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Davdi Leonhardt shares his sometimes-out-of-the-box thoughts on SEO and related viral marketing and social media topics.
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How NOT to redesign a website
Sorry, but I just have to share this with you. I won’t bother with the long-winded email exchange between myself, the prospect and Cindy (our designer) - I think my final email message sums it up fairly well (and hopefully fairly diplomatic...
Ethical SEO and the non-client testimonial
Sigh. This SEO client won’t make me any money. But first, a story. Our fancy vacuum cleaner was slowly seeming to get weaker and weaker, until it really would just not suck anything up anymore. This would have precipitated immediate actio...
SEO Secret - how to get more value from your SEO consultant
One of our SEO clients is getting more than her money’s worth. In fact, I should be charging her gobs more money than I am, but she is getting a whole lot extra work for free. How does she do it? Am I a sucker? Maybe I am, but there is...
Google Blocks Automated Rank Checking
Google has been threatening…er, promising to block rank-checking software such as WebPosition for years, and even mentions them by name in their webmaster guidelines. It seems like Google has finally decided to honor its promise and block th...
SEO Results Are Not Predictable
How long does it take to see results from SEO efforts? This, roughly, is a question that almost every potential client asks. Similar questions have been asked: How long does it take for grass to grow? How far is “over there”? How b...
A Degree in BS?
We get requests for all sorts of writing, and every now and then somebody ignores the quote plastered on every page of our website about not doing their school papers for them and cheating them out of an education. So on occasion we get to ignore a...
SEO tetsimonial - Woo Hoo!
When you get accolades from your clients, it’s worth sharing…and it’s not every day that an SEO company gets the kind of accolades that we have received this morning: “Il y a aussi le fait que nous sommes, tout simplement, l...
This story is going to make “MILLIONS”
I don’t know why, but I seem to like posting the crazy email demands I get. For instance, this one lady wants a book written based on her true story, and asks “Dear David, I was wondering, do I have to come up with the cash up front? Or...
Be honest when your work is not needed
What do you do when someone asks you to do something that you are very good at, but just is not really worth their while? Here is what I told a lady who wanted a news release about an interview she had posted on her website: It’s not that...
Optimize for misspellings
Your PPS is cute, what with the “translaters” ! :o) That was part of a query I received from a lady needing translation of a French medical document into English. She was refering to the following paragraph from my “free lance...
Stupid writing client tricks
If you plan to hire a writer, please do not try this at home: Message from prospective client (came in on a form on this website)… I need 10 unique articles about closet organizer, I provide you the keywords for each article, I need the articl...
Cheery Contract
Second post today, but I can’t resist. We have just signed another client for our freelance ghostwriting services, and this is what the client had to say when the ink was dry:\n I have to say in all my years of business I’ve never seen a c...
Submit Your Dog Stories
We have an interesting client who is planning to publish an anthology of uplifitng and positive dog stories. This is a great opportunity for any aspiring writer or dog-lover you know to get their work published! Please read very carefully the sub...
