Seven Often-Missed
SEO Opportunities
By Donald Nelson
If you have good content and present it in a reasonable way, then you have an excellent chance of achieving good positions in search engine queries for your main keywords and keyword phrases. You don’t have to resort to any trickery to get your site noticed. However, many […]
How To Construct a Web-Video
Advertisement That Works
By Jerry Bader
Motivate and Persuade Your Audience
More money is wasted on advertising than any other business function. Small and mid-sized businesses in particular throw money at advertising in a vain attempt to establish themselves in the marketplace. However, there is hope that the democratizing nature of the […]
There’s an interesting discussion going on at EzineArticles.com on Article Marketing:
One post, written by Allen Taylor, lists a few criteria for choosing an article directory to submit to. He says:
1) The “look and feel.” I think design is important.
2) The amount and types of article categories available
3) Domain name - Does the directory have its […]
Our comments are in italics.
Reciprocal
Linking Strategy
By BizAtomic
If you want to get serious about driving more traffic to your website and improving your search engine rankings you need to develop a linking strategy. There are three primary linking strategies:
1. Reciprocal Linking
2. Purchasing text links
3. Employing a link finding service
A fourth linking strategy is to […]
Google Is The Top Brand Of 2006
Joe Lewis
Staff Writer
Published: 2007-01-05
Landor Associates, a New York based design agency, conducted a survey of the most popular brands among consumers. Among the top vote getters were Las Vegas, Oprah Winfrey, and the NFL. Eclipsing them all, however, was the undisputed king of search, Google.
Vegas. Oprah. iPod. Name […]
Google has a problem. I conducted a search for the phrase “SEO” and on the first page I got this:
SEO TodayProvides articles and information about the search engine optimization and marketing industry. Latest articles can be sent via email.
www.seotoday.com/ - 22k - Cached - Similar pages
I clicked the link. The first article on the […]
A Look Back at my 2006 Predictions
By Jim Hedger (c) 2007
It is a day after New Year and virtually everyone is back at their desks appearing to be hard at work. These are among the slowest news days of the year in which everyone’s fingertips are slowed by two weeks of excessive eating, […]
SEO Answers #9: Domain Stop Words,
Duplicate Web Sites, & Increasing Article Backlinks
By Ross Dunn, CEO, StepForth Search Engine Placement Inc.
Three SEO questions are answered in this Q&A article:
Do search engines ignore stop words in domain names?
I created a duplicate website to target my services to a different state. My intention is not to […]
The “new and improved” Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal unveiled a new look this morning. Without mentioning Google News or Yahoo! News by name, the Journal’s publisher, L. Gordon Crovitz, says the impetus for the change was “the great change in recent years in how you get news and information. You now get updated […]
If choice is good, then genuine competition is grand. Yahoo took a lot of heat in 2006, so let’s hope in 2007 that the company can rebound and become a bigger player than ever before in the landscapes of search, marketing, and online services.
Why? Because when true competition exists, then the consumer always wins. […]