May 24
Join the people (and growing) who have signed the petition!
Dear Members of Congress:
“I urge you to support tax incentives for renewable energy. These incentives help create jobs and lower greenhouse gases. They are the kind of policies that will help solve the climate crisis.”
http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/s/tax
May 18
I am creating this post as a place to add questions that you have from the Seminar. Click on the comments at the top to ask a question. I will try to answer the question and put the answers on the FAQ’s page or a separate page for the Seminar.
Please be sure to leave a valid email address so that I can make sure you get the answer to the question.
Thanks an enjoy using the blog.
Karl Bennion
May 18
I taught the first search engine optimization seminar at the Salt Lake • Tooele Applied Technology College for a group of approximately 25 students and faculty. It was a good group and there were a number of questions from the people attending. I believe that the students started to understand how they can create a marriage between webpage design and search engine functionality.
I requested that the students give me some feed back on the seminar so that we can evaluate the usefulness of the seminar and if useful consider planning a second for some future date.
In our discussion I was able to explain that using a keyword phrase as anchor text on a consistent basis will help to get them relevancy for that keyword phrase. I explained that I typically use the phrase Improved Search Engine Placement as anchor text pointing to my www.seoexpertpro.com website.
Generally I believe that the core concepts of keyword research, keyword relevance and keyword density started to make sense to the group. I’m looking forward to getting some feed back from the group related to the over all usefulness of the seminar.
I had one request to see the output generated by the SEOSpyGlass software that I demonstrated at the last of the seminar. I ran the report against my website Improved Search Engine Placement or www.seoexpertpro.com and posted the results at http://www.seoexpertpro.com/2008-05-07/SEOExpertPro_2008-05-07-1.html.
Please be sure to leave comments regarding the seminar by clicking on the comments at the top of the article you wish to comment on.
May 15
Salt Lake City, Utah — May 16, 2008 — Salt Lake • Tooele Applied Technology College (SLTATC) is hosting a Search Engine Optimization Seminar for their Media Design Group Students, May 16th. Karl Bennion owner of SEO Expert Pro (www.seoexpertpro.com) and member of the SLTATC Employer Advisory Committee for the Media Design Group has consulted with the School and is working to help improve the Media Design program. “Website designers don’t always have a good idea of what helps to promote a website with the search engines.” say Bennion. This seminar will address the major points that search engines use to position a website in the top pages of the natural or organic search engine results. Bennion will be pointing out the common mistakes that website designers make and giving them a framework for planning and optimizing websites from the inception of the project idea.
This seminar is the first in an effort to break the traditional mold of media design instruction, moving the school and the department forward in a progressive manner to provide students with skills that they can take into the workplace, providing immediate benefit to employers.
The Salt Lake • Tooele Applied Technology College (www.sltatc.edu) prides itself in providing top quality hands on education preparing students to meet the needs of Utah’s employers.
May 14
Here a few client websites that have good rankings in the search engines. As of the time of this posting these are the positions of these websites.
Checkout Jim Sullivan’s Website, www.sullivanguitars.com for the keyword “handmade guitars”
- #1 on Yahoo! with good Keyword Density and with a page rank of 1
- #1 on MSN…
- Page 3 of Google
Checkout Ron McCoromick’s Website www.massagesaltlake.com or www.ronsrub.com for the keywords “massage Salt Lake”, “Massage Therapy Salt Lake”
- # 4 on Google with good keyword density and only a page rank of 1. When we started there wasn’t a page rank
- #2 on Yahoo!…
- #1 on MSN
Checkout My Website www.protaskfunding.com for the keywords “sell real estate note”
- #1 on MSN with a page rank of 2 and good keyword density
- #2 on Altivista and AllTheWeb….
- #3 on Yahoo! ….
My www.seoexpertpro.com website just came out of the Google Sandbox and has a page rank of 3