Thursday, November 11, 2010

4 SEO Tips to Instantly Take Advantage of Google Instant Preview

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If you have used Google today then you might have gotten a taste test of their newest feature, Google Instant Preview. By Eric Vreeland

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Why Most Landing Pages Fail

The saying you can lead a horse to water, but can’t make them drink is the equivalent of bringing a visitor to a landing page through paid search, banners, contextual advertising or SEO and then wondering why (if the website lacks trust, conviction or a call to action) that visitors fail to convert. By SEO Design

SEO for large websites : The Bottom Up Approach

When it comes to search engine optimization for large websites, things get so complicated that you need to bring out all your tactics in all its glory. By the Daily Blogger

10 Reasons SEO Didn’t Work For You

Just like affiliate marketing, SEO often gets a bad rap for being shady, spammy, and full of snake oil. By CT Moore

How Pre-Paid Yahoo! Search Marketing Balances Will Transition to Microsoft Advertising adCenter

Confusion is never fun, especially when it involves money. By Tina Kelleher

Is Flash Bad for SEO or Can You Work Around it

Perhaps it’s related to Apple not installing flash on the newest air macs, but there’s been more talk than usual about flash & SEO in the past few weeks. By Michael Gray

Search Engine Blekko, the hype and the facts



Blekko is a brand new search engine, the latest “Google killer”. It was founded by Rich Skrenta, the man behind what came to be known as the Open Directory slashProject, which was the best bet for quality search results back in 1998. What does his newest invention bring to the world of search? By Pandia

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Should You Rely upon Search Spiders to Rewrite Your Web Addresses?

Every web page has at least one unique address that people can reach it by. Sometimes a web page has more than one address, and that can be a problem. By Bill Slawski

New SEO guide from Sitepoint

It’s easy to understand, no hype, no black-hat, nuts-and-bolts content on SEO.

If you’re just starting out in SEO, it provides you with a fantastic overview of the core principles that you’ll use over and over again to increase your sites’ rankings. By Brent Hodgson

9 Sure-Fire SEO Tips

Here are some great seo tips. By Search Engine Journal

The Basics of Local SEO - Whiteboard Friday

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

SEO Tips to Start Your New Website

What’s the difference between a new website and a powerhouse domain ranking for competitive keyword-specific rankings? The answer, SEO, content, time and links…By SEO Design

How Do Most Consumers Find Products? Still Search!

ATG (a large commerce platform) just put out some interesting studies. 53% (of 1,002 total people) cited search engines as their key source for discovering new products. By Bill Sebald

5 Steps to Get Your Site Found on Google

Google just changed the face of their search results with a huge innovation, blending local with organic results. By SEO Diva

Bidding on Bing, Yahoo! Search and Partner Sites in Microsoft Advertising adCenter

Since Microsoft Advertising adCenter now powers paid search and content ads on Bing, Yahoo! Search and partner sites in North America, you may have questions about your bidding options. By Tina Kelleher

The Great Misconception of Long-Tail Keywords and SEO

Good article about long-tail keywords and seo. By Jill Whalen

How to Build a KPI Tracking Dashboard Using Woopra

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More analytics mavens are becoming aware of Woopra, a relatively inexpensive software package, available on the web and as a desktop application. By Marty Weintraub

Landing Page Testing — Timeless Themes

If visitors do not recognize quickly that you have something in which they might be interested, they will leave your site immediately. By Tim Ash

Search And The Rise Of Facebook

2010 has been an incredibly dynamic year for search marketers. The paid search marketing landscape continues to change rapidly. By Roger Barnette

Web-based Internet marketing training and certification from industry experts

Master Internet marketing through structured curriculum and real-world, hands-on projects, led by the industry's bestselling authors and speakers in Analytics, SEO, Social Media, Conversion, PPC, and Online PR. By MarketMotive

How to Turn a Negative SEO Experience Into Success

Over the last dozen plus years, unscrupulous SEO's have given the entire search engine optimization industry a bad rep. By Stoney deGeyter

Google Gesture Search for Android on Google Maps?

Six examples of gesture searches on a touch screen, from the Google patent on Glyphs.

Last week, Google published a paper on a way of navigating on touch screens by tracing out alphanumeric characters. For instance, if you have a list of contacts on your screen, and want to move down to a name that begins with the letter L, you would trace an L on your screen. Looking for a song on your playlist, you might handwrite on your screen the first couple of letters from the song title. By Bill Slawski

Best Web Analytics 2.0 Tools: Quantitative, Qualitative, Life Saving!

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What is the first thing you want when you think about web analytics? By Avinash Kaushik

Is Your SEO Chasing Algorithms or Chasing Analytics?

Chasing search engine algorithms, to a large degree, is like trying to hit a moving target from a moving train. By Stoney deGeyter

The Secret Life of Search Engine Optimization

Crocodiles are among the oldest group of land-based animals still living on Earth today. Crocodiles and their close relatives have been around for a long, long time. Humans grew up from little furry rodent-like creatures in the shadow of the crocodiles. By Michael Martinez

Google Changes to Automotive SEO

How to See Google Search Results for Other Locations

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Google has tons of options and URL parameters defining its geo-location settings. In fact, there are so many of them that it is easy to get lost. By SEJ

On Google Growing Up, Losing Employees & Being The New “California”

Google’s lost yet another high profile employee, apparently to Facebook. Another sign that Google’s slipping, to some. By Danny Sullivan

Preparing Your Small Business Site For SEO

For many small businesses owners, there's a lot of confusion about how to set up a brand new site in a way that gives it a good chance of getting some serious search traffic. By Rob Chant

Top 15 SEO blogs to follow

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For all we know, Search Engine Optimization, better known as SEO, is used for obtaining the right keywords when we search for something on the internet. But only few of us know is that SEO is used in obtaining rankings for a site under relevant keyword phrases. By WebDesign Booth

SEO for Bing Versus Google

SEO for Bing Versus Google

As we all know, Microsoft’s Bing is the new kid on the search engine block. By John Pring

Google Turns Up The Heat On FeedBurner

It looks as if Google finally has made a positive move forward on FeedBurner, the RSS management company they purchased a number of years ago for the then-hefty price of $100 million. A new beta version of FeedBurner has just debuted, offering real-time analysis and management of RSS feeds through its revamped interface. By Frances Mary Krug