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SEO: Blogging Your Way to the Top
Search engines, Google in particular, seem to love blogs. This is in part due to the fact that search engines rely heavily on links for their ranking algorithms, and the blogosphere is rich with interlinkages. Bloggers constantly link to each other – through “hat tips,” “blogrolls,” “trackbacks,” and so forth. Furthermore, blogs tend to be heavy on content and light on search-engine-unfriendly features like overly complex URLs, frames, JavaScript-based links and Flash. I’ve seen new blogs quickly penetrate Google’s top results where a brandnew, traditional website might have languished in the “Google sandbox” for a number of months…
Read MoreSEO Report Card: Zearth.Blogspot.com
Zearth.comâ??s staff operates a blog at zearth.blogspot.com, although they are relatively new to the concept. They signed up for a free Blogger.com blog, which wasnâ??t ideal as youâ??ll soon discover. The traffic into the blog is only a trickle, but they have received a couple thousand dollars in sales because of it, so itâ??s a start.
Read MoreThe death of the pop-up
Seems like just about every toolbar out there includes a popup blocker (e.g. Google Toolbar, Yahoo Companion Toolbar). Plus, many web browsers are offering this capability built in. In addition, there’s antivirus / personal firewall security software like Norton Internet Security that blocks pop-ups (heck, Norton is so overly zealous, it strips out referrers so […]
Read MoreOnline retailers doing wikis?
In the past I’ve made the case for using wikis for online marketing. Perusing Amazon.com recently I saw that there were already over 7500 product wikis contributed by Amazon customers. Cool! (Unfortunately not a single one of their wikis is indexed in Google because of the search engine unfriendly way they’ve implemented wikis on their […]
Read MoreThe Shifting SEO Landscape
Search engine optimization will undergo a huge transformation over the next several years. No longer will you be able to track your position for particular keywords and know for certainty that those rankings are what your consumers are seeing. Why? Because personalization, intention and geographical location will all be taken into account to deliver a unique set of search results to each individual searcher.
SEO is going to be a very different ball game, so a more sustainable approach is to focus on mining “the Long Tail” — those products or keywords that are in low demand but, given a large enough catalog/portfolio, can collectively add up to the majority of your business.
Read MoreWhen advertisers hurt your brand
The other day when I was on whitepages.co.nz I kept getting this tasteless banner ad: Not only did I find the ad irritating and gross, I thought less of the White Pages brand after I saw it. It is an animated GIF banner, where the piece of poo actually flies across the ad from left […]
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