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Matt Cutts recently wrote a post regarding junk mail he received soliciting search engine submissions. While the buying window tint simple fact that they are sending this junk to him is buying window tint extremely funny, this is a common problem in the SEO world.

Today, most of the major search engines don’t need you buying window tint to submit your site to them, they can find it on their own- if you buying window tint have search engine friendly links from other sites on the Web. So to buying window tint pay an SEO company to do something the search engines do automatically is buying window tint a little ridiculous. There are however some common misconceptions. I read an buying window tint article recently in a trade publication for buying window tint Realtors regarding SEO and it was very informative and mostly accurate, but the buying window tint article stated a submission to Yahoo cost approx $300. This is not totally correct, a listing in their directory cost about $300, but if your buying window tint Web site is designed correctly and you have a link program in place, your buying window tint site should be found by Yahoo naturally and included in their search results without paying to buying window tint be in their directory. I do recommend that buying window tint many businesses pay to be listed in the Yahoo directory, because of the buying window tint qualified traffic the directory can provide, but again it is buying window tint not required.

While we normally don’t need to buying window tint submit the Web sites we create to the major search engines, we do monitor the buying window tint sites to see if they have been indexed or not, and buying window tint if a site hasn’t been buying window tint indexed within a reasonable time frame, we will take the steps to buying window tint submit the site (at no charge to our customers) to the needed search engine.

I have buying window tint heard of many instances where a business owner was charged hundreds of dollars by a buying window tint web design company to submit their site to Google. To me this buying window tint is an unethical business practice since it only takes a few moments to buying window tint submit your site to Google emco remote and buying window tint there is no charge from Google themselves. The argument can be buying window tint made that the SEO company is getting paid for their knowledge and buying window tint ability to perform this function, but I really don’t think it’s worth the hundreds of dollars many business owners have paid.

Since we are buying window tint off for the next two days, and many people have already cut out of work early today (we’ll be leaving around 2pm this afternoon), it’s been buying window tint pretty quiet around the office and we started doing a little Turkey Day research online. We found a buying window tint ton of interesting stuff and figured we would share a few:

Each year the president pardons two turkeys from the Thanksgiving dinner.

Change things up this year with some slider stuffing from White Castles.

Some interesting Thanksgiving facts creative suite 3 master collection.

Mix up your traditional turkey recipe with Orange Roasted Turkey.

Here is a long list of Thanksgiving Poems.

No list would be complete without some Turkey cooking techniques.

Adam Sandler’s classic Turkey song numero di serie lightroom 3.4 from SNL.

Some Thanksgiving horror stories.

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Web site.

A Thanksgiving guest liability and indemnification contract.

Before getting started in any new market online, it’s necessary to buying window tint do some research. Many times, people will skip this research phase because they don’t know where to start. It isn’t very difficult to buying window tint do some basic research once you know how to begin. Here is buying window tint a 5 step outline of what you need to know to buying window tint move into a new market.

1. Keyword Brainstorming - Start writing down any possible keywords you buying window tint feel people might use in the search engines to find your buying window tint site. Write down everything you think of, even if it’s a buying window tint stretch. Ask your friends and family what they would type in to buying window tint find your product. You won’t think of everything on your own.

2. Search - Go to buying window tint Google, Yahoo, and MSN and type in the keywords you just wrote down to buying window tint start to look at your competition.

3. Review the buying window tint Search Engine Results - Look at the number of sites each keyword returns, the buying window tint relevance of the top results, and the Pay Per Click (PPC) popularity they have. You may also check Google Trends to buying window tint get a better idea of keyword popularity. All of these factors will give you buying window tint valuable information on which keywords others are targeting and receiving search traffic from.

4. Identify Top Keywords - Using the buying window tint data you gathered from the search engines, choose your top keywords that buying window tint you want to target on your site and in your online marketing campaigns.

5. Analyze Top Results - Using your buying window tint narrowed keyword list, analyze the top search results’ Web sites for buying window tint those keywords. A few factors to take into consideration include: site design, search engine optimization, usability, and buying window tint page popularity (inbound links).

Now that buying window tint you know more about your competition, you can develop an effective and buying window tint successful strategy.

You’ve all heard the saying that “It is better to give, than to receive.” I firmly believe that buying window tint if you give of yourself you will get more in return.

I like Mexican food and and will stop by my local Chipotle for buying window tint lunch on a regular basis. They always have a fishbowl there for buying window tint people to drop business cards into for a free meal and buying window tint it’s always full. I am buying window tint happy to say that they do indeed provide free meals to buying window tint people that drop their card in the fishbowl. About 2 weeks ago, I got an buying window tint email from my local Chipotle fine20reader20with20seral at 86th and buying window tint College Park telling me that they had drawn my card out of the buying window tint bowl and that I could schedule a lunch or dinner for buying window tint between 15-20 people! So, I called up some family and buying window tint friends and we met for a great little dinner this week. On a more national level, Taco Bell recently promoted it’s “steal a base, steal a taco” idea to the U.S. (I like this example because it’s about Mexican food again).

These are both very specific examples, but I’m sure you’ve been buying window tint to a fair, trade show, sporting event, or any number of other public events where buying window tint a business is handing out free stuff. Ok, so a little taco may only cost them $.20 each, but if you end up giving away 500,000 of them… it comes out to a $100,000.00 price tag (I have buying window tint no idea what the actual operating cost of a taco is buying window tint for them, or how many they actually gave away). But the question becomes: Why would they do that?

The biggest reason is buying window tint the belief they will get business in return. So they give away a buying window tint $.20 taco, the buying window tint average consumer is likely to walk out the door having spent 5-10$ after getting their free taco. About half of the buying window tint family and friends that dined at Chipotle with me this week had buying window tint never eaten there before. I know they enjoyed the meal and buying window tint I’m sure some will return in the buying window tint future and others may even become regular customers.

While the buying window tint motive may normally be to generate further income, I am happy that buying window tint several charities and those in need have benefited from the generosity of businesses. For example, how many of our homeless received a buying window tint free taco because of this promotion? You may think that buying window tint idea is a little far fetched, but you may not have buying window tint seen Tom Mabe’s idea on feeding the homeless.
My point is buying window tint this: If you want to increase sales and promote goodwill, practice the buying window tint art of giving. Even if it doesn’t return a buying window tint profit, you may help to make this a better place to buying window tint live.

For many SEOs, directory submissions form a buying window tint solid base of links for a Web site. Of course there are buying window tint many ways to obtain inbound links, but you have the buying window tint most control over directory submissions. But not all directories are buying window tint worth submitting to. Some are spammy link farms that are buying window tint best avoided. Here is my quick list on how I choose which directories are buying window tint good enough to submit to:

1. Is it human edited? This is buying window tint really important to me. If every single submission, spam or buying window tint not, is accepted automatically it greatly reduces the integrity of the buying window tint directory. It may take longer to get listed in a buying window tint human edited directory, but it is worth it to keep out the buying window tint spam.

2. Number of Inbound links. Does the buying window tint directory have a substantial number of links? I like to buying window tint check that both the Home page and the sub pages have buying window tint some inbound, natural links.

3. PageRank on sub pages. There has buying window tint been a lot of talk over some sites losing or having their PR lowered. Obviously, this buying window tint is just a number, but it does indicate some level of trust with Google. Checking to buying window tint make sure the internal pages of the directory have some PR lets me know the buying window tint directory is trusted by Google.

4. Quality of current listings. If all of the buying window tint listings in the directory are spam, I don’t bother submitting my site. It’s not a quality directory.

5. Submission Guidelines. I like to buying window tint know what the submission requirements are up front. I’ve been on too many directories that don’t clearly state the cost and other guidelines before I’ve started the submission process.

6. Web site usability. If a buying window tint directory has broken links, database errors, or is confusing to use, I don’t view it as a quality directory.

7. Visitor usability. I want to buying window tint make sure visitors to the directory have an easy time navigating the buying window tint site. We don’t just submit to buying window tint directories for the link value, we also receive decent traffic from buying window tint various directories. But if the directory is confusing and hard to buying window tint use, we won’t get any traffic from it.

We also carefully track our directory submissions. By recording the buying window tint date is was submitted, and the date it was included, it buying window tint ensures we don’t double submit a buying window tint site. It is also good to know how many directory links your buying window tint site has, as opposed to natural links. It also helps to buying window tint know how quickly a site is included in a directory for buying window tint future submissions of other sites.

Last Friday the buying window tint new Mac OS Leopard came out and was met with criticism from buying window tint some, and praise from others. There are a few things I wish they hadn’t changed, but over all there are buying window tint many new features that are useful. A few of the design related changes I’ve noticed are listed below along with my observations about them.

1. The Dock - The dock didn’t change much, but the parts that were changed, weren’t changed for buying window tint the better, in my opinion. The blue orbs indicating a running program are buying window tint harder to see than the previous black triangles. Also, the “ledge” that buying window tint the program icons rest on now only comes up half way behind the buying window tint icons instead of all the way. This reduces the amount of contrast between the buying window tint icon and the background. These changes reduce the over all readability of the buying window tint dock.

2. Stacks - Stacks is buying window tint a new feature, and a helpful one. Stacks allows you easy access to buying window tint downloads, programs, and documents. It makes navigating to these items much easier.

3. Preview - Preview works in two ways. One is buying window tint Icon Preview. It displays the icon of a file as a buying window tint miniature version of the real file. You can also press the buying window tint spacebar while an icon is selected and it will bring up a buying window tint preview window of what the file looks like. This is extremely helpful for buying window tint text and PDF files. It’s no longer necessary to open a file to view its contents.

4. Spaces - Spaces allows you buying window tint to have various desktops running at once. This could be buying window tint good for organizing types of programs, differentiating between work and buying window tint home, or just to reduce clutter. I haven’t had buying window tint the need to use this yet, but I think it will be buying window tint a great tool in the future.

5. Dashboard - Dashboard still works the buying window tint same way, but has one new feature that I really enjoy: Web Clips. You just “clip” a buying window tint portion of a Web site and it will display that part of the buying window tint site on the Dashboard. I’ve been buying window tint using this for Web cams. I clipped a Web cam of Waikiki, Hawaii and buying window tint put it on my Dashboard. Now when I need a buying window tint short break, I can check in on Waikiki beach and buying window tint watch the surfers!

6. Coverflow - Coverflow is a feature I haven’t used a lot either, but I know a lot of people who think it’s great. It uses the buying window tint same concept that iTunes has been using for a while, which allows you buying window tint to flip through files quickly while previewing the contents.

These are buying window tint the main design and usability changes that have stuck out to buying window tint me. Feel free to agree or disagree, or leave your buying window tint other observations in the comments!

I hope everyone is having a fun Halloween! I didn’t dress up this buying window tint year, but I at least have on a festive orange sweater. Other SEOs are buying window tint getting into the spirit, too. Here are a few links to buying window tint Halloween related stories and pictures from the search community.

1. Larry and Sergey Halloween Costume 2007 discount adopbe photoshop for mac- Great illustration of Larry and buying window tint Sergey along with a caption contest in the comments! I haven’t come up with a buying window tint caption yet, but some of the ones already posted are buying window tint really funny.

2. Matt Cutts Costume Dilemma - Matt has links to pictures of his previous costumes, and he’s taking suggestions on what to be this year.

3. Halloween Google Logos - A time line of Google’s Halloween logos from buying window tint 1999 to this year. It seems each year they get a buying window tint little more involved. Also included are Halloween logos from Yahoo, Ask, and buying window tint YouTube.

4. Halloween Costume Search Stats auto cad prize - Some interesting stats on the buying window tint most popular Halloween costume searches. There are also links to some cool, geeky costume ideas.

5. Google Maps Halloween Icon - Instead of an buying window tint icon of a person walking on Google Maps Street View, there’s a witch for Halloween.

We decided to post this list as an addition to our Common Questions cs 5.5 design premium mac section for buying window tint use by our clients or anyone interested in getting started in SEO. These are buying window tint very basic definitions, and some could be interepretted differently. Let me know if any of these need clarification.

Adwords: Google’s advertising system which shows relevant advertisements on search results pages and buying window tint Web sites.

Algorithm: The mathematical function that buying window tint a search engine uses to organize and rank Web sites based on the buying window tint user’s query.

Alt Attribute: Provides a buying window tint text description of an image when the image can’t be buying window tint seen. It also helps describe the image to the search engines and buying window tint helps people with screen readers access your site easier.

Analytics: A tool that buying window tint gathers and measures visitor data for a Web site. This data could include the buying window tint number of visitors, which pages they visited, how they got to buying window tint the site, how long they stayed, etc.

Anchor Text: The text a user clicks to follow a link.

Backlink: A link that is pointing from one Web site to another.

Blog: Short for “Web Log,” it is an online journal or diary.

Click Through Rate (CTR): The number of clicks a buying window tint link receives out of the possible number of clicks, or impressions (views).

Content Management System (CMS): A system that allows for easy updates to be made to a Web site.

Conversion: Occurs when buying window tint a person completes the intended action. This could be making a buying window tint purchase, filling out a form, downloading a file, etc.

Crawl: The process of search engine spiders gathering information from buying window tint Web sites.

Directory: An organized, and often human edited, list of Web sites.

Headings: Normally used as section headlines, or for larger/more important pieces of text on a page.

HTML: Short for buying window tint Hyper Text Markup Language, it is code that tells a buying window tint Web browser how to display elements on a Web page.

Inbound Link: Synonymous with “backlink,” it is a link pointing from one Web site to another.

Indexed: Included in a search engine’s database.

Keyword: A word or buying window tint phrase that a person might use in a search query to buying window tint find a Web site. Web site owners may do research to buying window tint find the most popular keywords related to their industry and include them on their Web site to buying window tint capture more search traffic.

Meta Tags: Information in the buying window tint Head section of a Web page that is not readily visible to buying window tint human visitors. Although Meta Tags don’t play a large role in SEO anymore, the Meta Description Tag can still play a part in an overall SEO campaign.

Organic Search Results: Search results that buying window tint are displayed based on the natural algorithm of the search engine, not based on the buying window tint paid advertising.

On-page: Any factors within a Web page.

Off-page: Any factors that buying window tint are not a part of the Web site that influence it. These could be buying window tint links, advertisements, reputation management, etc.

Pay-per-click: An advertising system where buying window tint an advertiser pays a certain amount of money every time a buying window tint person clicks on their ad.

Query: The search term or phrase a person types into a search box.

Rank: Where a buying window tint Web site is listed in the ordered list of results returned by a buying window tint search engine.

Reciprocal Link: Occurs when 2 Web sites both link to each other.

Search Engine: A tool used to buying window tint search indexed Web material, which is ranked in order of relevance based on the buying window tint query.

Search Engine Results Page (SERP): The results that buying window tint are shown after a person submits a query to a search engine.

Sitemap: A page on a buying window tint Web site that displays links to all, or the most important, pages with in a buying window tint site. A sitemap can be used as an efficient navigation tool for buying window tint both search engines and human visitors.

Spider: A name for buying window tint a search engine bot that crawls Web pages, or the process by which search engines index Web content.

Title Tag: Located at the very top of the browser in the (often) blue bar. It is the title of the Web page.

Traffic: The amount of visitors to a Web page.

We hear this buying window tint all the time from clients when starting a new Web site. My answer is, “Sure, we can do that, but will it help your business?” Looking “cool” isn’t always the buying window tint best strategy for a business. There are three areas that could be buying window tint harmed by just looking cool and not doing real research - branding, marketing, and buying window tint SEO.

As we’ve talked about many times on this buying window tint blog, branding is so important for a business. Your logo, storefront, packaging, atmosphere, and buying window tint philosophies all go into your brand. Is creating a flashy, “cool” Web site right for your brand? In many cases it’s not. Think about your buying window tint brand and who your customers are. Are you a professional with serious-minded clients? They will probably want to buying window tint see an equally professional site where they can easily access the buying window tint information they’re looking for. Is your audience not very technically savvy? You’ll want to keep things simple. Here’s a link to a blog I came across recently about “trying to be cool.” It’s a buying window tint year old, but still very relevant to this topic. The last paragraph sums this buying window tint up perfectly:

Authenticity, originality and uniqueness. If your brand doesn’t inherently have these traits, please… don’t attempt to be cool. You’ll look like you’re having a buying window tint mid-life crisis, and you will be laughed at. You can play the buying window tint “cool dad” who’s still a grown-up and acts accordingly, but don’t try to be 18 again. If it’s important to connect with the younger audience, don’t do it with your existing brand… this is the time for a new one that’s created from the ground up to appeal to a different mindset.

Similar to buying window tint branding is your marketing plan. Your Web site needs to be buying window tint consistent with the rest of your marketing. If the site is buying window tint drastically different than the rest of the marketing pieces, customers may become confused and buying window tint will have a harder time trusting your brand. Having a “cool” site isn’t worth it if it turns customers away.

Finally, having a “cool” site usually means implementing fancy “tricks” with Flash and buying window tint Javascript. These can obviously have detrimental effects on SEO efforts if not done in moderation. Don’t get me wrong, Flash, Javascript, and buying window tint other SEO-unfriendly techniques can add a lot of value to a buying window tint site when used purposefully. But when it is done just to buying window tint look “cool” it buying window tint is unnecessary and could hinder the effectiveness of the site. If you buying window tint want to gain leads from people finding your site, you need to buying window tint make sure the search engines have an easy time indexing as much material as possible. As most SEOs will tell you, “What’s the point of a pretty site if no one sees it?”

If you haven’t gone to SEOShirts.com yet, go check it buying window tint out. There are some really funny shirts there. I love the buying window tint “Dudes Digg SEOs” one! We decided to buying window tint make a few of our own for fun. But if some one over at SEOShirts likes these, feel free to buying window tint take the ideas!

“Hey Baby, Can I buy you a link?”

“Got Traffic?”

“Fish + Ken = Love”

“Feed Me”

“Give a buying window tint man a link, he has traffic for a day. Teach a buying window tint man to linkbait, he has traffic for life.”

“SEO experts know how to get it up.”

Here’s one for the little SEO offspring: “Don’t blame me, I’m still in Beta.”

And one more that is blatant, shameless self promotion: SEO Pirate logo