How Social Browsing Can Help You Optimize Your Website
StumbleUpon is one of the most popular social sites on the Internet. Unlike other sites, like Delicious, it isn't social bookmarking, nor is it, like Digg, considered social news. Rather, StumbleUpon falls into the category of social browsing. You can use the social browsing concept to help you optimize your website. There are two ways you can do this. The first way is to pay attention to hot topics within your niche. When you browsing the topics within your niche and you see a blog post or content on another website become popular then you have a clue as to what other social browsers might be interested in. Visit the page and look at the website to find out what it's keywords are and build a CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Is Keyword Density Really Nonsense?
If you want a really good read, try The Keyword Density of Non-Sense by by DR. E. Garcia. Warning: Be sure to brush up on your college higher math - geometry, calculus, or whatever it is. Nevertheless, it's a very interesting (and enlightening) read. Of course, we all know that too many search engine optimization and SEM consultants today, in 2009, still refer to keyword density, speaking of it as if it is the latest information direct from the search engines. Newsflash: It isn't. Keyword density at one time made sense. I'm guessing that was around 1975...or 2005. But today keyword density is nothing short of hogwash. Actually, hogwash might even make more sense. Boiled down to the basics, keyword density is the art and CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
4 Social Bookmarking Sites That Will Make Your Life Easier
Social bookmarking has become one of the most important ways for businesses to promote themselves in the new economy. Every time you write a blog post you'll want to bookmark that blog post at one of the most trafficked bookmarking sites online. But which ones? And how long will it take? It won't take you long if you use one of the automated social bookmarking services online. These 4 social bookmarking websites allow you to submit your blog posts and other content to multiple social bookmarking sites at once without the hassle of submitting to each bookmarking service one at a time. OnlyWire - OnlyWire has a free version and an ad-free version, which costs just $2.99 per month. Through this service you can bookmark CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Putting The Optimization Into Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization is the practice of targeting the search engines with keyword-rich content so that your blog posts, web pages, and other online content has a chance to rank well for the keywords and concepts that are important for your business. But how do you do it? First, let me say that it's no easy task. Even if you know how to write search engine friendly content, you have to compete against other businesses in your niche targeting the same keywords. You could try to find the gaps in the market and target those keywords that no one else is going after. But are those keywords valuable? That's a decision you have to make. The key to optimizing your web pages are the find the keywords CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How Far Can Social Go?
Social media marketing is powerful and fun. And it's getting a lot of attention right now. But is it really all it's cracked up to be? Yes. And no. Social media marketing can only go so far. Search engine marketing and optimization can go much further. Here's what I mean: If you join one social media website then you are limited to reaching only other people at that social media website who are interested in your type of product or service. Do you know how many people that is? But if you use search marketing strategies to reach your target audience then the pool of people who might be interested in your offerings will be larger. Your pool is now open to everyone with Internet access who CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Would You Want Google Optimizing Your Pages For You?
Yahoo! has worked hard to try and set itself apart from its competitors. Sometimes it succeeds as in a few days ago when they announced Search Pad. But there have been times when the search engine known as Yahoo! failed miserably. It's happened so often that some of us have come to see Yahoo! and failure as synonymous. It's harsh, I know. And it might be difficult to imagine that Yahoo! is still the second place search engine after all its failed attempts at being innovative. But one thing we can say about it is this, they're not afraid to take risks. Bill Slawski of SEO By The Sea wrote a blog post recently about Yahoo! patent for automatic SEO. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How Blog Comments Help You SEO Your Website
If you've been wondering whether or not you should allow comments on your company blog, allow me to add some fodder for your decision making analysis. Comments on your blog help you optimize your website and make it easier to be found for more key phrases and for the key phrases you are already targeting. How is that, you ask? Glad you asked. It's real simple. The search engines love content. The more the content, the merrier (although Ask and MSN limit the amount of data on a page that they will index). In other words, that 300-word blog post you wrote yesterday will get more search engine traction when it has 25 comments on it. There are three ways blog comments help you: Blog commentators will use CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Journal is Written by SEO Expert:
Nick Stamoulis
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nick@brickmarketing.com
Brick Marketing - SEO Company
