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Every now and then it’s a great idea to follow up on a web site’s progress.  Even if the client wants nothing more than a economical small web site placed up and can’t afford to purchase any marketing for the web site.  Today we’ll following up on a company, Pateco, that just wanted a basic web site and had absolutely no budget for marketing the web site.  That’s ok, because we always throw in our Basic SEO package for free with every full site web design package.

The Basic SEO package is quite extensive.  It won’t get you to the top of the Google pile for very competitive key phrases like “Health Supplements” , but it will help separate you and help you out-compete the other web sites that haven’t done any on page SEO.  Our Basic SEO is basically a full site run, professional on page SEO effort.  This is more extensive (at least at Dream Designs it is) than you think.  The process is partially secret but here’s the things we do that we can publish:

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The SEO glossary has found a more permanent home at:

http://blog.texxsmith.com/web-design-references/seo-glossary

Please update your bookmarks and links.

This guy makes some great points about competing in the local search market. Remember, it is a competition, not an automatic thing. You’re not going to be automatically listed #1 on Google for Florida Web Design just because you submitted your web site to Google and you are actually in Florida. On a smaller scale it’s the same for St. Petersburg Web Design. just because you are in St. Petersburg and you tell Google doesn’t mean that the national companies aren’t fighting hard for your spot.

He doesn’t really give away a lot of tips but he does highlight the challenges that most small businesses don’t understand.

Microsoft’s latest search engine, “Bing” (at bing.com) was launched yesterday. That’s far ahead of when anyone thought.

The good news is that the preview that I wrote a review about, was evidently inaccurate in some way, or at least didn’t communicate properly how Bing would work.

I’ve only done a little testing on it so far, but at the moment it looks super relevant.

Maybe this is is why Google finally stepped up it’s relevancy a bit (it still has a long way to go).

The new Digg Bar seems innocent enough.  But there are things that could be bad for SEO, bad for search engines, bad for searchers and especially bad for website owners.

1. The Digg bar routes all Digg articles and links to the Diggbar URL, thus robbing you of Page rank in an effort to have their Digg article about your page replace your page in the search engine results. It works too!
2. The Digg bar frames your content and presents it as their own to the Search engines and some users are even confused into thinking the content s on digg.com
3. The short url (tiny url), raises duplicate content concerns. Perhaps a mini-flood of it real quick.
4. Digg claims a page view for itself every time a user views any web page with the toolbar active.
5. The Digg bar rewrites all the links on the page it’s displaying into Digg urls thus robbing the user of being able to bookmark your site properly and generally screwing up some web applications.

Expect another article on this subject after this software is tested by our staff. There’s a lot of positives to be found here too.

– TxS

Here’s a rather dry but informative video that tackles the oft subtle differences between White Hat, Grey Hat and Black Hat link building methods: