Some bloggers are obsessed with attracting new visitors to their blogs and resort to any methods to achieve this goal. However, it can hardly be called the ultimate goal of a really professional blogger. The trickiest part of blogging is not to attract a lot of visitors, but to turn at least one percent of those attracted into subscribers, therefore, into constant readers, therefore, into potential source of new visitors.
A website's load time should be faster than a blink of an eye. Quite a tall order? Not really, and we're getting there. Speed is important for the sites' analytics but more so for the customers who are either purchasing something online or getting some info.
In the blink of an eye
Load time refers to the time that a web site takes to load all of its elements for them to be viewed by the user....
It can be difficult to know who your ideal client is until they have come to you. The obvious question is then how do we find the ideal client, especially when we aren’t exactly sure who they are. The simple answer is that your ideal client is actually actively searching for you right now.
Let’s examine a way that an ideal client might engage your business. Mark’s construction business is growing and he decides that he...
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...
The term social scientists and sociologist, is very soon going to acquire a new meaning. Facebook changes rapidly, together with Google and Twitter. To jump in the bandwagon and stay ahead in the competition, you too can use it for excellent results. We know that internet really irritates, when it appears to be a cobweb of ID’s and passwords. But by using ‘Social Sign’, you can eliminate this frustration. If you want to...
When it comes to SEO there are several jobs that are obvious, getting those great positions, getting traffic through to the site, getting that traffic to convert, reporting back but one thing that takes a lot of time that is very rarely scheduled in is keeping the customer happy.
When you’ve got top positions for all their key terms and they’re making money hand over fist you’re their best friend but one week of dropped positions...
Imagine you own a shoe store. It is a small property with four or five isles of shoes. You employ a few salespeople. It costs money to keep the lights on and the air conditioning running. You had to purchase the registers and computers, and the shoes are paid for before they’re even sold.
Most customers come in, look around and then thank you and leave, having not bought anything. What does this mean? Your shoe...
If you do SEO you know that clients have a blur, if not distorted vision of your activity, with means and goals exchanged or unclear. If you ask them "what is your goal?", often answer is: "I want to be #1 on Google for [keyword XXX]."
But this, of course, can't be a goal; it can be a mean (if [keyword XXX] is worthy to work on), while your SEO goal should always be a growth...
I'm one of those people who like to do the right thing on the Internet, I don't use Black Hat techniques and I always try to follow an ethical path when it comes to my Internet Marketing.
One of my new years resolutions for 2011 is to be more interactive with my peers, so I've started blog hopping again (can't remember why I stopped really) and it's been great, catching up with old friends, meeting new...
Keyword research is normally one of the first tasks when optimizing a website. Virtually the entire SEO process is built on top of your keyword research. All this being said, what are you doing keyword research for?
Traffic
I'm guessing the first thing that came to mind for most is to generate and increase traffic. This is good, but why? Is increasing traffic your main metric for your website? Probably not. Don't get me wrong, increasing traffic...