SEO Mentor

If you are not using FriendFeed you are missing out on a great tool that helps you add disparate accounts across blogs and social networking services such as Twitter, StumbleUpon, YouTube, and many more. Friendfeed aggregates them so friends can follow what you’re doing in one place, think of it as a one stop shop for all your social networking updates and news items. The company was founded by ex-Googlers, and using it is easy.

Here is what Crunchbase.com is saying about what FriendFeed is:

“FriendFeed is a service which, instead of layering a meta-network on top of all your other social networks, will create a news feed incorporating them all much like the facebook news feed. It’s an idea that isn’t too difficult or bothersome for social network users to adopt.

Users tell the feed which networks they belong to (Facebook, Digg, Last.fm etc) and FriendFeed personalizes your data feed with info from each of the sites.

Other companies, such as Spokeo, ProfileLinker, MyLifeBrand and the more recent Fuser, are trying to help you organize your online social identity as well, all in different ways.”

So I joined FriendFeed a while back and have found that it is another great tool that helps me keep up on what all my social friends are doing online one of those being Dave Harry of Huomah.com. Not only do I love to follow everything that Dave is talking about online (because it is usually entertaining and intellectual) but what I really wanted to let everyone know about was the public rooms he has created on FriendFeed:

• the SEM Room
• the Learn SEO Room
• the SphinnZone Room

Here are some other people that I follow on FriendFeed and really I try and follow them everywhere:

Ann Smarty
David Wallace
Kristen Munson - Social Media Mom
Danny Sullivan
Shana Albert - theNanny
Jason Calacanis
SpostareDuro - Kimberly Bock
Bill Slawski

So here it is the SEO Baby Contest. My wife is pregnant with our first child and I am so excited to be a dad. As of now we do not know the sex of the baby so I am simply calling it The SEO Baby. I have decided that I would like to have a little fun and put a contest together letting anyone and everyone guess the following items: SEX of the baby, Weight, and the day that the baby will be born. Best of all the winner of the contest will win the following:

• Free iPod Nano (value: $149)
• Dave Harry’s “The SEO Handbook” (value: priceless)
• Free membership to LearnSEOLive.com (value: $37)
• One month banner ad at Kimberly Bock’s LearningSEOBasics.com (value: priceless)
• One month banner ad at YourSEOMentor.com (value: $50)
• Bill Slawski of SEObytheSea.com is giving away two books: Don’t Make Me Think, from Steve Krug, and Web Analytics: An Hour a Day, from Avinash Kaushik
• If others would like to donate an item to the contest simply contact me.

So now that you know what you will win for being part of the contest simply fill out the form here and enter your guesses. (Hints: The due date is May 22, the last ultrasound the baby was 5.5lbs)

Again to be a part of the contest you will need to fill out the form at Yourseomentor.com/seo-baby-contest

Note: you have until 8pm EST on Wednesday May 22, 2008 to fill out the form and enter the contest. The winner will be announced on Sunday June 1, 2008 (if the baby is still not born I will announce the winner as soon as it is)

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Thanks everyone for participating.

So I am finally getting done with the design of my blog here at YourSEOMentor.com and am almost happy with the layout and design. I am so sorry I know that design doesn’t matter and content does but I guess I am a perfectionist when it comes to all this stuff. Any ways I just wanted to write and let everyone that ever reads this blog know what I will be writing about and why you should continue reading it.

First of all if you are beginner, guru, professional, or whatever you are you should become a reader of YourSEOMentor.com. Here is why:

Why Not!!!

No, I do not consider my self a guru or professional I simply consider myself a Teacher and Mentor of SEO and Social Marketing. I have had much success in the last 4 years and would like to share that success with everyone that is willing to accept my point of view (Which won’t always be right). I say this because I can tell you right now that I will be getting people commenting on my posts that will disagree with me which is fine. I know the SEO industry all to well and I know there will be people that consider themselves know it alls and will try and tell me that I don’t know what I am talking about. But it all comes down to this I DON’T CARE what they think. I know what works and what doesn’t work cause I do this for a living all day every day. Does this mean I know everything, of course not and I would never dream of telling you all that I do know everything.

So there it is somewhat of a disclaimer for all those that read this blog. Will I give you some great content? Yes! Will I help you with your SEO and Social Marketing online journey? Yes! Will I make mistakes? Yes! But you can know this I am here to help and mentor those that want to Learn SEO and Social Marketing. I will give you access to great tools, techniques, to help you get better rankings in the search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. I will be writing about what others in the industry is saying, and any news that I think is worth talking about.

Here is a list of my Categories that I will be talking about (this is the list as of February 6, 2008):

• SEO
• SEO Tools
• Google
• Yahoo
• MSN
• Link Building
• Keyword Research
• SEM
• Social Marketing
• Social Bookmarking
• Web 2.0
• Web Design & Usability

So there it is all laid out for you to decide, “Is this blog really worth following?” Well I hope it is and I will do my best to give you the content you want. So simply click on the Get SEO Advice under that cartoon image of me and ask me anything and everything and I will try and help answer all you SEO and Social Marketing questions to the best of my ability.

See how I got all the top 10 listings in
Google for the keyword “SEO Mentor”
absolutley
unbelievable.

So you may be asking how did I do this. I will tell you it isn’t as hard as you think or as people say it is. I have used my SEO Skills and Social Media Optimization skills and put them together to equal huge success.

As an SEO Mentor not only do I give people the steps of learning SEO, I am also starting as a Social Mentor where I help people learn Social Marketing to drive insane traffic to there websites. By using the power of the top Social Networking, Media, and Bookmarking sites I teach how to leverage these sites such as Facebook, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Hubpages, and many more.

To learn more visit Social Marketing Live.

And you have no idea how or where to start. Well you have come to the right place here at YourSEOMentor.com! Keep reading below to get an short introduction of what SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is and why you need to learn it:

If you are just starting to learn SEO and you want some quick pointers let me help you out. First of all let me tell you why SEO is so important: Search Engine Optimization is one of the best ways to drive traffic to your website. Lets face it there are billions of websites and webpages on the WWW (World Wide Web) what makes you think yours is going to be seen. This is exactly how I came to the knowledge of what SEO was and why it was so important. I was working for a therapy company and they put me on the project of building them a website. I had some design experiance then and so I built them a pretty nice website. Then I learned about Google Analytics where you can track how many people visit your website.
Well I soon found out that nobody but me and a couple of our employees were visiting our site. I thought to my self why in the world is nobody going to this site. I then found out that there were more websites than there were people and started doing some research. I then found out that most people find websites through Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN. This is where I first learned about Search Engine Optimization.

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