The most amazing Tiffany Lamps and Chandeliers.  Beautiful for any room in the house.

If you’re looking for Furniture, then look no further than Reed’s County Store in Center Square, PA. They carry a variety of furniture, such as Riverside Furniture, Powell Furniture, Pulaski Furniture, Bedroom Furniture and the list goes on. They’ve been serving Montgomery County since 1925. Find out more today! Read more

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Center Square, PA 19422

Phone:  610-275-9426

76% of advertisers use organic SEO and  71% use ppc advertising

85% of all internet sessions involve a search engine

Why is SEO/SEM vitally important to higher ed marketing?

• Cost to generate one lead is averating $55 CPL in our industry (some paying $100 CPL)
• This means to generate an average of 2,000 leads per month, it would cost $11,000 per month - or $1.3 million and up annually
• Search provides opportunity to engage with the prospective student from point of first interest aka "the search" (rather than waiting until they get in touch later in the funnel)

Organic SEO

• The actual search results (rather than sponsored top or right bar)
• Google has 50.8% of market share; yahoo has 24%, MSN 8.4%, AOL 6.1%, Ask 2.1%
• Goals: increase search engine rank on selected keywords; increase overall traffic to the site.
• Spiders index everything (not pictures
• Listings appear beneath paid results, ranking cannot be controlled
• Free
• natural ranking is based on the quality and quantity of relevant site data indexed and the number of quality inbound links to the site
• Results displayed based on a match between the search terms used

SEO Steps to Good Rankings

• Keywords: High traffic, low competition, good fit for business
• i.e. don't rely on Catholic if you are a Catholic college - too much competition
• Content: must  be relevant to search term and contain quality information
• Page Elements: body copy, title tag, meta keywords, meta Description, Alt Tag - make these all what search engines want to see
• Link popularity: directory submissions, press releases, blogging, article submissions
• Make it easy to crawl: clean HTML, no "black hat" techniques (can get you blacklisted)

Keyword Strategy:

• Start with a wide universe of keywords
• Select keywords with the right combination of low competition and high traffic
• select keywords that are relevant to your site and to your business
• Broke site into sections (i.e. title tag) and made sure keywords were mentioned within each section
• Embed keywords in outgoing content - press releases etc.  You get a link, and keywords!
• measure by visibility score and organic search traffic

KPIs

• Visibility Score, Traffic, Link popularity
• Visibility of keywords by search engine

You can get a lot of this data from google adwords reporting - can see exactly which keywords are getting clicks etc - mmbc

Paid Search

• At the top/side
• Google has 74% market share of paid search marketing.  Yahoo! 19%, MSN 6%
• Placement: Determined by CTR and how much you bid - you can't just bid your way to the top
• Cost: bidding for a spot, bid for position against others buying the same terms; you pay $0.01 more than the next highest bid

Some thoughts on AdWords:  find a lot of keywords have a required minimum bid unlike facebook.  These are crazy high - $8, $12 - but you end up paying much less.  Have to raise the bid to the high amount or Google simply won't activate your keyword - mmbc

Google

• Search Network & Content Network (1000's of extra websites were Google places ads - if your search word appears in the text of that website or gmail message than your ad will be displayed, can target by site, time of day, geography, age)
• You control the budget, demographics, keywords - everthing
• Adgroup - groups of keywords (100's of 1000's keywords at no cost)

Paid Search campaigns

• Build comprehensive keyword list
• Create Adword groups for similar words
• Select offers

Best landing page practices

• Clear headline and  compelling copy
• picture of the offer
• minimal navigation
• appealing image

Example:

Made a very specific, page - took CPL from $300 to $40.

Then did custom pages for each degree and certificate program - took CPL to $22.74

battery is dead!

For REAL immediacy, of course, there's Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising.  Whether this counts as SEO copywriting is a moot point, although PPC does rely heavily for its success on good keyword selection that relates to tightly configured AdGroups, well-optimised landing pages and keyword-focused small ads.

It hardly matters, but PPC is firmly rooted in the search engine marketing (SEM) stable.  For purists who see SEO copywriting solely as a way to achieve higher website rankings, we have to be talking about optimised website copy, complete with appropriate keywords, meta tags and smooth, semantic syntax!

Other link-building tools which also draw on SEO copywriting skills include online PR and article marketing although, in this context, their SEO uses are focused on improving a website's search engine rankings.

For businesses looking to generate sales and qualified leads in the most straightforward and cost-effective way, SEO copywriting and the improvements it can make in organic search engine ranking make it an essential secret weapon in any marketer's armoury.

.com and .co.uk addresses can be bought for a few dollars, whilst an educational or governmental domain cannot be just bought from your average registrar. As a result, search engines like Google place great merit on a link that comes out from such a domain. As a result (and opinions vary), an outbound link from an educational domain may well produce a higher ranking (by a factor of 10 according to some estimates) than that coming from a regular .com style domain. This is because a link from such a site is considered reputable and to have some significant credibility. Suddenly having a bit of real estate on a .ac.uk domain becomes an interesting proposition.

What does this mean for Blackhatters? Well - I can see an increased amount of persuasion by SEO specialists of .ac.uk domain participants to somehow link back to their own domains. As the participant in a number of .ac.uk domains (with the right to create content on public space on University web sites), I can imagine that subtle pressure will be applied to get me to endorse commercial propositions through linking. The same will apply to civil servants (some of whom earn the minimum wage), medical staff and other publicly funded employees with access to public web space.

I can see what people are trying to achieve, but there are significant numbers of people with access to space who do not realise the consequences of this. And when it starts to affects rankings between competitors, I imagine that a lot of whistle-blowing will occur. Someone fairly innocent is going to get a kicking.

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Palabras clave + ubicaciones

En lugar de vernos obligados a crear campañas separadas para palabras clave y para ubicaciones de los avisos, Google nos da la posibilidad de incluir ambos parámetros en una misma campaña permitiendo que interactúen para orientar más acertadamente los anuncios dentro de la red de contenido.

Por ejemplo, podríamos especificar la palabra clave *flores* y la ubicación *www.sitioejemplo.com.ar*. La modalidad anterior, o básica, nos permitía colocar el aviso en aquellos sitios que contextualmente incluyan esa palabra clave, luego se agregaron las posibilidades de excluir sitios (indicando URL), temas (a elegir en un menú), y redes (indicando direcciones IP), ahora podemos agregar la posibilidad de mostrar el anuncio en toda la red de contenido, pero incrementando, si así lo deseáramos, la oferta cuando *flores* active la publicación de su anuncio en *www.sitioejemplo.com.ar*. Además de esto, si lo preferimos, el anuncio puede aparecer únicamente en *www.sitioejemplo.com.ar*, por supuesto, cuando el contenido de dicho sitio guarde relación con la palabra clave *flores*.

Las nuevas opciones están disponibles sólo para la red de contenido. (Las opciones para la red de búsqueda siguen siendo las mismas que hasta ahora). Tal como lo hacíamos antes, podemos elegir desactivar o activar la red de contenido. La diferencia es que ahora, cuando la red de contenido está activada, se verán dos opciones más relacionadas al lugar donde pueden aparecer los anuncios:

• En páginas relevantes en toda la red de contenido
• En páginas relevantes sólo en las ubicaciones a las que oriento mi anuncio

Podemos elegir una de las dos, pero no las dos. La opción *Páginas relevantes en toda la red* significa que los anuncios pueden aparecer en cualquier lugar dentro de la red de contenido de Google, siempre y cuando el contenido de esas páginas coincida en concordancia perfecta con nuestras palabras clave. (Ésta es la configuración predeterminada cuando creamos una campaña comenzando con palabras clave.) La opción *Páginas relevantes sólo en las ubicaciones a las que oriento mi anuncio* significa que los anuncios aparecerán sólo en las ubicaciones que nosotros elijamos.

Microsoft will angeblich im nächsten Jahr das Konkurrenz-Produkt zu Google-Adsense auf den Markt werfen. Es geht natürlich darum, dem Branchenprimus weitere Marktanteile zu stehlen. Schon die Idee mit dem Cash-Back Anzeigen in der Microsoft-Suche ging klar in diese Richtung. Mit einem solch agressiven Vorgehen kann Microsoft es durchaus schaffen zumindestens auf dem amerikanischen Markt Boden gut zu machen.

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Dr Kerry Swanson

Department of Geological Sciences

University of Canterbury

from: http://probelog.com/span/

The use of forms from SEM imaging is prolific in today’s architectural schools and in cutting edge built structures. Dr Swanson’s seminar on his work using SEM and taxonomy emphasizes to me that these images are not just pretty forms to be copied into large scale architectural structures. Through taxonomy; the capturing, identifying and study of microscopic forms enlightens us of a whole new world. With only 2/3 of all species categorized, our knowledge of what is possible can still grow. This is not to find forms not yet conceived, but to understand how these forms work: the movement of a spider’s knee, the cutting barbs of a sand fly, the formation of a spider’s web.  The now possible three dimensional images with the understanding of why these shapes exist, can lead to meaningful architecture.

Long tail, jak i czy jest sens?



Pozycjonowanie i optymalizacja strony www pod kątem tzw. "long tail" (długiego ogona) sprowadza się w przeważającej części do odpowiedniego zoptymalizowania serwisu, ale nie tylko. Szczególnie istotne przy long tail jest wyróżnienie najczęściej zmieniających się i aktualizowanych danych. Są to np. tytuły aktualności, tytuły wątków forum internetowego, nazwy produktów w sklepie, tytuły wpisów na blogu, itd. Wyróżnienie tych elementów to nie tylko umieszczenie ich w nagłówku, ale również powtórzenie tych elementów i innych elementach struktury strony, dynamiczne przetwarzanie tych elementów i generowanie z nich elementów podobnych będących inną kombinacją słów. Niezwykle istotna jest tutaj, więc głęboka analiza kodu i struktury strony oraz ewentualne wzbogacenie jej nowymi treściami. To są zmiany, które powinni przygotować i wdrożyć analityk SEO oraz Web developer. To wszystko jednak jest to tylko połowa sukcesu. Reszta leży w rękach redaktora serwisu chcącego korzystać z dobrodziejstwa long tail. Osoba pisząca teksty na strony www powinna zadbać nie tylko o poprawność językową treści i stworzenie ciekawego tekstu, który ludzie będą chcieli czytać. Bardzo ważne jest aby taka osoba posiadała chociaż podstawowe wiadomości na temat copywritingu. Redaktor/Copywriter pisząc tekst musi wczuć się w rolę internauty. Musi przewidzieć jakich fraz związanych z daną treścią może poszukiwać internauta za pomocą wyszukiwarki i umiejętnie "wpleść" te frazy do tekstu.



Sporo osób uważa, że obecnie nie ma sensu pozycjonować fraz trudnych jednowyrazowych typu sklep, wakacje, budownictwo, itd. ze względu na ogromną ilość energii, czasu i pieniędzy jaką trzeba na to poświęcić, a efekty mogą być pomimo tego niezadowalające. To wszystko przy spadającej ilości wyszukiwań fraz ogólnych prowadzi sporo sporą część pozycjonerów do wniosku, iż pozycjonowanie fraz ogólnych nie ma sensu. Co oczywiście nie do końca jest prawdą, a w zasadzie w ogóle nie jest prawdą. Promowanie strony na jakąkolwiek frazę ogólną prowadzi do poprawy pozycji strony w wynikach wyszukiwania wszystkich fraz "pochodnych" (zawierających to słowo ogólne).





Pozycjonowanie stron www regionalnie





Ten typ pozycjonowania sprowadza się do pozycjonowania witryny na wybrane frazy kluczowe i ich kombinacje połączone z nazwami regionów, miejscowości, miast, itp. Ten typ pozycjonowanie jest szczególnie atrakcyjny dla witryn firm i instytucji prowadzących działalność usługową o ograniczonym zasięgu oraz pewnych fraz, które charakteryzuje wysoki współczynnik wyszukiwania (np. usługi remontowe Warszawa). Często są to frazy zaskakujące, w stosunku do których ciężko mówić o jakiejkolwiek regionalności usług. Takim przykładami może być np. pozycjonowanie Rzeszów, pozycjonowanie Warszawa, Pozycjonowanie Kraków. Pozycjonowanie jest usługą świadczoną w płaszczyźnie internetu, więc trudno tu mówić o pozycjonowaniu w danym mieście czy regionie.



Pozycjonowanie okresowe



Pozycjonowanie okresowe można podzielić na jednorazowe i cyklicznie powtarzające się. Pierwszy z tych typów pozycjonowania dotyczy fraz związanych najczęściej z bierzącymi lub przyszłymi wydarzeniami. Istnieją osoby, które specjalizują się w wyszukiwaniu i przewidywaniu takich fraz, które są lub będą niezwykle popularne przez krótki okres czasu. Ten typ promocji jest szczególnie istotny w przypadku serwisów ogólnoinformacyjnych.



Pozycjonowanie okresowe cykliczne jest najbardziej rozpowszechnione w branży turystycznej, ale jest również zauważalne np. w branżach "rolnictwo", nieznacznie "motoryzacja". Ruch w pozycjonowaniu stron związanych z tymi branżami jest szczególnie widoczny na 2-3 miesiące przed rozpoczęciem się sezonu największej intensywności wyszukiwania słów i fraz związanych z daną branżą.

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Judy Capuano
5000 Chichester Avenue
Aston, PA 19014
Phone: 610-485-1991

Dental Health Care Associates

Judy Capuano
5000 Chichester Avenue
Aston, PA 19014
Phone: 610-485-1991

Dental Health Care Associates

Judy Capuano
5000 Chichester Avenue
Aston, PA 19014
Phone: 610-485-1991

 
Ann Marie DiTomaso, Sales Manager
31 Mount Pleasant Drive (Suite A)
Aston, PA 19014

Phone: 610-558-8770
Fax: 610-558-2031

Just passed 10,000 views this month (with more than 11 days to go)...

I would have never imagined close to 10,000 people a month would visit this blog.  The keys: a bit of controversy stirred up by a little unfortunate event that happened a couple weeks ago, posts about Korean women & Korean music videos, a few posts about some handy Korean language phrases & an image about a dog that was attacked by a porcupine.  Oh, and maybe the other 450+ posts over the past 18 months. 

With recent averages and about 11+ days to go, I'm thinking I'll be surpassing the 15,000 mark by the end of the month.  That almost eclipses the previous high of close to 8500 views when a few posts about Facebook hoaxes took this blog to reaches unknown in the winter of last year.

It's been an interesting online ride thus far...

My name is Shimrit Ben Eliahu and I'm a student who is currently working in a Web Marketing company. I'm interested in Web marketing, SEO, social media and web 2.0 marketing, SEM, websites analytics and more. There are also many other things on the net that I find very fascinating to write about, especially Internet news, updates, consumers' view on the web, and other things that happen in our world.

I study Business Administration and work in a part time position as a marketing coordinator. The company I work for is a young and dynamic organization that supplies marketing and web 2.0 solutions to its clients. In this job, I have exposed to many different aspects of the web marketing world. Here I'm going to share my ideas and thoughts.

This is going to be a very diverse blog, and I hope you'll be able to find whatever

interests you in it.

In a nutshell, I help agencies set up, manage and maintain their pay-per-click campaigns on adCenter, the platform Microsoft built a couple of years ago in answer to Google's Adwords and Yahoo's Overture.  Not familiar with either of those?  I'll try to summarize.

When you go to a search engine like Live.com and enter in some keywords, your search results page will display two types of listings: organic and pay-per-click, or "sponsored" listings.  The organic ones are the larger ones to the left -- these are the results that the search engine's algorithm brought back based on the relevance of the page to the keywords searched on.  The pay-per-click listings are the smaller ones off to the right, they also appear based on relevance to the keywords searched on, but these are paid for by advertisers who bid on keywords relevant to the products/services they're trying to promote.  Much like Ebay, the top bidder gets the higher positioning.

On the back end of getting those paid ads to appear is a web-based platform where advertisers create their campaigns, ad groups, ads and keywords.  AdCenter is that platform for Microsoft.  You can learn more about adCenter by visiting the adCenter Community site.

I'm going to refrain from delving much deeper than this on any SEM topics as whatever I could say has most likely already been covered a thousand times over on innumerable sites dedicated to search engine marketing.  In addition, anything that I write that's going to be worth posting will be going up on the adCenter Community site.

I understand the stated pros and cons of both paid and organic search strategies, but am really struggling to say that paid search is a "necessary" option and that marketing budget, or at least that much of it, should be dedicated to paid search and not reallocated to other programs.  *I will note now that I'm speaking specifically about the use of paid search around Quest's products of the SQL Server BU.*

Here's why: 
1.  Quest has been in business with a web presence for about twenty years - so what? Well, the point here is that we have a web site that has been a destination for hundreds of thousands of visitors (customers and prospects) so that simple traffic shouldn't be a concern in terms of contributing to our search ranking
2.  We have a pretty large telesales team that is constantly driving traffic to our site - everyday
3.  Our customer marketing team helps promote activities that we're doing by using email marketing tactics (they blast customers and prospects who can forward on the ecards that are used to promote specific activities)
4.  We have a dedicated web team that is in the process of redesigning our website and shaping content and usability to be optimal for visitors to the site and its pages
5.  This one actually builds on number two, but again, our internal web resources are able to ensure proper use of keywords, meta-tags, title tags, and meta-descriptions which are good ways to improve SEO

So, as you can see here by these five examples, we have ALOT of people performing tasks that at the end of the day are helping push the popularity of our website UP and are not part of a paid search strategy.  I understand  that a truely smart search strategy will blend organic and paid elements, which is probably great for a small business or business that is relatively 'young' in their web presence.  BUT, I don't know that for our BU that paid search is an area where a large investment should be made - especially if we can use that budget to do more varied activities for raising awareness and lead generation.

The head scratching continues....

• Good design
• Proper and appropriate content
• User friendly

The keywords as well the key-phrases in a SEO should be applied properly. With a SEO you can improve your ranking on search engine result pages. Moreover SEO is known as a well practiced process that requires far-reaching commitment of resources with time and proficiency.
Bottom line - SEO not only drives more traffic towards your site but also helps in online business appreciation.

Website design Mumbai

As of now, "search" is the second most-popular activity online next to checking emails. This is the reason why we need to market our sites to those search engines. We market for better visibility and traffic! We are targeting potential clients through search engines, the highest quality traffic your website can get.

In this blog, I'm going to share SEO tips and guide. Like on page and off page optimization, seo news, seo tools, seo tricks, blogging, etc... But all things that I'm about to share are FREE!

To add up, i will also discuss some relevant topics about philippine real estate, industrial equipments, free video conferencing, and ppc search engine internet marketing.

Just do with below 7 tips for Link building:

One way link building
· Reciprocal link building
· Natural link building
· Blog & Forum Marketing
· Articles Marketing
· social link Building
· Making RSS Feeds

We all know are “content is king” AND that true in ever green future. And content is good factor to achieve one way or (Natural that called) link to your website. Always make related niche (related brand) with link exchange is main benefit to achieve targeted visitor. Easiest way to get high ranking in search engine result page (SERP) find out fine sources of direct traffic. Get Good Directories List with …

Article posting, when you chose articles than first read how to make TITLE subject (it means niche) for articles. Always see what hot market sound volume for your niche selection. Otherwise go through here Niche Selection. Than Just post with higher superiority articles directories (goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com etc…) with posting.

The better chance your ranking will be in search engine which means more people will discover your website through blog posting, people read updates news or latest information through blog. Good idea with join related product website and blog community.

Discussion with forum posting and share knowledge is better way to get backlink. Most probably forum not allowing more than 1 link in signature, just do only DOFOLLOW forum. And blog comment is nice way to accomplish backlink, just look at here for Blog Comment with DOFOLLOW.

RSS is XML format for easily sharing content among different Web sites such as HOT headlines. You can use with your own site with RSS feed through market your product/ brand.

In last, social link building is jumping in all over that world. Search out related sightseer in social content website like digg.com, reddit.com, sphinn.com and many more here.

NorCal SEM: Hi Liz, thanks for taking the time to speak with me.

Elizabeth: Thanks Clay for speaking with me.

NorCal SEM: I remember a year or so ago you told me you wanted to work for yourself, and last time we spoke things were picking up for you.

Elizabeth: Yes, a year ago at this time, I signed on my first independent contractor position with a start up called www.eldr.com. It was so enriching to use my background in online marketing to really help a new company get some traffic and measure their results. In fact, I kept talking about the online marketing visions I had for consumers and companies, and as a result, people in my network consistently referred more business my way. Clearly it was my passion for matching online consumers to what they were looking for through keyword centric paid traffic that allowed others to identify me in the industry as a good resource for search engine marketing in particular and online marketing in general. Eventually, after taking on a few more clients I had enough business to quit my full time job and work officially as a self-employed person. Working for myself has been truly rewarded and equally challenging.

NorCal SEM: I understand you're currently working with a local non-profit; who are they?

Elizabeth: The local non-profit I'm working for and that I am chairing is the Marin Wine Auction hosted by Keiretsu Forum Charitable Foundation, the charitable arm of Keiretsu Forum, the largest angel investor network. Keiretsu Forum focuses on bringing angel investors together to invest in early stage companies in the high tech and consumer goods industries. I love that one of the four tenants of membership is PHILANTHROPY! In the past, the major annual philanthropic event has been a golf auction, and this year, to celebrate the launch of Keiretsu Forum's North Bay chapter, we decided to showcase the Marin wine industry, who will be pouring together for the first time ever at our event, and help some wonderful North Bay 501 (c) 3 organizations. Complete list of beneficiaries and participating wineries at our website.

NorCal SEM: That sounds really fun, but also like a lot of work. How have you incorporated SEM into your marketing efforts for the auction, or I guess, more importantly, what is your overall online marketing strategy for raising awareness for this event?

Elizabeth: It is a lot of fun! The event will raise about $250,000 for local charities which makes me feel really good...so...I'm plugging for everyone who can to buy tickets to do so and make the Marin Wine Auction part of your 2008 giving plans...ok, no more shameless plugging. SEM for non-profits is difficult, but easier than for profit companies. There are plenty of companies that are willing to help.

Nonprofit organizations and events can benefit from using savings discounts on the following helpful sites:

1. eventbrite.com
2. acteva.com
3. paypal.com
4. google.checkout (NO FEES for transactions)
5. google.com/grants - a wonderful program that allows nonprofits to use AdWords with grant money instead of cash/credit
6. The list is endless.

My marketing strategy for Marin Wine Auction was to build the site, include all of our information, include my contact information, make site navigation simple, and post our news. I like to write interested news and blogs in the local & wine communities to see who will write an article about our event or better yet, post our event flyer. A few best practices:

1. Get to the Point: Polite, brief, and informative communication is key to win links to your site.
2. Start a database: Keep good records to track how many people you've asked, and how many people have accepted to link to you or write an article about your site or event. This database will assist you with all future communications (creating your own PR listserv effectively), but it will also help you track conversion ratios.
3. Make data-driven decisions: Use this conversion ratio to test different language in Press Releases or conversations in emails to improve your results.

This experience has taught me that there are countless online marketing resources available to nonprofits. There is the opportunity to create strong partnerships between nonprofits and online marketers. What is great about online marketing is its transparency of results. Tracking results means that performance and efficiency can improve for profit in the case of regular businesses, for increased funds in the case of nonprofit businesses.

NorCal SEM: It sounds as if you have it down…

Elizabeth: I wish I could say that I am a pioneer in the "online marketing for nonprofits" space, but the idea is neither new nor unique. One of the best sites on the internet for nonprofits is Common Grants. Common Grants seeks to use the "common application for college admissions" process and apply it to simplify the grant application process for nonprofits. Effectively setting up nonprofits to find, win, and increase funding and eliminate the painstaking time and energy that goes into each new grant application.

NorCal SEM: Thanks for all the great information. I know I’ve learned a lot. Keep me posted, I’d love to hear how the event goes. BTW, can I get some free tickets? ;o)

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The key to optimizing your searchability is through linking. Search engines like Google and Yahoo send out "crawlers" that screen the internet for related subject material. Think of your page as a building; the more roads leading to your location the easier it is for people to access it. One of the easiest ways to link to other pages and get recognized is through blogging. By consistenly posting on blogs you are not only carving multiple paths through cyberspace, you're also developing a name for yourself in the blogosphere. Make people want to reference you as an authority and deepen the significance of your links.

Ever heard the term "consistency is key" (?). No where is this more true than in branding. And when it's search engine optimization you're after, it's all about delivering a consistently branded message. If you're taking advantage of the blogosphere, make sure your messages match and so too do your screen names and personal information. The goal is to build as many paths to your page without too many forks in the road.

Next to linking, the second most important factor in organic SEO is tagging. Tags are the code through which search engines and web pages communicate. By manipulating the meta tags to incorporate keywords that reflect your brand, you can boost your searchability. A few important things to keep in mind:

1. You can't include every key word on the planet. Search engine's are intelligent enough to label these type of meta tags as spam.

2. Your web content must be reflective of these keywords. This is where great writing comes into play. Make sure all copy (particularly the home page copy) contains the key words embedded within it. Note: This is also true for optimizing a press release. Include keywords in the first few sentences of the release.

Try these sneaky tactics and squeeze your brand into the limelight for less.