http://www.bryanphelps.com utah seo specialist blogs about seo/sem, internet and online business. Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:34:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I always struggle when I'm talking about or writing SEO and whether it should have an "a" or "an" in front of it.  In my opinion, it seems to flow more naturally when pronounced "an SEO" but from years and years of struggling to stay awake in English class, I ... http://www.bryanphelps.com/2009/01/30/a-seo-or-an-seo/ I have a particular website that ranks #1 for a few different key phrases.  I compared my December keyword referrals to Google's approximate search volume for December and was very surprised to see that they don't quite match up....at all. Keyword #1 Google claims approximately 33,100 searches in December My #1 ranking only ... http://www.bryanphelps.com/2009/01/29/how-accurate-are-googles-search-volume-estimates/ Although I may be MIA from my own blog, I keep a close eye on many of the popular industry blogs.  I always like finding new blogs or bloggers who write great posts though.  Here are some of my recent favorites: Ann Smarty - Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal is a ... http://www.bryanphelps.com/2009/01/22/recommended-seo-blogs/ I recently gave a VERY quick 5 minute presentation on SEO at Crunch Lunch. It was a really cool event where there were 10 presenters, given 5 minutes each to discuss their topic. You can view my SEO presentation and check out 9 others about various business topics. This was the ... http://www.bryanphelps.com/2008/12/22/crunch-lunch-slides/ I occassionally check my spam filter (even though GMail is the most accurate email service I've ever used) and was surprised to find spam from Google itself. Stop spamming me Google! http://www.bryanphelps.com/2008/12/17/google-doesnt-trust-itself/ Just added my Google User Profile - should be interesting to see how they use these in the future. Bryan Phelps on Google http://www.bryanphelps.com/2008/10/20/google-user-profiles/ I've usually found Google's webmaster tools to be fairly accurate.  However, I have a site that shows I rank for some pretty competitive terms. I don't even need to show you my analytics to prove that I don't rank in the top 10 for [cell phone].  But if anyone trusts these ... http://www.bryanphelps.com/2008/08/23/google-webmaster-tools-inaccuracies/ I'm a little behind in my feed reader so I don't know if this is old news but this is the first time I have seen localized search results when i am not logged in or there is no geo-qualifier in my search term. Notice the local search results in the ... http://www.bryanphelps.com/2008/08/08/recent-changes-local-search/ Automattic released a free WordPress app for the iPhone that im testing out. So far it looks pretty slick! Now I just need copy and paste... http://www.bryanphelps.com/2008/07/22/new-wordpress-app/ Maybe modesty is in the eye of the beholder? Click to enlarge http://www.bryanphelps.com/2008/06/18/another-ppc-ad-gone-awry/