If you’re like us here at Northwest Arkansas SEO, you’re always looking for anything that will help increase the search engines interest and traffic to your blog.

You come here for answers, insight, recommendations and information pertaining to S.E.O. (Search Engine Optimization)…right?

Well, you are truly in luck because I recently was introduced to a site called Blogging Beginners and I’d like to share my review and some exciting information with you.

Actually to be completely honest and up-front, I was recently selected to be a beta tester of the site along with a select hand full of other online marketers.

Now, before you get nervous and think, “oh gosh, another program only for people or businesses who are already online and up to speed on how to take a business online;” stay with me for just a minute!

GOOD NEWS!!! THIS PROGRAM IS FOR EVERYBODY!!!

I must admit, at first I didn’t think much about it since I already had more than one blog up and running. I am no longer a beginner but after reading the page Randy sent me, I found out that they offered much more than the normal, you know…the “Go to blogger.com and a start blog – blah…blah…blah” that everybody is preaching and charging outrageous prices for.

Nope…this program is NOTHING LIKE THAT AT ALL!

The two long-time professional online marketers who founded this site not only offer and show you all the basic set up you’ll need for a successful blog, (knowledge that you’d have to search for all over the internet but they also take you by the hand and show you all those little IMPORTANT things, the ones that have been possibly holding you back.

Randy The Hermit (one of the founders of the site) is a search engine optimization expert and just happens to be our Certified SEO Technician here at Northwest Arkansas SEO.  Randy’s Blog is HowToBlogSite.com and you can get to the blog from here

He shows you how to configure your blog for the search engines. What plugins you should have, how to set up your permalinks, even how to find a niche and do your keyword research and this just scratches the surface of what you get from his background and vast knowledge.

Wizzer (the other founder of Blogging Beginners) will explain to you what RSS is, how to use it and how to give some one a bonus for signing up to your RSS feed. Then he takes you into building a list with your blog and why and how to use Twitter.

All the videos are easy to follow and they put them in a PDF format. I had never seen videos in a PDF file before.   I had to upgrade my PDF reader to watch them but that was a piece of cake and if you don’t know how…THEY’LL SHOW YOU!

I LOVE working with videos in this way, you will too!  All the resources are right under the video and just a click away and the best part is, if you want to watch something from the 29th minute of a 40 minute video you don’t have to wait for the whole video to download again. You just open it up and go to the spot you want by dragging the control bar. They have a video online that shows you how to do this.

They also provide you with content for your blog and we all know how important content is…right?

Every month they give you ten new niches you can choose to work with and twenty five posts for each niche which can save you a lot of work.

I thought I was an experienced blogger and SEO Consultant but I was amazed when I opened their Fast Start Guide and went through it quickly and I was surprised at what I didn’t know and was able to add to my knowledge base.

I was also surprised at the guidance,  they WILL take you from knowing nothing to having your own blog up and running, optimized for the search engines and customized for you in an easy to follow step by step process.

But I haven’t even told you the best part!!

If you are like me you have probably purchased a few other courses and you get part way through them and you get stuck because there is something you don’t quite understand. Frustrating isn’t it? The worse part is you go to the people that sold you the course and you ask them and all they do is try to sell you something else.

Blogging Beginners will answer YOUR questions. That’s right as part of the membership you can request videos on anything that has to do with your blog and they will provide them not only for you but for all the members. So maybe you had a question and didn’t ask it the solution might show up because another member asked.

Now you are probably thinking this is another one of the $500 per month coaching services…

…Well, it is but it won’t cost you anywhere near $500 per month it won’t even cost you $100 per month or even $50 per month.

But because they do answer your questions membership is limited, they can’t answer 1000’s of question per week.

BECAUSE OF THIS, I highly recommend that if you’re serious about starting a Search Engine – Optimized Blog, a blog you can make money with,  you should sign up RIGHT NOW while you can GET a membership at their unbelievable price.

Thanks for reading and visiting Northwest Arkansas SEO.

Sincerely yours,

Blogging Beginners MEMBER,

David Schaible

We went on to say that what we’ve speculated for some time has finally started to happen.  The search engines are getting smarter and not only that…
*Google says, “It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions.”

We thought that we could rap things up here in Part II but as you can see by the length of this article, we’ve only scratched the surface when we took a look and compared speed and accuracy.  Old search engine vs. new.

In our review and test we preformed many random searches and what we uncovered is the fact that…

• Speed • Accuracy • Relevance • Comprehensiveness…

…has greatly improved with this new engine and I’ll go one step further by telling you that some of the other top rated search engines don’t even hold a candle to THIS new engine even the new microsoft backed engine!

But feel free to do some research yourself if you’re just not sure.

Most people would agree that speed is way up there as one of the most important FACTORS when it comes to search, hence the new code name…Caffeine!

One reader commented by saying…”how do they come up with such code names?” Well my friend, Googles smart and they seem to go after things that the majority can relate to.  I.E. speed and caffeinated fixes!

Anyway in this followup article we’re using “for example,”  this search term from a random thought…well to be honest, maybe I was thinking of letting my adventurous inner-child  side to surface!

How to Make a Marshmallow Gun

The old Google – results

Results 1 – 10 of about 61,700 for How to Make a Marshmallow Gun. (0.41 seconds)
Search Results

1.
How to Make a Marshmallow Gun or Marshmallow Shooter
This marshmallow gun (marshmallow shooter) will completely surprise you with its accuracy, range, and ease of constructi…
www.instructables.com/id/Marshmallow-gun/ – Cached – Similar -
2.
How to Make a Marshmallow Gun (with video) – wikiHow
wikiHow article about How to Make a Marshmallow Gun.
www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Marshmallow-Gun – Cached – Similar -
3.
How to Make a Marshmallow Gun — Free Plans | ChurchFun.com
May 26, 2008 … Complete instructions to make a marshmallow gun. Free plans to make a PVC shooter for mini-marshmallows. Fun, free project for kids.
churchfun.com/2008/05/…/how-to-make-a-marshmallow-gun/ – Cached – Similar -
4.
Video results for How to Make a Marshmallow Gun
How To Make A MarshMallow Gun Using PVC Piping
4 min 34 sec
www.youtube.com

How to make a marshmallow shooter gun , craft …
7 min
www.youtube.com
How To Make A MarshMallow Gun Using PVC Piping
www.videojug.com
5.
YouTube – Marshmallow Gun with Rapid fire.
Polarbear makes a mini marshmallow gun from pvc that can fire at a rapid rate. … How to make a marshmallow shooter gun , craft toy video …
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4PduE3vsqU – Cached – Similar -
6.
How to Make a Marshmallow Gun, or Shooter
Marshmallow guns, or marshmallow shooters as they are commonly called, are basically a blow gun made from PVC pipe. The ammunition used? Small marshmallows …
hubpages.com/…/How-to-Make-a-Marshmallow-Gun–or-Shooter – Cached – Similar -
7.
Build a Marshmallow Gun – Entertainment – Lifehacker
Sep 28, 2005 … If you’ve got some PVC piping, a hack saw and a few hours to spare, you can put together your own marshmallow gun.
lifehacker.com/127948/build-a-marshmallow-gun – Similar -
8.
How to Make a Marshmallow Gun With PVC | eHow.com
How to Make a Marshmallow Gun With PVC. Oh the wonderful things you can do with a bag of marshmallows and a little PVC pipe! These are a great little toy to …
www.ehow.com/how_5169795_make-marshmallow-gun-pvc.html – Cached – Similar -
9.
How to Make a Marshmallow Gun – MonsterGuide.net
May 28, 2009 … Make your own marshmallow gun to go along with your marshmallow arsenal using these steps.
monsterguide.net/how-to-make-a-marshmallow-gun – Cached – Similar -

Searches related to: How to Make a Marshmallow Gunmarshmellow gun pvc pipe marshmallow gun rapid fire marshmallow shooter mini marshmallow shooter marshmallow blaster gun homemade marshmallow shooter make marshmellow shooter marshmallow gun design

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And…the new Google!

YouTube – Marshmallow Gun with Rapid fire. 7 min www.youtube.com	How To Make A MarshMallow Gun Using PVC Piping 4 min 34 sec www.youtube.com
How To Make A Marshmallow Shooter Gun 7 min www.5min.com

We couldn’t agree more and as you may have noticed we previously told you pretty much the same thing in so many words in a two-part article we posted a while back.

How To Get Your Website Ready For New Search Engine Rankings

Part 1

Part 2

So…quite possibly what we’ve speculated for some time has finally started to happen as it’s official… Google recently announced testing of a new, more powerful version of their search engine technology.

Brad goes on to say that we should learn from what Google is telling us about the future of search and followed up with a quote, directly from Google.

*Google says, “It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions.”

Hmm…looks like Google is concentrating more on things that matter most when it comes to searching.

• Speed
• Accuracy
• Relevance
• Comprehensiveness

As subtle as these may seem, these are some powerful changes indeed!

Google feels so positive about the new and fully upgraded version of Google search that they codenamed it Caffeine and made it available to the public for testing.

So Northwest Arkansas SEO decided to do just that and what we found out was…well, pretty much what we suspected.

We are working on our results.  Would you like a quick review as to what we found?  If we get enough feedback and interest then we’ll post a part II of Google Loves Caffeine so stay tuned and be on the lookout  for a second article coming soon!

*Some of the information for this article, Google Loves Caffeine, comes directly from the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog

Help test some next-generation infrastructure with Google Caffeine

Try Google Caffeine Here

Here’s a few facts that most people don’t know about Ranking their sites in the Search Engines:

• Any Page that you make and publish creates Google Page Rank.   Every time you publish a web page it gets crawled, it gets assigned Page Rank so make every page count!

So…the more legitimate, non-duplicate pages you have on your site, the more you can affect your OWN rankings with internal links!

• Keep in mind that duplicate Content “OFF-SITE” is practically irrelevant.  “ON-SITE” Duplicate Content will kill your rankings!

• Make sure you don’t have duplicate content issues.

• Google has a Cache Date for every web page and this can indicate the relative power of the links on that page.

Note: The more recent the  Cache date of a web page is, the more likely that the links on that page are getting counted.

So in other words, if the page cache is consistently getting updated, that’s a fair indication that the links are getting counted MORE than a page where the cache date is OLD.

Feel free to comment on this post and please ask queations…how else can we help you?

And don’t forget…we have a CERTIFIED S.E.O. TECHNICIAN on staff.

We can make a difference in your Online advertising to “local” patrons so why not give Northwest Arkansas S.E.O. a try.  We are the #1  S.E.O. company in Northwest Arkansas and beyond!

If you’re  a local brick & mortar business owner with a website online you should understand there is a great deal of free advertising available in the form of optimal search engine rankings.

There’s also a great deal of search engine exposure from potential “local” traffic that you may be missing out on because your website and all of it’s pages are showing up to far down the line.

The world of SEO is complex and continually evolving making it difficult for most business owners who do not specialize in SEO to keep up with the changes in the industry.

Therefore, business owners who attempt to optimize their website by themselves or who don’t do it at all, may have difficulty keeping up with competitors who hire a SEO Consultant to optimize their website.

As I said in my earlier post, 7 Search Engine Facts For Small Businesses…

…“Just submitting your website to the search engines doesn’t make your site turn up on the top of the search.”

Well known search engines such as Google rank websites according to complex algorithms which are designed to determine which websites are most relevant for particular search terms.

The algorithms used by search engines can be rather complex and include a number of different factors.

Fact:

• most Internet users rely heavily on these rankings. It is not uncommon for Internet users to only review the first few results when they search for a particular term.

This means if your website ranks high enough to appear on the first page of the search results you will likely enjoy increased website traffic.

However, if your website doesn’t make it to the first page or even the second page, it is unlikely you will receive a great deal of website traffic from visitors who use search engines.

Therefore taking the time and effort to optimize your website for relevant search terms may result in you being rewarded with high search engine rankings for these terms.

Here’s an excerpt from Randy’s post on Small-Business-Search-Engine-Optimization.  Here’s what what he had to say about it…

1. You need to know how to do keyword research to find all the profitable keywords for your site.
2. You need to know how to format your title tag, meta tags and proper use of H tags in your code.
3. You can write content that can be submitted to article distribution sites.
4. You need to know how to set up a geocentric campaign for your website to drive local business.
5. You need to know what content you should have available on your site that is unique to your site only.

“Yes you can do this all by yourself but you will spend a lot of time learning how to do it the proper way.

I highly recommend that you use a certified search engine optimization expert to handle this for you because the certification means they know at least enough about the topic to pass the test.

This will also stop you from getting the guy that has read one of the bad products on search engine optimization and is now a, “SEO expert” from taking your money and damaging your rankings.”

Remember: the quick start package we describe isn’t a full search engine optimization campaign but it will do wonders in raising your ranking for local searches.”

Here are some of the most common factors in the equation of SEO for your business.  They include but aren’t limited to:

Keyword density

META tags

Titles

Inbound links

Website traffic

Content

We’ll be tackling all of these and lot’s more so be sure to check back often.

If you are interested in retaining our services you can take another look at them over on the NWA-SEO-Services Page or you can “Contact Us Now” for more information.