Google Gives SEO Link Building Advice
The way the search engines operate is almost always changing. Sometimes the changes happen while we sleep and sometimes we are given a heads up way in advance so that we can prepare for the blow. Regardless building links is always going to be an integral part of building up a business online. In a recent blog post Google gives their advice on some ways to build up nice quality links pointing to your website in order to get on Google’s good side. “Directory entries are often mentioned as another way to promote young sites in the Google index. There are great, topical directories that add value to the Internet. But there are not many of them in proportion to those of lower quality. If you decide to submit your site to a directory, make sure it's on topic, moderated, and well structured. Mass submissions, which are sometimes offered as a quick work-around SEO method, are mostly useless and not likely to serve your purposes.” I’m really glad Google has addressed this because I still see people trying to purchase the mass directory submission services that simply blast out your information to a large amount of useless directories that virtually give off no CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Where Will Google be in 5 Years?
This is actually a really cool video from Google recently where a viewer asked Matt Cutts where they see Google in 5 years. With the lighting speed of this industry 5 years from now could look completely different from today and it most likely will. Matt states that he would like to see more of Google be open sourced and really get the community involved on the development. He also sees security becoming a very important topic, even more so than it already is. Hackers are getting quicker and smarter and the security will come down to the server level rather than the website level. Check out the cool video about where Google will be in 5 years: A great emphasis will also be put on having CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What is Your Internet Marketing Personality Like?
Everybody has a different approach to almost everything they do in life and that includes their own personal marketing strategy. With so many different DNA’s and personalities floating around in the web it is nice to see the different approaches that business owners and entrepreneurs take to execute their online marketing efforts. What type of personality does your internet marketing have? Aggressive Internet Marketing Personality: Do you spend almost every waking and free minute you have pumping out content and information surrounding your business? Being aggressive is not a bad marketing personality to have you just have to be careful to not upset your target audience or community. It is common nature to be an aggressive business and promoting your brand but there is a thin line CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
SEO Services Company – Can You Trust Them?
If you are somewhat new to the SEO world and you have been given the task of finding an SEO services company to hire to help your business might leave you with some investigative work to do. There are many, many SEO companies out there claiming they are the best and if you are trying to isolate the right SEO services company to partner with there are some things you should know before you make your final decision. Don’t Base Your Entire Decision On Price This theory can go in both directions. With many things in life if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Do you really think you are going to effectively market your business and beat out your competition on CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
10 Deadly SEO Sins
SEO still seems like a very foggy effort to many website owners. I still see people in the forums and blogs that seem to be stuck in search engine optimization circa 2001 by looking for directory submission services and articles “blasts” which do nothing but flood the web pages with junk. There is such a thing as good search engine marketing and it is important to fully understand this. Let’s take a look at some of the largest SEO mistakes a website can make that will ultimately hurt their SEO efforts: SEO Sin#1 - Mass Submission: A mass submission of almost anything online is just not as effective as it once was. There is no easy way of marketing your business online. There is a tremendous amount CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Massachusetts SEO Seminar Announcement
I am excited to announce the upcoming Boston SEO training workshop by myself Nick Stamoulis. This full day Boston SEO workshop and SEO training will be held on September 29, 2010 at our Brick Marketing training office, in Boston. This Boston SEO training and Boston SEO workshop will be taught by none other than myself, Nick Stamoulis, Brick Marketing President and SEO Expert. I have decided to keep this SEO seminar to only 10 people - nice and small so everyone can learn SEO! For registration information about the upcoming SEO seminar in Boston, please visit the registration link here: http://boston-internet-marketing.eventbrite.com/ Brick Marketing has become one of the premier SEO and search engine marketing firms in the United States and the Boston CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Bing Search Engine Positioning Ideas
Websites do not typically just rank for the sake of ranking, especially if they are a new website in the search space. The Bing Webmaster blog gives some sound pieces of advice to keep your website running like a well oiled machine and keep you rankings climbing. “Check to see if your site employs a robots.txt file. If so, confirm that the directives block only what you want blocked. If one or more sets of custom directives exist for specific bots, be sure they include all necessary directives from the generic set of directives. Then be sure the file has been validated. Also, check for and review the validity of any REP commands in webpage tags and in HTTP Headers.” Sometimes a website might CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Search Engine Rankings & Branding Go Hand in Hand
There are two different outcomes that many websites or businesses strive for when they market themselves online but which is more important: achieving higher search engine rankings or really building out your business brand in the online space? Both are important and crucial for success online but which do you prefer? Since the spawn of the search engines many people’s mindset has always been to be on page 1. Everything they did online revolved around being on page 1 and we grew with the search engines thinking that the only way a website can succeed is to have high search rankings for their targeted keywords. As a website owner it is important to understand that things have changed, they are changing and they will change CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Social Media for Business is About People Too
Social media for business is still a process that is molding and changing but no doubt about it every single business needs a social media presence regardless of what they do. But has social media slowly changed into a business beast? Of course many businesses are there to build their business but, when is too much business going to hurt your brand in the social communities? Social media developed and spawned in order to allow people to be able to communicate online with other like minded people but somewhere along the way a light bulb went off over the heads and business minded people and entrepreneurs across the globe. Facebook did it right when they invoked very strict rules in place surrounding the idea of people CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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