Alex Becker is Chicago's SEO Expert

California SEO Services with an Emphasis on ROI

I recently started a California-based Search Engine Optimization Services company with Rex Freiberger, a former colleague and current CEO of Highly Relevant, a Los Angeles SEO Company.

Highly Relevant is not your ordinary SEO company because we can deliver a return on your investment.

Yes, I said it. We can deliver results and are willing to structure our contracts as such. SEO is extremely top heavy, meaning that a lot of the work is done up-front. After an initial 3-6 months of SEO-intensive work we put you on a maintenance plan to monitor your rankings and protect your online reputation.

You want proof we can get rankings? Well we decided to take it upon ourselves to achieve #1 rankings for 2 fairly competitive search phrases: Chicago SEO Expert & Los Angeles SEO Expert. Take a look at the 2 screen shots below:

#1 Result for “Chicago SEO Expert”

#1 Result for “Los Angeles SEO Expert”

Please click the screen shots for full-size images.

Let me first say that I am NOT trying to brag. What I am trying to do is inform you that if you are looking for an SEO company that can deliver real results than look no further. We live and die by a simple expression; “People lie, numbers do not” and that’s how we like to build our relationships with our clients.

For more information about SEO, Social Media and Highly Relevant check out this PDF file: Why Search Engine Optimization.

SEO Checklist – Google Ranking Factors

I have been interested in Internet Marketing since 2006 and as you can imagine have come across thousands of sites — some good and some bad. Along the way, I have bookmarked some really informative and thought provoking aritcles, over 3,500+ book marks to be exact covering a broad range of Online Marketing topics such as Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing, Reputation Management, PPC, Conversion Optimization, and so on.

I have decided to share at least 1 of these links with you per week and I’m starting now with Google Ranking Factors – SEO Checklist. I found this web site way back in February of 2006 and it still looks as crappy today as it did 3 years ago — however, this SEO Checklist page has been updated and tweaked throughout the years and is an excellent resource for beginners or experts to have in their arsenal.

Additionally, this SEO resource checklist not only goes over the basics of search engine optimization, it also has a great section of SEO resources near the bottom of the page. If you are looking for some good fundamental information about both positive AND negative SEO practices this resource is for you.

Please take a look at Google Ranking Factors – SEO Checklist.

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Google Wave Playback: If email was created Today

I wrote a “short” blog post on Highly Relevant about the eventual release of Google Wave in September of 2009. The Wave is Google’s attempt at “what if email were created today” and there are obviously a million ways that can go consider email was created over 40 years ago.

There were three main things about the Google Wave that really were quite remarkable to me and I’m excited to see them when they are “beyond beta”.

Google Wave Playback

The wave has a new, amazing feature that really will change the way people communicate and collaborate online for business as well. The Google Wave Playback feature allows you to view conversations, edits, comments, and the like on documents, emails, and conversations so you can see not only the end results but previous additions that give you much more insight than just the finished project. Additionally, you can view a single user’s comments so you can track what individuals are contributing. The best part is the Wave allows you to easily extract the finished project/attachment/email/document/etc and re-distribute as needed. This will revolutionize the way documents and communication are edited while providing more insight and information to the decision makers so they can see exactly what went right and what went wrong.

Drag & Drop

The Wave allows you to drag and drop images, videos, documents, music, and more into your web browser. What’s interesting is this is NOT included in the HTML 5 standards (but Google says it soon will be) so this is going to be some technology I can honestly say nobody has ever seen…

APIs and Open Source

Google is smart — we all know this. They continue to show their intellect by harnessing prior successes into new success. They have the Rasmussen brothers, who developed a little something called Google Maps, spearheading the Wave and like with Maps, have opened the door to over 4,000 Developer’s to begin building applications, extensions, plugins, and the like to allow for such 3rd party extensions to work seamlessly with Google’s new Wave.

Read more about the Google Wave Playback feature & more including screenshots of the Wave