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	<title>Sefati Consulting Group</title>
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		<title>Client Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 04:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our client AutoXplorer which is an auto software company that is best known for their buy here pay here software, are switching gears from SEO to PPC and other marketing means despite the fact they have seen a good amount of improvement in their rankings and SEO. Sefati Consulting Group will still be consulting with them giving them advises <a href="http://www.sefati.net/2012/05/client-update/#more-1520'" class="more-link">more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our client AutoXplorer which is an <a href="http://autoxplorer.com/autoxplorer-features/">auto software</a> company that is best known for their <a href="http://autoxplorer.com/autoxplorer-features/">buy here pay here software</a>, are switching gears from SEO to PPC and other marketing means despite the fact they have seen a good amount of improvement in their rankings and SEO.</p>
<p>Sefati Consulting Group will still be consulting with them giving them advises on their strategy, but more hands off. We are going to be visiting them in office, and educating them about PPC and also will continue working with the as consultant.  Our active day to day SEO efforts will halt for now, and will switch to need to need basis.</p>
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		<title>New Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 23:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been new development here at Sefati Consulting Groups. There is a potential for us to take new clients in the payday loan industry again. We used to be heavily involve in the payday industry as Sefati Consulting Group has had good track record optimizing payday websites which is very challenging. We are also <a href="http://www.sefati.net/2012/05/new-development/#more-1512'" class="more-link">more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There has been new development here at Sefati Consulting Groups. There is a potential for us to take new clients in the payday loan industry again. We used to be heavily involve in the payday industry as Sefati Consulting Group has had good track record optimizing payday websites which is very challenging.</p>
<p>We are also committed to our existing clients such as Autoxplorer which is an <a href="http://www.autoxplorer.com">auto software</a> company, , soccerloco which is an online soccer retailer selling <a href="http://www.soccerloco.com/soccer-balls">soccer balls</a>, soccer jerseys, and equipment, and our many other clients.</p>
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		<title>Self Storage Thresholds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 23:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following is a guest post. The author’s views and opinions are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Sefati Consulting Group. It is common for a self storage facility owner to forget about the small things that can have an impact on maintaining the facility. Things like this can be <a href="http://www.sefati.net/2012/05/self-storage-thresholds/#more-1509'" class="more-link">more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Following is a guest post. The author’s views and opinions are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Sefati Consulting Group.</em></p>
<p>It is common for a <a href="http://www.onebyoneselfstorage.com/">self storage facility</a> owner to forget about the small things that can have an impact on maintaining the facility. Things like this can be small enough to walk over when stepping into a self storage unit. Thresholds, which are the metal strips at the foot of a door, keep the dirt and unwanted things out.</p>
<p>Although thresholds may not seem as important as you may think, they are what keep everything bad out of the self storage unit. Even though every door has a threshold, it is important to install the one that is right for your door. You are looking for problems if your threshold isn’t solid.</p>
<p>Hollow thresholds are used commonly in most buildings. When thresholds are first installed they may seem like they are very durable but over the years they will start effecting your facility. Since the thresholds are hollow on the inside, they are very vulnerable to getting damaged. The moment that they are cracked or bent the thresholds lose their purpose.</p>
<p>If your self storage facility has hollow thresholds at the entrance then your building will be vulnerable. If there are 100 units in your facility then your front entrance door will receive 100 times more traffic. This means that the threshold will be damaged 100 times faster.</p>
<p>Eddie Munoz, <a href="http://san-diego.onebyoneselfstorage.com/">San Diego Storage Onebyone</a><br />
611 K Street B143, San Diego, CA 92101, USA<br />
(858) 888-9250</p>
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		<title>A Goal Apart</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a non SEO non business website. I (Al Sefati) started a new soccer blog called a goal apart. I was inspired after I was helping one of my clients putting up their soccer blog I realized that I want to have my own soccer related blog. If you like soccer and you like <a href="http://www.sefati.net/2012/04/a-goal-apart/#more-1486'" class="more-link">more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a non SEO non business website. I (Al Sefati) started a new soccer blog called a<a href="http://www.agoalapart.com"> goal apart</a>. I was inspired after I was helping one of my clients putting up their <a href="http://www.soccercrazy.com">soccer blog</a> I realized that I want to have my own soccer related blog. </p>
<p>If you like soccer and you like to blog about soccer, contact me and I will give you instruction on how you can do guest posts on A Goal Apart. </p>
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		<title>New Client; Soccer Loco</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soccer Loco is a new client of Sefati Consulting Group. Soccer Loco is currently a soccer blog but it is soon moving its content to another soccer blog while it will be a host for the next big soccer retailer. Sefati Consulting Group will be helping soccer loco both its organic and paid search engine <a href="http://www.sefati.net/2012/04/new-client-soccer-loco/#more-1480'" class="more-link">more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.soccerloco.com">Soccer Loco</a> is a new client of Sefati Consulting Group. Soccer Loco is currently a soccer blog but it is soon moving its content to another <a href="http://www.soccercrazy.com">soccer blog</a> while it will be a host for the next big soccer retailer. </p>
<p>Sefati Consulting Group will be helping soccer loco both its organic and paid search engine rankings hence bring more traffic to its websites.  We are excited to be working with Soccer Loco and excited helping them becoming the ultimate authority in online soccer retail.</p>
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		<title>Sefati Consulting Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is final. This website is no longer just an SEO blog but it is the official website of Sefati Consulting Group. What is Sefati Consulting Group? After working as an SEO consultant and ecommerce business development consultant for past few years, I teamed up with other consultants in my area who complement my skills <a href="http://www.sefati.net/2012/04/sefati-consulting-group/#more-1462'" class="more-link">more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is final. This website is no longer just an SEO blog but it is the official website of Sefati Consulting Group.</p>
<p><strong>What is Sefati Consulting Group?</strong><br />
After working as an SEO consultant and ecommerce business development consultant for past few years, I teamed up with other consultants in my area who complement my skills and my business to bring businesses of all size total online solutions.</p>
<p>Priority to Sefati Consulting Group, I marketed this website under Sefati Search Consulting and later just Sefati consulting. That was because the business was  owned and operated by mainly me so there was no &#8220;group&#8221;. But now that I have teamed up with other experts in my in the internet industry to complement my services in order to bring better solutions to businesses, I have changed the name to Sefati Consulting Group; We have professionals specializing not only in SEO and internet marketing, but also web development, internet security, mobile development, and even online business development.</p>
<p>We are currently converting the site and its content so it is more geared toward that goal however I will continue to blog about SEO, internet marketing, as well as other type of online business tips.</p>
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		<title>New Mini Client</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Adidas Soccer Balls. A mini website that sells Adidas Soccer Balls. This website, used to rank on first page of google mainly because of the keywords on its domain and on its page and since it was only selling Adidas soccer ball. However after the Panda Update, because it had thin content, and since <a href="http://www.sefati.net/2012/04/new-mini-client/#more-1458'" class="more-link">more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meet <a href="http://www.soccerloco.com/adidas-soccer-balls/">Adidas Soccer Balls</a>. A mini website that sells Adidas Soccer Balls.</p>
<p>This website, used to rank on first page of google mainly because of the keywords on its domain and on its page and since it was only selling Adidas soccer ball. However after the Panda Update, because it had thin content, and since it was a mini site of a bigger retail site, Google dropped the site from its main keywords &#8220;Adidas Soccer Balls&#8221;. </p>
<p>Picking up the client, current strategy is as following: </p>
<p>1. Increase websites relevant content. Making sure there more relevant unique content on the page so the site is not considered thin content.<br />
2. Cut all affiliations with its parent sites. That is to add nofollow on all the links and etc.<br />
3. Exact match link building. I am not going to target other type of links. I want the site to rank well for its domain first. </p>
<p>I will be announcing how the progress and how it all goes. I am asking client for 3 months to rank although I think with a good amount of link building and onsite optimization, it really should not take us that long.</p>
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		<title>SEO Mistake</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes I am an SEO expert and having done this for quite sometime, I tend to make less mistakes in the SEO world but yesterday I gave a bad advise to my employer that made few months of work to temporarily vanish and now I am working on fixing it and I expect it to <a href="http://www.sefati.net/2012/04/seo-mistake/#more-1450'" class="more-link">more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes I am an SEO expert and having done this for quite sometime, I tend to make less mistakes in the SEO world but yesterday I gave a bad advise to my employer that made few months of work to temporarily vanish and now I am working on fixing it and I expect it to be fixed in a couple of days but it was a lesson well learned.</p>
<p>My client had two soccer websites; One called <a href="http://www.soccerloco.com">Soccer Loco</a> and One called <a href="http://www.soccercrazy.com">Soccer Crazy</a>. </p>
<p>Soccer Loco is soon going to be replaced by soccer retail site, so we pulled over content from Soccer Loco and put it on Soccer Crazy and then we saw months of work on Soccer Loco vanished as the site lost its pagerank and Soccer Crazy got a sudden boost.</p>
<p>It was a bad recommandation I made as duplicated content is an SEO 101. Its OK to scrape content from other sites and put it on your site so as long as you link back to original site and possibly a cross domain canonical tag to solve this issue.</p>
<p>This reminds all of us that content continues to be king it is important when copying content from other sites, you link back to that site, at content level, so the search engines know where the source is and source doesn&#8217;t lose credit to the one that is copying it. </p>
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		<title>Problem of Over Optimization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Cutts from Google mentioned that Google does devalue and\or discount links and below is a video from SEOMoz I encourage you check out]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matt Cutts from Google mentioned that Google does devalue and\or discount links and below is a video from SEOMoz I encourage you check out</p>
<p><iframe class="wistia_embed" name="wistia_embed" src="http://fast.wistia.com/embed/iframe/2582a07f46?videoWidth=600&#038;videoHeight=338&#038;controlsVisibleOnLoad=true&#038;canonicalUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seomoz.org%2Fblog%2Fstop-optimizing-and-start-creating-whiteboard-friday&#038;canonicalTitle=How%20to%20Stop%20Over%20Optimizing%20and%20Start%20Creating%20for%20SEO%20-%20Whiteboard%20Friday%20%7C%20SEOmoz&#038;plugin%5Bsocialbar%5D%5Bversion%5D=v1&#038;plugin%5Bsocialbar%5D%5Bbuttons%5D=embed-videoStats&#038;plugin%5Bsocialbar%5D%5Blogo%5D=true&#038;plugin%5Bsocialbar%5D%5BbadgeUrl%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fwistia.com&#038;plugin%5Bsocialbar%5D%5BbadgeImage%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wistia.com%2Fimages%2Fbadges%2Fwistia_100x96_black.png" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="600" height="363"></iframe></p>
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		<title>Stepping up SEO Consulting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was in Los Angeles, I had a full time job as an SEO manager and I took side consulting jobs. I had to reject some side jobs mainly because I was too busy. Then I quite my job and moved to San Diego, I worked as SEO consultant full time, I was able <a href="http://www.sefati.net/2012/04/stepping-up-seo-consulting/#more-1432'" class="more-link">more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I was in Los Angeles, I had a full time job as an SEO manager and I took side consulting jobs. I had to reject some side jobs mainly because I was too busy. Then I quite my job and moved to San Diego, I worked as SEO consultant full time, I was able to set up network and system where I can take unlimited amount of clients and SEO work for all range. </p>
<p>Then I moved to San Diego and now I am able to take any project with any budget. I have built both the network and experienced team that can make it happen. So <a href="http://www.sefati.net/contact-me/">contact me</a> to see what I and my team can do for you and your organization. I can work with any budget, of course the reacher the budget the better and faster results you will get.</p>
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