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SEO for Google consists of three main parts: optimization, content, and popularity. By understanding these factors in Google SEO, you can rank any Web site at the top of the search results.

Chicago, IL – Ali Husayni recently attended the annual meeting of the American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) to make connections and network.

The AAO’s 111th Annual Session was held May 13-17 in Chicago, Illinois.

The meeting is the premier event for orthodontists every year, and a great venue for meeting people and making contacts.

“We have a lot of clients who are orthodontists. It’s a very SEO friendly field,” explains Husayni. “Master Google is developing a reputation for successful SEO for small business, especially orthodontists. We’re the one whose name people recognize.”

At the conference, we met with current clients to ensure customer satisfaction and networked with a wide variety of other businesses.

“We have a number of partners who do social media, search engine marketing, Web design, etc.,” notes Husayni. “This is a great venue to connect with them and discuss joint projects.”

Our partners and peers include Ingenuity, Yodel, Prosites, Televox, and Sesame.

More orthodontists have begun to understand the importance of using Internet marketing and SEO to promote their practice and bring in customers. And Master Google is the search engine optimization company many associate with the SEO keyword “orthodontist.”

“Everywhere I went, people wanted to talk about SEO for orthodontists. It was a hot topic – everyone is trying to figure out how it works and how it can benefit them,” says Husayni. “It’s changing the face of marketing orthodontics.”

It is also helpful to meet with vendors – other companies that are providing products and services to orthodontists, he says. We can see what the orthodontists’ needs are and the state of the business.

“The whole conference was a very valuable experience,” he says. “I look forward to attending next year.”

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Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA - Over the past couple of months, we have discussed different areas of Internet marketing. We have shared information about social media marketing and search engine marketing, and in our third installment of this series, we cover search engine optimization.

SEO is the term used to describe how companies such as ours maximize the number of visitors to a website by getting the site to rank high on organic search results.

“It is imperative that the Internet marketing business you choose to provide SEM, SEO or social media marketing services is a reputable company that does not use black hat SEO techniques,” says Ali Husayni, founder of Master Google.

Following is a bit of information on how we help our clients achieve top SEO results.

Keywords
Most clients come to us with some idea of the keywords they want associated with their businesses.

“We work with the client to brainstorm keyword phrases and conduct research to get a long list of words potential customers likely are searching for,” Husayni says. “We also look at a client’s competitors to determine the types of keywords they are using.”

From there, we begin to review, categorize and compare search volume and competitiveness of the main keywords. Finally, we prioritize each client’s keyword phrases based on relevance and their propensity to drive traffic and sales.

Optimization
A variety of work is done to a client’s site when we optimize it. We create a sitemap.xml file and submit it to Google Webmaster Tools, and we create/update the HTML sitemap page of our clients’ websites.

We also make sure that search engines are not blocked through no-index meta tags, robots.txt files, or anything else that blocks search engines from accessing and indexing the website.

Google doesn’t like duplicate content, so we remove any duplicate content on our clients’ sites and replace it with fresh, original content.

We also remove any black hat SEO techniques that have been done to the site, and we create a blog for each client, as well as install SEO and Sitemap plug-ins. We add a “most recent blog post” section to the home page, which is important for freshening content.

“The list of steps we take to optimize a client’s site is much longer, but these are some general tasks that we do,” Husayni says.

Link Building
“Link building is a vital part of the overall professional SEO process,” Husayni says. Getting relevant links back to the client’s website is important.

Jolina Pettice, a senior account manager with TopRank Online Marketing, says “inbound links are like electricity for search visibility,” and we agree with her.

We build links for our clients by generating quality content, linking up with marketing partners and often through promotion via social networks.

Tie In Social Media Efforts
It was big news recently when Google and Bing disclosed that social links and social media influences have an impact on search results.

“Social media outlets such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Vimeo- just to name a few- provide additional ways in which our clients can get their information out to potential customers. The great thing about posting items such as videos, articles and press releases to these sites is that doing so provides relevant links back to our clients’ sites,” Husayni says.

Because so many people use social media these days, posting items via these outlets creates a number of opportunities for the information to be promoted by others when they choose to share it with their friends.

Google Places
If you are trying to be found by your customers/patients locally, Google Places is the answer. This doesn’t work for companies that have a national or international client base – unless they have physical office locations in major cities. But if you are a dentist in Augusta, Georgia, being optimized on Google Places for that city certainly will help you appear high in search results when people Google “Augusta, Georgia dentist” or something else along those lines.

“Google Places is tied in to SEO, but there are some deliberate steps that must be taken to achieve the desired rankings,” Husayni says. “We offer that service to our clients.”

Husayni recently created an informative how-to video on getting the most out of Google Places. “In the coming weeks, we are going to post this video, along with directions on how we get our clients listed on Google Places,” he says.

It goes without saying that optimizing websites for Google searches is the most important goal for SEO, and that point was driven home once again recently with the announcement that Google had been named the most “reputable” company in the United States by Haris Interactive. It was followed by Johnson & Johnson, 3M, Berkshire Hathaway and Apple.

“This news is just one more reason why being ranked on Google is important,” Husayni says. “The general public views Google as reputable, and it trusts the sites that rank high on Google.”

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For many years, we have considered a Web page’s loading speed as one of the on-site optimization criterium used by Google spiders. The faster a page loads, the better rank it will have on Google.

This was proven a day ago when Google announced that it is going to add “site speed” to Google Analytics results. Site speed will measure and report how fast each of your Web pages will load (on average) when someone visits your site.

But why is loading speed is so important?

We know the sites that have sophisticated designs, such as FLASH sites, or sites that are image or video heavy, load slower. On the other hand, sites that only have text and very minimal navigation (except through text-links) load the fastest – but text-only sites are boring.

With the Internet speed growing in average households, you’d think sites that are more beautiful should get more credit by Google, but not so fast. It is true that we now have faster Internet speed around the world compared to a few years ago, however, as Internet users, our patience for loading pages has also diminished. We leave a page quickly if it doesn’t load within a few of seconds. Or, if we really want to visit the page, we become increasingly frustrated as we wait for its content to load.

According to Pear Analytics, In 2007 Amazon conducted a test to see how the speed of your page loading affects losing traffic. The results were astonishing. For every second that your site loads slower, you lose roughly 1% of your site’s traffic. This means if you have a FLASH site and it takes 20 seconds to load, you lose 20% of your site’s visitors before they even see your site. In sales numbers, losing 20% of your potential customers is HUGE.

So, our recommendation to you is to make your site load as fast as possible to increase your page views, traffic and, consequently, sales.

Boulder, CO – SEO company Master Google has signed up a record six new clients in the month of April, demonstrating that their business is really gaining momentum.

“Our reputation is growing as a search optimization company that can really get results for your website and your business,” explains Ali Husayni, CEO of Master Google.

Businesses are increasingly aware of how important it is to optimize their search engine results and how critical their Web presence is to their overall success. “More and more businesses are realizing the power of SEO and the importance of Google in their success,” notes Husayni.

“Everyone wants their piece of the pie.”

The new clients are a diverse group of businesses, including a taxi service, a real estate agent training school, a pediatric dentistry/orthodontics practice, a printing company, a heating/air conditioning company, and a shoe company. This diversity is in keeping with Master Google’s list of existing and previous clients, which includes industries such as dentistry, vacation rentals, wedding photography, psychiatry, email archiving, gynecology, electric cigarettes, engineering and many others.

Over the past three years, Web SEO company Master Google has doubled its revenue each year. The company is on track to do so again in 2011. “It’s important that we build a relationship with each client so that they understand what we’re doing and how we’re helping their business to grow,” Husayni remarks. “We will provide the same high quality service to ALL of our clients – old and new. We refuse to sacrifice the quality of our work just because the quantity of our clients has increased.”

Master Google has turned away many prospective clients that it felt could not fully benefit from the company’s SEO services. “The qualification process is vigorous,” says Husayni. “We look at the prospects’ prior SEO experience, their competition on Google, how user-friendly their website is and many other factors.”

For instance, Husayni recently turned away a Los Angeles dentist whose site was not up to the standards of the Web. “We told the dentist and his team that with their current site they could not benefit from a high Google rank because site visitors would be discouraged from contacting them. They needed to build a new site first.”

Master Google’s success is due to its utmost care for each and every client. The team, in general, and Husayni, in particular, ensure that everything they do will benefit their clients. “All search engine optimization firms can provide meta tag updates while inserting keywords,” observes Husayni. “But Master Google will go the extra mile to really understand your business and tailor each strategy to your organization’s needs. That is why our company keeps growing.”

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Haris Interactive just announced the results of their poll yesterday, which indicates Google is now considered by most American’s as the most “reputable” company in the US.

Since 1999, the Americans have never had such a positive attitude toward corporate America.

Google ranked #1, replacing Berkshire Hathaway, which fell to fourth place. Johnson & Johnson ranked second, followed by 3M Company at third. Apple’s reputation has been growing steadily since 2002 and is now ranked as #5.

The poll asked 30,000 Americans to rate top 60 most visible companies based on their leadership, social responsibility, vision, emotional appeal, financial performance, products and services, and workplace environment.

This is another reason why being ranked on Google is important. The general public sees Google as reputable and it trusts the sites that rank well on Google.

Tampa, FL – These days everyone is atwitter about Twitter.

“Experts are calling it the biggest marketing tool for your business since Google,” notes Ali Husayni of Master Google. Everyone knows they should be using Twitter, but how? A mere 140 characters doesn’t seem to be much of a marketing opportunity. But it can be very handy if you use it right.

Instant Information: Since Twitter is all about what a person is doing right now, there is no faster way to get the word out. When you tweet about a recent development, you are disseminating that information instantaneously to your followers. Twitter is perfect for people with Web-enabled phones and small screens; if an individual wants to contact people where they are at the moment (for instance, at a trade show or big event), Twitter can do it.

Faster than Blogs: Blogs are a great source of information about the latest happenings in a business. But getting someone to read your blog means enticing them to visit a website – and this extra step may be a deal breaker. Tweets get the information to the audience without requiring them to commit the time and energy to locate and visit a site. Businesses can use Twitter to announce a new blog post or webinar – driving traffic to their site. Think of tweets as little micro-blogs.

Following/Getting Followed: Twitter is all about building relationships. When you start a Twitter account, you can search for others with similar interests and “follow” them. They, in turn, can follow you – allowing you to build up an audience relatively quickly. And since Twitter is inherently democratic, it’s not hard to get fairly well-known people in a field to “follow” you.

Building a Network: As with other social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, Twitter lets you locate and join communities of people with similar interests. Once you have people who are part of a network, you can solidify those relationships by sending them emails, responding promptly to questions, and keeping track of retweets (and thanking those who retweet their posts).

Retweets: Twitter is democratic. Anyone can have an account and can tweet about whatever they want. But Twitter users need to make the content interesting so that their followers will want to share the information with their followers. “If you can do this, you’re harnessing the true power of Twitter,” explains Husayni, of the Google ranking company Master Google, known for its 1st page of Google program. “Not only is it democratic, but it’s viral. You write the tweet and let your Twitter network do the rest.”

Content: The best content is informational rather than overtly promotional. Don’t think of tweets as ads, but as informative posts. Instead of: “New product! Only 19.95!,” you should think along the lines of “We have a new product. Click here to learn about it and view pricing information.”

“People don’t want to send their followers tweets that feel like advertisements or spam, but they do want to share valuable information,” notes Husayni, an SEO Services expert. “Tweeters should be sure they only use the site when they have valuable content to share.”

Monitor: When using Twitter, it’s important to keep track of essential keywords so a company can read and react to the most valuable tweets. Any SEO consulting company will also advise that a business monitor its Web presence. Twitter is a great tool for seeing what is being said about your company.

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