SEO Freelancer

Search Optimization Monkey

Recently Yahoo launched Search Monkey - an open developer platform which will allow site developers use

'semantic markup and structured data to enhance Yahoo! Search results and make them more useful, relevant and visually appealing'

For freelancing SEO Optimizer that means rise of new wave of services, widgets, microformats for SEO specialists, as we all know Yahoo delivers more quality results on backlinks, number of indexed pages. In this sense Yahoo make faces of Google with Search Monkey for Search Optimization.

Future Of SEO

IN REPLY:
In fact I very like your, Jennifer, article and surprised why nobody did it before, including me 8)
In spite of your irony on my comment, I will continue.

SEO will be the Huge Industry within Search Engine's politics forever without doubt.
SEO specialists will deliver to SE' developers human mistakes / bugs.
Nobody wants to be lost.
A huge companies (++150 employees) will seek for SEO teams which could deliver Top results.
Also we wait for RSS-specialists, which could publish RSS-streams fast and effectively.
SMO-guys wait for a special tactics similar to bulk-posting for Social communities.
Including rising of Visual Recognising SEs, we can wait for picture/image optimizers. Media optimizing - is the future of SEO specialist.
Mobile community wait for SEO specialists of mobile search optimization. XHTML isn't enough for mobile sites. Including Mobile Social Networking rise we can wait for a special mobile social network promoters in very close future.
But also Semantic Web is a new aspect of SEO freeelancers knowledge. Anyhow.

Conclusion.
SEO freelancers are the specialists of the future. A competition in search will do SEO-specialists bigger, smarter, taller of all even programmers, that is why it is unimportant how web site built: Perl, PHP, Ruby, XSL, LAMP - how cool software is - the question - what position it has.

Social Bulk Posting

Posting to Social Bookmark Services to increase your site social visibility could be effective, but can take a long time. To evercome that SEO Freelancer uses Social Bookmark Bulk Posting method, which gives fast bookmark registration.

• Socialmarker.com
• PostToaster.com favorite!
• SocialPoster.com
• SocialList.net
• Socialmarking.com
• Onlywire.com

Type-in traffic

Type-in traffic or Direct Navigation traffic is a traffic generated by a person either typing an URL directly in the browser address bar or going to a site directly from a bookmark (usual, not social). Type-in traffic keeps 10-20% of total web traffic.

Advertisers count type-in traffic as the very best quality traffic there is. Of course, type-in visitors have had desire regarding your offering, they instinctively, as flying southward birds, type in their intention directly into browser. They are motivated to reach their aim, but you know exactly what they are seeking for. When they type automatically, they think of your site!

So to generate type-in traffic you need to buy domains with a cool simple names, kind of fish.com, red.com, girls.org, tobto.org,... Do you think you can find them? Who knows.

But how to find exact figures of your direct navigation traffic in your site statistical report? They go as 'no referer'. Unfortunately Google Analytics doesn't track sources without referer and does not give any details on it.