Today I have accepted our last client. As many of you may know, I have been working closely with Gaiam over the last eight months. Now that I have come on board with them long-term, I have agreed to stop taking new clients in the fitness vertical. Although I may be interested in consulting with non-fitness clients, I have made the decision to turn the First Page Fitness domain into a resource for consumers who are interested in health and fitness products.

The transition into an affiliate marketing website will be gradual, and plans have not been fully drawn out. Here is what you should expect to see over the coming months:
- The addition of a paid inclusion directory with very high standards, but also SEO-friendly in that we will allow deep linking and reasonable anchor text titles.
- We will be replacing our Services, Case Studies and Testimonial tabs with Directory, Products, and Special Deals tabs.
- We may or may not include contextual advertising units in the right column of this blog.
- I will continue posting about SEO (because it is what I love) until I find the time to create a new non-niche domain and move my SEO blogging over to a new blog. So please continue reading the First Page Fitness Search Marketing blog, and I will post the URL to the new one as soon as it goes up.
- This blog will, in time, be geared more toward an audience of health and fitness consumers who are researching products and services.

I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported this blog, especially those in the SEO community who were able to look past the fitness vertical aspect and extract informatation about search engine marketing in general - especially Hawaii SEO, Gray Wolf, Mike the Internet Guy, the folks over at Page 1 Solutions (who,for some reason, are always in the Alexa bar on this site), Byron White from Life Tips (I’ll update you on my new SEO blog so you can change your blogroll at that time) Chris from AMWSO Affiliate Marketing, and those of you who drop by to pay a visit once in a blue moon, including StuntDubl, Shoemoney, and - of course - SEO Fangirl.

There is no need to update your links. My archived SEO posts will remain where they are. Speaking of that, I suppose I should leave off with a few of my favorite posts:

• Why I Get Jazzed Up About Search Marketing
• Getting Custom 404 Page to Show 404 Error Code Instead of 200 Status
• Why You Shouldn’t Show Confirmation on Directory Submissions
• Reasearching High-Paying Keywords for Fitness AdSense Sites
• Running Out of Post Ideas for Your Fitness Blog?
• Search Engine Optimization Tools and SEO News Feeds
• Add Custom Title, Description and Keyword Meta Tags to Word Press Blogs
• Google Patent for Sitelinks in Search Results
• Cincinnati Shoe Store Joke (still on 1st page tee hee)
• Automatic URL Rewrites: non-www to www and index.html to .com (reader favorite)
• Hide Behind a Google IP Proxy to Expose Cloaked Pages
• Decreasing Your Code to Text Content Ratio
• The Complete-ish Guide to Search Engine Spam
• Get Perpetual Traffic on Sumbleupon for Ten Bucks
• SEO Fangirl Dinner in Chicago
• Bush Still a Failure but Not on Google
• The Monthly SEO Housecleaning Task List

Some of the exciting sites I will be working on with Gaiam:
Gaiam Yoga, Gaiam Community, Natural Habitat Eco Tours, Billy Blanks Tae Bo, Real Goods Green Products, LOHAS Magazine and Conference, Good Times Media, The Firm, Spiritual Cinema Circle, and a number of other exciting projects!

Keep in touch, feel free to comment, and stay tuned for the annoucement of my new non-vertical SEO blog - or perhaps an SEO blog that provides tips on Search Marketing for Verticals ??? Hmmmm…