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I am sure most SEO specialists faced this, and will face it in future: when you offer an SEO presentation to brands, companies, or mega sites ( 1+ million visit per day ), you will first hear from one of the C level managers: dude we have 1 million unique visitors per day , what you will bring to us ?

Well, let me share this case with you. We started working with a local web site from the Middle East 10 days ago (mega websites in middle east get 1 million visits per month and more ), we started with an internal SEO plan. Can i shut up now and you view screen shot below :

As you saw, we jumped from 27+ k unique visitors per day, to 200+ k unique visitors per day. That’s more than 700% increase, the decline you see refers to weekend days, traffic peaked up to an average of 150+ k unique visitors per day on business days.

Of course there were shifts from source of traffic from direct to refer, and decline of staying in the website, as most know usually search engine visitors read the page they click on, then may go to homepage or another related story, then close.

Now back to our friends of the screen shot: they usually get 1+ million unique visitors per month, by the end of January 2010 we estimate the traffic of Jan will be 3+ millions unique visitors.

It was not that big surprise to us, that’s why we told them make sure you have good web hosting plan to handle the traffic.

Also we want to share with you that 15% of this internal SEO plan focuses on realtime web .

As the first stage ends and social media campaigns start for them, we estimate their traffic will reach 5+ million unique visitors per month.

The point ?

Regardless how big you think your brand is, or how loyal your customers are, a strong SEO plan will bring positive, not negative, impact .

As a fun end for this, the E-marketing manager of this website, after the fast jump called us for a meeting to say this:  I brought you here to tell you this line, and you see my facial expressions while am saying it:

FUCK YOU ARE SO GOOD.

For most of us “SEO specialists” this is worth more than money, regardless how offensive that is for some.

In the SEO business there are fair number of experts, but in Social media there are so so many social media marketing experts, many of whom are self-proclaimed gurus in their field.

The 10,000 hours line ….

To be good in anything you need to spend 10,000 hours doing it !

What exactly does it take to become a search engine optimization expert or a social media marketing expert? In both of these aspects of search engine marketing, you begin by learning.  As the ideal marketer, you gets your hands on every single search engine optimization and social media marketing book or blog you can possibly find, and then you absorb the information presented within like a sponge. You begin following the experts (you know, the real ones) online. After awhile, you’ll be book smart. You’ll know what to do and what not to do. Hopefully, if you’ve followed the right books, blogs, and people, you’ll be armed with pretty decent case studies and pretty decent material to embark on your own journey.

Learning is the easy part. Applying the knowledge is the hard part. When it relates to SEO, the ability to apply that knowledge is easy since you can either create or buy a website that lets you begin applying the skills you need to become an expert. When it comes to social media marketing, you need to build up a presence by obtaining clients of some sort. And you’ll soon learn that it’s not that easy to find them.

When we started selling social media package with SEO package, most were like why ? does it effect my SEO  results ? keep it short this is compare between Google Caffeine and Google Index :

• Rankings are unlikely to fluctuate. Taken across all of the keywords for a client there should be a tiny percentage change in ranking.
• Websites that do lose rankings are likely to be relying on older, archived content that’s not been updated in years. Keeping your site fresh to be crawled by Caffeine will be important.
• There have been no changes to give one sector any new advantage over another.
• Generic terms against long tail terms in Caffeine show a greater priority for News, Information and Social Media – which fits with generic terms being less clear in terms of the searcher’s intent.
• Only 5% of urls contain exact matches for the searched keyword, 6% of the total point score is made up by exact match urls.

Here is the latest buzz in SEO underground: CAN WE SEO SITE TO APPEAR IN REALTIME SEARCH ENGINES ?

“Trying to get to real-time with your Google SEO efforts is an elusive goal to say the least. True, Google has advanced to the point that it can index and rank a new page in minutes, but this cannot (and should not) be relied upon, nor can the resulting rank be expected to be stable. Google often folds Google News and/or Google Blog Search results into its web search results via a “onebox”—providing yet another, “back door” way of getting into Google’s main web results fast. But for a vast number of queries, such oneboxes do not appear.”

Interesting ? ok our take on this is from Static to Social to RealTime 

Is same game : play by rules, keep it clean, if you have already good SEO site, and you are known among sites, that you provide news that matter ( because No One cares about your realtime cleaning your backyard postings ! )

You will be in the game of realtime…

Search engine optimization may become less important in the future as Internet users rely more on recommendations and social media to find information. Already, people are asking questions on Twitter and Facebook instead of Google. This means that high-quality content and usability will become ever more important, because users are more likely to recommend a website if they have found it easy to use and useful. Also, search engines themselves will be smarter, meaning they’ll be able to better discern a Web page’s usefulness to a particular user.

I ran today by this quote, it’s kinda true if you run scam business ! or you push scam sites by doing blackhat methods !
But let’s compare 2 companies offering business card , both real , both legitimate business,
How you will bring B on no.1 and A down of it ?
Some people don’t get the full case..and that quote with respect didn’t get real case of SEO !

• Some thinking have title ..voila we are done.

• Some think adding couple of lines or stuffing on each page ..voila so so seo.

Some don’t even think!

WHO ? WHAT ? HOW?

BUT ..
They’re listening to the wrong people. It’s easy to form a bad opinion of just about anything if you listen to the wrong people. Just as in social media, there are plenty of people in the SEO world who promulgate myths, misstate facts and make sweeping proclamations. These things aren’t always done intentionally but the harm is done regardless. Unfortunately, the people who are most apt to do these things are often the ones who have the time to hog the spotlight and are most visible to newbies.

They’re lazy. SEO is hard work. From learning the basics to staying abreast of the latest trends to actually applying your knowledge in practice, SEO, like most things worthwhile, requires hard work and an investment of time. Out of all the people who criticize SEO, how many do you really think have actually made a reasonable effort to see what SEO can do for them?

They’re full of nonsense. A lot of the people who criticize SEO don’t really believe what they say. Take Jason Calacanis, for instance. He’s said some pretty mean things about SEO yet his company, Mahalo, is basically an SEO play. And uses some pretty aggressive tactics at that.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

“When people refer to “organic SEO” (search engine optimization), they almost always use it as a blanket term to describe the unpaid, algorithm-driven results of any particular engine. However, a sophisticated search engine optimization company will often take the meaning of “organic” one step further. ”

To such companies, the “Organic SEO” is essentially 2 Things (but not only). These are

• What shows up in the “natural” search engine results
• Methodologies used to achieve such rankings, such as great content and utilizing social media like Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Technorati, Reddit, Digg, Stumbleupon and other types of social media

A search engine optimization company using “artificial SEO” will ask, “How can I get links pointing to this site without adding anything of value to it?” The latter approach usually leads to reciprocal linking schemes, link farms, the purchase of text links, and more—anything except making changes to the Web site that entice others to link to the site without the link being reciprocated, without paying the Web site owner, or without asking “pretty please.” There is a stark contrast between “Organic SEO” and “Artificial SEO.” Of course, any decent search engine optimization company will make certain that a site is listed in all the popular directories, such as the Yahoo Directory, the Open Directory Project, and Business.com. A good search engine optimization company will also continually seek any industry specific directories where your site should be listed. But truly using “organic SEO” means evolving your site into something that holds actual value to your prospects. In my opinion, this is much more beneficial in the long run than the artificial methodology of trying to garner incoming links that the site does not truly deserve.”

Here are 3 Mini SEO Tips

1. Include a keyword in that attribution link. Stop linking your company name only and at least include the “Website Designed” portion. Even better, use something like “Designed by: Company Name – A New York Web Design Company.”
2. Once you design a few sites with your keyword-rich attribution link, change the wording. It doesn’t need to be drastically different, but create some variation. Do this periodically.
3. Create a pre-sale page on their site that features a testimonial and links back to your site. Then, link to this pre-sale page site-wide from the footer of their design. This will help you avoid the negatives of the run of site links, while getting a link from a page with a lot of internal PageRank flowing to it.

nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring

We never used it , we will never use it. and if you can get over giving too many links ,then you are good.

Early today we were attending brainstorm on how to have new approach, for one of our regional partner, sometimes it’s just God blessing people don’t know us , there were some whispering about seo companies in middle east.

Let’s just be clear :

AIGCMIDDLEAST proclaims itself to be “the leader in social media solutions.” AIGCMIDDLEAST  provides social media platforms to corporations and has a strong SEO business, creating niche website content tailored to search engines.

 YES WE DO FOR JORDAN MARKET , AND FOR MIDDLE EAST WITHIN 3-6 MONTH FROM NOW.

Below some questions and wonders, we have as company, some we know for sure the answer, rest are open to discuss :

1. Does Twitter have any effect on your SEO plan ?

Yes and No..if your story gets many RT , then you will get free links back.

2. Is Twitter  the first stage of NOW WEB ?

Well we think yes…and it will get another shapes soon if you bring cellphones to the game.

3.What if google buys Twitter ?

Not a good thing ..but if Microsoft gets Twitter, the Revolution will start, we want Google to feel the losing taste to kick things.

4. How far google is from NOW WEB?

6 months late ! but craweling is getting better day after day.

5. Does my blog have higher chance to be in NOW WEB than my site?

Yes of course, unless you have news site and google knows about it.

6. What should i do ?

Go extreme on everything . Never delay any plan.Things will get new shapes within 6-18 months from now. 

@amous

We got this question once every couple of days, so how to stay current on seo and all these new ways ?

Ok here is how we stay current :….. Lol of course we will never share it .

BUT SEO BlOGS IS A GOOD START FOR YOU

As you may have heard, Google recently announced testing of a
new, more powerful version of their search engine technology.

It’s code-named “Caffeine”

Now, as business people who rely on SEO, any time Google gives
us some insights into what they have planned for the future, we
need to pay attention.

So what can we learn from what Google is telling us about the
future of search?  Here’s a quote I think is particularly
telling:

“It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the
envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness
and other dimensions.”

I think that one sentence tells us all we need to know about
where we need to be moving, and here’s how:
1. Size and Indexing Speed: This tells us that Google is going
to be crawling more pages and indexing them FASTER.  This
continues Google’s focus on fresh content – so many new pages
are created every day, they can’t keep up.

2. Accuracy: This indicates that the sites that will continue
to “win” the search game are going to be the ones that can
correctly match up the searcher’s keywords with the content
they were actually looking for.  Google indicates that they’re
interested not only in what sites people click on, but what the
searcher’s behavior is once they arrive.

With that in mind, success will come from testing and adjusting
your pages to better serve your visitors.  It will no longer be
enough to focus on the keywords alone, but on actually making
your content relevant to what those searchers want.

One way to do this is through careful organization of your site
structure, organizing information in ways that people will find
useful, not just search spiders.

3. Comprehensiveness: To me, this indicates that Google will
continue to heap love upon “authority” sites – ones that do a
really good job of completely covering their selected niche.

In Google’s never-ending quest for relevance, Google wants to
see sites that can indicate a thorough and comprehensive
resource for what people are searching for.  This is why it’s
important to continue to build pages that rank for ALL your
relevant keywords.

It’s not just about the individual SERPS, but the “profile”
that a comprehensive site creates.  I can imagine that this
focus could be partly to combat “SERP Spamming” tactics where
results are flooded with multiple, largely identical copies of
the same information spread across multiple Web 2.0 sites.

More and more, it’s going to be important to create sites with
larger and larger collections of content in order to really
dominate the listings.

Once again, Google shows that they prefer larger, older sites
that are packed with useful information.

So even though there’s been a lot of buzz around this
announcement and lots of speculation, I don’t think you need to
change too much if you’re already doing your SEO the StomperNet
way.  What’s working in Google now for us appears to be exactly
what they want to encourage.  In fact, they want MORE of it,
FASTER.

So get started today, so by the time Caffeine comes out of
BETA, you’ll be so far ahead of your competition they may never
be able to catch up…call
aigcmiddleast
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Twitter Marketing, Facebook Strategy, Community Building

WHAT ?

Some would like to define that as social media, but is it  a Strategy ?

One thing we are sure about it’s social a proof and culture shift .

One of the best ways to encourage a culture shift and social proof , is by embracing it in a top-down fashion. A CEO that writes a blog or uses Twitter is likely to inspire employers to become more social as well.

In the end it doesn’t matter if you “understand” social media or have a great strategy. Without a corporate culture or social proof that conducive to transparency, customer service, and good content; you’re destined to fail. Slowly building the culture and proof while integrating social media may be the best idea for a majority of businesses.

We believe that the next generation of business will be led by a network of independents, many having worked within companies that simply are not up to the task of transparency, and dedication to service, and to the value of their employees..These independents are active, passionate, and are dependent on the social network tools to build an income base that is impactful, relevant, and social responsible…Why wait…The recession has demobilized many companies, and diminished their revenues models..These companies are never coming back, nor the jobs, so the cultural shift, as you rightly describe, is not gentle, its a teutonic sea change…For anyone working “outside of the building” social networks are a crucial component to building value and reaching prospects…