Interview with iZania founder Roger Madison

Hear and meet featured guest, Mr. Roger Madison, CEO of http://www.izania.com/ . Our theme: Online Networks…the Good, Bad & the Truth. The Career Engineers Radio Broadcast is an Internet-based radio talk show designed to deliver �NEW LEVEL� solutions for your career, business and life that transfers the average attempt into awesome results. The creator and host of the show is �The Career Engineer� Francina R. Harrison, MSW and will feature empowering guests, real career/business solutions and �uncovers hustle disguised as help� so YOU can remain empowered, inspired, educated and motivated to new levels in your career, business and life! Join us on the 2nd & 4th Friday @ http://thecareerengineers.com/radiotalkshow.html for new interviews and/or to listen 24 hours a day on �Your Time.� Got a show idea, comment, career/business question, sponsorship questions or to be a guest…call our comment line! @ 214-615-6505 Ext: 4797. You never know…your comments could be aired on the show! Respectfully, Francina R. Harrison, MSW The Career Engineer http://www.thecareerengineers.com/

Good site to find gov’t contracting opportunities.

Onvia DemandStar is used by several local government agencies in Kansas including Unified Gov’t of Wyandotte County. As a non-subscribing (basic) Onvia DemandStar supplier, you can view bids and download bid documents. However, non-subscribers will not receive automatic notifications of all opportunities, cannot respond to quotes, and must pay to download bid documents. Competing for government contracts can be extremely profitable � if you know how to approach them. As experts in field of government business intelligence, they have a vast archive of information and experience pertaining to the government marketplace. Their site contains some of the most useful and important tips for finding and winning the right government contracting opportunities. If you currently do business in the public sector, or sell to companies who do, Onvia can help you find and qualify the best leads and win more awards. Onvia provides subscription-based government market intelligence that gives you: More leads � sooner and better. Honored as the �Best Online Business Leads Service,� Onvia adds more than 3500 actionable sales leads to our database every business day. Bids, RFPs, funding approvals, project updates, awards � if it�s relevant to your business, you�ll get it ASAP in the Onvia Guide. Award-winning intelligence on your market, buyers and competition. Zoom in on federal, state, local and educational agencies, personnel, and other vendors to qualify leads, price competitively, seize emerging opportunities and find potential partners. Signup for basic via the link below to at least have the opportunity to see what bids are coming up: http://onvia.rsc02.net/servlet/website/ResponseForm?hgOEeHgKpgn_v.3dzNIlJkpimphgvimphgl

Interview with iZania founder Roger Madison

Hear and meet featured guest, Mr. Roger Madison, CEO of http://www.izania.com/ . Our theme: Online Networks…the Good, Bad & the Truth. The Career Engineers Radio Broadcast is an Internet-based radio talk show designed to deliver �NEW LEVEL� solutions for your career, business and life that transfers the average attempt into awesome results. The creator and host of the show is �The Career Engineer� Francina R. Harrison, MSW and will feature empowering guests, real career/business solutions and �uncovers hustle disguised as help� so YOU can remain empowered, inspired, educated and motivated to new levels in your career, business and life! Join us on the 2nd & 4th Friday @ http://thecareerengineers.com/radiotalkshow.html for new interviews and/or to listen 24 hours a day on �Your Time.� Got a show idea, comment, career/business question, sponsorship questions or to be a guest…call our comment line! @ 214-615-6505 Ext: 4797. You never know…your comments could be aired on the show! Respectfully, Francina R. Harrison, MSW The Career Engineer http://www.thecareerengineers.com/

Good site to find gov’t contracting opportunities.

Onvia DemandStar is used by several local government agencies in Kansas including Unified Gov’t of Wyandotte County. As a non-subscribing (basic) Onvia DemandStar supplier, you can view bids and download bid documents. However, non-subscribers will not receive automatic notifications of all opportunities, cannot respond to quotes, and must pay to download bid documents. Competing for government contracts can be extremely profitable � if you know how to approach them. As experts in field of government business intelligence, they have a vast archive of information and experience pertaining to the government marketplace. Their site contains some of the most useful and important tips for finding and winning the right government contracting opportunities. If you currently do business in the public sector, or sell to companies who do, Onvia can help you find and qualify the best leads and win more awards. Onvia provides subscription-based government market intelligence that gives you: More leads � sooner and better. Honored as the �Best Online Business Leads Service,� Onvia adds more than 3500 actionable sales leads to our database every business day. Bids, RFPs, funding approvals, project updates, awards � if it�s relevant to your business, you�ll get it ASAP in the Onvia Guide. Award-winning intelligence on your market, buyers and competition. Zoom in on federal, state, local and educational agencies, personnel, and other vendors to qualify leads, price competitively, seize emerging opportunities and find potential partners. Signup for basic via the link below to at least have the opportunity to see what bids are coming up: http://onvia.rsc02.net/servlet/website/ResponseForm?hgOEeHgKpgn_v.3dzNIlJkpimphgvimphgl

Increase traffic to your website – Tips

1. Keyword Use in Title Tag I have said for many years that if I had a gun to my head, and could do only one thing to a web page to optimize it, my choice would be the title tag. Put your keyphrases in your title tag, and remember to optimize each page individually (i.e. don’t overstuff your title tag, and have different title tags for each page that reflect the content of that particular page – otherwise, you may suffer from a duplicative content exclusion and find yourself in the supplemental results). 2. Keyword Use in Body Text Duh. If your keyword or keyphrase isn’t mentioned at least once in the body text of the web page, then it does not seem your page is very relevant to that keyphrase, now does it? But don’t get all caught up in the keyphrase density myth – there is no magic number of times it should appear. Make sense to readers, and it will make sense to the search engines. 3. Relationship of Body Text Content to Keywords (Topic Analysis) Google is smarter than you give them credit for, and just stuffing a keyphrase into a completely unrelated page won’t do you much, if any good. Your page should be on a topic which is semantically related to the keyphrase which you are targeting in your title tag. 4. Keyword Use in H1 Tag Oh, for years the naysayers have been telling me that H1 tag keyphrase use meant nothing and that I was an idiot for thinking otherwise. Well the verdict is in and this is the fourth most important factor according to the SEOMoz article. At this point, therefore, we have learned to put your keyphrase in your title tag, include it in your body text, which body text is topically or semantically related to the keyphrase, and head up the body text with an H1 containing the keyphrase. 5. Keyword Use in Domain Name This is one that I disagree with. I have seen absolutely no evidence of this at all. Do a simple search on the internet for most any search term, and chances are the top results do not have the search query in the domain name. I believe this may have minor importance, but don’t go and change your domain because of it. Seriously, you have much more to lose (such as age of domain, inbound linkage, site reputation, etc.) I regularly see clients at the top of Google with domain names containing nothing near the relevant search terms. 6. Keyword Use in Page URL This is what I have called “descriptive file naming” for a number of years. I believe it is of some importance, again, however, is more of a factor when setting up a new domain than would be for an existing domain with high pagerank and inbound linkage. Changing your internal url’s for the sole purpose of meeting this criterion again is very risky, for the same reasons mentioned above. 7. Keyword Use in H2, H3, H… Tags Well if it works for H1, why not for H2 et al.? 8. Keyword Use in ALT Attributes and Image Titles SEOMoz incorrectly calls them an ALT tag, but it is not a tag, the ALT is an attribute of the IMG tag. Semantics aside, I believe this to be highly important, I would have ranked this above the URL and domain name items. Experience has shown me that image optimization (image file name, alt attribute, and title) is a wonderful way to make a page more relevant to a desired search query. 9. Keyword Use in Bold/Strong Tags I always use this method, as well as keyword use within the EM (italics) tag. I believe this to be a moderately important factor as it helps emphasize to Google what your page is about, and what you consider important. Definitely on my short list of things to do for “on page” search engine optimization. 10. Keyword Use in Meta Description Tag Again, one of my “big 4″ for on page optimization. The “big 4″ being: title tag, meta description, h1, and image ALT attributes. (I don’t include body text in my big 4 as I believe that is self evident). Definitely important, and again, each page should have custom title and meta description tags. ——————————————————– About the Author:Matt Foster is the President of ArteWorks Business Class, one of the top 15 search engine optimization firms in the world. For more information, please visit www.arteworks.biz