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What are the top 10 SEO factors? This question gets asked daily, so I thought I'd provide you the definitive answer. In addition to my tactics, I've asked Jerry West, Ginette Degner and Dave Tropeano for their tips as well.

Here is a brief transcript of that conference call…

Michael: Here's a question from one of the Dynamic Media Vault members about SEO, "I know that Google's algorithm is a secret, but from your observations, what are the most important SEO factors.

In other words, if you could pick the top 10 SEO factors and put them in an order of importance, what would be on that checklist?" OK, how about we each pick three and see what we can come up with. Jerry, what would you say?

Jerry: The number one is links. Google is basically based on links. But one thing that people tend to overlook, is the on-page SEO. People think it's not important and tend not to do it.

In my testing, I've learned that if you get the on-page SEO wrong - no matter how many links you get - you are not going to rank as high as you would, if you took care of the on-page SEO. So let's go with number one being links.

The second most important would be your title tags. It doesn't have the strength that once had in SEO, but if you use your keyword phrase in the title tag, it's going to end up as bolded text in the Google search results. It attracts the eye. So it will get more clicks.

In addition, you want each title tag to be compelling and attract the click. It's just like writing an ad for AdWords. You want to do the same thing with your organic listing in Google. You've got to sell that click.

And third, I'd probably say the heading tags, your H1s, H2s, H3s, make sure you just have one H1. That's the largest one.

You can tinker with the size in your CSS, but what I generally do is I have one H1, a couple of H2s, and I will do an H3 at the bottom. That will give me good coverage

It also allows my content to be naturally broken up with some good headlines. That way, the reader doesn't get so overwhelmed with content. So those will be my three.

Michael: Excellent. Ginette, what would you say?

Ginette: I'll start with the robots.txt file. It's necessary to have one, so the crawlers know what directories can, or cannot be crawled. In it you can put links to your HTML sitemap and XML sitemap. Both are necessary for speedy and accurate crawling.

The second thing is make sure your pages load fast and that they validate. Meaning that both your HTML and your CSS should validate with the test at http://validator.w3.org.

The third thing I look at is browser compatibility. Jerry can attest to it. He once had an image was that corrupt and it prevented Google from actually spidering a site.

And I've had issues where a clients' site just couldn't get indexed. It turns out that the robots.txt was improperly done.

Once we fixed it, Google was able to crawl the whole site like it's supposed to. But for months, this person just couldn't figure out what was wrong.

So a robots.txt file, code that validates, and browser compatibility. Those would be my three.

Michael: Excellent.

Michael: OK Dave, what would you say?

Dave: I want to break down what Jerry said about links being important. I certainly agree with that.

But I think in the broader sense, we need to look at linking from two areas. The first one is link popularity, which is just the raw number of links you have. And I do think that can be important in context.

The second, and more important function of linking, is link reputation. It's basically the text in the anchor text, and the words to the left or the right of it. So, the context of what the link says, and where the link is, are two very important things to consider.

My third tip is to remember that SEO in and of itself, is always done in a context. You are competing against other pages in the SERPs (search engine results pages). So you also need to look at things like the domain age of your competition.

If you end up seeing that - for a given search term - you are competing against websites that have been around for seven to 10 years, you may want to think twice about entering that market. They may have a lot of incoming links to the overall site, plus a lot of incoming links to the actual page itself.

If that's the case, you'll need to do some competitive analysis to look at the potential rankability, or your likelihood of ranking. You need to determine if you can get into the top five, or give up and move on to another keyword phrase.

So my three would be link reputation, link popularity, and then the domain type factors associated with your competition.

Michael: Excellent stuff. Yes I agree with the links being important.

Usually what I do is try to break them down. For example, back links from quality pages, so that would be link quality or PageRank, as far as Google is concerned.

There are back links from relevant or themed pages, so the links carry more weight when they are in context. And then there is the sheer quantity of links, which is also known as the link popularity.

Part of the Google algo from the very beginning is something called "hubs and authorities." Hubs have many links and authorities have few links. Decide which one you want to be.

Usually a hub will lead to an authority, which leads to another hub. So for example, a hub might be a directory page, which leads to an article style page that's hosted on your site. The authority answers a question and usually cites a hub for more links and info.

I agree with the importance of link reputation. It's that blue clickable hypertext stuff. It builds a reputation, or keyword phrase, for whatever you link it to.

And then the actual on-page factors or that Jerry talked about, the actual topic of your page, which is absolutely critical. What's really important in all this, is that the reputation - the incoming links - match what the target page is about.

I agree with links in context, meaning that the words surrounding the links are important. But I'd also add that links in the center of the page carry more weight, and they're not likely to be filtered out, or shingled off (as Yahoo calls it) as part of the site template.

I also agree with competing against competition. You're not competing against Google. Every keyword phrase is a different playing field.

Jerry mentioned keywords in page titles, keywords in headline tags, keywords in bold and throughout the body in naturally occurring language. All very important.

Your layout should resemble a newspaper. It needs headlines and subheads to guide the readers and the search engines to the important data.

There is also keyword proximity. Sometimes the keywords are farther apart and sometimes the keywords are adjacent to one another. And that just happens in naturally in language.

As for themes, yes, search engines like it when you link from a page that's relevant to another page, if it's on the same topic or theme.

Themes are also good for the human visitor, because they can follow that scent of information from top level generic keywords, into long tail specifics, where they can find the information they need to make a purchase decision.

Ginette's got some really good points. Especially the one about clean fast-loading code. I know for a fact that it can prevent spider resets.

For example, if your site is in the process of being spidered and the crawler runs into some rough code, it can reset and go somewhere else, leaving your site unspidered. So be sure to use CSS and HTML validation.

You'll want to make sure your graphics are uncorrupted (which can happen with age), and that you have cross browser compatibility. Plus you'll want to avoid long session IDs like more than five numbers, or having question marks in the URL if you can.

Dave mentioned the domain age, which is great. I would also suggest checking your domain history on the Wayback Machine or something like that, if you're considering buying a new domain name.

The domain may have been used in the past and got banned at some point. So if you can't seem to get any traction in Google, log into your Google webmaster tools and submit a re-inclusion request. That might remove the penalty on the domain.

And that is about everything that I can think of. What do you think Jerry, did we miss anything?

Jerry: No, I think we covered it really well. The only thing that came to my mind are some add-ons that we discussed in previous podcasts. We learned how the allinanchor, allintitle, and allintext searches in Google show how pages get ranked in your market.

(Sorry… but that's another show. I had to cut it off there.)

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That's it for this edition my friends. Thank you for reading. Until next time, here's wishing you all the best for online success.

Michael Campbell

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Imagine if your market had built in urgency, automatic scarcity, and was blog smackin' newsworthy all at the same time. Now what if you had the equivalent of a make and model number, and geographically sensitive information.

It's like a marketers dream come true! All of this mind bending marketing madness can be found in tickets. What tickets? All kinds of tickets.

It could be tickets to the home and garden shows, health shows, boat shows, car racing, bowl games, sporting events, music events, even the circus. They all have tickets.

(One ticket site has a 7% commission on every sale. The average purchase to see a college bowl game is 400 dollars. I'll let you do the math.

Let's break it down and examine why this market plays perfectly into blogging and the Goobert conversational marketing method.

Urgency: The concert or event, is going to happen on a certain day at a certain time. After its over, it packs up and moves on to the next city. It's urgent because it's going to happen and you must act quickly, or you lose your opportunity to decide.

Scarcity: There's only so many tickets available. If the venue holds 20,000 people, that's all the tickets there are. If it's a popular show, the laws of scarcity apply, because it could sell out.

Newsworthy: Soon after the event is announced, tickets go on sale. This gives two opportunities. One is to announce the event. The other is to announce when the tickets go on sale.

Make and Model: This is the name of the event. It could be the Monster Truck Pull, Hanna Montana, or the Shrine Circus.

Geographical: This is the location of the venue. It's almost always included in ticket related searches. This insight is very helpful in crafting titles for your blog posts.

Just include the city name and the venue name. Then you'll be found more often.

So how does it work? Typical searches look like this:

hanna montana tickets seattle coliseum
home show tickets vancouver bc place
shrine circus tickets calgary saddledome

The name of the event, the city and the venue appear in most popular searches. And they nearly always have the word "tickets" in them.

Now the fun part. Here's how to get found in Google in a matter of minutes.

This is assuming you've already got a Wordpress blog that's topically related. For example, you have a gardening blog to promote "home & garden show" tickets. It also assumes you've joined at least one ticket related affiliate program.

Note: Read their terms of service carefully. Usually you can use trademarks, likenesses and logos. So long as you agree to the rules, and sell the tickets in a fair and ethical manner.

Not an affiliate yet? Go search Google for your keyword ie; concert tickets "affiliate program" with the words affiliate program in quotes.

Some ticket sellers have all sorts of info that you can glean about an event. They give the history of the artist and facts about the tour and venues. This makes excellent fodder for you blog post.

Another trick on some sites, is to enter a future date in the search field, so only events happening on that date will be shown. It's a cool way to know what tickets are going on sale 30 or 60 days from now.

Create a post title like; Hanna Montana Tickets Seattle Coliseum

Put in bold text - right underneath the title - the date of the event, including the city and venue. ie: Announcing Hanna Montana March 18 2010 at the Seattle Coliseum.

Start the first paragraph with the event name, and then start building excitement for the event. All direct marketing scarcity and urgency tactics apply.

Example first paragraph: Pop sensation Hanna Montana is coming to the Pacific Coliseum in Seattle on March 18 2010. There are only 20,000 tickets available and it's expected to sell out quickly. Tickets for Hanna Montana's Seattle concert go on sale January 20 2010.

Don't miss out on this exclusive opportunity to see one of the best entertainers of the decade. Your friends will be talking about the Seattle Hanna Montana concert for years to come, so get your tickets now.

Ok… Google should come running for a couple of reasons.

You posted "news" about the event to your Wordpress blog. Thanks to its built in ping list, it will notify all the popular search engine spiders. The spiders will crawl the post and realize its news, because the blog post is fresh, it has a recent ping, and it includes a future date in the body of the post.

Then, depending on the speed of the second spider that comes to index your post, it may take minutes or even hours for your post to appear in the search results… But there is something you can do to help it along.

You can announce snippets of your blog post on social news sites like Digg and Propeller. This will get you a couple of inbound links to your post from well respected info hubs.

If you want to go full out, you could throw in a link a from social hosting sites like Hubpages or Squidoo. You could even add a couple of social bookmarks like Mr. Wong and Delicious to the mix.

Except what you do with the social bookmarks, is bookmark your social news posts, not your blog post. So even the stuff that links to you, has incoming links.

It's technique I shared with my Vault members a year ago called Jiggling the Web. (Coming soon to JigglingTheWeb.com)

It has worked SEO wonders for a couple of years now. Your post tends to stick longer in the SERPs (search engine results pages) instead of rocketing to the top and disappearing an hour later.

This combination of posting news to a blog, linking to it with social news and bookmarks, sending pings, including time, date, city and venue information in the post, is irresistible to the search engines. Especially Google.

The combination of urgency and scarcity that tickets present, is irresistible to the consumer. It's like a marketers dream come true.

If you think about it, there are tickets for just about every market. So let me ask you. When are you planning to add them to your affiliate marketing mix?

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That's it for this edition my friends. Thank you for reading. Until next time, here's wishing you all the best for online success.

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14.5 FANTASTIC FINDS

1. Visual Web Analytics

This service is similar to clicktale.com, which I told you about in the last issue. It lets you see every single click on your website. It goes beyond stats into complex metrics, using heatmaps and click data, to reveal the unique story behind each referral to your site.

2. Unlocking PDF Files

Ever run into a PDF file that was protected against copy and pasting, or changing the document? This service will remove that limitation, so that you can use Preview (or any decent reader) to digitally highlight, markup, annotate and save your changes to the digital document.

3. Online Reputation Management

Ever wonder what they're saying about you online? Are they talking about your products, services or brands? Here are 16 freely available tools that allow you to monitor news, blogs, videos, links, forums and Twitter conversations.

4. Social Media Guidelines

Big name companies are finally getting it. They are allowing employees to interact on behalf of the brand in the social media space. Here's what companies like IBM, Intel and Kodak tell their people to think about, before jumping into the conversation.

5. Email Marketing Made Simple

Being an AWeber customer for the past 11 years, makes it difficult to recommend another email service. Today I'm making an exception. Mad Mimi makes email marketing simple and beautiful, with all the design and management features you could wish for. It's also very affordable for smaller readerships.

6. Discover the Most Active Blogs

There are millions of blogs online. Many get no participation from the readers. If you want to find out where the conversations are (especially important if you're doing the Goobert method) PostRank will help you find the good stuff.

7. Real Time Conversation Monitoring

Digg is a well known hub of activity, where people can submit stories and vote on them. Here are six new ways to monitor the action in real time. If you're doing the Goobert method, you can spot where the conversations are, and jump into them, while they're still fresh.

8. Marketing, Persuasion and Influence

Dr. Robert Cialdini is always fascinating. A new study shows that if you're out of sync with your peers, your brain will register puzzlement and physical pain. So if everyone's doing something, now you know why. It's painful not to be one of the crowd.

9. Headline Analyzer

Think you're pretty good at writing headlines? Here's a tool that will analyze it and tell you if it's any good. In addition to the relative strength of the headline, it also tells you if you're appealing to the intellectual, empathetic or spiritual.

10. Amazing Wordpress Sites

No doubt about it, Wordpress is an amazing tool. Thanks to the wide variety of plugins available, Wordpress can be configured to do just about anything. If you're stuck, or trying to come up with ideas, this post has dozens of ways you can use Wordpress.

11. SEO Plugins for Wordpress

One thing Wordpress isn't very good at "out of the box" is SEO. To make your pages search engine friendly, you need to add custom titles, meta descriptions, separate pages for comments, sitemaps and alt text for images. There's plugins for all these and more.

12. Increase Conversion 10,000%

Yes, that's not a typo. A 10K increase in sales, by implementing 8 simple design changes. This case study involved gradual improvements to a site over a five year period. Now you can learn their lessons in mere minutes.

13. SEO Plugin for Firefox

Search Status has always been one of my favorite analysis tools for SEO. After you install it, you're only one click away from knowing all the SEO factors of any page you visit. It shows nofollow links, Alexa rank, PageRank, Whois, sitemap, robots text, backlinks, meta tags, the works.

14. Ultimate eMarketing Textbook

This is the last internet marketing course you'll never buy. It's a freely available study guide from the people at Search Status. This "The Essential Guide to Online Marketing" blows away some courses in the 200 dollar range.

14.5 Making Your Sites FTC Compliant

I know you're probably sick of hearing about this, but you can't stick your head in the sand, and hope it's going to go away. The deadline to make your sites FTC compliant has passed, making your unprotected affiliate sites vulnerable.

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I read it. Most of the new wording says that - as an affiliate selling products on this network - you agree to make your websites FTC compliant. So you've got to do it, or risk losing your commissions and getting banned from the marketplace.

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That's it for this edition my friends. Thank you for reading. Until next time, here's wishing you all the best for online success.

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1. Real Time Web Analytics

Imagine watching over the shoulder of everyone who visits your site. What do they read? Where do they click? What trips them up? And why do they leave? Now you'll know.

2. First Steps After Installing Wordpress

After you install Wordpress, there's a few housekeeping issues to tackle. So before you start posting, or adding dozens of plugins, be sure you do these steps first. Doing so will keep you running happily for years to come.

3. Best Free Apps for PC and Mac

Looking for software on a tight budget? This site lists the top apps for PC and Mac, and they won't cost a dime. Several of my favorites apps are listed here, including Perian, Handbrake, Audacity, VLC and Skype.

4. Online Screen Recorder

Here's another freely available utility that lets you do instant screen captures. You may be familiar with similar tools like screenr.com and jingproject.com but here's another one to try out. You might like it better.

5. Open Source Flash Player

Want to embed Flash movies on your website? You'll need a Flash player to do so. This one is Open Source so it's freely available. Plus it has oodles of tutorial videos on how to get it up and running in no time.

(BTW: The best video training you can get is from Dave Kaminski of the Web Video University. He has a couple of openings at the moment. You can learn how to start producing web video right away. )

6. Deep Linking Within YouTube Videos

Here's a little YouTube trick. It lets you link to an exact time in a video. So instead of making people sit through a whole video, you can link to the moment you want them to see.

7. Stream Live Video to iPhone Users

Starting Nov 13th, you can broadcast video, or your computer screen to iPhone users, and they don't need any additional software. To see your video, all they need is the built in Safari browser. The service includes moderated real time chat, Twitter promotion and high quality H.264 streaming.

Notes from LiveStream: "Streaming live to the iPhone requires less than five minutes to install. Producers simply download and install Livestream Procaster for the PC or Mac, connect their video camera or webcam, select iPhone 3G Quality, and press Go Live.

Users can view the live streams on their iPhone or iPod Touch by pointing their Safari browser to the channel they want to view at iphone.livestream.com"

8. 20 Essential Firefox Add-Ons For Designers

Here's another set of add-ons for website designers. They include a handy window resizer, a CSS inspector, a screenshot creator, an IE tab, FTP app, palette grabber, font finder, source code difference finder, rulers and more.

9. Detect Mobile Browsers

Have you visited your site using a smart phone or iPhone? Does it look like a train wreck? It doesn't have to. It's easy to add a "Mobile User Agent Detection" script to your site. Now all your visitors can have an optimized viewing experience.

10. Firefox Toolbar for Affiliate Marketers

Want fast and insightful research into any niche? This handy toolbar takes your keyword of choice and finds affiliate offers, related keywords, trends, news, demographics, conversations, articles, public domain content and more.

10.5. FTC Final Guides Governing Endorsements

Does your site have a terms of service, privacy policy (including how you handle cookies), earnings disclaimer (including disclosures on commissions, paid reviews and gifts), contact us and about the company?

The law starts a few days from now. You have to disclose on your site, that you are an affiliate and get compensated as such.

You need to disclose if you received any freebies, gifts or review copies. You also need more accurate financial and achievement testimonials than the old "these results not typical" disclaimer.

The deadline to have these FTC regulations in place is December 01 2009. Are you ready?

If you're not into interpreting the FTC lingo, and paying for custom legal pages, there is relief. The legal form package I purchased and recommend is the Legal Forms Generator. As a bonus, you get the Affiliate Compensation Disclosure Package.

Yes, the lawyer who wrote the package is serious about upping the price. I bought it a couple of months back, when it was 1/3 of what it costs now. So if you don't have legal pages in place, don't delay, the deadline is Dec 01.

That's it for this edition my friends. Thank you for reading. Until next time, here's wishing you all the best for online success.

Michael Campbell

P.S.

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What started as a nasty flu, left her in a weakened state. This allowed a mysterious bacteria - from something as simple as a cut - to invade her bloodstream.

It came on very fast. Within 48 hours she was almost gone. We almost lost her during a 10 hour battle in the emergency room.

A few days after the ordeal, Amy was in good spirits as she tried to whisper, "I look like a robot." (She had more tubes than a Borg from Star Trek.)

After days of antibiotics and tests, a blood culture revealed the bug. They were able to target it directly and knock it out.

Finally, we're out of the woods. She's in stable condition in the intensive care unit. Most of the tubes are out. She's on a liquid diet now.

Hopefully she'll go to a regular ward this week and then home, where I can look after her. The doctors don't expect any permanent scarring or damage, but it may take 2 - 4 months for her to make a full recovery.

Most of you know that we sold our home, found a new place and are in the process of moving. Sheesh… if moving, packing, cleaning, utilities & address changes for personal and business wasn't enough, it's also my fiscal year end.

That's enough for anyone's plate.

I don't usually mix personal and business in my newsletter. The only problem is, my personal life has overwhelmed me, so my business must take a back seat.

It's due to these unforeseen circumstances, that I've closed the Dynamic Media Vault to new members and will be shutting it down on November 21 2009.

I just don't have the time to dedicate myself to it. My family comes first. I hope you understand.

So if I don't seem my usual responsive self, answering dozens of help requests per day, now you know why. My focus for the coming weeks, is getting settled in the new place and nursing my best friend on earth back to health.

Thank you for all the kind words, thoughts, prayers and continuing support. I appreciate your patience and understanding during this difficult time.

Epilogue:

Amy's home now. She's lost about 15 pounds (pretty hard considering she was only 110 to begin with). She's slowly recovering and looking much better than she did two weeks ago.

We sold our home and cashed out of the real estate market. We survived the real estate agents, bankers and lawyers. All the packing and address changes.

We got moved into the new place and the boxes are slowly disappearing. And somehow in the middle of all that, managed to prepare the fiscal year end for the accountant. Whew!

To the hundreds of people like you, who wrote in to inspire us with your thoughtfull comments and prayers, a BIG heart felt THANK YOU. I read Amy all your letters and we both appreciate the kindness you've shared.

Michael

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