It’s easy to forget your own blog when you spend a lot of time searching for traffic opportunities elsewhere. Off-site traffic is definitely good to have, BUT— What about your current visitors? How do you keep them on your blog instead of driving them outside? What about your bounce rate? Believe it or not, the…
SEO via Compfight It must have sounded like a nightmare when Facebook announced they would no longer promote Business pages in newsfeed as they used to and that they would aggressively fight newsfeed spam. Reminds you of Google, doesn’t it? It does. Facebook has a wide user base and it has received many user complaints…
I know, I know— controversial topic after Matt Cutt’s blog post shunning guest blogging for SEO in 2014. Even more controversial after the mass penalty on MyBlogGuest.com and the “all nofollow” reaction from eConsultancy that followed. Guest blogging really seems like a gray area to find your marketing and link building efforts in right now.…
Technical SEO 101 Last Update It gets tough when you are a total beginner at the technical sides of running your own blog or website. I remember it took me a while to figure out the difference between the .htaccess file and robots.txt Even though I always loved anything IT and computers, the first time…
In a world that becomes more and more aware of email spam, growing your email marketing list and sending out personalized email is as challenging as ever. Country laws prevent marketers to clutter their recipients’ inboxes and often the simple act of sending a commercial email without the end user’s opt-in is considered unlawful. (That…
Sponsored posts have been the love and hate of many bloggers over the years. You can guess why— it’s very difficult to please both your advertiser and your audience alike. Who should you favor? Who should just ‘take it’ without complaints? The truth, as always, is in the middle. Both your advertiser and your audience…
Google Search Operator Tricks For SEO Last Update In the past, SEO companies used direct submissions and SEO tools to get links. These outdated tools and tactics are no longer useful. In fact, a few of the old techniques can actually attract penalization from Google. Today, most webmasters are well versed with the advanced SEO…
We had Hass Libre www.HassLibre.com an organic clothing company come to us in need of improving their search engine rankings and presence on the web. Problem: Their problem was that they had a relatively new website, with little traffic and exposure. The wanted us to come in and optimize their website and brand their company…
In today’s Internet world, marketing a startup is a whole new ball game than it was a decade ago. Even 2 years ago, SEO was an easy tactic that was too simple to slip past the sensors of search engines and be a success without a lot of fuss and hassle. Today, however, newer, fresher…
Take Control Away from People Using the Website Any site which takes power out of the user’s hands at any point should be avoided as much as possible. Having a site which essentially takes users on a magical mystery tour will not endear either you or your creation to them. This will not…
The Apple iPad Air 2 and the mini 3 were recently announced last month. Both these products are found to be having short lead times. Across countries such as Canada, USA, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, France, UK and Germany, the lead time for the iPad Air 2 is of 1-3 business days whereas…
Why Local SEO is Important Last Update When you first walk through the Internet Marketing door, you’re bombarded with so much information it can become a little overwhelming. Sometimes it can takes weeks or even months to figure out who is giving great practical advice, to the wannabes who are just in it to take…
Useful SEO Blogs Last Update If you are an online marketer and want to learn as much as possible about SEO optimization (because there is a lot to learn), it is important that you know about some of the best SEO blogs. There are quite a few of these blogs and each one on this…
Although search engines are smart, more than you probably, they still require help. The big engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo are always improving their technology so they are able to crawl the web better and return more relevant and better results for users. But even the way they operate has its limitations. This is…
1) Implement Title Tags and Meta Tags Title Tags are an important aspect of search engine optimization as they are the way to convey your marketing skills to your target audience. The wording should flow smoothly while containing important keywords. This is where the search engines and your target audience get a feel for what…
1) Chose your Keywords Carefully Once you have chosen your business and purchased a domain name the next step before submitting your site to search engines is to find useful and relevant keywords. Without this step your website will get lost in the millions of websites competing for your business. To start our keyword research…
1) New directories can become a dominant website in the future Many new web directories are not known by the mass users of the internet, but this is likely to change as the directory becomes a respected and highly visited site. Why wait for the directories that are full of listings, when you can have…
In 2004 the term “Web 2.0” was originated by the O’Reilly Media. The “2.0” means that this is the second generation of web usage. Web 2.0 has created a variety of new and innovative ways to promote websites using: social bookmarking, social networking, blogging, Wiki, RSS Feeds, and video feeds. These all allow and encourage…
Article writing can be a powerful and valuable tool for websites. Not only are articles informative to readers, but they gain exposure for the authors. This is a win-win situation. Web users can find useful information about a product or service by reading through various articles. The article writers can achieve name awareness throughout the…
There are thousands of forums on the web ranging from any subject imaginable. Forums are a collection of people interested in specific subject collaboration with one another. Forums even have top experts in those fields answering questions and offering advice at no cost. Forums allow for user interaction through question and answer boards. These boards…
YouTube has become a dominant force in on the web. According to comScore, in March of 2008 139 million Unites States viewers watched over 11.5 billion videos. YouTube has become one of the top viewed websites in quite a short time. Google’s purchase of YouTube shows us how valuable of a tool YouTube is and…
Pay per click (PPC) advertising is a huge market, especially for new companies that have not yet established themselves in the organic search engine rankings. The downside is that PPC can be quite an exhausting and overwhelming task when it is really broken down. For the most part you can enter your keywords and create…
Post comments in Do Follow Forums. Search CommentHunt for industry related blogs. Enter a real comment that is not SPAM. Add meaningful content to your comments. Where it says user name use keywords related to your site. Where is says website usually enter the main domain, but sometimes it is good to use sub domains. The…
There have been many arguments as to whether or not Google search engine ranking factors look for a clean code in a website. The W3C Schools have brought forth a very popular and widely used tool, called the W3C Validation and the CSS Validation. Basically, both these tools look at your HTML and CSS Style…
Google Algorithm Updates Last Update Google has once again updated their search engine algorithm and Page Rank. This has cause great joy for many webmasters, while others are scrambling to find out what happened to their websites page rank. Goggles newest page rank update, occurring late October/ early November 2009 seems to favor new pages.…