Intro to our new website

Welcome to the Scottsdale SEO’s new website! Since we’re all a bit new around here, here’s a quick introduction to our website as well as how you can find general contact information!

Services:

Recently ScottsdaleSEOcompany.net was acquired by Scottsdable SEO, Inc., a leading Denver Search Engine Optimization company who’s been in the business since 2001. The Scottsdale SEO will continue to operate separately but share the same resources moving forward which has enabled us to better serve our clients!

Thanks for stopping by, much more to come in the very near future!

Welcome to Scottsdale SEO

Welcome to the Scottsdale SEO a service of Scottsdable SEO, LLC!

Our website is undergoing some construction, so please check back frequently for more updates about local SEO services !

Accredited SEO Training?

The word on the street is Sean Hakes a seasoned SEO and Founder of Denver SEO, Inc is working with a large selection of Colleges around the Nation to offer a backed SEO Training Certification Program.

An official press release is expected and the first course is suspected to be held in April.

About Denver SEO, Inc & Tucson SEO:

Denver SEO, Inc is a leading SEO Company who provides powerful SEO Solutions to small businesses around the World.

Proud member of the Association of Ethical SEOs.

Tucson & Phoenix SEO Services

Everyone knows what SEO stands for right? If not – it stands for Search Engine Optimization and finding an ethical, reputable SEO provider is tough. In fact, the SEO industry reminded me a lot of the Real Estate industry. If you ask 3 people you’re likely to find out that two of them are in Real Estate – the same goes for SEO but finding one who is really an expert in their trade is exceptionally hard to do.

Recently I talked about our friends who last year dove into the Tucson SEO market. The SEO services these guys provide are exceptional and one of the best I’ve seen (next to mine of course.)

So how do you identify a legitimate business? Google. If they are a Scottsdale SEO Agency can they rank for Scottsdale SEO? If they are a Denver SEO Agency can they rank for Denver SEO?

WordPress SEO Tips

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One platform that a lot of online marketers are using these days to help push their ranks up the search engines is WordPress. Not only is WordPress very easy to use, you can also do a lot of things with just one WordPress blog and let it do wonders for your online business.

But then again, if you are not familiar with how WordPress works and how to use it to your advantage then you can be missing a lot of things. Good thing there are several ways to incorporate search engine optimization strategies to your existing WordPress account and strengthen your online presence as well.

Any Scottsdale or Denver SEO will know that the key to achieving the highest ranks in the different major search engines such as Google is having the right keywords on your side. In online marketing, keywords are everything – meaning, if your website is optimized for the right keywords then your chances of reaching the top spots in Google is bigger.

Search engine optimization or SEO can seem a little complicated, but when you come to think of it everything boils down to three basic principles – keyword research, on site optimization, and off site optimization or more known as link building. When you get these three basic principles right, you are guaranteed to have luck on your favor.

However, if you get one of the three wrong, all you online marketing efforts could be jeopardized. It is very tricky to get search engine optimization right, but it is very easy to be tricked into doing things that will lead you to the wrong path.

Top 3 Basic SEO Ranking Factors

Looking for a few simple tips to maximize your websites internet marketing rankings? Here you go!

A special thanks to @Scottsdale SEO

  1. META TAGS: Most business owners don’t know this and in many cases oversee it. Having Keyword Friendly Meta Tags will help with your rankings drastically. For an example; if your a Denver Plumbing Contractor don’t title your meta title tag: Some Colorado Plumber, instead do something like “Denver Plumbing – Colorado Plumbers and Plumbing Contractors.”
  2. META DESCRIPTIONS: Keep them relavent
  3. DONT KEYWORD STUFF

By following these three very basic SEO Tips you’ll be well on your way to better rankings without the need of hiring a SEO Consultant.

iClick Creative Promotes Josh Thill to General Manager

LAKEWOOD, CO (Jan 1, 2010) iClick Creative, LLC., a leading provider of local internet marketing, Denver SEO and brand development solutions, today announced the promotion of Josh Thill to General Manager. He will still manage the Creative direction for iClick Creative as well as general operations and customer service.

Josh has been a key member to our success, and were thrilled to promote him to this important position,” said Sean Hakes, Founder & CEO of iClick Creative.

Mr. Thill, 32, joined the company in 2010 as Product Manager and quickly rose to several supervisory and management posistions. Mr. Thill was previously with DeOlivera Twigg Creative.

SEO Services – So Sweet

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Realistic search engine optimization (SEO) SEO services may not put your site on the top positions of major search engines overnight, but they certainly will optimize your site’s pages so that your Web presence and visibility is improved enough for your target audience to find you. What exactly are SEO services about? Read on to find out.

SEO techniques

SEO services differ on a case-to-case basis, but as a general rule, they involve the use of standard compliant coding. Your site’s tags, file names, and URLs among many other elements are tweaked to be receptive to search engine spiders. Your site is also restructured to meet the optimum structure required by HTML 4.01, XHTML and other related languages. SEO services also involve keyword research and incorporation of top-paying keywords into your site content. It also involves optimization of inbound linkage, and improvement of many other factors that affect how search engines score your site.

SEO services must be site-specific – that is, it must take into consideration your product, service, and target audience so that it can accurately position your website in the right categories and the correct regional and/or international directories.

What’s Up With SEM?

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Search engine marketing is one of the “trends” in Internet businesses, as of now. This comes with the widespread of online marketing and search engine optimization. It is a wholly different and new world of business, specifically marketing. The products and services of companies are already there, offered in front of the faces or eyes of the customers. Everything is served. With one single click, they are being offered products and services that they can choose from. This is all because of technology.

Online businesses work best if they practice search engine marketing. This can guarantee them a spot at the top of search engines and their results. This is the most coveted place because it is the one that customers will most likely enter in. This is how you market your website and your business.

One example of search marketing is pay-per-click advertisement. In this method, marketers pay their visitors every time their website is clicked. This is a surefire and foolproof way of getting to the top, but it is not recommended to first-timers. Instead, they can exchange links with someone else, or make a bargain with a fellow businessman. This method, however, is risky because you might be dealing with unknown people. Make sure that they have no bad reputation because it can ruin you, too.

Search engine marketing requires you to update your website regularly, and make it as catchy as possible. There must be zero predictability in your business. In constructing keywords, reword and rephrase them. Think about all the possible combinations and phrases that the customers use when searching. Once everything is on operation, monitor them regularly, and see how well you are doing.

Stay up to date with search engine marketing. It is a tough environment; but, it can be very satisfying once the desired results are achieved.

iClick Productions Co. to Launch SEOverhaul T.V/Web Series

Cool news from our Denver SEO friends at iClick Creative. The Creative Ad Agency has announced the start of iClick Productions Co. as well as their intentions to produce a reality T.V/ Web Show that will feature small business owners on the verge of extinction due to a massive slump in our economy. The show will be called SE Overhaul. Here’s the official release.

LAKEWOOD, CO. – December 12, 2010 –

Sean Hakes, Inc and iClick Creative, a leading SEO Company in Denver, CO will launch SE Overhaul, a Web Cast Series produced by iClick Productions that will feature small businesses who are feeling a direct negative impact of today’s horrific economic slump. If selected, the small business owner will be featured on Overhaul SEO Web Cast Series as well as benefit from a completely free, seo and Internet marketing overhaul that is designed to save their business by providing powerful Internet marketing services to surge their online business.

Overhaul SEO will be produced by iClick Productions a division of iClick Creative and Sean Hakes, Inc.

How to submit your business to be overhauled:

  • In an email, tell us about your business. Be very specific about the products and services your company offers.
  • In that email, include why you think we should select your business to be overhauled.
  • Please include your website address and contact information (Email, Full Name, Phone Number & Business location)
  • Email all of this to overhaul@iclickcreative.com.

Should your business be selected for our first web cast episode you will be notified by email and a phone call by one of our producers.

The first episode of Overhaul SEO is scheduled to be aired on Feb 1, 2010 at SEOverhaul.TV

About iClick Creative:

iClick Creative is a leading Denver Marketing, Ad and SEO Firm who provides powerful local internet marketing solutions to small – mid sized businesses around the World. iClick Creative is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sean Hakes, Inc.

SanJoseSeo.org Shoots for Tucson SEO – Failure

San Jose Seo.org is trying to jump into the Tucson Seo market and is not doing well… at all. Could it have to do with horrific link building like this?

AOL Names Yodle’s DeLuca To Head Local Ad Sales

AOL Names Yodle’s DeLuca To Head Local Ad Sales - Republished from SeanHakes.com

AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced that Mike DeLuca has been named Head of Sales, AOL Local. In conjunction with AOL Advertising, which primarily focuses on national advertisers, DeLuca will build and oversee a regional and local sales team for Patch, City’s Best, MapQuest, and Wow! Deal of the Day properties. Additionally, his team will sell geo-targeted AOL.com, which has 14 million daily U.S. visitors*, and AOL Mail.

“We are thrilled to have Mike on board to build and lead our regional and local sales efforts across our local offerings. Mike and his group will partner with the AOL Advertising sales team – which already has relationships with the top advertisers and agencies in the world – to offer everyone from the smallest businesses on Main Street to the largest global marketers a comprehensive suite of local properties and marketing solutions,” said Jon Brod, President of AOL Ventures, Local and Mapping. “Patch, City’s Best, MapQuest and Wow! Deal of the Day have been focused on building and refining their consumer experiences in 2010. Now we are aligning that goal with an amplified effort to increase sales on the local, regional and national level in 2011.”

DeLuca will be responsible for driving revenue growth at the regional and local level across all AOL Local properties, building and overseeing a sales team and working with AOL Advertising to create and deliver ad products that will benefit businesses of all sizes which are interested in reaching consumers at the local level.

DeLuca joins AOL from Yodle, where he was the SVP of Sales and Marketing. Under Mike’s leadership, the Yodle sales team grew from 25 to over 150 sales people nationwide, and he led both the creation of Yodle’s National Account strategy as well as their Strategic Partner Program that has joined forces with some of the largest brands in local media. Prior to Yodle, Mike served as Vice President of Sales for Yahoo!’s HotJobs division, where he managed a team of more than 200 people in Direct Sales and Client Services for North America.

“I am thrilled to have the opportunity to help drive revenue growth on these incredible properties,” commented DeLuca. “In addition to helping people to stay connected within their local communities, these properties present endless potential benefits for local and regional businesses.”

AOL’s current local offerings include:

Patch: a platform of sites, currently serving 427 communities across the country, featuring local news and information. Patch is making an important investment in local journalism by placing a professional journalist in each town it serves to encourage community participation and provide original, trusted coverage for each community.
City’s Best: a guide to the best local food, entertainment and lifestyle options in 25 major U.S. cities, providing the highest quality and most relevant information at the local level.
MapQuest: one of the leading mapping brands online, offering maps and directions, reaching 47 million users in the U.S. in October 2010, according to comScore Media Metrix.
Wow! Deal of the Day: local discounts on dining, shopping, weekend getaways and more. Currently offering deals in Washington, DC, Boston and Philadelphia, Wow! Deal of the Day will soon offer deals in other cities as well as national offerings.
About AOL

AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) is a leading global Web services company with an extensive suite of brands and offerings and a substantial worldwide audience. AOL’s business spans online content, products and services that the company offers to consumers, publishers and advertisers. AOL is focused on attracting and engaging consumers and providing valuable online advertising services on both AOL’s owned and operated properties and third-party websites. In addition, AOL operates one of the largest Internet subscription access services in the United States, which serves as a valuable distribution channel for AOL’s consumer offerings.

Google Places Search

I just got done having lunch with now, Phoenix SEO, Sean Hakes and talked about some interesting things happening with Google Places Search as well as their fancy new Waterfront Offices in Scottsdale.

Google Places Search has changed a lot lately and it’s a move that has really helped identify the true seo firms vs. ones who I refer to as “Text Book SEOs,” these are self taught SEOs who pic up a book and assume their experts on the spot.

Things are changing and they are changing fast which is one of the many important reasons why it’s best to hook up with a legitimate seasoned seo firm such as the Scottsdale SEO Agency.

SEO Tricks You Should Know

I bet you don’t know the SEO trick you need to make your blog #1 in Google. Want to take a guess? The Answer is your keywords.

Ever dreamed of seeing your blog post at the #1 spot in Google? What comes with the #1 spot is an avalanche of targeted traffic, which will lead to more sales if you are promoting an affiliate product, which leads to more money in your pocket.

The way Google ranks your site is how well it is search engine optimized. SEO for short. This is just a fancy term for the way people use words to search for what they are looking for. Keywords are important, everyone knows that. But the real SECRET to SEO success is WHERE you place your keywords.

SEO Secret #1- Title
Placing your keyword in the title of your blog tells Google what your post is about. If you are writing a blog post about dance, you are not going to just call your blog post “Dance”. Yuck, that would be a lame title! There is nothing there to catch your interest. Try something like “Dance Your Way To A Sexier You” This title instantly would grab your attention, and would make you want to click on the article to find out more.

SEO Trick #2- Heading
The Headline of your blog post is very important. You want to make sure you convey the overall theme of your blog in just one sentence. You want to be intriguing without being silly or giving too much away. You want your reader to continue reading and not push that back button.

“How To” headings are great ways to start. It automatically lets your reader know that they are about to learn something new. So using the tile from above as an example, a good How To headline could be “How To Dance Your Way To A Sexier You”

SEO Trick #3- Tags
Your tag will be your keyword. If you tag a post with “Dance”, every post where you have used that term would show up. It’s an easy way of grouping similar posts together without that awful Google duplicate content penalty. A lot of people ever even use tool, and their SEO rankings suffer because of it.

SEO Trick #4- In The Body Of Your Blog
This is a not so obvious trick, but it is still very effective. Put your keywords in the body of your post. Think like a chef. Sprinkle your keyword throughout your post. Do not over use your keyword. If you use a keyword too much, your post ends up ranking well, but will not create loyal readers because your post will not make any sense.

SEO Trick #5- Decorations
Decorations in your blog include BOLDING, using ITALICS, or UNDERLINING. Other decorations would be photos, or videos embedded into your blog. Photos, especially if tagged right can help boost your SEO rankings. The way you “decorate” your blog really helps search engines know what your site is about.

These secrets will help you boost your SEO rankings. All technical SEO talk aside, YOU, my friend are the biggest secret of all to the success of your blog. If you write about what you love and are passionate about, your readers will pick up on your passion and really connect with you.

Happy Blogging!

Learn the SEO tricks that will take your blog to the TOP of the Google rankings here at http://www.topseoinfo.com

Scottsdale SEO Services

@Denver SEO, you will always just be a Denver SEO! ;) Just kidding, looking forward to the competition and if you think you could do anything to help me claim the #1 spot in Google for Scottsdale SEO, that’d be great.