Article Marketing and Content Cheapskates
By Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
I see this everywhere and still cannot believe that people do not get it. Content is still king on the web. The most important thing you will ever do for your website is to put in good content. Great content will get you links and your position [...]
Anatomy of a
Web-Advertising Campaign
By Jerry Bader
In The Beginning There Was Marketing
Anyone in business who has any interest in using the Web to further his or her business is well aware of “search engine optimization.” Not a day goes by that my email in-box isn’t loaded with information on how to get the best [...]
Top 10 Google Searches 2006
By Jason Lee Miller
Staff Writer
2006 is officially the year the Internet caught a social disease. Searches related to social media sites take up eight of ten positions on the 2006 Year-End Google Zeitgeist report, reaffirming Time Magazine’s person of the year. The person of the year was You, in case [...]
Web Development
with SEO in Mind
By Adam McFarland of iPrioritize
When a business owner decides to bring their business to the web, generally the last thing that they think about is search engine optimization. They assume that whomever they hire to do their web design will put up a site and then submit it to [...]
Still think you’ll be penalized for duplicate copy? Try this:
Start a blog. For 30 days copy and paste one paragraph from another blog, article or web site and write two paragraphs of comment about that paragraph. Use a different paragraph from different sources every time. Whenever possible, trackback to the web site you are borrowing [...]
Here are the top 10 SEO myths being perpetuated by lousy SEO “experts”:
1) Beware of duplicate content. Fact is, most people don’t have to worry about duplicate content. If you are setting up mirror sites with the exact same information on it on every single page, then you have to worry about duplicate content. If [...]
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Future Evolution of Search
By Scott Van Achte, Senior SEO,
StepForth Search Engine Placement Inc.
The search engine world never rests. As online marketing professionals discover new ways to obtain top rankings the algorithms evolve right along side. There are two primary reasons behind the updating of ranking algorithms. To [...]
Google’s Tag To
Remove Content Spamming
By Danny Wirken
Content spamming, in its simplest form, is the taking of content from other sites that rank well on the search engines, and then either using it as-it-is or using a utility software like Articlebot to scramble the content to the point that it can’t be detected [...]
Meandering the
Margins of Goog and Evil
By Jim Hedger (c) 2006
Don’t be evil. That is the kernel of Google’s public corporate ethics statement from front to finish. While it is a three word chant of a corporate policy, it is, nevertheless the three words Google uses to differentiate itself and its decisions. Those three words set [...]
WebmasterRadio.FM investigative journalist Jim Hedger hosts this exclusive WebmasterRadio.FM series on the implications of click fraud on the industry and on national and global security. WebmasterRadio.FM is initiating an industry wide initiative to further examine and confirm issues raised by this series.
The series starts with an interview with Clarence Briggs, CEO of hosting firm [...]