There's a little info out there on this, but I wanted to share my thoughts. I couldn't find a lot of information when I first looked into it.

You can get decent traffic from Google images. Obviously it depends on the keyword. "Flowers" will probably get you more image searches than "buy a computer or scrapebox".

It is often overlooked by a lot of people, and it really shouldn't, it only takes a few seconds to optimize for Google, and if you aren't...

If you run a site and are looking to get it listed quickly on search engines, there really is no easier and quicker way than to also put a blog on the site. It is a known fact that search engine spiders from sites like Google and Alta-vista list new blogs much faster than they list new sites. However, it’s not as simple as just creating a blog and letting it sit there. You have to also use tactics like pinging, linking and the use of keywords. We’ll go over each so that you are able to effectively...

I have never spent much time caring about backlinks, seo or this kind of stuff. All I cared about was to produce great content that would bring real customers to my brick and mortar business.

It worked well, really well, for years. The website kept growing, ranking first place of page one in all the search engines. And it did not have any kind of optimizations!

It was just age, generous backlinks from visitors, and killer content.

Then some competitors discovered...