And if you are reading this chances are I'm quite right. Stop spending your money for SEO consultancy, and stop spending your time reading those "SEO experts" blogs. I mean, just look at their faces...

Let's have a look at what are the categories Google suggestions belong to.

Categories & sub categories

The following are the categories I distributed the suggestions to, those are further

Online Shopping

The following are all the suggestions belonging to an online shop web site, that is a web that offers the chance to buy online whatever their business is.

• amazon
• apple
• argos
• amazon.com
• best buy
• bed bath and beyond
• ...

There's a nice Ajax-powered feature Google gives their search engine users, it's called search suggestion and it's available (correct me if I'm wrong here) either using the Google Toolbar for either Internet Explorer or Firefox. or visiting the relevant Google Suggest page on Google Labs.

Search smarter with instant suggestions
as you type in the search box

What it does is suggesting a term after you type a character in the search text input area, just one character is enough to activate this feature.

And the Google Suggestions are...

What exactly are the suggestions Google push you? Let's have a look in alphabetical order.

Google Suggestions for A

If you enter the a letter Google returns the following suggestions:

• amazon (489,000,000)
• argos (10.700,000)
• aol (136,000,000)
• autotrader (3,850,000)
• aol.com (41,600,000)
• apple (231,000,000)
• american airlines (32,900,000)
• amazon.com (210,000,000)
• auto trader (2,900,000)
• addicting games (1,800,000)

Another chapter on Search Engine Optimization and speed ranking on Google. Just an example of how web content optimization, and some web 2.0 cross posting may help your site to rank among the first results among millions in a very short time.

Music has the power

Lately I've attended two music festivals in Barcelona, Spain. The Primavera Sound and Sonar, there I saw a couple of bands, among the others Sonic Youth, White Stripes, Blonde Redhead, Modest Mouse, Beastie Boys, Patty Smith, and took some pictures of their shows.

As previously posted here, SEO, SEM, and a lot of vaporware, you can save a lot of money and obtain way more results if you implement your own SEO strategy instead of putting your business in the hands of someone's not even good at doing her own web site.

I'm targetting this post mainly at small/medium business with a limited budget available to promote their online presence. Obviously the following is a free and easy approach you should consider even if you are Fortune 500 company and plenty of money to waste. Also consider this applies mainly to Google, but let's be honest, there's just one search engine out there.

Rank higher, faster

Another live example on my previous posts The ultimate killing SEO weapon is your content, and how you use it (part I) and The ultimate killing SEO weapon is your content, and how you use it (part II), a follow up for the From 0 to 8 in 26 days and two posts (how to reach the top ten among 45,500,000 results of SEO resources) post.

It's all about ranking in the first ten results among 45,500,000 in 26 days and two blog posts

Take this as an example for my posts series on SEO. The posts I'm referring to are: The ultimate killing SEO weapon is your content, and how you use it (part I) and The ultimate killing SEO weapon is your content, and how you use it (part II) where I try to demonstrate how a mix of interesting, well formatted content together with web standards and semantic tactics might help your SEO strategy and increase your search engine ranking.