I have received many emails like this: We'll submit your website to 100 social bookmarking websites for just $35. That's right, 100 valuable, permanent one-way links on high PR authority websites for just $35! Where do I start to pull this apart? Perhaps the fact that one does not submit a "website" to social bookmarking websites. One submits a URL that represents a specific piece of content. This more than just technically misleading. This is spamming. Yes, you would be hiring a spammer. Of the 100 social bookmarking websites, many are niche-specific. As the founder of Zoomit Canada, I can tell you that I see every day websites submitted related to Castle Hill, Sydney and other places...
Imagine the old days with the traditional yellow pages. Now imagine that you could add a photo, video or coupon to your traditional yellow pages ad. Now let’s take that one step further and imagine you could change your photos, videos or coupons in the traditional yellow pages…anytime you wanted! I think the traditional yellow page gods are turning over in their graves. Such preposterous imagination was unheard...
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital to doing business on the internet. No, not everyone who is on the internet needs to use SEO, but if you are offering any kind of product, service, or want your opinion to be read, you need SEO. Just 25 short years ago, the internet was simply a tool for scientists. Cell phones were big bulky things that cost a bundle and were hideous to carry. Ten years later, the...
You've spent hours crafting the perfect link bait. You've interviewed people, conducted surveys and bought images, confident that a plethora of links will soon shoot deep into your site. Then, without permission or attribution, a competitor grabs your material, puts it on their site - and possibly even starts ranking above you. Do you feel a wave of anger? Don't. Because we are going to teach you how to turn copyright theft to...
We tend to spend much of our time focused on Google, yet Yahoo has local listings for businesses as well. Just like Google the basic service is free to businesses. Yahoo! Local Listings gives businesses the ability to provide detailed business information like products and service local consumers on Yahoo! Local. Yahoo! does have some requirements that businesses need to adhere to in order to take advantage of this local business...
Hello everyone, something that I want to make clear first is that I honestly believe that anyone can become an SEO! In fact most of the time, those that run blogs or run their own websites are already thrown into the SEO world, some just don’t know it. Any marketing they do online, anything that involves contacting other bloggers and writing guest posts puts them in the SEO category. ...
Google has a couple of free tools that you can use to help trick out your SEO efforts. Yes, I said they’re free and in most peoples’ opinions (mine included), they are best in class. Yet it seems only the geeks and dorks are using them. I’m talking about Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics. You might have installed some analytics code or loaded webmaster tools, then went on...
Search Engine Optimization is one of the most important sources of traffic nowadays, and absolutely all web masters and site owners employ a few tactics to gain better positions on Google Search and other search engines and get more traffic from them. But SEO is not as simple as it once was. In 2000-2003, it was enough to just use good titles, descriptions and meta tags, stuff enough keywords in your...
Go to any forum which has a market place and see which service has the most popularity. It’s definitely something that will be regarding building links to your site either through directory submissions, web 2.0 link wheels, article marketing and many more legit and black hat techniques. I personally have tried some link building companies and sadly some of them have let me down completely. I have been burned quite...
There are always ways to turn bad into good. However, this is especially true with search engine optimization. People have been using questionable techniques to rank high in search engines for years. As a result, people have been penalized on or even banned from search engines for years. But nobody said you can't turn blackhat SEO into whitehat SEO and bring big results with no risk of penalization. Plus, knowing how to turn unethical to...
