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Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes It is time to look at those SEO questions from the folks who need help and guidance. Let take a read of some of the Dear SEO Drama Queen email which floods her box every day..this is a Prozac moment about to happen in the SEO world. Dear SEO Drama Queen I want a number one ranking for my web site. The keywords are clothes, sneakers and hats. I read so much out there on how important it is to be on Google. Can you promise me a #1 ranking for my 3 keywords? Thanks BA Greetings BA Of course I can guarantee #1 rankings on Google for those very generic keywords that compete against missions of other sites. AN SEO who couldnt isnt worth their wait in gold. It is easy. First, I need you to purchase about 100,000 shares of Google stock. Once you are a major holder, we can then bribe Google to either place you on top or we will sell their stock to Yahoo. Let me know when you have made the purchase Best SEO Drama Queen Dear SEO Drama Queen I contacted an SEO company... 

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes By Jason Hulott With more and more experts and search engine enthusiasts claiming the right way and the wrong way to handle link swapping, link exchanging or reciprocal linking! You can tell something is important when there is more than one name for it! GRIN! There are also two schools of thought on the reasons link swapping. The first reason for link swapping has always been to carry favour with Search engine rankings. Have a good site with lots of links and this is seen as a good thing and therefore Search Engines will rank you higher. Sadly, like all things in life, this system can be abused and taken to the extreme. Sites are buying in hundreds if not thousands of links trying to “boost” their ranking artificially. This is fine in the short term but we are starting to see a fundamental shift in Search Engine algorithms. convey_source = "English"; Read More →

Reading time: < 1 minute By Jason Hulott There has been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in the search engine world of late and there are lots of conspiracy theories as to why these things happen. It is easy as a webmaster to get caught up in these webs of intrigue. You get email notes about them, you view so-called experts’ thoughts on bulletin Boards – hey you probably even read things in newsletter articles! Well I hope so anyway…. The big driver for webmasters currently appears to be content and link building. While link building is important I don’t believe it makes Queen. Maybe a Prince. Content and links DO go hand in hand but, without relevance, the Kingdom is doomed. Sorry I will stop the analogy now! convey_source = "English"; Read More →