Denver SEO Speaker | Business Blogging Consultant

It was great to do a bonus session on SEO for blogs and website optimization. Anita Johnston, the President of NSA Las Vegas was kind enough to let us use her house for this three hour session. Thanks Anita and thanks to all of you who came out Sunday to talk SEO!

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Enjoy these pictures from my  recent SEO speaking engagement in Boston!

Here are some additional pictures from my friends in the New England Chapter of the National Speakers Association. We had a great day discussing SEO and how Read the rest of this entry »

I will be in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 20, 2008. It will be my pleasure to speak at the National Speakers Association/Las Vegas Chapter. You do not have to be a member to attend this day of SEO tips, Website strategy and website optimization ideas.

Regular readers of this blog know that my favorite weapon for helping you Read the rest of this entry »

I will have the pleasure of speaking at National Speakers Association/New England Chapter. The date will be Saturday September 13, 2008. You do not have to be a member of NSA/New England to attend the meeting.

We will be covering blogs, website strategies Read the rest of this entry »

If you got redirected over here from SEO for startups-Welcome! As you can see, I’m cleaning house and making this domain more relevant and specific to my SEO speaking on blogs and websites. Thanks for your patience and if you were linking to me please consider relinking here at SEO Speakers.

Thanks for your support and patience.

Steve Mertz

I gave Google Insights a test run this morning-impressive! Let’s look at a specific example. I put the phrase professional speakers into Google insights search. It gives you a graphic representation of the search volume for the phrase professional speakers since 2004.

It then lets you know the regional interest for the term Read the rest of this entry »

If you put the term website strategy into Google sets you get some great results such as:

search engine optimization, website design, seo, internet marketing services and more. As a small business owner these are all very relevant Read the rest of this entry »

If you are spending $10,000 or more on a mechanical watch-chances are good you will also be purchasing a watch winder to keep that beauty wound when you are not wearing it. One of the leading manufacturers of automatic watch winders is a company called Orbita. While they have some of the most gorgeous watch winders-they have very interesting SEO efforts for these premium winders. Case in point-their home page is a world map with the infamous “please click your region.” Read the rest of this entry »

Eric Enge of Ramblings About SEO had an article back in April talking about SEOs Should Focus on Conversions.

Eric is one of my favorite reads and I always enjoy his point of view. He mentions the usual suspects that SEO firms might report to clinets including:
Technical SEO changes made
New links obtained
Rankings reports etc…

All things clients like to hear but at the end of the day he argues that:

What matters most to clients is increasing their conversions (e.g. sign-ups, leads, contact me requests, or e-commerce transactions). It should also be what matters most to you.

Eric, you are right on the money! An SEO firm can work it’s tail off for a client-including getting them on the first page of a Google search-but they will always say “show me the money”. As I mentioned yesterday when talking about the firm selling automatic watch winders; they show up well in searches but their site is not very user friendly! Other firms are just not offering quality or unique goods and services but guess who is going to get blamed if they don’t get conversions?

I think Eric is right about focusing on conversions but I’d add one more thing: pick your clients very carefully. Will they listen to all of your advice-SEO and Marketing?
Are you passionate about their product or service? For me personally, I have to believe in the product or service in order to produce maximum results for a clients online success!