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Expertise

Any questions regarding search engine optimization (SEO) and website marketing. I can answer specific questions regarding keyword research, link building, website development, website usability, and social media, as well as general small business questions.

Experience in the area

I have been working in the Search Engine Optimization and Marketing industry since 1998. I run a successful website marketing company that employs an elite team of SEO/SEM professionals.

Organizations

Member of the Better Business Bureau and Reno-Tahoe Young Professionals Network

Publications

Author of two Website Marketing Books: E-Marketing Performance: Effective strategies for building, optimizing, and marketing your website online, and Keyword Research and Selection: The definitive guide to gathering, sorting and organizing your keywords into a high-performance SEO campaign. Regular contributing author at a wide variety of Search Engine Optimization and Marketing websites, including Search Engine Guide, Search Engine Land, ISEdB, WebProNews, and EzineArticles

Education/Credentials

While no official credentials exists in our field I have written numerous SEO articles and tutorials that are published in highly traffic SEO sites, blogs and forums.

Awards and Honors

I am frequently asked to speak at Search Engine conferences nationwide, including SEMpdx, Webmasterworld's PubCon and Small Business Marketing: Unleashed.

Past/Present Clients

We have clients throughout the US and some in Canada. www.eternalsnow.com www.batterystuff.com www.winterkids.com www.sierrainstruments.com www.dcmentors.com www.cooperaerial.com www.eskill.com

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Recent Answers from Stoney deGeyter

2009-10-27 Duplicate pages and search engines.:

Yes, that is *sort of* a solution, but it doesn't always work. If their site gains in popularity then even though yours is the known originator theirs can still rank higher. You can ask that they add

2009-10-23 Duplicate pages and search engines.:

Hi Richard, There is some truth to this but its not all black and white. When search engines find pages with duplicate content the one that tends to rank better is either the original version, or the

2009-09-07 Getting targeted visitors:

Hi Joseph, the first thing you have to realize is that the search volume numbers are not perfectly accurate. Sometimes they are over-inflated, sometimes under. The only way to get genuine search numbers

2009-05-29 Hitless after getting re-linked:

Bob, it sounds like you were part of a submission service, which in this day an age are completely useless. It sounds as if the re-design of your site killed any optimization value the other site had.

2009-05-21 Shopping Cart SEO - products vs options:

I would definitely go with having only the one product instead of multiple products. This will prevent duplicate content issues. The only way I would go with multiplebproducts is if the individual options

 

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