Super Twitter Profile

By Jose Uzcategui August 7th, 2011 Social Media No Comments

This gentleman just followed me on Twitter. I must say, he has the most impressive Twitter profile I’ve seen. The only thing missing is “President” and “Medical Doctor”…

I’m not sure if Daniel is trying this for SEO, Internet marketing, or other optimization purposes. But I’m having a hard time pinpointing what exactly is his job, and I can’t help but to be skeptical of all he does.

I was surprised to see Daniel’s stats. He’s listed 340+ times as of today:

• 554 Tweets
• 35,404 Following
• 33,384 Followers
• 342 Listed

Typically you only get listed if you convince someone else you provide value of some kind. So I’ve got to hand it to Daniel’s Twitter following / optimization strategy. His profile might be somewhat sketchy, but he has been able to do quite a bit, regardless.

Daniel if you’re out there, feel free to comment on your strategy and results.

Followup Report: YellowPages 360 Solution Keyword Experiment

By Jose Uzcategui April 8th, 2011 Internet Marketing 2 Comments

This is a follow up on a previous post targeting Yellow Pages aggressive media camapaign, “360 Solution”.

 

Click to download my experiment’s basic traffic report here (PDF)

Soon after publishing the post targeting “Yellow Pages 360 Solutions”, much to my surprise, I ranked top position right away. That was because of the Yellow Pages’ slip-up of not optimizing for these words.

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Yellow Pages 360 Solution

By Jose Uzcategui March 19th, 2011 Internet Marketing 4 Comments

Put your business on the top of search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo!

Connect your business with millions of ready-to-buy surfers and attract the kind of leads that will grow your business. With Yellow Pages 360 Solutions you will also get powerful insights to reach more customers that are interested in your business.

The Yellow Pages 360 Solution… You’ve probably heard one of these commercials (at least in Vancouver, Canada), part of the very aggressive off-line marketing campaign from Yellow Pages Group.

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Web Designers Directory for Canada

By Jose Uzcategui October 3rd, 2010 Internet Marketing No Comments

Today I’ve decided to showcase a new resource for web designers in Canada, the Web Designers Director for Canada.

As part of the launch, everything on the directory is free – listings, articles and everything to showcase your company within the directory is free, including ads.  If you’re a web designer or cater to web designers in Canada, this is get some free exposure.

The directory showcases the follwoing ads for web design and web design related ads:

• Banner
• Leaderboard
• Small Square
• Sponsored Link

You can check how the look on the Banner Options section.

Stronger Link Building I – Jose Uzcategui From Snaptech – Vancovuer SEM Meteup

By Jose Uzcategui July 6th, 2010 Meetups 2 Comments

Last Meetup was my turn to present at the Vancouver SEM Meetup. I chose link building as the topic because a couple of interesting projects we’re undertaking at Snaptech.

First  let me thank Snaptech Marketing, the Vancouver web design and Internet marketing company where I work, for sponsoring the Meetup. It’s great to have industry support in these things.

The Link Building Series

Trying to keep my Meetup presentation to 35 minutes was a bit of a challenge, there are so many things we can talk about link building…

I don’t want to rush the information on the blog so I’ll break my presentation into a series of 3 or four more digestible posts.

This post is the first of three posts about link building.

The Most Important Parts of Link Building Is…

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Vancouver SEM Meetup – SEO Clinic Review

By Jose Uzcategui May 24th, 2010 Meetups 3 Comments

The slogan was 5 minutes, 5 SEOs, 10 sites. Basically, we had five minutes to take a look at a site we had never seen before and make recommendations from a Search Engine Optimization perspective.

It was fun. The Internet connection was pretty crappy, but it gave us enough to go over most sites.

It was pretty interesting to hear the different approaches and recommendations from such a knowledgeable bunch of SEOs.  Here are a few thoughts on each presenter:

• Marc Bitanga – SEO Manager for Electronic Arts. I liked Marc’s style, quick on his feet and to the point. (more…)

Ani Lopez on Multicultural Multilingual SEO at Vancouver SEM Meetup

By Jose Uzcategui March 27th, 2010 Meetups No Comments

(This post is a bit overdue – my apologies.)

This month’s Vancouver Search Engine Marketing Meetup’s presenter was Ani Lopez, a Vancouver SEO consultant who specializes in multi-lingual and multi-country SEO. Very suitable topic for Vancouver, one of the most multicultural cities I know.

SEO projects, accordingly, have to deal with particular challenges a this multicultural brings within. Typical questions revolve around how the site is structured, the URLs used, localization settings, and language use. I can think of very few people who could’ve addressed these challenges in such a simple yet applicable way as Ani Lopez.

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Vancouver SEM New Ning Community

By Jose Uzcategui November 17th, 2009 Social Media No Comments

Vancouver SEMs have a new Ning community to ask and answer questions, exchange ideas, and network online: http://vancouversem.ning.com.

Following the success of the Vancouver SEM Meetup Group we would like to invite all of you SEMs, SEOs, PPCs (can you PPCs?) and those who have questions about the topic to join and participate.

The Ning site is being spear headed by Ani Lopez, a Spaniard SEO who recently made the move to Vancouver.

On that note, Ani made a fantastic work making connection and making as smooth of a transition as possible using social media. You can read about his experience on his blog.

Do We Need SEO? …um, YES!

By Jose Uzcategui September 30th, 2009 Personal No Comments

Have you noticed an increase on articles praising social media and asking, “do we really need SEO?” Well let me answer that for you, YES. Social media is mighty powerful, true, but it’s not a substitute for SEO, it’s part of it.

Here are some of the really, really basics some non-believers of SEO are missing.

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The Vancouver SEO Meetup Group Changes Name!

By Jose Uzcategui September 19th, 2009 Meetups No Comments

The Vancouver Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Meetup Group is changing its name to The Vancouver Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Group.

The reason is that we have many members who would like to hear and discuss a variety of issues beyond SEO – in fact we do that already.

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