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Internet consultant Scott Hendison writes about technology, primarily search related.
Scott gets sites found on the internet, and he helps businesses with POS point of sale software & support, webhosting, website design, and HIPAA compliance. Sear
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EPCC - Market Your Website With Little or No Money
As I promised this morning, I have uploaded my East Portland Chamber of Commerce presentation here, including all of the links that I spoke about. You may open it directly from this link, or just right click here and choose “save as” to g...
Short SEO Review Video - My Elite Contacts
No Video Responses have been posted yet.Click here to post a video response.This video covers titles, descriptions, keywords, header tags, backlink profile and more for My Elite Contacts, a website for a CRM system. The site is less than a month old,...
Search Engine Optimization For Beginners in Portland
Next week is an SEM Hotseat event geared towards beginners. Have you come to search marketing events before and been overwhelmed? Do you have some SEO questions that you think are too basic? This is your chance to get that added level of detail ...
10 Tips for Tantalizing Text
You may have a degree in English, but writing for the Web is a little bit different than writing for other forms of media. In the back of your mind you have to be a little bit more conscious about your audience is, and you have to grab their attentio...
5 Minute SEO Review - SociaTropin.com
This website is for a nutritional supplement designed to help people with anxiety and stress relief products. This video is under five minutes and points out some fundamental problems, summarized here… The reality is that with only a 13 page we...
SEO Review - PrecisionNorthwest.com
This is a regional remodeling and construction firm located in Vancouver Washington. I covered most of the basics from my SEO101 area, and pointed out an error in the robots.txt file. I hope you find this helpful, and if you have any questions at all...
Site Review - Potomac-Writing-Service.com
This is a website for authors, copywriters and editing help, that is missing a couple of the key fundamentals that I outline in my SEO101 section. The review is just 12 minutes long, but provides important information to the site owner. No Video Resp...
Keyword Mashup Tool Launched
IPay per click campaigns can be somewhat tedious to set up, primarily because all the data that you get from the keyword research tools need to be reworked into a more useful list. By that, I mean you need to consider every variation that might be po...
Portland Oregon Real Estate Site Review
This is an overview of a rural Oregon realtor website, but needs many, if not all, of the basic fundamentals of SEO101. When you’re trying to build links for a real estate site you have to give people a reason to link to you, by providing valua...
Site Review of Portland Directory PDXStump
This website is basically a Portland, Oregon business directory, but many of the individual pages are not being found in the search engines. This applies not only to queries for phrases, but for specific URLs to0, which indicates a potential structur...
Website Overview for Search - Vigilan.com
This business is a maker of a software product for retirement communities, yet the search engines seem to be having problems understanding that. This video points out exactly why, with some very basic fundamental search marketing principles. Original...
Innotech Portland Website Reviews
I’ll be on a panel at Innotech this year, because for the first time, there will be live website reviews taking place at the conference, here in Portland Oregon. The entire conference is scheduled for next Wednesday, April 16th and Thursday ...
Site Review - Flightstoswitzerland.com
I was asked to do a free site review of Flightstoswitzerland.com examining some of the many possibilities why the site doesn’t rank very well. It’s basic SEO-101, but with a little bit more thrown in for good measure… Original conte...
An Ebook Collectors Item? SEO Book
Is it possible that an Ebook can be a collectors item? Maybe so, because “the guy who wrote the book on SEO”, Aaron Wall has emailed his affiliates to tell us that as of midnight February 20th, it’s no longer going to be for sale, a...
Instant Link Building Software Recommendation
You know the drill by now… searching the web for subject relevant blogs and posting an intelligent comment that you hope will get you a counted backlink to your own domain or webpage of your choice. It’s a tedious process, and one that...
Webite Review Video - OldWorldAuction.com
This is a large site that turned out to have lots of structural issues, server errors, disappearing pages etc. A bit more than the SEO-101 I though i’d be doing, but a lot got covered, all in just about 12 minutes. As always, anyone else’...
Portland Website Reviews - Feb. 5th
SEMpdx and SAO IPSIG are teaming up to bring a joint internet marketing event to Portland, next Tuesday,February 5, 2008. Similar to other SEMpdx hot seat events, there will be up to five websites reviewed, and site owners may address any questions ...
Website Review - 14 minute SEO lesson
MiaDonna.com requested one of my free website review videos based on what I consider to be the top SEO 101 factors. Since they have over 170 pages on the site, I went on a bit longer than usual, just over 14 minutes, and also made some specific reco...
10 New Year Resolutions for an Internet Marketer
I have personally suffered from many of these afflictions below, and as a result, I’ve had a loss of productivity, loss of time, and most likely a loss of income. This started out to be a quick list of things that I could do to improve in 2008...
Video Site Review - nwdrf.com
Since I’m not taking clients new clients at this time, and I’ve yet to find someone I can reliably send referrals to, I’m still offering my free basic SEO video site reviews. This review of is for the site of a law firm that phone...
Video Site Review - Overstockperfume.com
Here’s another free video site review requested by a reader, for Overstockperfume.com. It appears to be an affiliate site, and a bit lacking in content and quality inbound links. Lots of pages and potential though - see the video here. Due to t...
Search Engine Gurus at Gooruze
There’s an online community of search engine marketers called Gooruze that’s picking up steam, and I’ve been lurking there quietly for the past month or so. The information available there is phenomenal, and I strongly recommend a...
The Power of a Title Tag
I still believe that the single most important ranking factor for organic search optimization is the title tag, and I was giving some SEO 101 lessons to my son who is 10 years old. He’s had his own blog for a while now, because I didn’t w...
Changing URL’s Regularly? Not Good
I’ve been working with a client in a competitive search space for several months now, and we’ve had pretty good success in raising their organic search engine visibility. When we first began working together, I was told they were already...
Pay Per Click Ad Copy
I've completed an article about writing your copy for pay per click ads, and placed it in my tutorial section. If you are new to Internet marketing, or creating your own ads to display on Google or Yahoo's sponsored search results, it's worth a quick...
Search Engine Optimization Class - Portland Oregon
Search engine marketing and optimization are pretty hot subjects, and I frequently get asked for recommendations where someone can learn the skills they need at an accelerated pace. For my own needs, I first attended John Alexander and Robin Nobles'...
Who Still Uses ALT Tags?
Knowledgeable search engine experts tend to agree that ALT tags are no longer a relevant ranking factor for any of the big three search engines. If that's the case, the same as meta keyword tags, then why do so many page one websites still use them? ...
