Our baby Luna Theresa Dillinger Valverde was born last night at 11:30PM, weighing 6.5lbs (2950g) and 19.5" (50cm). It was a difficult birth, but my wife and I are both glad to have her home with us now. We want to thank you all for your kind thoughts and words while we were away.

The SEMMYS have announced their finalists in each category. You can now go to the site and read the top articles of each category. When you're done reading feel free to vote for the winner. Voting ends January 30th.

The SEMMYS are search marketing awards dedicated to highlighting the best blog posts of the year. The best part about this web site is looking through the titles alone I see many of my favorite blog posts from the year. This page is an amazing resource for any business looking to promote on the web. While I haven't finished reading all of the posts (there are well over 100), there were some favorites that I'm about to share with you.

Besides our normal client work, we've been building out our Costa Rica SEO section to include even more information. We've also organized it a bit better to make sure that the most important info doesn't get overlooked. In the next few weeks our blog posts will be slower as we expand our marketing and web design sections with more information as well. Along with these we're planning on updating our Self SEO Help section with more user requested content. So, what we would like to know is: What type of SEO advice do our readers want to see? Leave a comment here, and tell us what type of SEO questions you have. We will then take all or some of these and add them to our Self SEO Help section. Until next time, take care and Pura Vida!

We are proud to announce the release of our SEO guide "I want to get more visitors to my web site, but I don’t know where to start". This guide is aimed at web site owners who want to learn the basic steps at building more traffic and converting more of that traffic to clients. Though the guide was designed with web site owners in mind, it makes great reading for anyone looking to start a web site.

To download the guide visit our Free SEO Guide Download Page. The guide is free to download and we require no personal information.

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce all of you to a project that I've been working on. It is a social network for people interested in promoting their own web sites. I've been experimenting with Ning.com and love how easy it is to setup a social network of your own. I used it to setup the SEO Marketing Self Help Community recently. I plan on expanding and doing some more tips and links there in the future. The Now the real question is why.

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Over the weekend we released a major update to the web site expanding the information greatly to better answer the questions we were getting from visitors. I’m going to take a few minutes to cover some of the things we added and make sure that no one misses our special offers for January, which include $500 odd web site design and 10% off of all services for all of 2008! Take a look at what’s new and enjoy the savings.

Things have been quiet on the blog lately. That's partly due to the fact that my wife is due to give birth any time now, and I've been spending less time writing here, and more time with her. I have been writing a good deal though. In fact I'm nearing completion of a new free SEO guide that I hope to have completed in the next few days. This guide is designed to answer many questions that web site owners have, and is packed with tips and links. The goal of the guide is to teach you how to determine the most important tasks of basic SEO. We cover using analytics to track visitors, making sure search engines can see you site, checking your search engine rankings, choosing keywords, examining your competitors, and that's only the first two chapters! In this guide I skip the fluff and go straight to the meat. The type of meat you can use to grow huge web site traffic. I'm releasing the guide to my newsletter readers first, so if you haven't yet subscribed, check out the subscribe link at the bottom of the article. For now, here is a sample from the introduction. It includes tips for people who don't already own a web site, but want to start one. Enjoy!