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Eric Gehler SEO

Ready for Ed Dales 30 Day Challenge Season 4?

Last year I was introduced to Ed Dale’s 30 Day challenge. It was his third season and I came in late. The one wonderful thing was, I learned a lot about web 2.0 and social media sites by following his training, videos, and support forum.

The concept behind the 30 Day Challenge is to learn how to market online. His training is absolutely free, and the concept is to learn how to just make your first sales. There goal is to just make $10 using the methods he teaches. However a majority of people make WAY more than that by using the knowledge gained within their own Niche Markets.

This is a Win - Win situation where it cost you nothing but time, and what you learn is invaluable to your business or time on the internet.

You can sign up and follow the 30 Day Challenge from the hyperlink.

You can follow the 30 day challenge via the forum, their blog, and youtube videos.

You can add the 30 Day Challenge blog via RSS also if you like.

The main thing is this is one of those Freebie you can’t afford to miss!!

Check out Ed Dale’s 30 Day Challenge

Eric Gehler SEO

The other day in the mail I received a package from Yahoo. About 2 plus years ago I did some unsuccessful PPC marketing on Yahoo for an old site of mine. I have not used Yahoo since. However in mail was a box from Yahoo.  What could they want from me?

I opened the box and found a round pushable Yahoo “That was Eazy Button” that exclaims the Phrase YAHOOO when ever it is pushed. Oh how annoying, especially when an 8 year old gets a hold of it, and it’s YAHOOO every other minute in various parts of the house with a cynical laugh after each push and sound bite.

Is this a viable marketing campaign? Is Yahoo branding itself effectively? With an apparent  Microsoft acquisition in the works is this efficent?

So did you receive a Yahoo Button?  If you were a paid search client in their PPC campaigns from at least 2 plus years ago you should have. Maybe you were lucky and it got lost in the mail.

Eric Gehler SEO

Local Geo Targeted Search Terms Gold Mine for Business Owners

The task of ranking in google’s search engine for you website can be somewhat overwhelming.  With billions of pages indexed and competition every where you look you may feel like it’s a loosing proposition to get your website noticed.

Where most webmasters make mistakes are in choosing the “keyword terms” for there websites. If you are a local business owner with a website your goal and mission is to attract people in your community to your website and your physical store to purchase your products or services.

If you targeted keywords don’t  include your local city and state then you are missing the boat completely.  Their is no point in attempting to rank in the search engines for  “keyword” when you can get, acquire, attract, and sell to people coming to your website and store via search terms “keyword City State”.

The goal as always in SEO and Search Engine Marketing to define the right keywords. Local business owner with a local product and service, can easily rank very quickly in the search engines if they add their local geo locations to their keyword optimization and linking strategy.

Check for yourself,  Do a search for all your keywords with your City State following your major keywords and city state preceding your major keywords.   Those top rankings and extra traffic may only be a few inbound links away or just a few Title and Meta tag changes away.

Eric Gehler SEO