Once you figure out what it takes to get to the first page you can make a plan to get there. I am doing a series of videos on how to study your competition (seo wise) for my upcoming Home Study course.

This first part is using the tool spydermate.com which gives each site a ranking score based on backlinks, page rank, alexa, compete, age and domain expiration. Now we know there are many more factors in ranking a page, but this gives us barometer to measure by.

Sypdermate.com also creates a really cool graph to easily see where improvement can be made. In this video, I take two keywords, a monster one, “Weight Loss” and a less competitive niche keyword, “Organic  Olive Oil” that I am actually interested in.

I then analyzed the sites on page one and then a couple on page 3 and put them all in a spreadsheet to take a quick snapshot of the competition. Enjoy!

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The next part in this series will study the back links of these sites to get a better understanding of why they are rank where they do and what we would need to do to get there.

About a week or so ago, a member of my last SEO Intensive Class sent this a PDF report on Page Rank to the group. No hype, no bullshit, just a very well written report on the findings of a study they did on Page Rank.

I was actually floored because for ONE, I don’t ever see other people testing things and if they do, they tend not to share the results, and TWO, that I agree with everything they reported and have been spounting it for years.

I even yelled at the audiance when I spoke at Yaniks Underground that the biggest myth in seo was that “Content was King” cause it ain’t! And of course everyone looked at me like I had 5 heads. lol

Well, without getting into all the details of the report, which I hope you download and read, here are the bullets to the myth breaking findings.

• Google doesn’t care about the “freshness” of your content.
• Google doesn’t care about the “quality” of your content.
• Google doesn’t care if you change the contents of a page
• Google doesn’t care about duplicate content
• Google doesn’t care if you change registrars or owners of a domain
• Google doesn’t care if you change hosting providers and / or servers

What does Google care about, and what is KING in the SEO world is… links, and ONLY links.

Now with that being said. I want you to note that this report is on Page Rank, and not SE rankings. For ranking, I do believe in the “freshness” of LINKs and lot’s of them.

Click the report to download and read. It is short and to the point. Let me know what you think. And thanks to Internet Marketing Blueprint for the report, you just made a new fan!

I don’t think I will stop using Directory Maximizer since I have been using them for so long. (and glad I did the test just to qualify them again) I am looking for other resources that are effortless in getting our non optimal linking done. (I will test about 5 or 6, so if you have any, email me:-)

Advanced SEO Intensive with Home Study Course.

Click to Download "Seo Quick Start Guide" PDF

SEO can be a very daunting especially for newbies, and I admit, most of my stuff is on the advanced side so I decided to create a “Seo Quick Start Guide” to help explain the basic process in an easy visual format.

The video below goes into a little more detail about each step. I also had to cut out a section of the video (so I could meet YouTube’s 10 minute guideline) where I talk about asking if anyone else knows of good places to get non optimal linking done. You know, something we can outsource to to get links up in places that generally don’t carry a link juice punch but would take care of those non optimal links we need to get done. I am compiling a list and would like it to be as complete as possible before I release THAT process map lol.

Also, my Home Study Course is coming right alone and right now if you pre order, you get my Advanced SEO Workshop recordings. (which probably won’t stay attached to that for long) They are half gone now, sooooo

I just put up the page to get the prerelase sale of my SEO Home Study Course, WITH (for a limited time) the recordings of my last Advanced SEO Workshop on building seo link networks.

dorifriend.com/HomeStudy.htm

I don’t know why this video would upload to YouTube but finally just had to upload to my server. Here is the link.

Part Two: Do Redirects Still Work?

Also, watch for email about the pre-release of my Advanced SEO workshops recordings. Links will go live tomorrow. And it will be limited and there will be conditions.

About a year ago I did some tests on redirects to see if they would rank in Google and then released a video showing the results.

As I was tooling around the other day, I ran across some interesting redirect results that brought me back to the question of redirects again.

Are they still working and has anything changed? Yes and Yes! Here is Part 1. The second part will be up shortly.

I have also created another video that will show what the results look like a year later and what actually prompted me to revisit this. This will be up later today or tomorrow.

I think you will like.

And, on another note! For you far away folks who couldn’t travel to my Advanced SEO Intensive where I REALLY DID give it all away. =:0

I am going to do a pre-release sale of the recordings of the eventso yes YOU TOO can watch over my shoulder as I reveal my secrets to building an SEO Link Network.

My attendees are already bragging to me about the results they are getting LOL.

Hopefully I can show you a screen shot one of them have sent me where he has dominated the first page of Google for his keyword with very little effort. THAT is the POWER of a SEO link network!

Just got to LOVE THAT!!

Links will go live on Wed for the recordings and I promise, they will NEVER be priced this low again.

cheers,
Dori

Long gone are the days that link directories sky rocketed our sites up the search engines but I still have a VERY useful purpose for them and it may not be what you think, but I think you will like!

I use Directory Maximizer to make my submissions. You just can’t do it for less!

As I was out shopping for deleted domains for the attendees for my upcoming workshop, I came across a “Classic” example of fake page rank that all the tools except for 1 said was valid. In this video, I show you how not to get ripped off. Enjoy!

Made a video of folks at a couple of my last workshops. It is not your normal testimonial video, I bit on the sarcastic side at first, hopefully the humor comes through