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SEO Presentations available

Katy Barrilleaux — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:58:20 GMT

Sean Jackson, CEO of Lead Maverick, recently gave two presentations on search engine optimization (SEO). Both are available on [url=http://www.slideshare.net/LeadMaverick]slideshare[/url].

"Search Engine Optimization - Search marketing services for agencies" is an overview of the search market and how ad agencies can offer seo services to clients. It was presented in San Francisco on Oct. 16, 2008 at the [url=http://www.aaaa.org]4A[/url]'s Western Conference Digital 3.0.

"Tech Tools Tango - How to dance better with Google, Yahoo and MSN" is a comprehensive list of tech resources for site optimization. It was presented in Houston on Oct. 22, 2008 at [url=http://www.houstonima.org]HiMA[/url]'s Interactive Strategies '08 Conference. An online list of all the tools is available on the [url=http://www.leadmaverick.com/seotools]Lead Maverick website[/url].

Posting from Notepad

Levelten — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:53:43 GMT

This weekend I was working on posting a few articles for a client, when Bam! Nothing seemed to be viewing properly:crazy: I was baffled at why my review of my article was discombobulated? Please see attachment! The lesson learned, was to remember to ALWAYS use notepad!

I was copying and pasting from Word and even though in the past it wasn't an issue, this weekend it did not take! I spent at least 2 hours of my extended weekend trying to figure out what was wrong!

and as simple as that, the answer is notepad :)

HIMA Internet Strategies '08 registration is now open

Katy Barrilleaux — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:52:27 GMT

The Houston Interactive Marketing Association's Internet Strategies '08: Secrets Exposed is now open for registrations. The event is Sept. 18 at the Angelika Film Center in Houston. Lead Maverick CEO, Sean Jackson, will be speaking at the event, along with LM Partner Tony Wright of WrightIMC who will hold a website SEO clinic.

Check out the [url=http://houstonima.org/cde.cfm?event=220548]IS '08 website[/url] for more information and to register.

Don't miss the DFW SEM Meeting Wednesday, July 16 at 630pm

Katy Barrilleaux — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:11:28 GMT

[b]The next meeting of the Dallas Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association is Wednesday, July 16 at 6:30pm at the Richardson Renaissance[/b].

DFW SEM board members will cover an extensive list of obstacles that can impede natural search engine performance. A site clinic will follow -- attendees may submit their website for on-the-spot SEO analysis with recommendations. Admission is $30 for non-members, and free for individual and corporate dues paying members (memberships are $75 and $175 / year, and can be purchased at the door).

Door Prize, courtesy of SEMPO -- a free SEMPO Institute certification valued at up to $1,300. The winner will be drawn at random. Special thanks to SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization) for providing the prize, and for partnering with DFW SEM for the next event.

Lead Maverick is a corporate sponsor of DFWSEM and we will be at the meeting in full force. See you Wednesday night. :)

The Renaissance Dallas-Richardson Hotel is located at 900 East Lookout Drive, Richardson, Texas 75081. The hotel is in the Richardson Telecom Corridor, on the east side of 75 Central Expressway, approximately one mile south of George Bush Tollway. The hotel phone is 972-367-2000.

http://www.google.com/maps?q=900+E+Lookout+Dr,+Richardson,+Texas+75082,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

Sell more Liceense Get Help with look of the landing page

DPedini — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:47:24 GMT

If you are a reseller in need of a better looking landing page please contact Dennis Pedini at the Idea man as we would like to partner with you to help make your pages look better

We are the first partner to edit the CSS and have been tweaking LM pages Since 2007... let us help you today sell more!

Thanks

Dennis Pedini
President

214-810-IDEA
www.theideaman.com

July DFW SEM Association Meeting

Katy Barrilleaux — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:12:01 GMT

The next meeting of the [url=http://www.dfwsem.org/]Dallas Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association[/url] is set for [b]Wednesday, July 16 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at the Renaissance in Richardson, Texas[/b]. The presentation will be on [i]“47 Mistakes That Can Hinder Your Natural Search Presence”[/i] and will be followed by a site clinic. The meetings are always informative. Lead Maverick is once again sponsoring the meeting so come on out and join us.;)

Google April Changes

Katy Barrilleaux — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:05:56 GMT

In an effort to keep our customers informed on search engine changes, we would like to alert you to a recent event that occurred with Google.

In April, Google made several infrastructure changes to the way they handle data. This was not an algorithmic change but purely a change on how they manage data. For a short time the Google Search Results exhibited some strange behavior including:

• Google showing different numbers of pages indexed in Webmaster Central than they did for the Google site command.
• New pages taking up to 2 weeks (sometimes more) to be indexed.
• Currently indexed pages featuring outdated and inaccurate caches.
• Older, higher-quality sites losing their rankings to newer sites of lower quality.

We're seeing things slowly returning, but give it another week or so.

This latest update is a lesson in WHAT NOT TO DO when you see a sudden ranking drop. Often, rankings fluctuations caused by big updates resolve themselves within a week or two without your having to do anything.

Making changes to your content during an update to try to get your rankings back is often the worst thing you can do. You're much better advised to wait it out until things settle down.

Also the PageRank displayed in the Google toolbar has also changed for some sites (not on Lead Maverick). However you should know that the PageRank shown in the Google Toolbar IS NOT the same PageRank used by Google internally for ranking sites. The toolbar Rank is only an approximation and not much more than that!

As always we here at Lead Maverick want to keep you informed. If you have any question feel free to ask.

SER Software

Solderite — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:23:16 GMT

I am going to be working on a site that has tons of pages and keywords. I am looking for some very good automated software that can compile nice reports for SERP's. Anyone know of a good product or service?

Some Authoritative SEO Resources

Patrick Daly — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:15:42 GMT

Google's very own and very public Webspam director, [url=http://mattcutts.com]Matt Cutts[/url], offers lots and lots of blog posts, videos, speeches, etc. on best SEO practices.

[url=http://www.wolf-howl.com/]Michael Gray[/url], Google critic and SEO guru, posts nearly daily with great tips.

[url=http://www.seomoz.org/]SEOmoz[/url] offers a lot of tools to check the SEO-friendliness of your site, piles of tips and tricks, and quite a bit of quality research.

Another source of articles, videos, tools and more is [url=http://www.seobook.com/]SEO Book[/url] - almost the standard guideline in SEO.

Yours truly happens to be a WordPress addict and I've written a post for those using WordPress that are looking to increase their visibility. Here's my post on [url=http://www.developdaly.com/blog/hardcore-wordpress-tips/17/]Hardcore WordPress Tips[/url].