Google Places is a free marketing tool for local businesses. The benefits of these listings include showing up in web search results and mobile search results. Updating these listings is free and available to the business 24x7x365. Not something you can easily do with the traditional yellow pages. Definitely something you need to consider beyond Google and tap into multiple local listing websites and search engines. Here are a few...
Having learned so much from the endless list of SEO gurus out there I only thought it just that I should share something in return. What’s your take on blog commenting links are they really worth the effort if you are looking to increase SERP’s for you or your client’s websites? Blog commenting links are rather frowned upon these days as being a somewhat primeval form of link building agreed they can help to direct new and...
For most bloggers, internal linking is a “let’s wing it” process. Think of the recent posts you’ve made, and where they fit, and insert them into the post. This isn’t an efficient process, and more than likely, you’re missing plenty of good opportunities to link out! The thing is, our brains are generally more preoccupied with things like the post itself to be too concerned over where we can throw...
Using multiple websites (satellite sites) to market products in similar areas is something that many small business owners consider and usually practice. Using these websites to retail separate products can be effective, but what are the advantages of consolidating all of these together? If your firm for example sells St Lucia holidays from one website and Barbados holidays from another site. These two websites clearly target two different audiences and both have their own...
Your local business listing at Google and certainly with other geo-listing websites allows you to promote your events, new products, specials and more. You can take advantage of this very easily, once you have claimed your listing, by following the following five steps. We will use Google as our example. 1. Log into your Google account and go to Google Places through your account or by going directly to http://www.google.com/lbc 2....
The fact that links mean nothing without some effective on-page search engine optimization cannot be overstated. On-page SEO is simply essential for every SEO campaign. If a search engine can't determine what your content is about, there's no way it can rank you high for the keywords that you target. On-page SEO doesn't have to be complicated. Many webmasters associate on-page SEO with coding and programming, but this isn't the case at all, especially if you're...
People have often claimed that a link within content on a page has more value than one form the sidebar or footer of a page. Whilst there is an argument that this is true because a link surrounded by content can be checked by a search engine robot for its relativity as it pertains to the content in which it is surrounded by there is another reason why this may be true. Page Segmentation VIPS or VIsion-based...
Nowadays, pretty much every company has its own Facebook page, which is hardly surprising, considering what a superb and absolutely free platform it is for brands to interact with, and get valuable information from, their customers and fans. What is surprising, however, is that very few organizations have gone beyond the standard Wall, Info, Discussions and Photos tabs to create a Facebook page that’s...
It’s no secret that one of the tactics search engine optimization specialists use to increase search rankings is domain purchasing. The idea is that you find a domain that currently ranks well within your niche, buy it and then redirect the site to your domain. Alternatively you could purchase this domain and continue to build off of it and utilize its existing rankings and site traffic. Below are several do’s &...
An aspect of linkbuilding that is sometimes hotly debated in the various popular marketing forums is relevancy of the link source. Some people hold the opinion that the topic of the website providing the backlink is irrelevant whereas others consider this aspect of a backlink's value to be significant. Based on my own experience I think that the topic of the website hosting the backlink is not very important. However, the topic of the page in...
