If you want professional SEO help for an affordable price, you need to join the SEO Power Team. You'll get step by step guidelines on exactly how to:

1.  Get a high ranking listing from Google Business

2.  Optimize your website for Google for natural rankings for top keywords

3.  Get hundreds or thousands of links to your site

An agency would charge you thousands of dollars. In fact, I would charge you thousands of dollars if I had to do it for you!

But your membership with SEO Power Team will enable you to do it yourself for the small investment of $47 a month for 3 months.

Each month you will receive a new guide showing you step-by-step, the next level to increasing your website rankings and getting more business.

This is a steal, and the price will go up. Now is the time to get in on the ground floor of my newest venture. Every bit of this information was written by me, the SEO Diva, using my expertise in helping many websites get on the first page of Google for top keyword phrases.

Those of you who know me on ActiveRain know that my SEO advice is always on target. So learn how to do it the right way, instead of trolling all over the Internet, trying to figure it out.

Remember this: if you don't do it, your competitors will.

TIP: No time to do it yourself? Hire a college student to do the work by following the easy to understand guides.

How do you know if your web site is doing well for a large number of keywords, both top tier and long tail?

How do you quantify the results of the huge amount of effort you’ve put forth? You gone to a lot of hard work to include quality content, optimize the site for both visitors and search engines, and develop a quantity of good quality links to it.

Has all your hard work paid off?

Advanced Web Ranking is a software application by Caphyon that I have used for 5 years to help measure how my clients’ (and my own) websites are doing in the SERPs. I will tell you right now I received recompense from my original blog article about this product, however I NEVER recommend anything that I don’t believe in.

Visual Results

My clients absolutely love the ranking reports I send them from the results I get from Advanced Web Ranking. It gives them a visual of how well our SEO efforts are doing, and it’s exciting to see how a specific keyword advances in the rankings from month to month.

As a keyword rises in search engine rankings, reports give it an awesome green + along with the number of places it has gone up, and that gets everyone really excited and happy. Conversely, if a keyword is dropping in rankings, it’s indicated with a red – sign, and although that can be a bummer, it’s also a call to action to work on that particular keyword phrase.

Below is a screenshot of one of the pages of an actual ranking report I ran for a client.

Reports can be exported in HTML, PDF, Excel (XLS), XML, TXT, and CSV formats.

Search Engine Friendly

I typically choose the Google search engine, of course, and a couple of others. I like it that if a website is located in another country I can check the rankings that show up within that country’s search results. There are over 1,000 search engines available to pull from, located all over the world, so it doesn’t matter if you’re in the USA or Guatemala or the South Pole. These are constantly updated by Caphyon to ensure that results are always correct (it seems like almost every time I use it there’s an update).

Because AWR uses human emulation technology, when a report is run the search engine requests are indistinguishable from a web browser. (Sometimes Google will demand that I complete a Captcha on my personal searches for the remainder of the day following a run, but it’s a small price to pay.) You can use multiple proxy servers to decrease the update time, which can take quite awhile if the list of keywords is extremely long. In addition, you can check the position of your keywords in Google through the Google AJAX API, and by using more than one Yahoo API key. (If you don't know what this last sentence means, don't worry about it.)

Keywords

Speaking of keywords, you can easily import a list of as many keywords as you want, from a website, a .txt file, Google Suggest or Wordtracker. I get quite a bit of use out of the automatic keyword suggestion tool that’s built right in. The keyword builder feature will help you create compound keywords, starting from the individual words you provide, which will save you a lot of time when you’re setting up your site’s keywords within its profile.

Check Out Your Competitors

Add your competitors’ URLs to the run and you can directly compare your rankings with theirs. Target the keywords you want, get to work, and over time you’ll (hopefully) be able to watch their rankings drop while yours increase. You can also get a visibility overview of your site compared to theirs:

I Could Go On and On…

But I won’t – there are so many features available with this software, and you can learn more about them from the product’s website, where they describe them better than I can.

But I’ll tell you this – once you’ve tried the 30 DAY FREE TRIAL you’ll be so impressed you’re gonna want it! Yep, a 30 day fully functional free trial – so here’s my suggestion: download the software, set up your profile, add your keywords and run the program (put your competitor's URLs in there too). Work on your site optimization and build some inbound links. 29 days later, run it again (set it up to run automatically so you don’t forget) and see if you’ve made progress.

It gets addictive when you start seeing your site get increasingly better search engine rankings, and with the program starting at $99, not too expensive even if you use it only for one site.

Bonus

When you download the free trial, you’ll also get a 30 day trial of Advanced Link Manager. I haven’t used this software yet, but with it you can find out who links to your site, what keywords they use, and track the status of your links. You can also easily discover where your competition is getting their links.

Got paid links, you bad boy or girl? If so, you can monitor them using this software, and get warning emails if a link is taken down. That alone could save you a bundle of money over time.

 If you download the free trial and try out the program(s) I’d love to hear your opinion. Just leave a comment below.

I have several extra Google Wave invitations that I'm giving away.

If you'd like one, just sign up for my SEO newsletter. I'll randomly select 5 subscribers on Wednesday, December 23rd.

Google Wave will change the face of the Internet. The technology is astonishing! There's a video at the newsletter link (above) that shows some of what can be done with it. The guy who made the video is into programming, but it will be a wonderful tool for any business person.

It's a bit late in the season, but I've got a couple of free holiday postcard templates available for download. I seemed to be in a blue mood when I made them...

Getting them printed at one of the online print shops is an easy matter, and they print and ship quickly.

Now I'm going to segue into online marketing...

If you decide to get these printed I recommend Overnight Prints. I've ordered a lot of postcards from them, and they do a nice job. They even reprinted an order for me once, when I made mistake.

How does this relate to online marketing? The above testimonial is an honest opinion, is the truth, can easily be duplicated by you as a consumer, and was not paid for. That's the FTC Guides in a nutshell :)

I'll be at the Active Rain Workshop in Scottsdale tomorrow - if you're going to be there let me know and I'll look for you!

It should be interesting and fun and hope to see you there!

Kay

Have you noticed that even if you rank on the first page of Google, you site has been moved down by the Google 10 pack? This is the A- J listings that show up either at the top of the organic listings or sometimes below the third organic listing. Sometimes it's just a 3 pack, but either way it can totally ruin your organic traffic, even if you're ranked #1.

This means you need to know how to rank in that 10 pack, preferable at the top of the list! There are ways to groom your listing so your site ranks well within it, and it's not something that SEO strategists talk about openly on the web.

I'm building my subscriber list on www.SEOdiva.net, and tips to ranking well in the Google 10 Pack will the featured article in my first newsletter, which I'll be sending out within the next couple of weeks. So if you'd like to receive it, be sure to hop on over to the Diva and sign up!

Don't know me? Google the keyword "hats" and find the Hat Club listing on the first page. That's the kind of SEO work I do, and yes, I'm bragging a little, but I'm pretty proud of that listing (it is typically #3 or #5, depending on which Google data center your browser pings).

Choose from 3 free holiday templates -Happy Holidays from Best Real Estate Postcards!

It seems so early, yet that time is coming up fast, and you need to make your holiday marketing plans soon.

All you have to do is click to download the templates (one or all, be my guest) from the site.

Instructions for getting your postcards printed are included in the article.

I've also included a link to help you personalize the back of your postcard without having to use a graphics program. It's very easy to do. I think I messed that up on the Thanksgiving postcard.

I hope you enjoy using them!

Kay

SEO Diva

Psst... Do paid links work? Will you go to hell if you buy links for your web site?

Take a quick peek over at my SEO Diva post Paid Link Marketing - Gasp! to find out.

After a year of silence on the subject, you may be surprised to learn what the SEO Diva really thinks of paid links.

If you're into direct mail marketing, like sending out marketing postcards, I have a free real estate postcard template for Thanksgiving available for download at Best Real Estate Postcards.

The front is ready to print - full bleed, 4 color CMYK...just upload it to an online print shop. You'll want to personalize the back of course, and there are directions on how to do that in various formats.

I plan to offer more templates in the future, so if you use this one please let me know how you like it.

P.S. The original article was incorrect on setting up the back of your postcard. I've incuded better instructions on the article Free Holiday Postcard Templates.

Here's an easy way to win an 8gb iPod - all you have to do is send in a story about SEO stupidity you've encountered.

I know lots of you have those kinds of stories!

Click on the link at SEO Diva, hop on over to Scott's blog, and send him your most crazy SEO experience.