code to handle the date for you. Examples in a few different languages are included below as well as a javascript version for static HTML pages:
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2008 has arrived, and I have to say I’m extremely optimistic about this year. I have BIG plans for my business and personal life, so it looks like it’s going to be a wild but fun ride. I don’t have any new year’s resolutions, because I try to work on my long and short term goals daily (as opposed to once per year with new year’s resolutions).
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