Chris Sandberg

Utah SEO, Internet Marketer, and Entprepreneur

Archive for the 'SEO' Category

The Sample Size Calculator

I’ve found myself using this sample size calculator quite a bit recently. Thanks to Hawaii SEO for first telling me about this tool through Twitter. The calculator helps you determine the sample size required to reach a certain degree of confidence about the results of an experiment, or the confidence interval for a given sample [...]

26 March 2008 at 08:28 - Comments
Thanks Chris - In the past I've often just run the a couple variants side by side for a week ...
28 March 08 at 13:33
Yeah, I love how website optimizer give you a nice graphical display of confidence intervals for your landing page variations. ...
28 March 08 at 16:26

Some Great Stuff From SEO Book

I guess I am on Aaron Walls mailing list because I just got an email from him(Probably from buying his SEO book). He mentioned that he will be finished updating his famous SEO book in several days and in his email also included some goodies such as the following which I though I would share [...]

25 October 2007 at 05:12 - Comments
Thanks for the great resources there, I will be sure to pass these on! -Little Guy Network
23 January 08 at 15:23

What is your SEO Expertise Level?

I just finished taking SEOmoz’s SEO Quiz and got the following results… SEO Dark Lord – 92% Are you an SEO Expert? The Quiz was pretty challenging and I learned a few new things from taking it such as the existence of the robots-nocontent tag and the most popular search engine in various countries. I’m sure even if [...]

27 September 2007 at 20:49 - Comments
One thing about SEO is the constance changes that takes dedication to keep up on your reading to maintain and ...
30 March 08 at 21:23
If you got that score that is great but let's face it, it holds no credibility as you could do ...
27 December 08 at 20:02

7 Ways to Turn Your First Time Visitors into Returning Visitors

The Following is another post from Kreah, who blogs about Korean Dramas and Movies:

Your blog is the product of your passion and creative imagination. However, with the number of blogs being born everyday your hard work will be futile if only the search engine spiders will notice your new blog. Yeah, you can [...]

28 August 2007 at 01:32 - Comments
Excellent points! Google loves fresh new content, it is needed for Search engine spiders, in order for them to conduct ...
2 April 08 at 08:52
Thanks for advices, very usefully, sorry for i came here so late. :)
18 April 08 at 12:19

An Update On Switching Away From Wordpress.com’s Free Hosting

I blogged a little over a month ago about moving from a wordpress.com hosted blog to your own hosting on your own domain. In that post I outlined a plan Kreah and I would follow to move the Kreah Craze Korean Dramas and Movies blog out of wordpress.com on onto its own domain and hosting [...]

27 August 2007 at 02:05 - Comments
Real time feedback over the topic! This is the way a great blog is built.
10 February 08 at 15:53
You just saved me a whole lotta time and energy. I'm just going to figure out where to host my ...
1 August 09 at 13:48

Moving a Free Wordpress Hosted Blog to its Own Domain

I have a friend who has a highly trafficked blog hosted on Wordpress, kreahcraze.wordpress.com. Since my friend is getting quite a bit of traffic she would like to add ads to her site in order to make some money with her blog. However, wordpress doesn’t allow its users to have ads on their blogs. So, [...]

12 July 2007 at 09:12 - Comments
@MsTrisBeats If you want to redirect your blog you will have to first still technically host it with wordpress.com and use ...
7 June 08 at 11:07
The domain mapping is valid even if you are self-hosted. May be it was not so when you wrote this ...
6 October 09 at 23:24

Questions For Graywolf

Graywolf is offering to answer questions on his SEO blog, with the condition that you ask your question in a blog post. I trust his opinion so I wanted to take advantage his offer. This is what I would like answered: Could you explain Latent Semantic Indexing and similar technologies and their implications to SEO? What [...]

26 June 2007 at 05:16 - Comments
Mark Flim
I've never heard of latent semantic indexing. I'm curious to hear Graywolf's or anyone else's reply.
28 June 07 at 08:41

Track Keyword Ranking History and More

I just ran across a site called RankPulse, which tracks the top ten ranking of sites returned for 1,000 popular keyword searches on Google. I ran across the site because one of my domains, sandbergventures.com ranks in the top ten for the keyword “internet business“, which happens to be one of the 1,000 keywords that [...]

25 June 2007 at 06:20 - Comments
Julia
seems like a fairly useful and interesting site.
28 June 07 at 08:39

SEO.com now run by Utah SEO firm

I just found out that Dave Bascom’s Web Targeted was sold to WashingtonVC who was able to acquire the domain name SEO.com for $5 Million. Dave seemed pretty excited about this news on his blog, and I am happy for him. He is a great guy and a very knowledgeable Search Engine Optimizer. They have [...]

20 June 2007 at 07:50 - Comments
John
I am curious what exactly the terms of the deal were
28 June 07 at 08:36
Hey The terms are confidential. Every site has it wrong. One guy makes something up and then its copied all over. ...
10 July 07 at 17:19

Easily Change Your Permalinks With No Loss to Traffic or Search Engine Rankings

I just barely changed all my blog post permalinks on this blog from the longer /blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to the much simpler and shorter /%postname%/. I have been wanting to do this for quite some time, but was worried about the loss in traffic I may experience due to old links pointing to my old URLs. It’s very [...]

15 June 2007 at 14:16 - Comments
Adam
Great post Chris. Thanks for sharing with us.
28 June 07 at 08:38