Archive for 'SEO'
Why Yahoo Continues to Fall
Yahoo! at one time the king of search and email, but those days are long gone. The recent executive changes at the top have made no difference. Yahoo continues to struggle and for more than just popularity among users, but functionality. Lately, the problems have escalated to the point that Yahoo has lost control of [...]
Full StoryPR9 Backlink Guarantee Scam
Have you come across marketing emails that guarantee you link placement on a PR9 (PageRank) web site? It’s highly unlikely that your link will be included on a PR9 page and in most cases they will place your link on a highly ranked web site, but your link will be placed on deeper pages inside [...]
Full StoryWhy Shutting Down Yahoo Site Explorer is a Loss to Bloggers
If you’re a blogger and you’ve been following the news you may have heard about Yahoo shutting down its Site Explorer service on the 21st of this month. As someone who depends a lot on the Yahoo Site Explorer, and who uses data from the tool to optimize my Yahoo small business and midphase coupon [...]
Full StorySimple SEO Strategy For Your Blog
I become really sad whenever I visit some of my favorite forums online, especially the newbie section, only to see threads upon threads from people who find it difficult to get traffic to their blog and are complaining as a result. As a blogger, traffic is the most important thing you need to make your [...]
Full StoryMore Twitter Hoopla
In case you haven’t turned on a television or browsed the Internet recently, I will inform you now what all of those little @,#, and other weird symbols you may see belong to the realm of Twitter. You will find the jargon of the social media website not only within its own server’s confines. Twitter-speak [...]
Full StorySEO at the Core
You just launched your site and now you want to be rich and famous and you may go about it all wrong. The first thing most people do is try to find a way to rank high in search results in a matter of a week or two, but it doesn’t come that easy. Your [...]
Full StoryGoogle PageRank Update Already?
This has to be the shortest time between Google PageRank updates in a long time or at least since I can remember. The last Google PageRank update happened on July 18th to correct a bug with the update that occurred at the end of June 2011. Google pushed the update at around 12:00 PM CDT [...]
Full StoryMarketing 101: A Brief Guide to Building Your Brand
Did your last marketing campaign flop? Running out of ideas for reaching new customers? Are you an old dog who wants to learn new tricks? Or a new dog who wants to learn old tricks? Here’s a brief run-down of what you can do to revamp your promotional efforts. Know your target audience: Whether you [...]
Full StorySecurity News: Google AdWords Phishing Attack
If you are currently running ad campaigns using Google AdWords, you may have received an email that your Google AdWords campaign may have stopped running. The email is not from Google, it is a phishing scam trying to trick users into visiting a bogus website that looks just like the Google AdWords login page. If [...]
Full StoryGoogle Plus Users Grow to 18 Million
Google+ is still in beta and only a small user base has the privilege of giving it a long test drive, but it made a huge splash amongst iPhone users – more on that in a bit. According to one analyst, Google+ user base is just under 18 million. During a Thursday earnings call, Google [...]
Full StoryEmail Marketing – Protecting Client Emails
If you send email campaigns to your clients, I hope these are clients who previously opted in to your services or products. It is unethical to solicit, harvest emails for your own benefit and gain. If you frequently use email marketing as your main source for communicating to your client base, it is very important [...]
Full StoryFacebook Charging Fees?
What if Facebook were to turn off or abbreviate certain features of its popular social network, would you be willing to pay for full access? Let’s say that 10% of the 700 million users were willing to pay a reoccurring monthly fee of $2.99 to enable all features in full. This would equate to almost [...]
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