{"id":677,"date":"2008-10-08T15:28:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T07:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/?p=677"},"modified":"2008-10-08T15:28:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T07:28:36","slug":"is-your-business-prepared-for-the-seo-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/is-your-business-prepared-for-the-seo-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Business Prepared For The SEO Earthquake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thing about internet marketing is given the constantly changes, you can expect a lot of excitement (or stress) in the field.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re relying on organic traffic generation methods, especially from the search engines, there have been recent developments which may cause a change in your strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"blackhole seo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/search-engine-optmization-seo\/blackhole-seo-and-your-internet-business\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Rise of Blackhole Seo<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Changes in ranking alogorithmn like Google PageRank (a number of websites and blogs saw their PR score drop by 1 or more in recent weeks) and Alexa rankings have fluctuated greatly since the system was change a number of months ago<\/li>\n<li>Looming changes Google plans to or has implemented since as <a title=\"seoroundtable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/archives\/018387.html\" target=\"_blank\">lower weightage given to directory links<\/a> (thanks <a title=\"wil reynolds\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkseer.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">Wil Reynolds<\/a> for the heads-up), including paid Yahoo directory submissions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which can be like an earthquake sending ripples through your business and earnings if you&#8217;re not prepared.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/blog0810\/earthquake.jpg\" alt=\"earthqake\" width=\"450\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was speaking with <a title=\"geordie carswell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geordiecarswell.com\" target=\"_blank\">Geordie Carswell<\/a>, former RevenueWire CEO who&#8217;s now involved with <!--more-->his own affiliate marketing projects and his business is thriving, despite the negative indicators about the economy.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases, even with the drop from Google&#8217;s PR and dip in Alexa rankings, traffic and conversion levels still remain strong within my websites.<\/p>\n<p>In almost all cases, launching a new campaign or creating a new product will more than offset any hits (real or imagined) that arose because of a change in the search engine algorithmn.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge in being a successful online marketer lies in being able to adapt to change and more importantly, staying ahead of the curve.<\/p>\n<p>By adding new tactics and new strategies to what you&#8217;re already doing, you can more than overcome any negatives in the present or the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing about internet marketing is given the constantly changes, you can expect a lot of excitement (or stress) in the field. If you&#8217;re relying on organic traffic generation methods, especially from the search engines, there have been recent developments which may cause a change in your strategy. Some of these include: The Rise of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,27],"tags":[1462,769,133,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}