Are you aware of the new signals and able to develop new forms of optimization and strategy?

I’ve just read a great document by Mike Grehan of http://www.acronym.com about the future of Search Engine Marketing, you must read it. Mike Grehan is the bestselling author of the internationally acclaimed Search Engine Marketing: The Essential Best Practice Guide.

On this document: “New Signals to Search Engines – Future Proofing your Search Marketing Strategy” Mike Grehan states the need for us SEO’s to become aware of placing a much larger emphasis on optimizing a range of file types, from PDFs to images to audio/visual content.

I’ve found 2 important aspects mentioned by Mike Grehan on this document:

1. Search results will be heavily influenced by end users, such as geographic location, time of day, previous searching history and peer group preference…, as Mike Grehan says: “Signals from end users who previously couldn’t vote for content via links from web pages are now able to vote for content with their clicks, bookmarks, tags and ratings. These are very strong signals to search engines, and best of all, they don’t rely on the elitism of one web site owner linking to another or the often mediocre crawl of a dumb bot.” , so this will influence on what appears in the search engine results pages (SERPs).

2. The introduction of Google’s Universal Search: As stated by Google: “Google’s vision for universal search is to ultimately search across all its content sources, compare and rank all the information in real time, and deliver a single, integrated set of search results that offers users precisely what they are looking for. Beginning today (May 16, 2007), the company will incorporate information from a variety of previously separate sources – including videos, images, news, maps, books, and websites – into a single set of results, check: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/universalsearch_20070516.html. Universal Search offers many new methods of increasing visibility at search engines.

Matt Cutts, Google Engineer and Head of Web Spam Team mentioned: “Marketers need to embrace universal search by integrating video, images, books, etc. As far as Google trends go for 2009, they will affect SEOs as well.”

So hurry up and download the free PDF document by Mike Grehan at:

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New Signals to Search Engines – Future Proofing your Search Marketing Strategy, I hope you will enjoy this reading as much as I did.

Remember to check also our free List of Search Engine Optimization and Marketing PDF Guides to download and if you find them useful please help this blog by bookmarking or linking to us, thanks.

Google has just Released a PDF Guide of Best SEO Practices for Starters

The free SEO Guide by Google covers the basics of most common SEO Best Practices that webmasters might consider optimizing, like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text, heading tags, images, robots txt and promoting your site.

The guide contents are:
Good practices for page title tags
Good practices for description meta tags
Good practices for URL structure
Good practices for site navigation
Good practices for content
Good practices for anchor text
Good practices for heading tags
Good practices for images
Good practices for robots.txt
Good practices for promoting your website

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This SEO Guide by Google also provides a complete list of sources that can be useful in a site’s Optimization and Promotion process: Free webmaster tools, Web analytics services, as well as other Google resources to find all information you need.

So go on and Download the free Search Engine Optimization Guide by Google. Please make your comments on the release of this SEO Guide by Google.

Learning SEO with one of the Best: Aaron Wall

I have been participating at Aaron Wall’s training program and Community for the last 7 or 8 months. It has been a great learning experience, I can’t believe how much I have learn.

-You get top notch information of the training program, a full featured forward looking SEO training program covering: keyword selection, domain names, on page optimization, copywriting, blogging, site architecture, usability, analytics, PPC advertising, public relations, viral marketing, and link building. Plus great information on SEO Tools to use on each step of the search engine optimization process.

-You also get to participate at the SEO Community. It’s a forum full of great advice from other members and better yet from Aaron Wall himself. I know that an hour of consultation with this Marketing Guru is around $500 us, well at the SEO Community you get to ask all the questions you want for much much less than that and you will get straight and fast answers from him.

So don’t miss this opportunity Join the SEOBook Training Program and Community, it’s really worth every dime.

Note: I’m using the seobook affiliate link just in case you want to help me support this Blog, but if you don’t want to, go directly to http://www.seobook.com/join and join the program, you will be really glad you did.

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Best Free Pdf Guides at SEO Practices Blog: SEO, Internet Marketing, Social Media, Blogs, etc.

On this post you will find a list of links to the best Free PDF guides we have found about Search Engine Optimization, Internet Marketing, Social Media Optimization and Marketing, Landing Page Optimization, SEO for Blogs, PPC, Google Adsense, E-Mail, and Keyword Research; for those of you interested in learning the basics and more advanced aspects of SEO/SEM.

This is a list of 14 free PDF guides we have found and posted from renown SEO and SEM Sites like: Google, Marketo, PluraPage, and experts like: Dan Thies, Aaron Wall, Michelle McPherson, John Chow, Andy Beal, etc.

These are the links to the articles where you can find each of the PDF Guides:
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SEO Guides:
Search Engine Myths Exposed by Jonathan Leger —> NEW!
SEO Fast Start by Dan Thies
Are you Blogging Yet – An SEO Guide for Blogs by Benu Aggarwal
Conversion Rates Best Practices from Omniture.com
Marketing Pilgrim 68 Essays on Improving Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Advertising, and Social Media Optimization

Social Media Optimization and Marketing Guides:
Beginner’s Guide to Social Media from ICrossing.com
Social Media: Step by Step Guide by Michelle MacPhearson
Viral Copy – How to Build Links in the Social Media Era by Brian Clark of CopyBlogger.com

Landing Page Optimization Guides:
Basics of Landing Page Optimization from PluraPage.com
Best Practices for Landing Page Optimization from Marketo.com

Keyword Research Guide:
Keyword Research and Selection from EmarketingPerformance.com

Pay Per Click Guide:
Creating and managing PPC programs —> NEW!
Adwords 2009: A Brave New World by Andrew Goodman —> NEW!
Google Adwords and Yahoo PPC Tips by Aaron Wall

Google Adsense Guide:
Working with Adsense from Oreilly.com

HTML E-Mail Guide:
Designing, Coding and Delivering HTML E-mail

Blogging Guide:
Blogging to Make Money Online by John Chow

We hope you enjoy the list and reading. Just click on the link to the subject you are interested on and find the link to download the Free PDF Guide. We have reviewed and updated the list.

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Another Great SEO Guide by Aaron Wall

We all realize how important blogging has become in the last few years. We found another great SEO Guide to Blogging by Aaron Wall. As you all know Search Engine Optimization (SEO) “is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic (visitors) to a web site from search engines via “natural” (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results for targeted keywords”: SEO defined by Wikipedia

We’re sorry, some times it takes us a while to post on the SEO practices Blog and it´s because of too much work and studying we keep doing every day to keep ourselves up to date on the subject, but we only want to deliver quality information and resources for our visitors.

Make sure you also check our guide to blogging resources for beginners, it gives you first hand information on best resources to get blogs, how to start them, SEO for blogs, finding and writing content, promoting your blog, social networks for blogs and some SEO tools for blogs.

Any ways the free SEO guide to blogging by Aaron Wall covers the following topics:

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# What Google Knows About Your Blog
# Why Blog SEO is Different From SEO for Other Websites
# Domain Registration & Hosting
# Keyword Research
# Keeping Up With the Joneses
# Writing Clear & Compelling Headlines
# Optimizing Site Structure
# Web Analytics
# Controversy
# Use Push Marketing After Launching Your Site
# Understanding Network Effects
# Learn More About SEO

So go on and check the Blogging guide by Aaron Wall, he is a leading search engine optimization expert and one who is highly regarded within the SEO industry.

Social Media Step by Step – Free PDF Guide by Michelle MacPhearson of socialmediadaily.com

Social Media has become one of the most important marketing strategies to promote sites. But before you use it you have to optimize your site for social media.

It’s about making your site more easily linkable by implementing certain practices such as making tagging and bookmarking easy, rewarding inbound links, help your content travel submitting it to relevant social media sites, etc.

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Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog defines Social Media Optimization practices as follows:

Implement changes to optimize a site so that it is more easily linked to, more highly visible in social media searches on custom search engines (such as Technorati), and more frequently included in relevant posts on blogs, podcasts and vlogs.

We found a great step by step guide by Michelle MacPhearson of socialmediadaily.com , it coverts very important aspects such us:

-Promotion Basics & Beginning SEO
-Social Bookmarking and Story Submission
-Demo and Teaser Submission
-Video Sharing
-Collaborative Research
-Classifieds
-Content Contribution
-Social Networking

Don’t forget to bookmark and share this great Site with others, it’s really a valuable guide!

You need to check one of the best, up to date glossary of most common terms used in Search Engine Optimization and Marketing, it’s a great resource for SEO beginners.

Do you Know what astroturfing, code swapping, Google bowling, GYM, linkerati, SMWC, sock puppet, walled garden, means?… Well I didn’t either until I read this glossary, it’s amazing the new terminology that is created every day on the SEO world…

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When learning about SEO / SEM, we continuously find new terms we don’t have any idea what they mean. Now we have an excellent source to consult . This glossary is a recent version of the essential SEO jargon used today every where.

So check out the glossary: SMWC and other Essential SEO Jargon , you will find it quite useful.

Start Learning Search Engine Optimization Today!

After a few days off this past week, I wanted to share with you a great SEO Guide I found from Dan Thies, it’s a 100 page, free PDF guide aimed mostly at SEO beginners.

Dan Thies is an experienced and well known SEO/SEM Consultant. He is the author and publisher of “SEO Fast Start” E-book.  He has now updated and released this SEO Guide for free.

SEO Fast Start is a simple step by step guide to learn the basics of Search Engine Optimization:

- Developing a keyword strategy to target the right searchers

- Building a well structured Website

- Creating good content and doing basic “on page” optimization

- Promoting your site to get links from the rest of the Web

- Avoiding technical issues

Go on and download the SEO Fast Start E-book, it’s a valuable guide to get into the basics of Search Engine Optimization.

(Update, SEO Fast Start is still a PDF file that you download in a .zip file, but it’s ok, it works fine)

Aaron Walls’ Free Guide to Learn SEO at Work.com

Aaron Walls is a leading search engine optimization expert and one who is highly regarded within the Industry; he’s probably one of the most well known SEO on the Internet today. He is a well recognized blogger, book author:SEO Book, consultant, and webmaster. He owns and/or partners in building high quality websites that are monetized via Adsense (Google’s Ads Program), affiliate programs, and/or direct sales.

His SEO Book teaches you the tried and true techniques for search engine success as practiced by those who truly know what they are doing. It’s a regularly updated e-book running to about 150 pages (it updates frequently).

I ‘m reading his SEO Book and it’s really remarkable. If you search on the Internet for “Aaron Walls SEO Book”, you will not find anything other than great comments about his e-book. It’s a very valuable resource if you are in the process of learning Search Engine Optimization.

I found a very concise Guide to learning Search Engine Optimization at Work.com, for SEO beginners, from Aaron. It takes you through the very basic components, resources and SEO tools.

On this guide, he points out that Search Engine Optimization consists of 9 main steps and gives a brief description of each one of them:

1. market research
2. keyword research
3. on page optimization
4. site structure
5. link building
6. brand building
7. viral marketing
8. adjusting
9. staying up to date

So check out this basic guide to SEO, you’ll find that it’s very helpful.

A Broader Look at Search Engine Optimization.

When I first started at the Internet a couple years ago, I was doing link exchange; that was my first glance at the SEO World.  Back then link exchange was a regular practice; it was a great way to build link popularity, every body was trying to get as many links as possible and building spammy Titles and meta-tags (descriptions and keywords), that was the perfect formula to achieve good rankings on any Search Engine.

Today SEO is more than that; we need to have a broader perspective, in order to be able to achieve good results.

I found a great resource; it’s an Advanced SEO Beginner’s Guide from Todd Malicoat.  He points out that SEO is more than just understanding how to make titles and meta-tags. It’s about having the capacity to assemble all its components “to create a site that will produce any legitimate traffic without detriment to conversions or without venturing into areas that in certain circumstances would risk any project”.

So if you’re really interested to start your career as a Competitive Search Engine Optimizer, you ought to read the following articles from Todd Malicoat, you will find them very inspiring:

The SEO Playbook
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