With the advances to web design and the scripts that can be included on web pages, if you don’t have a means of interacting with customers or visitors, then perhaps it’s time you did.
There is one big advantage in having a blog, the comments. Your visitors can leave comments, you can respond to them, [...]
Yahoo’s Digg like bookmarking experiment has finally been opened to the public. It was a low key opening of the doors although the news has spread pretty quickly. What’s the Buzz?
Very simply, it is simply another social bookmarking site. It does however have rewards that far exceed all others. If you can get your content [...]
With the advent of web 2.0 and the effect that social sites are having on traffic and generating leads, website owners now need to consider social optimization as part of their SEO efforts.
Web 2.0 social sites are not search engines and do not operate in the same way as search engines. They do have however, [...]
One of the great things about Web 2.0 and the social communities that have developed is the increase in interaction. When it comes to SEO, we all crave inbound links and social interaction has certainly helped on that score.
Social bookmarking is on the increase with individuals either submitting their own content or bookmarking content they [...]
Social Optimization is not just about getting onto Facebook or StumbleUpon and marketing your business. Social Opptimization includes submitting articles to article directories and listing your sites in directories.
Directories are often interesting particularly those that charge a fee for listing on their directory. I have seen some great ads from these directories making claims [...]
There have been many articles written surrounding the development of MyBlogLog and BlogCatlog. To read some of these articles you would think there was a battle royale being fought between the two sites.
They are both competing to attract internet users, particularly bloggers and their blogs. What is interesting to note is that many bloggers are [...]
Web 2.0 is experiencing rapid growth yet social optimisation is only being utilised by the smaller players. The big firms are not only slow to take up the concept of blogging, they are even slower at utilising social media.
For smaller players, this is a bonus. It is the one area where you can out compete [...]
When it comes to increasing your search engine positioning, there are a number of methods that work. Some work better than others. We’ve discovered that one solid way to increase your search engine position, especially with your blog, is through your social reputation.
There is a dichotomy in Internet marketing circles between search marketing and social [...]
If you have already made your move in following all the guidelines for site optimization, check again if you have satisfied the area of social optimization as well. Remember, a site with not readers is a totally meaningless site. Driving in people, securing those hits and making sure that people express agreements and disagreements to [...]
Like many things that come along, social optimization has been hailed as the new way to optimize sites for high rankings and good traffic flow on today’s web. They call it Web two point oh, generally written as Web 2.0, but it isn’t a new version of the Web. It is, I suppose, a different [...]