Search Engine Optimization - Optimizing a site for the ability of being found by the search engines and making it more available to show up in the results pages and to be able to make a site to be returned in the top of those results pages.

The way you optimize the website is by making sure that the copy text is relevant enough to be found and also be portrayed as being the best to show up in the top results. Links from relevant sites help this process. Making sure that you use headings and proper html coding, never waste html space as this is only what the robot can read. It reads and not sees of course, so having images, flash, etc taking up space without content is a big mistake that is often done. Of course other things need to be beefed up if someone wants to use flash and other space taking items. A website does need at least one link from an already established site to be found by a search engine crawler.

One needs to make sure that they can make their code as clean as possible. This makes the over all site less in size making the site download quicker also. You need to make sure that your site is readable in all type browsers, this way you know there isn’t any hick ups in the code that could cause the robot not be able to read your code clearly. Although, this isn’t a large necessity for SEO it might help more than manually submitting your site to search engines. If you feel you need to do something clean code before submitting.

There are a few forums out there that are for drop shipping. Some of them can actually help you find info about drop shipping. People go there to discuss their trials and tribulations for drop shipping. You might need to avoid those drop ship forums that look to be too new or seem to have a hidden agenda behind them, such as fueling drop shipping websites of their own. A forum moderator for forums created to help others for information regarding their topics should be unbiased.

When joining drop shipping type forums or any forum always look around and familiarize yourself with the members, what type info is being offered, what type of membership is it, and any type of general information about it that can be found. This way when you start posting you won’t ask questions that have already been asked or post something that is against the rules.

If anyone knows of some good drop shipping forums it would be good to know here to help others. Drop shipping if done correctly can be a lucrative business.

Yes, you get a lot of deals in eBay why, because people will sell things for the cheapest they can mark it down to. The market is saturated in eBay by people selling it the cheapest, and you have to be a power seller just to make anything decent. If you sell something cheap enough you will be a power seller in no time. Shoot selling 100 things a day cheap you will make enough to keep going. So selling on eBay could be really hard trying to make enough profit because of the many people selling thing too cheap already.

Some people can argue that eBay already has loads of traffic to it, I look at the internet the same way. Plain and simply put the internet has more visitors than eBay. Every person signing on a computer online and searching for a product is a potiential customer. I feel any site has the potiential to do well. A person needs patience and instead of paying those high fees eBay charges, fuel that into advertising your site or making your site better to gain top positions. True, that doesn’t mean the person signing on the internet will find you, but that is also the same when someone signs on to eBay if they are going to find your products. Both ways you need to make your site and products accessible to the people.

I am not saying people can not make it selling on eBay, I am saying they go there expecting to try and get something for real cheap. This is how auctions and flea markets sometimes go. Trying to get the best deal is why people go or looking for something they can not find in stores.

How long have you had a website and marketed it? Did you know that with the RIGHT kind of links and content that is all you need to gain top rankings? With the right look you can get the desired price. When someone searches and you come to the top, chances are they are going to purchase from you.

Well have you ever tried to help someone and they cheated you? Yep, it has happened to me. I should have seen it coming though, but still wanted to help this person out. I paid for some sponsored and featured ads in her newly made directory in June. I paid up for a year. The total was over $140, the site was up for approximately 2 months, I got less than 2 months worth of featured and sponsored listings. Am I mad, of course I am! She stole my money! So I am going to spread the truth about her lies, and her credibility will be diminishing. I feel she owes me back my money as I did not receive what I was suppose to. Since, I can not do a charge back as it is over 45 days I will put everything I can that I know about her, except for the direct use of her name. There might be some to figure out who it is.  - My links are to the left, top 5 of the sponsored links, starting with “The Bear Facts”.

This person claims to be an SEO, but actually after some investigation it appears that it isn’t as it seems. It is a lot of talk mostly. What was found during researching was she actually had help from other people to do her SEO, yet she claims to have done it. I found her asking for help on an SEO forum, yep asking for help to SEO one of her sites. I think she blows a lot of smoke LOL!!! I am using one of her phrases she used when describing some of my advice I gave to her a few months ago, on another SEO forum.

Proof of asking for help:

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=30332 ,

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=30035

As you can see for those of you who have figured this out, that she is’t all of who she says she is like an expert in SEO.

She should have followed my advice, as she is losing things like her blogs. The funny thing is that she actually claims she closed them herself to add Adsense, now why would someone shut down blogs that had PR and a lot of content. She claims she was going to move them. Here is the common sense part, a person would keep them up until all the information got transferred to the new blogs right? You can view this one: http://learnseo.wordpress.com/, if you read the TOS you would probably notice the do not use for spam, use to boost search engine rankings of 3rd party sites. Guess what, this was violated, yep too many blogs created to artificially boost links and ranking for her other sites. She should have read my article “To Blog or Not to Blog“.

At any rate I hope she can rest well after stealing money from me,(or others as I have found out) or of the lies she tends to do. She claims to design websites, this isn’t true either. There is someone who does the graphics, why he does them and let her take the credit is beyond me. Grow up and tell people the truth!  Not only that the two are not even doing web design, they are changing pre made templates available from Shopster. Make a template from blank HTML, then they would designing, until then they need to stop taking people’s money for something they are not doing.

One last thing, not only have I figured out that she isn’t who she says she is, her past websites ventures have been failures. This was for 2 websites, a gift basket site and a mall site (huge, yep same domain she is using now).

There I feel better. Now, if she reads this and wants it removed she needs to give me back my money for the months I didn’t get, and the partial payment for the month of July cause it went down about the 28th.

Sometime people like to step up on a soap box to let go of a little bit of stress. It helps you clear your mind of some people who really shouldn’t be worth anyone’s time. So I created my blog to help matters in discussing things that are setting on my mind and need to get it out.

I would like to expand on my article about the Good-Bad-Ugly SEOs article. I featured a SEO specialist that I had encountered in a NG I am a regular at. Canadafred is what he is known by. We have had our bouts at the NG, and he has come back to try and start another argument sort of speak but I am not going to battle him on the NG. Got too much work to do, I will however battle him online, since he brought me into this again, with his SEO site and blog.

I want to let people know I don’t copy him or use any of his techniques nor does SEO Dave a friend of mine, as he has said we do, both on his blog and website. I wouldn’t do anything he does as his techniques do not get him anywhere. I am not a junior SEO to him as my SERPs compared to his are in no contest, as I have sites doing a lot better than any of his and are in more competitive SERPs. Fred has yet to show anything decent for SERPs.

Fred is mostly hot air in his SEO writings. He boosts his own ego with his facade of appearing to do well, but appearance isn’t everything. He actually writes like he feels he is #1 in his field. To tell you the truth, I have found evidence that show the opposite. His sites all have low Google Page Rank™, and he has yet to gain enough good competitive SERPs to prove he is a good SEO expert. This is illustrated in our article Inexperienced SEOs Versus Experienced SEOs.

Fred uses index.html instead of the root for the link to the home page of a site he has SEOed. This is just a bad technique and also shows his poor knowledge of SEO. You can read more on the article mentioned above.

It is about time Fred jumps off his high horse of stating how knowledgeable he is. Fred doesn’t seem that he is truthful when speaking about his experience. He states 13 years he has been doing SEO. That would mean he started in 1994. There really wasn’t that many websites on the internet that needed to have SEO work done to the websites. It was still fairly new and easy to rank. All one had to do was submit it to the search engine.  There were still many tests being done at that time and also not very many people had the luxury of owning a computer then. For more information on how the internet was in 1994 read this page: 1994 Web Ability Report. This page will show how many websites were on the www since its beginning: Web Growth. Although 1994 was a rapid growth from 700 to 12,000 websites online, you can see there just wouldn’t be a need to optimize a site as they could easily rank once placed online. So it is highly unlikely Fred has been doing SEO for 13 years.

I am nominating Fred for Bad - Ugly SEOs Hall Of Fame!