Renaming, Repurposing This Blog

It is now official: MatthewKeegan.com has officially been repurposed and is now an SEO blog. Gone is the vague business model — I’m now using this blog as the central point for my search engine optimization (SEO) work. The official name has been changed too: Matthew Keegan | SEO is now on the masthead.

What does this mean? Well, on surface you won’t see many changes as I’m not going to be adding scads of articles to this site in a bid to drive in traffic or to fetch new customers. I’m already managing ten other blogs and working very hard to help them rank high in the SERPs, pull in traffic, and convert customers. I’m a white hat kind of SEO guy, but if there are some gray areas to exploit, I might explore those as well.

Link baiting is, of course, the main way I help bring links in and this is only done through writing excellent content. To that end, I’ve been overhauling a few sites, taking a couple of others up one level, and using photographs and better layouts to help touch up some other pages. I’m not going to reveal all of my secrets, but I can tell you that as I track some of the changes I’ve made, the search engines love them.

So, join with me and link to this blog and if you are a customer needing some SEO assistance, then please consider me for your project. I can best be reached at matt AT thearticlewriter. com — to your success!

Update: Before I forget, anyone who leaves a comment to this thread with a link to a page they want stumbled, I’ll be stumbling that page for them to mark this blog’s transition. This offer expires at 5 p.m. ET, on March 7, 2008.

I Shall Return, He Says

Obviously, I haven’t been blogging much lately and I realized this morning that I should post something here to explain my whereabouts. In the blogosphere if you are someone who blogs on a regular basis and suddenly stops, your readers will think that you either died or took that better offer.

I assure you that I am very much alive, but I’m working on that better offer!

Seriously, I am in the middle of building a new blog (see Crunch Time)  for a customer and hope to have it officially launched on Monday. Certain internet access problems have slowed down the process, but I am still moving forward. Instead of trying to juggle everything, I’m pouring myself into getting the new site up and running. Once done, I expect to resume my normal blogging activities other than taking some time to goof off right around Christmas and again on New Year’s Day.

I might add that this is the third consecutive day that temperatures have topped 80 degrees in my area of North Carolina. The temptation to be outside has been great, so that could be another reason for my prolonged absence!