Nestled deep in the World Wide Web is a place where Internet Marketers converge to share the stories, news, and memos pertinent to their industry. The content is user-submitted, but unlike other Digg clones, the community has very little control over what makes it to the front page.
Only after the article is poured over by a very qualified team can it even be seen on the site. Moderators scour each new article and rank its content for quality, usability, ease of reading, and value. Then, it is put through the WuzzRank filter, and voila, you have MySEOCommunity.
What in Tarnation is WuzzRank?
In their own words: "The WuzzRank is a special rank that measures the popularity of a particular page or article on the...
When Google launched Local Search, it introduced personalization, the art of guessing where you are and what you wanted to find, and presenting search results to suit. Since its debut in 2009, the local map feature has been ever-present, highlighting locations that are in the geographical area indicated by your IP address, or, if you dare provide it, by your recorded location.
People were already uneasy about Google’s data-collecting activities. As early as December...
In today’s health-conscious society, everyone has spent at least a couple minutes of their life thinking about (or purposely ignoring) their diet. Is this meal healthy?
How many calories are in this? Does this bacon-wrapped butterball make my butt look fat? The theory and principles behind improving your health and getting better results can also be attributed to what you do or do not contribute to the health and welfare of your website’s SEO. Here are...
Whenever Google does a big update to their algorithm, SEO’s everywhere shudder.
It’s probably because in the past, when a notable update went public, SEO was completely turned upside down.
Just take a look at either the “Mayday Update” or the “Panda Update.”
For those of you who don’t know, both of these updates were designed to target a specific type of website. For the Mayday Update, the targets were thin “Google Sniper” websites – sites that had...
Launched on the second day of June 2011, schema.org saughtto provide adequate exposure to websites and also help individuals find relevant and correct web pages when they undertake a search. Being a joint initiative between Microsoft, Yahoo and Google, the dominant players in search engine business, schema.org seeks to improve the web by creating a data mark-up schema that is structured.
This search engine companies will rely on this mark-up text to facilitate improved display of...
Seasonal trends effect keyword volumes in varying degrees. In some industries, there is almost no seasonal variation in keyword volume. Examples of such industries include staple products like groceries, telephone services, family medicine, auto repair - the things that all folks need pretty much all the time. Then on the other end of the spectrum are those products that are acutely seasonal. The most pronounced examples would be Santa dolls around Christmas time, pool building...
SEO: everyone agrees to disagree – right? That’s the problem with SEO in general, there’s so much advice flying around in all directions that it’s difficult to get a handle on what you actually need to be doing. I spend a great portion of my life simplifying SEO in training courses, and when it comes to relatively small websites with upwards of 1,000 pages of content, that’s exactly what it is: simple.
You’re Not Going To...
There was once – and to some extent still is – a concept known to many Internet marketers as the niche or "mini" site.
These small corners of the Web were outposts for made-for-Adsense content and affiliate links. They achieved top rankings for several longtail keywords, but the whole basis for their existence was delivery not of quality information, but clicks
Now with Panda in place and future algorithm changes sure to push low quality content out...
Type ‘Search Engine Optimization’ and you will find about 108,000,000 results in Google. Couple this daunting number with the fact that most Small to Medium-Size Business (SMB) has neither the budget nor talent to effectively optimize the business’ website for top search placement, and you have to ask yourself “Is it worth the investment?”
Many businesses, not only SMB’s, have questioned the return on investment (ROI) of search engine optimization when compared to all online marketing...
Playing nicely when it comes to building relationships and establishing a name for yourself in the blogging world is all well and good, but to get ahead of the game the gloves sometimes need to come off. Now I’m not saying that any black hat methods are the right route to go down, but there are a few ways you can utilise the 7 deadly sins to keep your blog alive.
Pride
Being proud of the blog...
