SEO Consultant & Specialist in Australia

Submitting unique articles to high authority and high quality article directories are standard practice by SEO professionals when they perform link  building. This is an effective method in increasing a website’s search engine result rank if done correctly. But what is the correct way of doing this? What are the common mistakes of others? I will answer that for you

First, what are the common mistakes of others? Based on the majority of what I am seeing in different article directories, people submit one unique article to hundreds of different article directories and blogs, this is wrong. Remember, content is king and duplicate contents are not in Google’s favor. If this single article gets published even in just 20 of those article directories and blogs then it will have 20 instances on the web, it wont be a unique article anymore and any links within the article will be without a value.

What is the correct way of doing this? Simple, get your copywriters to write about 10-20 unique articles and submit them to 20-40 article directories only. This is a more effective way of using the potential of your unique articles and the high authority article directories you are submitting it to, Google will like it and values the links attached to it. Also dont forget after these articles gets approved, build strong and relevant backlinks to it to even add more value to your article and your links.

Here are some sample articles I have published:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Basics-of-Simple-Business-Lead-Generation&id=5172919
http://www.abcarticledirectory.com/Article/Blogging-for-Sales-Leads/1028483
http://www.articlesfactory.com/articles/marketing/sales-leads-for-business-people-and-multi-level-markeiting.html
http://www.articlesbase.com/mlm-articles/business-leads-and-multi-level-marketing-3538695.html
http://www.ideamarketers.com/library/article.cfm?articleid=1556272

http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=3475312
http://www.articlespirit.com/Art/106500/55/Whatever-Be-Your-Need-You-Have-the-Ready-Solution-for-It.html
http://www.articletrader.com/business/sales/using-social-media-to-find-sales-leads.html?preview=1

I have read a lot offers from different SEO freelancers that they can get a site ranked on Page 1 of Google or similar for competitive keywords and if they can’t get ranked they will give your “money back”. If you have seen something similar, think again, its nothing more than just a “sales pitch”. Let’s review..

1. If they are willing to give your money back, why not just pay for it when they get it ranked, its the same thing right?

2. A proper SEO requires a good budget to spend, if they really do proper SEO they have to spend.  They need to pay for copywriters, link builders, etc. And if they have not reached the goal, how can they give your money back if they have already spent most of it?

So, if you have seen some SEO freelancer or “professional” offering service with money back guarantee, that guarantee is just a “sales pitch” don’t bite… I would rather see a guarantee on the “Page 1″ offer than the money back. And remember, a proper SEO is not free, you have to spend, you need to put a lot of time, work and resources to it.

Google Streaming Search’s official name is called Google Instant. When I first read and heard about it a couple of days ago, I said to myself, that sounds familiar and I remember some 4-5 years ago, Yahoo have developed the same concept of instant results while searching, but it never got into the mainstream; beta forever until its gone. I guess the technology or concept wasn’t ready yet back then and Yahoo knew it will not be fully embraced by internet users.

Now, 5 years on, Google has almost perfected the Instant search result concept and added a lot “benefits” to users according them. But from what I can see so far, all the benefits are pointing at Google, the main benefits are the various paid ads being displayed per Instant search result.

Looking from the end user side, it’s a bit annoying in the beginning. It supposed to “teach” users how to search properly but its actually more of a distraction because users will see different topics, keywords while they type and it can cause lost of focus.  There are a lot more feedback that I can give and it will take me a lot of time typing them all, so I guess I will leave it up to all of you, what are your experiences so far with Google Instant? Is it good, bad or you dont really care at all? Has it changed the way you search? Do you find what you are looking for in less time?

After weeks or months of rumors and speculations, Google today has finally revealed the major changes in their search homepage interface.  But at the time of this writing its still only available in Google UK and eventually I believe they will roll this out worldwide in the next coming days.

When you now perform a Google search, it will show the results instantly as a streaming search result. The streaming search results is based on which keywords is currently in the search box or what the user have typed in. If you type more or change the keywords that you have typed in, the streaming search results will change in realtime.  Game changer in the search engine world? Perhaps.. But it will take some time to get used to. Watch the video below.

Watch out Mark Zuckerberg and gang, Google is “secretly” working on “Google Me“, their own version of your little work called Facebook. As reported, Google Me will take social networking giant Facebook head on for the battle to conquer the social media world. For those who’s thinking, hey what happened with Google Buzz? Well, Buzz is actually and supposed to be a Twitter killer because of  its added features like sharing multimedia but it hasn’t really kicked off yet due to the earlier privacy issues.

We expect that Google will learn from its previous mistakes and the shortcomings of Facebook in regards to Privacy. Google Me will be based on the current Facebook model and possibly add more features that no one really thought of yet. Google employs some of the best technology brain in the world, I am sure they will come up with something hot and something that will click, I heard this is on high priority. I am expecting a beta version of Google Me will come out later this year, lets wait and see!