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Richard, aka The Web Optimist

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Top 10 SEO Must Do Tips (2 comments) Hi Richard, I agree with your tip about localizing. Most cities have several surrounding towns, suburbs and neighborhoods that can be included in highly targeted landing pages. We employ this strategy and suggest it to our clients. Best Regards [...]	Steve 2010-07-14 07:18:51
Handy SEO/SMO WordPress Plugins (5 comments) Some great plugins. I love wordpress because of that. What about adding the plugin - All-in-one-SEO. [...]	Craig 2010-07-07 08:50:35
Guest Blogging as an Effective Marketing Strategy (1 comments) I think guest posting is great, because it establishes immediate credibility in addition to reaching tons of new readers for your own blog. What is surprising is how many bloggers will respond back to you immediately because they are hungry for conte [...]	james 2010-06-24 22:22:27
Best Directories - A Work In Progress (1 comments) This is the problem we have now a days the best trusted directories are so heavily subscribed to that they charge a fortune to get in, or wait 6 months +. There are a lot of directories out there now and a lot with high page rank, which means google [...]	Andy 2010-05-19 06:32:37
How To Make Websites Work With Social Networking Sites (1 comments) I agree. I think driving traffic from sites like twitter but if you can get them on your email list it is much easier to capture their attention. They may be following 2k people on twitter so they wont see all your post. .-= aj´s last blog ..Twitte [...]	aj 2010-05-14 09:48:08
To Slash or Not to Slash. That's A Server Header Question (2 comments) The only way to know if you have a problem is to check the server headers for your links. If they show a 200 OK, then you are good to go as long as you are consistent. If they show a 302 redirect, you'll need to do some work as a 302 redirect passes [...]	Web Optimist 2010-05-04 10:16:03
110 Quick SEO Tips Even Mom Would Love (17 comments) very nice and correct information for seo fun, easy to implementation. [...]	fungama 2010-04-26 07:43:42
Simple, Frequently Forgotten SEO Tips (2 comments) LOL, so many people don't know about the robots file. I work with a lot of web designers that have no idea what I and talking about when I mention it. hopefully they find your blog. [...]	foamfabricators 2010-04-18 23:23:27
Your Customers are Researching You. Shouldn’t You Do the Same? (1 comments) Thanks for the "BT Buckets" tool, it's the first time I hear about it and looks quite interesting. [...]	Web Design 2010-04-07 23:40:18
Make Your Website Quicker for Rankings (4 comments) Great sharing, is the first time I heard about this tool. Is this "need" from Google for faster websites somehow related to Google's new search architecture, the Caffeine? [...]	Web Design 2010-03-30 23:04:06
Eight Not To Do Things While Managing Your PPC Campaigns (2 comments) Nice post David. A couple of things to add to the list is: Running a campaign on both Search and Content Networks - the content network is often turned on by default, but it will perform so differently to search as the users have a different state o [...]	Hannah Gibson 2010-03-18 04:16:35
Basics of Image Search Optimization (1 comments) Nice post..one of my sites gets a ton of image traffic so I know how much traffic it can bring in. [...]	Evan 2010-03-10 09:33:57
MTV Like It Used To Be - Online! (2 comments) BroccoliTV can be viewed online at http://www.tvunetworks.com/ or through the iPhone app. [...]	Web Optimist 2010-02-18 20:03:34
Danny Sullivan SMX West Keynote (1 comments) Lots of of bloggers not really pleased with the new iPad.There was just 2 much hype over it and alot people got disapointed.Quite frankly, I can actually see lots of the awesome potential uses of the gizmo. Third-party soft for playing tunes, games, [...]	Maryrose Bohringer 2010-01-31 00:26:33
Will Trust Kill the Algorithm? (2 comments) You should have called it "Facetumbleoogle" [...]	Tenshi 2009-12-12 03:39:22
Organic Link Building (2 comments) I appreciate your comment. I've got a client looking for a WP plugin coder right now, so we'll check out rentacoder. Thanks, Richard [...]	Richard V. Burckhardt 2009-08-12 13:41:21
Linksys WRT350N Video Review (1 comments) Thanks for good video review of the Linksys WRT350N. I'm interested about HDD connection via WRT350N's USB to make some like NAS. Does it work stable? Is it possible to connect HDD to any docking station like Agestar SCBT (http://www.agestar.com/engl [...]	Alexander 2009-07-07 06:15:57
Google's DMOZ descriptions (1 comments) Very well written post however, I would recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section. Keep up the good work. [...]	Pagerank Checker 2009-06-08 11:31:58
Back to Basics SEO (1 comments) Finally someone who can write a good blog ! . This is the kind of information that is useful to those want to increase their SERP's. I loved your post and will be telling others about it. Subscribing to your RSS feed now. Thanks [...]	Check Pagerank 2009-06-08 11:24:53
SEO & Social Media Integration (2 comments) Social Media and search engine optimization have become so integrated that you can’t really separate them anymore. [...]	Knoxville SEO 2009-05-07 05:29:21
SEO 101: Beginning Viral Marketing (2 comments) You'll find a companion piece to this article titled SEO 101: Web Analytics at http://www.weboptimist.com/seo-101-web-analytics/2008/10/01/ . [...]	Web Optimist 2009-03-26 17:24:26
LinkedIn Tip for SEO Job Seekers (2 comments) Linkedin is rockin. About.com added linkedin to their top ten job sites. The 3 newest sites - www.linkedin.com (professional networking) www.indeed.com (aggregated listings) www.realmatch.com (matches jobs based on your skills) good luck to [...]	susan 2009-02-23 17:08:14
Absolute URLs? Absolutely! (1 comments) Interestng, great SEO, The first result I clicked on when searching "https relative url" on Yahoo (looked interesting!) In my case the web application is deployed to different servers around the globe with different domains. relative URLs are great [...]	Frushko 2009-02-15 14:09:07