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 internet was starting to invade the common person's environment and cell phones got smaller. Five years later, more than half the planet is surfing the World Wide Web and carrying a cell phone in their pocket.
Social Networking
Over the last five years, we've been seized by social media. Places like FaceBook,...
*The following tip was shared by Kaila Strong of Vertical Measures, a link services and social media marketing company based in Phoenix, AZ. *
The world of social media is an ever growing one. New sites are popping up every day, and so-called gurus or experts in social media marketing are aplenty, but we rarely hear about link building experts utilizing social media marketing to help in their efforts....
It's been said early and often that the best form of SEO is to market your "brand" first and foremost.
Marketing a particular product, service, website or brand in a lot of markets leads to links being given naturally. However, despite what anyone tells you natural link building doesn't produce a horde of backlinks, editorial reviews, Diggs, or social media mentions unless you nudge it forward, ie. market your content.
Marketing Content via social media
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It is often that we park a domain due some reason (for example, to secure your (brand) name like I did with annsmarty.com domain) and you just don't know what to do with it. Thus the domain just remains neglected while it could work as an additional link juice help.
Years in Internet marketing have taught me one important thing (actually more than one but this one really counts for this post): you should...
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One of the main goals of SEO is to build traffic. Why are so many SEO professionals ignoring directories? Search engines have not abolished directories! Google has simply gotten stricter when it comes to acknowledging specific directories. Despite that, they are still beneficial for PR and traffic gain. There are many different types of directories that can be of great value to your website or blog. Check out the article at Search Engine...
There is one trick I use to find listings in Google and Yahoo SERPs based on any chosen criteria:
(optional) Set Google / Yahoo to show 100 results per page;
Use SEOquake FireFox plugin to integrate a wealth old important data right within the SERPs;
Sort results based on any (!) of the chosen criteria.
Social media sites for the most part offer all of their users a profile name and profile page. Take Twitter for example, on Twitter my profile name is @lorenbaker, and my Twitter profile ranks fairly well in Google for my name; Loren Baker.
I have a fairly unique name, and there are not very many Loren Baker's out there, so I usually don't have a difficult time securing my profile name across social media...