Add Real-Time Information To Your Website
Developers love APIs. And thanks to Twitter, the world at large is learning to love real-time information. Now, the two are beginning to merge as real-time search engines begin to attract attention. There are several real-time search engines competing at the moment. One of them has had an API since June. Another one of the major competitors in the real-time search space - Collecta - is introducing its API right now. Why is this news? This is news for several reasons, but for webmasters and search engine optimziation folks it can be pretty big news. Imagine programming real-time optimziation information into your website for your niche so that visitors to your site can see what's going on in your industry right now. Would that CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Will The Amazon Sales Tax Lead To An Epidemic?
The Amazon tax, as it being called, is back in the news again. If you haven't heard, several states have attempted to tax sales on Amazon and a couple have succeeded. I'll go on the record and say that if this becomes a widespread issue and the majority of states end up taxing Amazon sales then it will kill online book sales. It will also probably lead to a diminishing of online business in general. Amazon affiliates don't make a lot of money. On books the commission is something like 4%. Yes, they can make up to 10% on other items that deliver a pretty good commission, and many Amazon affiliates focus their efforts on those. But if affiliates have to fork over their CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Does Web Design Affect SEO?
Does your web design influence your search engine optimization? If you selected a different or custom web design, could you rank better? These are good questions and require a little bit of analysis to arrive at the right answer. First, consider the different types of website designs available: HTML coded Off the shelf template Custom template CMS template CMS original design Personally, I think an originally designed website is always best, but not necessarily from an SEO perspective. After all, your web designer may design great sites that do a horrible job at on site optimization. Nevertheless, if you can swing an original design, for branding purposes, that's a big plus. But what are the issues you need to look out for from an SEO perspective? Code Bloat - This can happen with an CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How A New Yahoo! Patent Could Hurt Your URL Redirection Plans
If you put enough thought into your URLs at the beginning of your website planning then you likely will not have to redirect them to new URLs later. Of course, you could do all the planning in the world and still have to redirect. Sometimes business plans change. You could purchase a new web property and decide that it makes sense to integrate that property into your own site, or take pages from your existing site and spin them off to be a part of the new site you now own. All sorts of things could happen. At any rate, you need to redirect some of your URLs. What should you think about in terms of that redirection? What sorts of things do you need to CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Is Blackhat SEO Unethical?
Is it becoming increasingly more common for people to refer to blackhat SEO as unethical. In fact, some people actually will come out and tell you that it is unethical. But is it? It depends on how you define unethical. Traditionally, unethical is a word that refers to an act that is immoral or that breaks trust with other members of a profession. Dishonesty, fraud, misrepresentation, these are things that are unethical no matter what kind of business you are in. But does that describe blackhat SEO? ` Blackhat SEO or search engine optimization is a term used to describe the practice of using techniques to rank pages that are not approved by the search engines. It is most often used to describe behavior that is not approved CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
MarketingProfs Free Online Trade Show Review
MarketingProfs has recently announced the registration of their new digital virtual trade show that will take place online on September 16, 2009. This MarketingProfs virtual trade show will allow companies to interact with highly targeted potential client’s and vendors right from the comfort of your computer. This online virtual trade show is free for everyone to attend and requires absolutely no driving or out of pocket costs. Once logged on the trade show each attendee will have the ability to view a traditional trade show type of layout and actually walk into a variety of businesses trade show booths where they can communicate live with business representatives on the other end of the computer about the products and services that they offer. Each CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Can Literary Sites Be Optimized?
A friend of mine likes to frequent poetry and literature websites. Lately, he's been sharing a few with me. As I browsed through some of the sites that he likes to read I began to notice that many of them weren't very well optimized. The literature may have been good, but the pages were not optimized hardly at all. So I began to ask myself if it was even possible. If you have a page of poems, each one on a different topic, and other pages on the same site containing poems, fiction stories, and nonfiction pieces, each about as optimized as the first and each about its own unique topic, how do you optimize for that? Well, it got me thinking. Here are some notes that CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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