My name is Matthew Bredel and as of March, 2007, I am a full-time, work-at-home internet marketer.
For close to 10 years, I worked for a defense company which was an OK job, but I was so uninspired in life and frankly, I needed some more money. That is when I first discovered internet marketing! Now I admit that I didn't start making thousands in my first couple of months (in fact, I lost my shirt!), but I finally saw the "internet light"...
Internet Marketers: Are You Ready for Next Week?
What’s happening next week in internet marketing and are you ready for it?
Social Media & SEO: Can They Co-Exist?
Social Marketing is blowing up! And the argument is that it will replace the search engine…I don’t think so. But realize this, social marketing is having a big impact IN the search engines. Using Social Media to get high rankings in Google may be the hidden SEO gem!
Keyword Matters: Density, The Long Tail, and LSI
If you’re someone who is marketing online, regardless of ‘what’ you’re marketing, keyword research is important.
Market Samurai Review - SEO Competion
Knowing how your competition gets the top rankings for a specific keyword is one of the most fundamental rules of Search Engine Optimization. Market Samurai’s SEO Competition tool is quick, thorough and highly effective.
Market Samurai Review - Rank Tracker
Being able to analyze and track your website (and your competitor’s websites) in the Google organic listings can be quite valuable. See how Market Samurai does this with a click of a button.
Get Backlinks - Free Backlinks, It’s Easy!
So how do you get other websites to link back to you (called a backlink)? There are several ways of improving your Off-Page SEO efforts and here I propose four of the most common ways to get quality backlinks back to your site. (And yes, these all work really well!)…
Anchor Text: This is SeO Important!
Do you KNOW your linking? What I mean is for every link pointing to your site (or within your site), there is a crucial piece of keyword information that search engine bots look rather closer at! The funny thing is that most people completely ignore this fact. Paying a little attention to anchor text can increase your search engine traffic ten-fold. Learn more…
Social Media - Resistance is Futile (and Potentially Harmful to Your Success)
Are you resistant to using social bookmarking tools because you think: they’re a waste of time, you have no time for them, or because you think they’re a passing phase? If so—sadly—, you are leaving money on the table.
Backlinks – Go for Quality, Not Just Quantity
When it comes to working on getting backlinks for your site, are you a quantity or quantity *plus* quality strategist?
The Dreaded Duplicate Content Question…
Duplicate content seems to cause many of us SEO fears. Will we be punished for duplicate content? Probably not! But does it help SEO directly? Not really, other than providing Google many avenues to find your article. Still, there is a strategy that guarantees indexing and high SERP rankings (without any concern about duplicate content!).