Bookmarking Sites Deliver Heavy Traffic

Writing by Nick Stamoulis

Yesterday we talked about Aftervote, a meta social search engine. I reviewed it, if you'll remember, and liked it. Well, this morning I found a great article on SiteProNews. I'm not going to recant the whole article for you now, but the gist was the top 10 places to get traffic online. Of course, we all know about Google so that's not in the list. But I wasn't a bit surprised to find that 9 of the top 10 are all social bookmarking sites, or news sites with bookmarking capabilities. The other one is an article directory. Here's the list: 1. Digg.com 2. Netscape.com 3. Ezinearticles.com 4. Del.icio.us 5. StumbleUpon.com 6. Reddit.com 7. Slashdot.org 8. BlinkList.com 9. Furl.net 10. Squidoo.com I'm not sure if this list is definitive. I don't even know how the CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...

Aftervote Review: A Search Engine With A Social Twist

Writing by Nick Stamoulis

Aftervote isn't so new. It used to be Younanimous.com. They changed their name, and I like the new name, quite frankly. So what makes Aftervote so special? Several things actually. First of all, its meta search features make it helpful. Aftervote takes results from Google, Yahoo, and MSN. They even provide you with each result's ranking at each of those search engines. While not 100% accurate, it's as close as one could expect for such a service that doesn't update in real time. I wish they would add results from Ask as well since it has moved into fourth place, knocking AOL down to fifth. But since AOL is an aggregator and Ask is not it wouldn't make sense to include AOL, but I believe Ask CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...

Who Should Hire An SEO or PPC Consultant?

Writing by Nick Stamoulis

If you've been thinking about outsourcing some or all of your Internet marketing you'll want to think long and hard about hiring someone to do your SEO or PPC work. First, ask yourself if it's necessary. It may not be. It's not that I don't believe these are valuable services. They are. After all, I provide both services to a growing list of clients. But I realize that the services aren't for everyone. First, SEO. What is it? Well, SEO stands for search engine optimization. It is the science of optimizing web pages to rank well in the search engines for specific search terms. Everyone can benefit and everyone should engage in SEO. You can't really survive without it. But should you hire someone to do your CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...