I know there’s no magic bullet for SEO, but I need a magic bullet for SEO
As an SEO Specialist dealing with clients I have often said “there is no magic bullet for SEO” and then go on to explain that as many as 200 individual factors determine where you may rank for any...
View ArticleGreen Widget Ranking on Google Page 1
I haven’t checked it everyday but less than 3 weeks after putting up a single page with an optimized page title, file name and content my PAGE (not site) dedicated to Green Widgets ranks #6 on Google...
View ArticleAre you ready for your SEO to work?
What happens when your SEO finally starts to work? You’ve been creating great content and fresh content for several months now. You’ve been building links and all your page titles are keyword research...
View ArticleRandom SEO Fun
Although Purple Widget still ranks #1 on Google for the search term “purple widget” and #19 for “SEO Experiment” as well as #16 (with no extra SEO effort for that page specifically yet) for “green...
View ArticleLinks and Prom Dates – What do they have in common?
This is not likely the last (maybe not the first) off the wall post. Afterall, without a sense of humor life can kind of suck sometimes. There is a lot of talk about links (aka “inbound links”) and...
View ArticleDoes fresh content REALLY matter?
I’ve said it before – heck, I say it often. Fresh content is needed to help drive SEO success. But how true is it? I haven’t updated this site in over 4 months, and before that there was a rather long...
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What drives SEO success?
This question was recently posed to me: If I were to ask you the question “What drives SEO success”, not specific to any client, and I was a CEO, how would you answer me? Here’s my response: If you...
View ArticleWhat is Search Engine Optimization?
I know the first thing you’re thinking – “he’s not dead” No, I am not dead I’m just really bad at posting to my blog. I think I covered that in some of my early posts – you must stay committed to your...
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The SEO Slide on Lousy Search Results That Never Was
Yes, PurpleWidget.com is still here! I know, it’s a been a while. I’ve been busy with my real job. That, and lazy. Interestingly, or not so since it makes the entire original point of this blog – it’s...
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Bing Scroogles Me – Bing Shopping Search FAILS – Maybe Calling out Google as...
Are you kidding me Bing? You launch a Scroogled campaign and I get this on your search engine? I search “Minecraft Lego” on Bing. I get these results on the main SERP, they are barely decent but do...
View ArticleFresh Content Revisited
Don’t be alarmed – yes, you are seeing this correctly – a new post on Purple Widget! I’d like to say that the lack of posts recently (okay, in the last 3 years) is part of the experiment – testing the...
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