David definitely knows the ins and outs of SEO.  He gave us quick fixes that immediately moved us from page 10 to page 2 on Google.  We are still in the process of implementing all of David’s advice and expect to continue rising up in the rankings.  David also helped us navigate Google AdWords to get the best response for our budget.  We got leads within a few days of activating our account.

Karen Tran
Marketing Manager
AVF Consulting, Inc.
ChargeLogic
443-279-1026
ktran@avfconsulting.com
ktran@chargelogic.com

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Received November 18, 2008

As a psychologist in private practice for 25 years, I’ve had to learn a lot about marketing. My best efforts had me receiving one phone call for a new referral perhaps every week or two, which is quite respectable for my profession. Now, on a typical week, I get 4 or 5 phone calls. Yesterday, I picked up 6 messages from my answering service, all of which were from Dave Foreman’s efforts. That’s 6 in one day, compared to one every week!

Dave is a marketing genius, someone who makes things happen and gets extraordinary results in this ridiculously competitive field (not to mention this economy). How often can you say that about someone who actually has delivered on the promise! When I learned he had a website with testimonials, I knew I had to write this…it was not solicited by him. But imagine how you’d feel if someone increased your productivity, enabling you to do what you love, in such a dramatic way.

Thanks, Dave

Todd Pressman

pressmanandassociates.com

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These are Screenshots of Recent Search Results for Art-Care.com

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The post below has top notch advice for optimizing YouTube videos, if you have the stomach for it… Some of the comments on the post are pretty angry.   These are “grey hat” methods.  If you are pure as the driven snow you may want to go back to your article posting sites, social bookmarking and “blog posting.”

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/22/the-secret-strategies-behind-many-viral-videos/

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From Anne Smarty at Search Engine Journal

While nowadays almost every webmaster knows its basics, some things still cause misunderstandings

Robots.txt can prevent bots from crawling the page or directory but not from indexing or ranking the URL when it’s found via external references. In this case search engines will use information from these external sources to make judgments about the page and also to formulate the snippet (title and description that appear in search results

If you have both general (i.e. wildcard *) and specific (e.g. User-agent: googlebot ) user-agent sections, keep in mind that Google (and other crawlers) will only follow the most specific section and ignore all other sections (including the general one): thus repeat all the directives from general section in all specific ones.

The matching is from the left to the right, meaning that crawlers are blocked from anything that begins with / pattern. So if you have blocked yoursite.com/a directory, for example, keep in mind that you are also blocking all directories/ pages going after the root and starting with ‘a’ (e.g. yoursite.com/about). The related case was described in the recent WebmasterWorld thread.
To be on the safe

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Follow this link

This is a great post that lists sites and posts that discuss everything from the most basic concepts of SEO to advanced topics like press release optimization.

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If you just purchased a new domain and want to swap it out on an apache server you can leave your files where they are. Just create a new DNS zone on your server and then add this code below to your .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/%241 [L,R=301]

This depends upon your server configuration and settings and may not always work. But when it does work, its by far the best solution for a large site.

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“Our Dynamic Mid-Atlantic team just recently started to work with Interactive Limited. We see tremendous potential for our Dynamics partners when Interactive’s search engine optimization (SEO) experience and knowledge is used to optimize their website’s and drive more hits (aka – leads and pipeline). With just a few hours of work partners are already seeing a big jump in their website activity. We are looking for even bigger things to come from Interactive’s help”

— Paul Pusateri, Microsoft Mid-Atlantic Partner Account Manager – Dynamics.

Partner Internet Marketing

Interactive Limited specializes in developing Internet marketing programs for Microsoft partners. Our programs help you generate quality leads for Microsoft Products.

Ask us for a list of references.

We have been working with Microsoft Managers to develop a comprehensive approach to low cost, high impact, Internet marketing. These programs use the feedback mechanisms of Internet marketing to help you drive your cost per lead lower and help you target lucrative vertical markets.

Microsoft Reimbursements and Discounts

All of our services are reimbursable up to 75% by Microsoft under the

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Webmaster help transcripts from Google’s live chat session. This is a fantastic post that has highlights from a live chat session with Google’s staff about SEO policy.

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The quote below is from this post on Matt Cutts’ blog. Matt Cutts is the Google policy spokesman for SEO. While we do not have an opinion about the use of paid links, we know many sites who use this tactic successfully. Most of the sites we know have been largely unaffected by penalties even when their page ranks were downgraded. This includes Forbes.com. If you do use paid links you are doing so at your own risk. Google is judge, jury and executioner. And they appear to be looking for people to turn in competitors who use paid links, read the quote below from his June 17, 2008 blog post:

By the way, we’re currently caught up on paid link reports, so if you know of sites (maybe in your search niche) that appear to be selling or buying paid links that pass PageRank, it’s a great time to let us know. Use the authenticated paid link spam report form and someone will investigate the report. We’ll be concentrating primarily on the sellers, but if you send us a site that appears to be buying

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