Most local business owners are often confronted with the teething problem of how to gain maximum exposure for their business online. Online marketing is a sphere that is mostly dominated by the big wigs with the most resources. In such a scenario how does a local business compete and gain a foothold without being dwarfed by the hot shots in the industry? In this article we shall provide you with valuable SEO tips for your...
On June 2, 2011, Yahoo, Google and Bing announced their partnership on schema.org. This will act as a stop point for web owners and developers which provides resources to help them markup their site pages. This in turn makes them easier to read, understand and get indexed by the search engines. This is a big step given the fact that search engines usually need you to markup your pages in a particular manner for indexing...
Google has got a lot of people upset, not the least of which are web surfers trying to find good content while searching on the Internet. Lately, Google shows a lot of spammy results in the top 3-4 pages for many searches. Blekko is one of the newest search engines, after having been in development for a number of years. It is now ready for beta testers and comes with some great features for users....
Wordpress is a great content management system. Each Wordpress blog is already optimized to be Google-friendly. That is why many business owners use Wordpress blogs to promote their products and services. Social media sites like Facebook make it very easy to connect with customers. Therefore, combining the two sites is a very wise idea. However, not every business owner knows how to integrate Facebook with Wordpress. Even if they do know how to combine the sites,...
Understanding the basics of search engine optimization is an important skill for many individuals – even many outside the search engine optimization industry. Web designers, content writers, journalists, webmasters, bloggers, and others need to be familiar with the factors search engines use to rank websites and content. The search engine optimization field can be a very complex and confusing field, though. This is largely because the only 100% authoritative, 100%...
A few of you might remember a post on Daily SEO Tip last year about Keyword Eye - a visual keyword suggestion tool. We have been working very hard over the last couple of months to develop a new version which improves on the old site in just about every way. For those not familiar with Keyword Eye, it is a tool to help you with your keyword research. It can be used for keyword brainstorming,...
Google+ shows tremendous potential when compared to Facebook popularity. And, to all of our educated guesses, people are excited about this cold war. Questions I am stuck with: Who wins? Who looses? What is going to happen next? How this is going to influence our social media marketing plan? Is it good or bad for everyone related to internet world? How great and different it is from Facebook applications? Is it...
If you are fairly new to world of online business and entrepreneurship, you may be confused by all of the terminology surrounding different business models. Affiliate Marketing, Network Marketing, MLM: what do these all mean? This article should help clear things up and give you a better understanding of each business model. Affiliate Marketing: There is usually no cost to sign up as an affiliate; although it is assumed that you have purchased the...
Earlier today I had a friend of mine visit me at my pad and he looked quite worried . When inquired I realized that he was worried about his site not doing good enough in the search results and making even lesser money for him from even little traffic that he received. He was clueless about why a site wont rank in the search engines when the keyword research was done...
Local business keyword phrases, which always usually include the city and the service that the business is located in and provides, are worth an inordiante amount of money in terms of ranking for them as compared to other types of search terms with the same low number of search queiries per month. There seems to be a never-ending market for providing local business with Internet marketing services. Most people that run business in fields like...
