How Rel=”me” Should Work
Twitter recently changed its title tag on user bio pages to include the rel="me" attribute on links. That is pushing some people's bios up to No. 1 on Google and has some marketers concerned. But there is a fix for that. The rel="me" attribute looks like this: a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com" rel="me" The purpose is to identify the relationship between web properties or identities that are owned by the same individual. Many social sites and directories use the rel="me" attribute automatically when users link from their bios on those sites to their own blogs and websites. That's fine, but social users typically do not link back to their social bios in the same manner. But they should. According Microformats.org, the rel="me" attribute is there for the purpose CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How Google Went Retro
There's an interesting story from Google's Matt Cutts about Google going retro. Only it's not really Google. It's a Google cool script for Google. Here is what the Google retro script looks like: I see one huge problem with this: You have to use Firefox and Greasemonkey. Weird. Greasemonkey is a Firefox add-on that allows you to customize the way certain web pages look using bits of Javascript. It makes sense then that this tool could be used to customize the way Google's search engine looks. One of Google's employees created the script for Greasemonkey that allows anyone to see links to other search engines and allow you to make a search on those other search engines if you don't find what you are looking for CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How A Minisite Can Make You Money
Minisites are coming back into vogue. In the early days of the Internet, most websites were small sites - 3-10 pages. People were learning to build websites and optimize them for search traffic. In the late 1990s, supersites starting gaining more power and by 2005 it was pretty well established that large supersites were the way to go for massive traffic and niche domination. But savvy Internet marketers and now starting to understand that you can accomplish the same goal with hundreds of minisites that dominate a niche. Here's what you do to make killer minisites that make you money: Do great keyword research as part of your on site search engine optimization. Identify long tail keywords that have little competition but are growing in search popularity. Create your CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Local Search Firms On Twitter (How You Can Do Business Through Microblogging)
Matt McGee has made a list of local search companies on Twitter. Just look around the popular social site and you'll find all kinds of businesses using it to connect with their target markets, everything from lawyers to poets. It's sort of become the ultimate social site, a bit like an online golf course. You show up to showcase your lousy game scores and close the business deal of a lifetime. We've covered some of the search engine optimization benefits of Twitter in previous posts. There are plenty more, I'm sure. But what about doing business in general? Don't think you can just go on Twitter and start selling stuff. I guess you could, but people likely won't buy that CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Are Your Server Logs Lonely?
When is the last time you check your server logs? By taking a look at your server logs from time to time you can uncover what search terms people are using to find your website through your on site search engine optimization efforts. Then you can and search for those same search terms at each of the search engines and see what you see. Why do you do this? To see what the top three search results are. The top three search results for any search query usually do a good job of answering the question the searcher has in mind when making that query. Visit those pages and see how they answer the question. Then go to your page for that search query and add CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Do You Need A Sidebar On Your Static Website?
In the ever-evolving world of web design, one question that seldom pops up is, "Do I really need that sidebar for my website?" It is generally assumed that a sidebar is necessary. But is it? There are lots of reasons why you can include a sidebar in your static website design, but understand that there are very few musts in design. The main things to consider with any web design are: Functionality User experience Optimization Navigation ease of use In a word, you want your website to be easy to use for the visitor, offer up a positive experience that keeps them coming back, be easily found in the search engines, and be laid out simply so that visitors can navigate easily between the pages as they are searching for what CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Internet Marketing Maven Suggests Pinging Your Twitter Bio
Internet marketing guru Stephen Pearce tweeted a suggestion this morning for an awesome use of Pingler (remember, we suggested that this morning? We got it from Stephen). Here's another gem from Stephen Pearce, who has 12,5239 Twitter followers and has been a successful Internet marketer since the very early days. He knows his stuff. Stephen suggests tweeting your important links such as YouTube videos Articles Blogs Social media profiles (including your Twitter bio) Landing pages Essentially, anything you can promote you should Twitter it. Make sure you use hard links, not tinyurls (this is very important for search engine optimization and link bulding reasons). Then, ping your Twitter stream. PING! Ping it, man. Stephen says to do it every day. Why? Because Twitter will then become a link directory for your CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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