Russ Jones Good Honest SEO

Russ Jones

Russ Jones is one of those die hard SEO`s who has a strong ethical SEO foundation, a web developer by trade whose natural progression into the SEO industry has taken him to the top of his game.  Starting out over 12 years ago, Russ has a Bachelors Degree in Political Science and African American Studies.  His SEM strategies and SEO technique has earned himself and his clients at Virante.com strong SERP rankings and his role as CTO of Virante is an absolute bonus to them.

Good old fashioned honest SEO from another i will be following at SEOBegin.

You can read the latest from Russ`s blog along with other contributors (Sootle Directory)

Google Search Engine Optimization Basics - Wed, 27 May 2009
Google remains a bit of a “black box” when it comes to understanding how it ranks websites. But over the years many people have managed to devise certain principles that will help a page rank high in their SERPS. These principles aren’t hard and fast rules, but following them generally gives a page a chance

Google Results – All Or Nothing - Wed, 15 Apr 2009
Google has a remarkable aspect to its algo these days. That’s the phenomena where a website either ranks for terms or it doesn’t. And we’re not talking about hardcore competitive terms, either. For lack of a better term, it looks like “Trustrank” comes into play when a website loses it’s rankings. First you need to

Twitter Is A Broadcast Medium - Mon, 06 Apr 2009
One of the first things you’ll hear from people is that “Twitter is not a broadcast medium.” It is, they’ll argue, a medium for two way communications. But let’s be realistic. Now that major celebrities and corporations are Tweeting, the service is featuring more one-way communications than ever before. There’s no rule that says you

Google Adsense Adds Behavioral Targeting - Thu, 12 Mar 2009
Google Adsense has announced they’ll be using ads that are targeted on people’s online behavior. In the past Adsense ads were geared towards to topic of the page the visitor was at. Now Google will go a bit further and use data they’ve collected about websites a visitors has been at recently as well as

Google Adsense Ad Selection - Tue, 24 Feb 2009
This report is anecdotal, but it’s based on observation of many of the Google Adsense ads I see running these days. A number of the offers that appear on wide ranging sites seem to be shady. Google is an online marketing company that might be bigger than others, but clearly they’re having the same issues

Sierra Leone ALERT: Newspaper editor physically assaulted - Wed, 18 Mar 2009
David Jabati, editor of  the Exclusive, a Freetown-based independent newspaper was on March 13, 2008 violently assaulted by angry supporters of the  ruling All People’s Congress Party (APC) at the Headquarters of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP). Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)’s correspondent reported that Jabtai, who had gone to the party’s headquarters to cover a clash between the two main political parties in the country, was accused by the APC youth of being a...

SIERRA LEONE: Diamond miners choose cassava over carats - Wed, 18 Mar 2009
In Sierra Leone plummeting diamond prices, dwindling reserves, consistently poor working conditions and a lack of regulation are driving diamond workers to start farming, youths told IRIN. “The future of Kono is not diamonds,” said Tamba Kakarnbanja, councillor for youths in Kono District. “It’s agriculture.” Diamonds helped fuel the 11-year civil war that killed at least 75,000 people, injured some 10,000 and displaced almost half of Sierra Leone’s 4.5 million population according to the UN....

Madagascar President resigns, unclear rule in Antananarivo - Wed, 18 Mar 2009
Leadership in Madagascar is unclear as Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana announced his resignation in favor of a military committee headed by Vice Admiral Hyppolite Ramaroson, only to have that resignation rejected by the Admiral, the military and opposition political groups. Admiral Ramaroson joined other military leaders in saying they would back opposition leader, former Antananarivo mayor and former DJ Andry Rajoelina. Mr Ravalomanana attempted to hand power over to the heads of the...

UNDP supports women to enhance their productivity - Sat, 14 Mar 2009
The Country Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Ghana Dr. Kamil K. Kamaluddeen has visited the Multifunctional Platform (MFP) Project at Changnayili, a community near Tamale. The Country Director was joined by officials from Embassy of Japan in Ghana (Accra) and the Ministry of Foreign Affiars in Japan to monitor the usage of MFP and also interact with the Tizaa-dini Women’s Group. The activity was implemented by New Energy, an NGO based in Tamale, under the MFP project...

AFRICA: New meningitis vaccine nears debut - Sat, 14 Mar 2009
A new vaccine that promises to eliminate meningitis in Africa will be rolled out in a mass campaign in West Africa this year, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO). Twenty-five million doses of the meningococcal A, or MenA, vaccine are currently in production in India and the drug is expected to be introduced in Burkina Faso late 2009. “This is the beginning of the end of the disease,” said Marc LaForce, the director of the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP), an initiative of WHO...

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