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If we haven't met, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is David McBee and I specialize in helping businesses with their SEO - SPECIFICALLY with premium link building and infographic strategies. That's not all I do, but it's the focus of my trip to Seattle and Vancouver in April. I'm looking to help business owners who need help in these areas, but I'm also interested in partnering with Interactive Marketing Agencies like SEO and Web Design companies. I [...]

If you've heard that adding fresh content to your site will earn you major brownie points with Mother Google, you've heard right. Fresh content plays a huge role in the ranking of your website. But that doesn't mean that you should fill up your site with garbage, just for the sake of adding content. Here are five ways to blog... wrong ONE Write exclusively about your products and services. In "What to Blog. How to Make Your Content Robust" I [...]

As I teach business owners about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), I always encourage them to blog. It’s incredibly important for so many reasons. It’s great for SEO because the search engines love the content. But it also gives you something of value worth sharing on the social media channels. Most importantly, businesses that blog, earn customers from their blogs. So when I’ve finally convinced someone to blog, they always have two questions. First, they want to know how often to [...]

Thanks to the guys over at Optima Worldwide for this great infographic about Facebook usage. Too bad there are no stats available on how many times per day folks check their Facebooks. I know I'm notorious for checking it way more than I probably should, and if you've ever heard me tease her at one of my speaking events, you know that my sweet wife couldn't even tell you how many times she checks hers every day. (...at stop lights, [...]

I often get asked about link building budgets.  To many this budget is for the time and energy it takes their in-house SEO team to build links. For those who outsource their link building to an SEO agency, this is a financial question. However you look at it, this analogy may help you with your link building "budget." An overweight man goes to the doctor and tells him that he wants to lose a hundred pounds in the next three [...]

Back in 2009, I wrote a post about how SEO is like a diet and PPC is like plastic surgery. I can't tell you how many times over the years I have referred to that analogy and how it has become one of my "go to" explanations. Because I'm such a fan of infographics, I decided it was time to bring back that analogy with a little 2013 flair.  So here ya go.   Infographic Transcript: SEO is a Diet. [...]

You’ve seen infographics on the web. They’re in your social feeds, on news sites and they show up in the blogs you read. You’ve heard that infographics are a great strategy for internet marketing so you’ve taken the plunge. You’ve invested your time, energy and resources into building a great infographic. Now what? Here are ten steps to ensure that you implement a complete infographic strategy. ONE: Place the infographic somewhere on your site where it will be easily found. [...]

There was a time when businesses considered "Internet Marketing" one channel of their advertising. It sounded good when it was added to other strategies they used. It was common to hear a sentence like, "Yes, we advertise using direct mail, a little radio, yellow pages and now internet marketing."  The problem with that today is that internet marketing consists of it's own individual channels and specialties. Search engine optimization is different from web design for example while creating a blog [...]