So how do you go about finding a job as an SEO analyst? Well, here are some tips you may want to consider:

1. Learn basic HTML and Java. While these are not always necessary for a career as an SEO Analyst, they certainly help.
2. Learn programming for Search Engines. Study boolean search programming to gain a better understanding of Search Engines.
3. Become a webmaster for a web site and learn important SEO tools such as link building and link sharing and search term optimization.
4. Ask web-savvy friends if they personally know anyone working in SEO. Contact this person and inquire about employment opportunities.
5. Send resumes to various search engine optimization companies.
6. Get hired.

Do you think these would work?

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Do You Have What It Takes To Be An SEO Analyst?

Now, that’s the thing that we have to consider. A site’s content is important. It is actually very important that most people in the SEO industry say that content is king. It is what brings people to return to the site. Fresh and worthwhile content keeps readers and visitors hooked.

On the other hand, if the content that you put on your site is just all about adding keywords that are relevant to your site, that would not be helping your site that much. As experts say, what you should put in your site is fresh, relevant, and quality content. It is not the quantity that matters. It is always quality that keeps the visitors coming in.

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Content: Just How Does It Matter

Julie Batten, an expert on the subject, has also claimed that if you do such, the effects would be greatly maximized. Now that is something that most sites do not actually have. You would be having a greater advantage because of that. See, come to think of it, it would be like difficult to add in your SEO techniques if the site is already built. It would be like putting up a structure and you would want some designs changed. If you want the structure to be done well, you put in your design ideas right when it is still under construction.

Makes sense, right?

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Build Your Web Site With SEO

Here’s one of those leeches.

You can see this page at  http://www.free2surf.org/?p=250<– this link definitely has a nofollow.   I don’t want to send any drop of linkjuice from my site to his/hers.

Now check out the HTML source code.

So have you been  “scraped and nofollowed”?

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The Worst Kind of Scraper Sites

When using a music search engine,  I expect to search either for a specific song, or I enter an artist and expect to see a list of songs by that artist.    I don’t want to see wikipedia articles or news about those artists.

I tried doing a search for “Duran Duran”, one of my favorite bands in the 80’s and here’s what songza returned.

Songza returned a list of  Duran Duran songs.   The nice thing about this is that if I click one of the songs,  it’ll play it.   Really cool!

The second music search engine I tested was Seeqpod.   Here’s what seeqpod returned.

Honestly, I didn’t like  what I saw.    I has a couple of links to you tube.    Does this mean that if I create a video at youtube and I include the word  “Duran Duran” in the title  my video would be included in this search result page?  Hmm….  we might be seeing a new form of spam. … ‘video spam’.

The 3rd music search engine I tested was skreemr.  Here’s what it looks like.

This one seems better.     One of the results was  “The Reflex” which was a very good Duran Duran song.    I noticed that the link pointed to this file “http://musicglob.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/duran-duran-the-reflex.mp3″

When I click that link,  it’ll play the song.

I guess by creating a music search engine which crawls the net in search for mp3 files uploaded on websites and indexing it,  these search engines won’t be liable for copyright infringement since technically,  those mp3 files are not hosted on the search engines.    They just “found” these files and returns a list of urls where it can be found.

People can then just do a right click and click “save as” and these mp3 files would be downloaded to their hard disks.

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3 Popular Music Search Engine

• Google is not as smart as it seems.
• Just because a search engineer is nice, smart, witty and reasonably honest doesn’t mean he isn’t your adversary.
• Forums are good for getting clients. Help people out when you can for free and you’ll see what I mean.
• What might have been true yesterday might not be true today.
• Yahoo and MSN have traffic to send too
• Don’t assume everyone knows what you discovered already when you study your stats. Save it for yourself.
• Don’t underestimate how much your knowledge or programming skills are worth.
• Read a book on marketing from a semi unbiased source. I prefer SCORE and the Small Business Association.
• Remember its the world wide web and there are opportunities to be had in oversea’s markets.
• Someone thinks you are an idiot.
• Someone thinks you are a liar trying to fleece them.

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Things That You Need To Know About SEO (Part 3)

• I’d rather spend time promoting my stuff than a clients. If I fail its my problem and at least I didn’t have to listen to my client
• SEO is not a panacea for not having a product of your own.
• Go to a conference its so much better discussing this stuff in person and honestly its more fun.
• Forums are the suxors but you need to pick at least one to keep abreast of issues you may have missed.
• Just because someone can argue well online doesn’t mean they know jack shit.
• If you don’t have your own data to draw your own conclusions then you don’t know anything despite how much you read.
• Don’t spend to much time arguing online. Its pointless. Spend that time proving or disproving your ideas for yourself.
• If you want to make money with affiliate programs and your just starting out keep making sites. Make them big and small and in between but keep making them till your fingers bleed. Once you have a hundred then go back and see what is the most successful and then spend time on those.
• The thing that is in the shortest supply online is creativity.
• Don’t be afraid to be wrong and listen to the counsel of those who are honest.
• Always try to find the successful mans networks, once you do don’t be an ass and out them just look and learn and if you feel like it warn them how you did it.

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Things That You Need To Know About SEO (Part 2)

I’m going to be sharing the list bit by bit and I would like to hear reactions about what you may think about the list.

• Search Engine Optimization is fairly straight forward there are no secrets.
• Search Engine Optimization is marred by the fact anyone can discuss online and seem like an expert.
• Online Marketing is where its at, and that should encompass SEO
• The best blackhat stuff is not detectable by the search engines or people.
• If you can’t program or pay someone to program you will be stuck using the same tools as everyone else.
• Statistics and math are where its at. There are no fast answers in this business.

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Things That You Need To Know About SEO (Part 1)

“It’s clear that they’re still interested,” said Neele, who doesn’t hold Microsoft or Yahoo shares. “Microsoft still has this tiny problem in search: They’re losing market share to Google. If they want to deal with that seriously, they need to buy market share or invest in it themselves and that hasn’t been successful so far.”

I think Microsoft really wanted Yahoo’s search business. It’s the most logical thing to do to increase their search market share. Now I guess, yahoo’s shareholders who really wanted to cash in on the deal would be very much happy to hear about this. Currently, yahoo’s share price is in the low $20s and seeing another Microsoft lead deal at $30+ per share would be awesome.

To all yahoo shareholders out there, what can you say about this? Do you want yahoo to close the deal? Let us hear your comments.

[via bloomberg ]

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Microsoft Is Not Yet Done With Yahoo

Adsense referrals  works like an affiliate program wherein you make money when a new person enters the adsense program and make money.   Such income was supplemental to the monthly adsense income publishers get and I believe a lot of people are going to miss this.

Nevertheless, it’s time to use those precious real estate for something that can make more money so don’t forget to take down all those adsense referral icons and replace it with an affiliate link or other money making venture.

[via adsense.blogspot.com ]

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Adsense Referrals Will Be Retired By August