Hello,
Proof, if proof were needed, that SEO really works was the page one listing I got for this blog, thanks to the previous post. Within hours, if you'd Googled 'Lucid SEO', you'd have seen RoyEveritt.com at number five.
I've always said that blogs are by far the easiest sites to optimise, and when you pay some more informed attention to key words and related words and phrases, it's even easier. Of course, I wouldn't have done so well if I hadn't paid attention to David Congreave's report, Lucid SEO on Trial.
Google loves Blogger blogs, and it loves fresh, readable and relevant comment. As long as you can string some reasonably intelligent sentences between the keywords, it's got to be the easiest way to grab a front page place!
Roy
PS. The labels help, too, so always have the keywords in there as well.
Tuesday 25 November 2008
Friday 14 November 2008
Proving SEO is Easy...
...When You Know How!
Hello again,
Recently, I've been asked by a few people to help them get more traffic to their websites, and I've come up with a few tailor-made recommendations for how we can do this.
Most people want quick results and don't have the time to do much work themselves, so I often recommend buying targeted traffic, using PPC. What I tend NOT to recommend is spending too much time on Search Engine Optimisation, because it's not usually so quick and it's something of a 'black art'.
David Congreave would beg to differ, I think, and he's convinced me that SEO is something we should always consider for every website we have a hand in.
To prove his point, David has published a free report 'Lucid SEO on Trial', detailing his campaign to win the SEO ranking contest for the recent Focus Marketing Seminar in London. And win it he did, handsomely, despite being banned by Google almost as soon as he'd started!
The report gives you a very good overview of how Mr Congreave's Lucid SEO system works, and it's worth grabbing, just for that. Plus, he nails a few misconceptions about optimisation (and he helped me modify my recommendations) with this well-written report.
I met David again at the Focus Seminar, and he was looking pretty pleased with himself, as well he might - he even beat the official Focus Marketing Seminars website on almost every major search engine - including Google.
Oh, here's Lucid SEO itself: http://www.lucid-seo.com/?rid=1713
Congratulations, David Congreave and Lucid SEO, and congratulations to you if you take a few of David's optimisation tips and transform your website's rankings.
Roy
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Why Barack Obama Won
Hello again.
Could you be the next Barack Obama?
Probably not - but you could be every bit as successful in your own way, once you understand exactly why Obama beat John McCain and Sarah Palin to become the next president of the USA.
That a man with so little experience was able to beat a respected veteran politician into second place is largely down to a quality that has seen him compared with John Kennedy.
Call it presence, charisma, stature or oratory skill, the fact is that Obama, for all his undoubted qualities, has overcome the odds thanks to his ability to engage his public by speaking to them in a way that makes people like, admire and respect him. In short, Barack Obama is a great public speaker. It's probably a gift, and it's reinforced by his undoubted intelligence and even a sense of destiny, but it's still a skill that we can all become better at.
And you don't have to be on a podium to benefit from confident public speaking, as Obama has shown us: working a crowd - networking to you and me - also helps separate the winners from the runners-up.
Probably the world's most famous expert of the art of speaking to a public is Dale Carnegie - there can't be many people who haven't at least heard of How to Make Friends and Influence People. But Dale Carnegie was expounding on the art of public speaking years earlier.
Now you can read his original masterpiece on the subject, called The Art of Public Speaking, when you accept my offer of three more modern volumes on the topic of success through public speaking, below:
To your success!
Roy
PS. Ok, you will not become the next president of the USA but you will get a lot nearer to being the best that you can be, when you read The Art of Public Speaking.
Could you be the next Barack Obama?
Probably not - but you could be every bit as successful in your own way, once you understand exactly why Obama beat John McCain and Sarah Palin to become the next president of the USA.
That a man with so little experience was able to beat a respected veteran politician into second place is largely down to a quality that has seen him compared with John Kennedy.
Call it presence, charisma, stature or oratory skill, the fact is that Obama, for all his undoubted qualities, has overcome the odds thanks to his ability to engage his public by speaking to them in a way that makes people like, admire and respect him. In short, Barack Obama is a great public speaker. It's probably a gift, and it's reinforced by his undoubted intelligence and even a sense of destiny, but it's still a skill that we can all become better at.
And you don't have to be on a podium to benefit from confident public speaking, as Obama has shown us: working a crowd - networking to you and me - also helps separate the winners from the runners-up.
Probably the world's most famous expert of the art of speaking to a public is Dale Carnegie - there can't be many people who haven't at least heard of How to Make Friends and Influence People. But Dale Carnegie was expounding on the art of public speaking years earlier.
Now you can read his original masterpiece on the subject, called The Art of Public Speaking, when you accept my offer of three more modern volumes on the topic of success through public speaking, below:
To your success!
Roy
PS. Ok, you will not become the next president of the USA but you will get a lot nearer to being the best that you can be, when you read The Art of Public Speaking.
Sunday 2 November 2008
Surprise Free Gifts Anyone?
Hello again
This dropped into my inbox a few days ago, with less than 48 hours to go before launch. Consequently, I didn't have time to tell you about it in advance, although I just about had time to take part. As a result, I can offer you over 200 ebooks, courses, coaching programs and more, all free, at http://www.selfimprovementgifts3.com/members.php?id=411
If you want to see what I contributed, my gift is at http://www.wellversed.co.uk/gwygift1.html
This dropped into my inbox a few days ago, with less than 48 hours to go before launch. Consequently, I didn't have time to tell you about it in advance, although I just about had time to take part. As a result, I can offer you over 200 ebooks, courses, coaching programs and more, all free, at http://www.selfimprovementgifts3.com/members.php?id=411
If you want to see what I contributed, my gift is at http://www.wellversed.co.uk/gwygift1.html
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