Google vs Yellow Pages

How often have you used the Yellow Pages recently? As for me, I can’t even remember the last time I used it. I’m guessing 7 years ago? Google is where we go now to look for anything that we want, although the Yellow Pages might be preferred by some because their searches would be made easier because everything was...

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Traffic Travis for SEO Copy Writing

As an SEO copywriter, it sometimes falls under my tasks to find or research the best keywords for the article I would be writing. Although often it is the client who would provide me with the keywords. I enjoy doing keyword research (if I am not heavily loaded with other work) and I am using the Google Adwords free keyword tool. I have tried Wordtracker before, but it is not free. So far...

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Top 3 SEO Blogs Every Freelance Copywriter Should Read

When you are a freelance writer working mostly for online content, you have to learn all that you can about search engine optimization or simply SEO. That is because what good is your written content if people cannot easily find it through the search engines? The following are the top 3 SEO blogs that I recommend to every fellow freelance copywriter: 1. Matt Cutts He is the head of Google’s...

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Rankings for Our Target Keywords

It has only been a month since I started to optimize this blog for the keywords “freelance copywriter” and now it has started to go up Google’s U.S. search results. The first time I noticed that it appeared in the results, it was on the 12th page. Now, as of this writing, it is on the 3rd page, ranked 26th overall. All I can say is, I’m satisfied with the way things are...

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Microsoft’s Bing Advertises on Google

What do you do when your competitor is so much bigger than you? You join him. Or at least use him to gain some leverage even though you’re competing in the same field. In the case of Microsoft’s new (or newly branded) search engine, Bing, they opened their own AdWords account and started advertising on Google’s search...

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How Many Keywords Should You Consider in Your Keyword Research

Steve of Success Factors asked: what is the minimum volume you should consider in examining the keyword results, and what is too much volume (e.g., making for too much competition)? A very good question because otherwise a keyword researcher can just go on and on with his research and come up with a million keywords. So probably the question here is when do we know when enough is enough? There...

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