Harvest Connections

Having spent the last year in Sosua, Dominican Republic working with Niños de la Luz and with Harvest Connections was a blessing. We have made many new friends in that part of the country.

Harvest Connections was started to unite the Christian ministries in the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The website will be morphing as we implement more functionality to reach all the goals set for this project. The basic need was to combine all of the local ministries in one easy to see place. Then we will be adding functionality for those ministries to keep in touch and to present current needs. Sometimes one ministry will have the ability to fill the need of another and our desire is to open a channel of quick communication and networking for these ministries.

I personally took on the project to make sure that the search engines would rank their site well. Knowing that these ministries have very tight budgets, this is all done at no charge for them.

Take a look at Harvest Connections

 

Sosua Hotel Dominican Republic

On your next vacation plan a trip to the Dominican Republic and relax in the sun at Hotel Piergiorgio!

I have spent time on location as we prepared the site and began our optimization for search engines. The location is beautiful! The staff are very friendly,  views are spectacular!

You can snorkel right behind the hotel. Located in Sosua bay, the hotel has cliffside views and a large pool for relaxing. Restaurants are on location as well as a boutique to find clothes or gifts. Spend some time in the Salon, have a massage or a pedicure. Wi-fi throughout the hotel for easy internet access. Hotel Piergiorgio Palace has so much to offer!

See the website for current hotel specials or for more information.

www.hotelpiergiorgio.com

 

Piergiorgio Palace Hotel, Sosua, Dominican Republic

Impact Windows in Florida

Just a quick update on our clients site: the search for keyword phrases that include ” impact windows” has yielded a number of first page results for Palm Beach Hurricane Windows. This will position our clients website exactly where it needs to be to gain visitors for those searches.

As the optimized site gains position in the search engines, more links will be pointing as others begin to see or write about the website or information found on it. This creates a natural flow of new incoming links that will help the site earn “points” with the search engines.

Congratulations to Palm Beach Hurricane Windows!

Impact Windows and Doors

Currently working on our clients site, not only are we optimizing, but the clients requested a whole new website.

Palm Beach Hurricane Windows old website had very little in content and no correct optimization done for search engines. Some of the techniques were about 12 years old and are no longer valuable for todays search engines. In fact, one of the techniques was considered SPAM by Google.

Here is a screen shot of the updated website:

Palm Beach Florida Impact Windows

Palm Beach Florida Impact Windows

As you can see we have many categories of information for the user to research as well as a fully functioning contact form which allows for appointment settings. As we continue to optimize this site it will climb in rankings for related keywords. The old site would only show up for the search for the business name, due to another link provided in Google’s local search. Now with correct optimization and Internet Marketing techniques, the site will begin showing up in the top 20 results and our goal is always first page listings!

Search Engine Marketing Sosua

Are in living or planning on visiting the Dominican Republic? Would you like to learn search engine marketing and search engine optimization? Do you have a website and no one can find you?

If you answered yes to a couple of these questions, then contact us and we can plan a 1 day or 2 day teaching for Internet Marketing to fit your needs.

Then afterwards you can enjoy the sunshine and lovely beaches in the Northern coast of the Dominican Republic. There are many activities from snorkeling to surfing, zip-lines to monkeys and much more all close to the Sosua area. If you would like help planning other activities for before or after the IM workshop, just ask and we will point you in the right directions.

Don’t let your website get left in the dark with so many others, be the one to take charge and move it to the front of the line. We will cover the basics and move into advanced techniques according to the needs of those who attend, so the sooner we know who is the better the workshop will be for you!

(Also available will be one on one training. Contact us for more information.)

Impact Windows in Florida

Look no further for your impact window needs than Palm Beach Hurricane Windows. They sell and install the impact windows you require for your home or hi-rise!

As we work on our clients site we will optimize for search engines and provide the links they need to compete on the internet in their market. What better way to provide future clients and customers with information about impact and hurricane windows than through a website. As the site is completed and adjusted for top search engine ranking, our client will see greater traffic to help fulfill the goal of more clients.

Florida has yearly storms and hurricanes that can damage homes and buildings, but with the advanced technology of impact windows and doors, the damage and costs from the damages are minimized. The beauty of the home or building is also kept by not having shutters or bolts for storm coverings. The convenience of not having to cover all your windows before leaving is just another benefit of impact windows. So if you are in the market for impact windows or doors, give Palm Beach Hurricane Windows a call or better – visit their website: www.PalmBeachHurricaneWindows.com

Christmas Golf Gifts

Christmas golf gifts? You might be asking what this has to do with SEO. Well, here is a basic lesson on links.

If this website is optimized for search engines and being that this post is on a blog, there are ways of being seen quickly in Google and other search engines for search terms and the title of the blog is a key factor in this equation. This blog will make the title of the blog part of the title of the website page as well. This combined with a little bit of linking will tell the search engines that the linking pointing using the anchor text of “Christmas golf gifts” will say that the site being linked to has something to do with Christmas golf gifts.

So stop by Northwest Gifts and view some of the christmas golf gifts they offer!

Christmas Golf Gifts

Christmas Golf Gifts

Do you have any questions?

Gold up 67 percent

I saw it on CNN.com so it must be true!

I took a screenshot and the only edit I did was to crop this.

Gold up today 67%

Gold up today 67%

As you can see gold was up a whopping 67% and I saw it on a trusted site so it must be true!!!

The reason to bring up this obvious error is that you can not believe everything you see even on a trusted site. Always double check or triple-check before you fall for something. The Internet is full of information, yet not all of it is true. People seem to actually care less about lying on the Internet and figure than can get away with anything.

My brother called me yesterday about a company called 1and1 who he has a couple of domain names with. They advertise heavily in tech magazines and many people have used there services. I won’t say anything about them, but do some searches about 1and1 and collections. My brothers credit card had expired and he was never contacted to update his card. Now with companies I have done domain business with would send an email or 5 before the date arrived and then some after. If you did not update the card they would expire the domain name. That was not the case for my brother. See this guys experience with 1and1.

As I have said before, always check out companies before buying anything or signing a contract. Find out how they have handled customer complaints. How did they treat their customers? Any company that has done business will have someone complain, but how many customers complain about the same thing? Was it ever resolved?

Do your research and keep from being burned.

Top Search Engine Position

The promise of the #1 spot on Google or even the first page as stated in this spam below:

If you’re interested in showing up as a first page result for more search terms on google and yahoo, reply back with all addresses you’re looking to promote and the best number to contact you with details.

Sincerely,

Ken Murray

Don’t fall for it!

First, don’t respond to spam emails no matter what, if they are a spammer they probably are a scammer. If you signed up for something and then get their email, that may be a different story.

Second, you can’t always deliver on the promise unless you are willing to go blackhat and use techniques that will get a high position for a time and then when Google finds out your site is banned or delisted completely. If this is your path, you might want to use generic domain names that you can throw away when you are done with it.

We took on the SEO for CDS Publications and did tell them we should have a number of top 10 positions after a month and more after two months. So far this is what they are seeing. Even with an older domain with PR3 and nothing coming up in the top 150, you can’t make a promise. Some of the terms are highly competitive and those take more time, others that are specific or have their business name in should be possible in a short amount of time after optimization and proper linking.

So, to recap, be careful with companies that make you huge promises in the area of SEO! Do some research on their company name to see what kinds of complaints are found, don’t let this dissuade you alone since almost every company will have something negative written about them, but find out how they handled the complaints or how many of the same complaint you find.

 

SEO Spam

Here is another example of SEO Spam:

Dear Website Owner,

65% of people searching the Internet will never find your web site unless you’re ranked on first page of Google, MSN, or Yahoo. If I help you obtain as much as 4 times more WEB traffic to your online business by promoting you to the first page of the search engines would you be interested?

Our company is on the first page when you search on Google for our primary search term “SEO Company.” We would like to do the same for your web site so you can come up for your main keywords as well? All of our processes use the most ethical “white hat” Search Engine Optimization techniques that will not get your website banned or penalized.

This special SEO program includes:
• No upfront fees
• A month-to-month program
• More traffic guaranteed

Please reply to my email and I would be happy to send you a proposal.
______________________________________________________________________
Sincerely,
Deepak LN

501 VERDUGO WAY
WESTLAKE VILLAGE , CA
91362 – USA
______________________________________________________________________
Simply reply with opt out if not interested to hear from us.

That last line is something to warn you about as well. DON’T reply to any spam! That only lets them know it is a good address to send spam to, they won’t remove you, but add you instead and probably add you to the list they sell.

Like the last post about these scams, always do some research. Chances you are reading this because you searched for this company and hopefully you will find your answers before you lose money.

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