Is SEO dead? No! Now is the GOLDEN AGE of SEO!

Anthony Longoria - Owner, Sr. Creative Dir. SEOVENTURA.NET  Sept. 25^th 2013 –

Is SEO dead?  NO!  SEO IS NOT DEAD!  SEO is a very broad term that covers a lot of ground.  Search Engine Optimization is only part of complete web development.  Don't worry!  Change is good and what Google is doing is actually evening the playing field for ALL businesses.  No longer will companies that have a dedicated IT staff with unlimited amounts of cash to throw at their site ranking be on the top page just because they can afford it!  Mom and pop shops, mid-range companies and startups now are on equal footing!  Your websites performance will be based solely on the popularity of your product or service!  NOW is the time to upgrade or create a website for your business!  This is the GOLDEN AGE friends!  Websites MUST be consumer driven! You MUST tailor your site to fit your consumer demographic which mean even more analytics to investigate and draw from!  Don't hesitate, don't wait for the "perfect opportunity" don't allow your competitors to get the jump on you.  The time is NOW!  If you keep up with our posts ( at www.seoventura.net/#!easy-seo-blog/c1kbk ) then you know the world of SEO has changed DRASTICALLY again!  This industry has seen some considerable changes in the past 12 months, from geographic search results last year to the Google Penguin update effecting backlinks (follow vs nofollow) 3 months ago.  Yesterday (09/24/13) the ability to gauge a websites performance based on keyword or comparison analytic data has been abolished.  Google has encrypted 100% of keyword data.  What does this mean to you?  It's likely that you WILL see a drop in your web ranking if your site did not already have strong keywords in place.  What can be done!?  Fear not!  Web development is MUCH more that keyword ranking.  With the complete understanding of the "how" and "why" of what Google is looking for we can provide you with the complete combination of what your site needs.  We provide you with proper backlinks, Meta & Alt Tags and site maps that comply & fit the Google requirements as well as strong integrated social media platforms and more!  This is NOT the end friends it's just the beginning!  When you're ready to take the next step in your business plan and upgrade or modify your existing site, give us a call!  We're here to help!  Visit us at http://www.seoventura.net/

The day SEO died

Search engine optimization professionals awoke yesterday morning to news that Google went "all in" on its initiatives to encrypt search data. Today, 100 percent of the referrer data on search queries from organic traffic is not provided. Folks, this is the day that SEO (as you know it) died…but that’s OK because you’re going to start thinking differently.

Google has effectively and virtually handcuffed the entire digital marketing community by encrypting search data. When Internet professionals like you don’t have access to keyword search data, they won’t know what drives traffic to their sites and they certainly won’t be able to understand what strategic or tactical SEO efforts they make are resulting in conversions. Whether the intent is to drive you to AdWords or not, the main source of data for many enterprises has simply vanished overnight. It gets worse. There is absolutely nothing you can do about it. Or is there?
Keyword data samples from Yahoo and Bing are too low, and the data provided by Google within Webmaster tools doesn’t currently have page correlation much less conversion correlation. But that doesn’t mean that savvy search engine optimization professionals (and SEO platform providers - ahem) aren’t going to try. While one shortcut to getting this data back is to head on over to AdWords, there is a lot more work necessary to understand organic performance in the future for those that don’t go this route in this new reality. But it’s not the end of the Web world.

Here’s what will likely happen. SEOs still have access to page-level data and more importantly can understand the referral source for each page. That’s important information but it is only the first step to regaining some of the insights you had about the intent of your userbase yesterday (much less two years ago when keyword not provided wasn’t even a thing). SEOs will now need to combine the rank tracking data they receive from popular search engine optimization tools (more on that below) and the search visit data per page (provided by any analytics tool), and cross reference and correlate that information with any keyword data that’s available within Google Webmaster Tools (limited to 2,000 queries per day). Whew! That’s going to be a lot of work!

The result of efforts like these today, for many, will be a long list of pages that get search visits and are known as those that target specific search terms, which, of course, rank in the SERPs. All that data crunching is going to come at an immense cost in time – much to the pleasure, we can assume, of platforms that make it their business to solve these sorts of problems. What will happen over time is that website owners will again turn to SEO solutions as a means to develop and control/manage their SEO efforts. These are tools and platforms Website Magazine regularly features such as WebCEO or Moz, as well as the numerous companies on last year’s Master List of SEO Tools, which is almost ready for a new and improved 2013 version.

There is an even better way to handle this issue. Stop thinking about ranking entirely or which keywords cause which action on which page. Instead, focus on the user, their experience and the impact those customers make on your enterprise. That’s likely not going to be the answer you want to hear, but that’s what you’ll get from anyone talking about this topic today.

In the future, you’ll likely see even less data about your users (all in the name of privacy). But using marketing automation platforms connected with customer relationship databases and the robust big data capabilities of your SEO software solutions, will help all digital enterprises enter a truly new age, one where we’ll evolve from SEOs to brand advocates who are more concerned with ROI than placement on a search engine.
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WEBSITE HELD HOSTAGE! Is your website safe? Who has your passwords?

Recently it came to our attention that a local business owners website has been taken hostage by an outsourced, third party SEO company. A local (Ventura) SEO company outsourced a company to build the backlinks they were hired to provide to increase the business owners ranking. Many unqualified SEO companies do this, it is common practice with companies who offer low rates and guaranteed results. What happened next is a nightmare. The webmaster/SEO manager had to give this outsourced company access and passwords to the clients website. The outsourced company claimed the webmaster/SEO manager never paid them and contacted the business owner directly holding his website hostage until they receive payment from him. The outsourced company changed all the passwords and access points to their own and are holding the site ransom, along with 30 other sites the webmaster/SEO manager hired them to build backlinks for. Please read the following article, be sure you KNOW who you hire! Good, reliable SEO is NOT CHEAP. You get what you pay for! There are no quick fixes, no shortcuts, no quick ranking capabilities! We build all our own backlinks and are familiar with the latest requirements of Google and the Panda and Penguin updates. When you're ready, give us a call. We're here to help. SEOVENTURA.NET http://www.seoventura.net/

"Think about these dangers before you think getting cheap is easy.


#1. Hidden malicious code. If someone is building your website, that means they are creating the code for the site. Do you know what they really put into your website design? Inserting malicious code into website designs to attack users and gather information for hacking at a later date is extremely common. Think about that and you will start to realize many of the dangers of outsourcing website design to cheap overseas contractors.

#2. You are paying for nothing. There are a number of platforms which make building and using a website very easy. WordPress.org, for example, is probably the number 1 platform in the world for website design and build. WordPress is a content management system (CMS), which means a site owner can update and modify site details as easy as using Facebook. Themes are required to create websites. Did you just pay to get a website design and all you got was a slightly modified copy of a free WordPress Theme? This happens all too often.

#3. No consideration of SEO. Everyone who is thinking about a website is starting to realize the importance of search engine optimization. You should consider this, your website design is the foundation of all the SEO you can do in the future. What makes you think someone, somewhere, uneducated, whom you have no idea is who, knows your language like you do? You should know when SEO is wrong it does damage to how your website is found on the web. SEO is not an add-on, it starts with how your website is built.

#4. Credit card fraud. How are you paying your contractor? You must not hand over any credit card details. That is why PayPal is so useful, except it cannot be used to receive payments in those countries of your cheap outsourced ‘professional.’ That is why sites like Freelance and oDesk are so popular. They provide a payment system. This is not the issue. Did your website design provider send you any files during your working process? What malicious code was included in those files, and how much of your information do they have? Are they watching your every keystroke?

#5. Ongoing rip-offs. Everyone in the world has life problems. Have you become the social caretaker of the third world? Have you been duped into believing what your contractor says? Are you making donations to someone you think you know? The world is full of so-called professional contractors who are actually professional at social engineered hacking or convincing you to hand over money.

Think about these things before you hire from overseas. A professional in your country is someone you can rely on, and you can always rely on them." SOURCE: MASHABLE

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