We are pleased to announce the release of our mini beginner SEO guide called “Spoon-Fed SEO for GrownUps”. We decided to go with this tounge in cheek title as it emphasizes the complexities inherent in search engine marketing. Most people new to internet marketing have no idea what search engines are about or how they even earn a profit online.

After talking to many of our new SEO clients and SEO users there was a need for something that ties everything together nicely from A to Z in the SEO world. We have focused a bit on how to make good use of the SEO Studio tools to help webmasters speed up some mundane repetitive tasks in search engine optimization such as rank checking, back link analysis. Seasoned SEOs know 80% of all SEO efforts is connected with some type of external popularity building whether it’s link building through directory submissions, link buying, article distribution or viral marketing. This is where we feel new webmasters need the most help and we hope our SEO guide won’t disappoint you.

Learn SEO the easy way. Download or read online Spoon-Fed SEO for GrownUps

In the last few months Google has been steadily adding new API modules to its developer offerings. By visiting this URL http://code.google.com/ you can find everything from Google MAPs API to accessing the Google toolbar programmatically and it sure is confusing. If you are a SEO Studio user, you may have noticed our link to the Google search API website addressed doesn’t work anymore. After landing on the main Google API page, it's almost impossible to find the correct search API sign up page to create your Google search API key that can be used in SEO Studio. Well here it is, Google API SOAP Link until we are able to update SEO Studio and change the URL in the program.

Ok folks, you should really take us up on this offer. You can get a Free copy of SEO Studio Standard edition just by giving us some “link love”.

• Step 1. Ensure You Meet These Link Requirements

• Only one-way links (not reciprocal)
• All pages need to be cached in Google
• No more than 30 outbound links from the linking page
• The link page must be no more than 1 click away from the home page
• Google PageRank must be on the page itself not the root domain, the minimum PR is 4+
• Text links only, no javascript, PHP or css or flash redirects
• NO rel="nofollow" links in the code or meta tags
• No Free for all (FFA), guest books, links within forums, links within newsgroups, or links farms
• Sites using dynamically generated links are not acceptable