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Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

briancarter — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:37:08 -0000

Andy, this is awesome, can't believe I didn't see it sooner. As an SEO and a climber, this is perfect for me! Thanks! I think you just onsited Mt Google. ;-) And on the SEO + climbing topic, check out http://www.rockclimbingindo...

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

arinsblogcdyt — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:50:31 -0000

Thanks for the nice post. Great post as usual. I strongly believe in team work and with a good team work we can climb The Heights Of Mount Google.

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

ottoboettcher1 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:20:30 -0000

Slowly but surely. A good strategy indeed.

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Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

SEO Blog — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:15:39 -0000

Really very interesting heading for the post. I think its hard to start up but once you reach a point things get better.

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

Teresita Ledesma — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:24:55 -0000

I like your articles especially google mountain. I wish to be back for more information and thanks.

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alexsmith — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:04:57 -0000

Really nice blog. An interesting article

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allmaritime — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:36:05 -0000

OH God ... I'm also asking if is possible to me to climb a big mountain in my country (Romania) and the same question I'm asking if I can understand the Google system how it works ... . And to fiind the secret of Eric and Larry the owners of Google is like I take a helicopter to climb the big mountain from my mind.

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ppc campaign management — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:55:09 -0000

I think PPC is an essential tool for anyone to "Climb Mount Google". Not only can you target very specific key search phrases, you learn how to better optimize your site for Google which in turns boosts your organic search rankings!

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

Malibu I Do — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:36:39 -0000

Not often I see pictures of Tom Cruise, helicopters, belays & human pyramids explaining a technical point. Very clever.

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

Erik Organic — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:52:16 -0000

Some good ideas to think about ... thank you.

(A new site is going up in around 1 week that's well-integrated with blogger and picasa, with most of the images being hosted by google).

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

AndyBeard — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:55:19 -0000

There are the less obvious routes

Be the blog mouthpiece of Microsoft (Robert Scoble)
Developer relations for Adobe Flash
Google Employee blogs
Leverage your brand as a journalist
Existing stars seem to pick up lots of followers on Twitter, easy to leverage into links

With small business it is a little harder but not impossible

Here is an example

Currently you seem to be publishing your blog on your Volusion hosting, plus using images through out your site directly from the same hosting.

That is probably costing you a small fortune, or it would if you had a lot of traffic.

Here is what I would do (if you are otherwise happy with Volusion)

Set up a Cname blog.erikorganic.com pointing to some 3rd party hosting
Set up a Wordpress blog with a good gallery theme to highlight stunning pictures and videos.
Change all your media links on the Volusion cart to use the images on your blog hosting (though make sure they allow this - with some hosting that might be looked on as being used for media hosting)

Document the whole process with great pictures - I am sure lots of other Volusion store owners would appreciate the tutorial and possibly link to you.

I bet lots of your customers have got blogs, and would love to tell their audience about the new table or bed they purchased.
Why not provide them with an image of their purchase along with link text to the appropriate site section or model within one of your thankyou emails.
Create "link to us" links on each product page, with image, but have the image from your other server

Work on building a mailing list, maybe with an incentive for signing up
Attack prospects from multiple angles - work out your conversion rates and lifetime customer values - see what you can offer affiliates - possibly offer a free hand crafted item in exchange for a mailing address, or a DVD on Amish furniture.
Maybe an ebook on what to look out for when buying hand-crafted furniture.
Also take advantage of the free training Stompernet provided in their recent relaunch of Formula Five.
http://andybeard.eu/2047/i-...

Investing money in learning how to make more money from each prospect, so you have more money to spend on traffic and other growth is a killer option.

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

Erik Organic — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:42:24 -0000

Andy,

Could you articulate the 'VIP Ticket' concept a big more fully? Perhaps in another blog post?

I'd be curious what techniques might be adapted by small businesses.

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

AndyBeard — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:52:57 -0000

It is only in very rare circumstances that someone linking to you will have a negative effect on your rankings, and then in all the cases I have seen, it was due to specific tactics used such as spammy anchor text in WordPress themes spread virally.

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

Brian Lagoni — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:44:28 -0000

I'm just getting in to climing this mountain... And sometimes it looks kind of scary. But i guess it is all about strapping on the helmet and just start climbing.

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

Hellas — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:23:17 -0000

I completly agree with this guy.

You should also count that you can not control who links you. World is so small, someone will end up on your blog and decide that it likes it.
Logical thing you get blogroll link on his site.
If blogroll links can drop you are PR then people would use that to sabotage competition.

Worst case scenario is that Search Engine will disregard blogroll links that leads to your site.

However it can penalize you if you have to much blogroll links on your site.

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

David Lamb — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:33:58 -0000

I agree with one of the original commentators that blogrolls have the potential to sink your blog. This has happened to me in the past. Still, as you suggest, teamwork is the best solution to get high pagerank and traffic for your blog. That often consists of getting solid relationships through networking.

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

Arlene Myers — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:29:57 -0000

Nice article and interesting to read. Every pictures represents to each task that we might want to accomplish.

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Internet SEO — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:38:38 -0000

Pat, I'd have to respectfully disagree. It's how you implement blogrolls.

Just to preface, I design my website for my human visitors first, search engines are an afterthought.

There is nothing wrong with having a blogroll of several highly relevant, trusted, and useful blogs listed on every page for your readers.

The problem is listing hundreds of blogs including those that are less trusted or relevant, THOSE will hurt you.

Search engines are getting better at understanding what is useful for a visitor, and that is how their algorithms are adapting.

To come out and blanket suggest "DONT DO BLOGROLLS!" sounds very simplistic to me.

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

Ben Cornelius Videography — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:25:27 -0000

In your follow up, I think you've got it all wrong. I actually found it refreshing; the topical content, the visual analogies to otherwise completely mathematical concepts. Keep the faith man, you did well. I got the message loud and clear. Much like any solid structure, good things take time and sound method to build.

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

Leo Vidal — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:55:08 -0000

This has been a great and interesting chain of comments to read along with the post. I'm a bit confused, but heck, what else is new. This is stuff I'd never thought of. Thanks.

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

science of health — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:20:32 -0000

Google is definatly a mountain, i first assumed that it wasnt when i got into blocking and thought it was a small hill to climb to the top. Ha was I wrong

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

Mike@Seo Web Design Services — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:44:33 -0000

Great post and comments. Google will not mark your website down for sitewide links, they may just not give then any value at all, especially if the sites are not related.

I am still climbing, slowly but surely does it, might see you at the top when I am grey and old.

Thanks

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

Scott frm Texas Divorce Online — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:35:49 -0000

It's not easy to reach the top especially if you've got lots of competition. This also applies in SEO theres no shortcut you have to do it slowly and and plan it carefully.

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

Michiel Van Kets — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:20:49 -0000

well, true that was a porr, aggresive comment and indeed a good reply.

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I don't use blogroll, just because "'m just not that much in blogging at all. still interested in the concept I gather information (which is why I'm here reading this blog :)) abd I didn't know about the 'how blog-roll can kill', although it doesn't surprise me, as site wide links are known to do this anyway.

but ok, point being; despite he's negative comment ... it has turned out to be useful ... ok, now I'm going to read the blog roll killer page ... see ya :)

Re: Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

Rapidshare downloads — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:20:12 -0000

Good metaphor's, also very nice pictures you added. Having somebody at the top to pull you up or having lots of $$$ in my opinion are the easiest ways of getting high on google. Look at bing, spend 100 million dollars and you're everywhere.