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Forum: Off Topic Forum 12th August 2009, 08:05 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 928
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Fun (Yet Disturbing) Exercise...ANSWER REVEALED!

On Monday, I had given you a list of statements and asked what you thought I was referring to.

Just to refresh your memory, here's the list again...


Need for obedience & dependency.
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th March 2009, 07:05 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 700
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Whereto from here?

Hi Bronkim -
A few things...

First, even though you've listed your blog in a few directories (which is a start), it depends upon how important those directories are to the major search engines. ...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st March 2009, 08:46 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 605
Posted By IowaGal
Re: I accidentely signed up to WordTracker for a month

They changed the trial some time back. It used to be where you did not have to put in a CC in order to get access to the trial but now they require it.

That being said, here's what I would do...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th February 2009, 04:13 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 677
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Bookmarking explained - Like I am an 8 year old!

This will help tremendously:

YouTube - Social Bookmarking in Plain English

- Kristine
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th February 2009, 04:02 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 585
Posted By IowaGal
Re: How often to post?

"SERPS" stands for Search Engine Results Pages.

You're not being an idiot, there's a lot of terminology out there that we as marketers sometimes take for granted and just assume that everyone...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th February 2009, 08:49 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 579
Posted By IowaGal
New Free & Useful Twitter Application Directory

If you use Twitter, there's a new Twitter resource out (in beta) and is completely free.

Essentially its a database of all current Twitter applications (over 440).

If you're like me, you will...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th February 2009, 08:39 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 687
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Exact Keyword in Domain Name?

Hi Jim -
Steadyon gave you some really good advice.

I'd like to add a couple of things to the mix as well.

I've found that by having your main keyword contained within your domain name does...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 10th February 2009, 07:26 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 546
Posted By IowaGal
Re: PageRank for new websites?

First off, great job with the DMOZ directory!

Second, don't worry about the PageRank of the site now. Trust me, because you've got that DMOZ listing, it will go a long way towards building up...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th February 2009, 10:05 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 582
Posted By IowaGal
Re: SEO Career

The Good


It pays well. (But this should not be the reason you get into SEO).
It's fun. (If you enjoy a constant change and keeping up with those changes. I used to be addicted to "logic...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 3rd February 2009, 01:15 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 655
Posted By IowaGal
Re: First Position on google challenge

Actually, 1.5 million really isn't all that difficult depending upon how well the top listings have already optimized.

If you're up against some very well optimized websites then it will be more...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 3rd February 2009, 09:18 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 712
Posted By IowaGal
Re: My PR dropped from 5 to 0 !

If possible, I would replace those pages with the original content ASAP.

Once you have a good ranking on your pages you never, ever want to make large changes to those pages.

Instead, use the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 3rd February 2009, 08:46 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,003
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Keyword Density tool?

Keyword density doesn't work as well as it used to. Personally I don't recommend it. Instead focus on semantically related terms. Google seems to be leaning heavily towards LSI (latent-semantic...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th January 2009, 02:35 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,512
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Can you Destroy Your SERP Competitor with Inbound links... (I don't think so) do you?

I was more referring to the "building up of websites" as being content creation, video creation, and the like along with link building.

That said, I do understand what you're saying; since google...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 17th January 2009, 07:11 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 565
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Keyword research question.

When you do keyword research, you are researching those words and phrases that people are typing into a search engine in order to find what they want.

Some of these words will be competitive. ...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th January 2009, 09:12 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 665
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Did You Know Ranking #10 In The SERP's Is Just As Good (If Not Better) As #1?

So is that 50 results per page by default with some data centers? I thought that the results you viewed per page was strictly via your own preferences.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th January 2009, 11:01 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,272
Posted By IowaGal
Find Hot Niche Trends

One of the best resources for finding current trends in physical products is to use Shopping.com's Shopping.com - Find, Compare, and Buy Anything in Seconds (http://www.shopping.com/top_searches)...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th January 2009, 08:42 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 844
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Do You Use "Keyword Questions"?

I would also suggest that within these keyword questions you scope out words such as:

buy
purchase
get
order
find


These will help you locate those people wanting to take action on an...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th January 2009, 08:21 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 776
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Google hate my site... can you tell me why?

I would definitely test out a few articles on a different domain first. See if that gets you any results and then you'll at least know that it's not something you're doing but rather the domain...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th January 2009, 08:18 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,075
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Spying on competition???

First I head over to Google and enter in a very broad phrase related to the website that I'm working on. I use the top three listings and then head over to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st December 2008, 03:07 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 528
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Keyword Confusion

Hi Larry -
You're absolutely right when you say that the numbers on a search term vary widely. The different keyword services all use different ways of compiling their keyword lists and regardless...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th December 2008, 05:02 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 858
Posted By IowaGal
Tip Re: Are Directories Worth It? Let's see some figures...

I'm assuming you're referring to straight-up directories like the Google directory or the Yahoo directory not article directories.

In a nutshell - no.

Not all directories are created equal....
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th December 2008, 11:35 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 597
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Site Structure for SEO

Here's what I would advise you to do. First, determine if all of these 1,000 plus pages are already indexed in the search engines. If they are, you can still place them in subdomains but it will...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 25th November 2008, 10:14 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 606
Posted By IowaGal
Re: SEO Question/Advice? Can anyone help.

Hi Tommy -
The first thing that I would do is be certain they're listed in Google Maps.

They can sign up here - https://www.google.com/local/add/login/

They'll need a Google account first. ...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st November 2008, 01:02 PM
Replies: 64
Views: 2,298
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Google May Make Changes!!!

We warriors just all think alike - I just made a blog post about this today - here's a snippet from it (actually it's most of it the first portion contained the video which you've already seen).
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th November 2008, 07:16 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 654
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Help: What can my fiance do?

This is a bit out of the internet box - but I know a lot of Moms who simply just run daycare's out of their homes - it's always in demand, there never seems to be enough of them (rare to see Moms...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th November 2008, 07:00 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,329
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Open letter - What does constitute a "MAN?"

Although I don't understand the motivation behind John's post, I could follow it enough to understand that he's dealing with one of those people we all do at some point in our career who lives off...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 10th November 2008, 05:09 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 642
Posted By IowaGal
Black Friday's Coming!

This year has gone by so darn fast! Anyhow, thought you all might like to know of a site that lists all of the Black Friday ads for nearly every company under the sun...

Black Friday @...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 10th November 2008, 08:01 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 1,533
Posted By IowaGal
Re: How to SEO a local business website

LOL!!! You know, I learned that the hard way and then fell flat on my face when I realized I had to come up with a better explanation.

Have you ever tried to explain to people what it is that us...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th November 2008, 08:40 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 1,533
Posted By IowaGal
Re: How to SEO a local business website

First Dana, you cracked me up with your first post "unbelievably sucky SEO" - :-) - because most off-line businesses don't know any better.

What you'll find (having dealt with a few offline folks...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th November 2008, 08:32 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 642
Posted By IowaGal
Re: Does anyone belive in FREE PPC from GOOGLE?

Are you talking about the "Get Google Ads for Free" product? I haven't personally purchased it but have heard from others that it's a way to offset the money you spend in PPC advertising with Google...
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