I was excited to find out that Google has released Google Sites, their on-line collaboration system aimed at helping teams work together. This site is a great starting point, but has a few serious flaws that keep it from being truly useful for team collaboration. I'm going to go over my analysis after a few hours of playing with the site, and discuss my thoughts for actual day to day business use.

Today's tip covers something that I've been doing for a while, but not everyone uses. Social media sites like MySpace and Facebook can be great for getting your name out. You can offer a lot of rich content that gets people excited about your brand. There are a few things that you can do though, to drive traffic from those sites over to yours. Today we're going to focus on how to get visitors from these types of sites, and how to convert those visitors to clients.

Today we're going to cover an easy self SEO tip that you can use to increase the power of pages that link to you. The first links for your web site are often the hardest to get. When a site is popular everyone wants to link to it. When you do get the first few critical links to your site, how do you make sure that they will be popular in the future? Using this tip, you can drive extra traffic to these sites and ensure better search engine power for your backlinks. You can use this on blog posts, press releases, reviews, or just about any type of web page.

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!

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.

Many of the requirements for writing, whether it be for people or for search engines, are the same. The technical part, as in needing strong headlines, text that is easily scannable, or the proper usage of words and grammar is the same. It's the differences between the two that are more important in many ways. Search engines can't feel what you've written or enjoy it. They can rank it and say which is better, but they fail to understand what you've written. You can write a perfectly good article that a search engine ranks highly, but not please a single reader. Today's tips are for compelling people to read more and enjoy what you've written.

In the previous article part one on SEO link building for people and search engines we discussed where to look for getting good links, and what to look for to determine if the link is good. Today I'm going to discuss the types of links that are less helpful, and the types that can actually give your web site a bad reputation. I'll also get in to some resources you can use to build links for your web site.

Link building has become a major part of search engine marketing. It is used (along with many other metrics) to determine how popular a web site is. Popularity is an important thing to search engines, because popular sites are often popular for a reason. Many giving SEO advice would have you believe that you need as many links as you can get, which is partially true. Today I'm going to discuss the different types of links and the best kinds to get for your web site.