Search engine optimization, or SEO, is big business. If you rely on search engines to bring visitors to your business website, you need to rely on more than luck. Your business will lag far short of its potential unless your site is optimized and re-optimized for search engine results.
What is search engine optimization?
SEO is optimizing your website for search engines, acquiring inbound links, and monitoring your traffic and referring links to use them optimally. SEO is also studying and ...
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Internet
The important factor that affects the pagerank of a webpage is the number of backlinks that it has pointing to it. It is also likely to influence the search engine ranking position that a website shows up on. So it is necessary to understand the concept of backlinks and to use it judiciously. It can make a huge difference to how your website is perceived by the search engines. What are Backlinks? While they may sound like something intriguing and mysterious, they are nothing of the sort. The ...
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
Internet
Search Engine Listing And Optimization
In the world of website marketing, search engines are an essential key to success. They are the most important way to bring traffic to your website. Understanding how search engines work and what they require is an important first step to harnessing their marketing power.
The two types of search engines can be characterized as active and passive. An active engine utilizes crawl technology that constantly searches out websites, adds them to its database and ...
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
Internet
From the very beginning of the Internet, the number one challenge which all of us have faced is how to attract qualified visitors to our websites. Throughout the boom years, one of the most popular solutions was to get massive funding, relatively easy to get in those days, and "buy" traffic, by various means.
As an iconoclastic younger developer, with ambitions of beating the "big boys" at their own game, more time than money or the connections to get it, I sought a less capital intensive ...
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Saturday, April 7th, 2012
Internet
The goal is to make your Google adsense ads as different as possible from your website. Unless you have a decent amount of quality content your blog will appear to be a sleazy MFA site (made for AdSense) which will have a negative effect on traffic. Things like being able to have an opt-in box, auto responder set up on the back end, RSS feeds, daily new and fresh content that you write, You Tube like videos that are related to the subject matter, AdSense towers, membership capabilities, picture ...
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Friday, April 6th, 2012
Business
I'd like to say a few words about words. In particular, a special category of words. Words that you may not suspect are important. Words that are vital really, to your online business success.
Not too long ago the promise, heard round the world was, "Build it and they will come." Today, with somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 billion websites already Online, and the number growing so rapidly that some are betting big bucks on the number doubling each year, for many years to come, a more ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
Internet
Search Engine Optimization/Marketing. The never ending pursuit of getting on that first page of Google. What does it really take to get there? How long will it take me to get there? This is my first post to this column but over time I hope to answer all these questions and more. For today I'll give you some pointers on what to look for and what to run away from.
First of all the scams:
1. NO ONE can guarantee the number 1 spot on Google or any other search engine. If someone tells you they can ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Internet
Search engines are the web's most used means of driving traffic to websites, and knowledge of search engine marketing is essential to anybody wanting to succeed online. However knowledge of Blogging techniques is also instrumental in gaining you a high position in the search engine listings fore your chosen keyword.Sure, you can promote your site in many ways and there are more ways than a top listing on a search engine to drive traffic to your website, but there is nothing to beat a top ten ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Internet
There's tons of money to be made from the Google Adsense program
for web masters and blog owners. That's why 'the vultures are
circling' and folks are getting sucked in with all sorts of
offers that promise instant high Adsense revenue. One of the
top-selling products these days are those lists with the
highest-paying Google Adsense keywords. Many people are
desperately searching out for these lists and many will not
hesitate to pay for them, especially because there are some
keywords that are ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012
Marketing
Some folks may think that self-publishing began with the
invention of the PC (personal computer) and others may be
convinced that it has really taken off with the arrival of
Adsense.
It is important to understand what self-publishing is and its'
enormous potential to fully appreciate and indeed take advantage
of Adsense. Actually self-publishing (the act of producing and
marketing your own writing) is as old as America. It is an
American tradition that is very much part and parcel of ...
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Marketing