Could Social Media Replace Search?
Now don’t get me wrong this will not happen overnight or even at all but you have to put into consideration as to how powerful social media is growing. Sites like Facebook and Twitter have been on a steady explosive growth since they launched and there are no signs of stopping. I personally think that social media marketing will just increasingly grow and morph as the new search, but for purpose of this article, here are some arguments as to how powerful social media marketing truly is and how it could over run search as we know it. No Manipulation: Social media cannot be manipulated like search results can. You either communicate or you don’t. Less Spam: Search results have a tremendous amount of CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Blog Posts To Read The Week of Oct. 14, 2010
Below you will find our favorite blog posts that are related to SEO, search engine marketing and social media marketing from this past week. Please feel free to visit each, we hope you find them as helpful as we do! 7 Tips for an Authentic and Productive Writing Process Great post that talks about getting over your fear of writing, and how "writing the way you speak" is a great way to start. 57 Power Words for Writing Brilliant Headlines This post lists 57 "go-to headline words" for writing great headlines. Writing a great headline is key in drawing in a reader. Social Media is Dead…Long Live Media…oh, and the audience doesn’t care… This post talks about social media v.s old media CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Simple SEM Mistakes Can Decrease Business
I see some companies spend a great deal of money marketing their business online only to shoot themselves in the foot for missing out on some very important steps that can really help out the marketing and link building for a website. Here are some of those SEM related mistakes: Forgetting Links: I couldn’t tell you how many times I have been to a business fan page on Facebook or a Twitter profile where the field for a link to a website is blank. Seriously? That is one of the most important pieces of information you can leave behind besides your logo. A link should be capitalized on when or where ever possible. Even in YouTube descriptions there should always be a link visible for others to CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Optimize Your Blog and Each Post
If no one is reading your blog chances are you need to really do some tune up efforts to increase the optimization of not just the blog but also each blog post. Many bloggers don’t realize that there are many different things other than just writing well that can lead to an increase in the efficiency of a blog. Here are the areas that you should focus on when optimizing a blog or a single blog post: Home Page: The home page should have a well optimized title tag and description utilizing keywords and having a nice robust description on what the blog is about. Blog Description: Have a blog description of what your blog is about that consists of 200 words or so utilizing any keywords CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What’s New In SEO for October 12, 2010
We thought it would be a great idea to share with our loyal readers once a week, "What's New in SEO for the Week of October 12, 2010. We have compiled the latest news and updates from the big three, Google, Bing and Yahoo as it relates to SEO and the search engines overall. WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK WITH GOOGLE: Update to Search Queries, Parameter Handling and Messages Google announced that they have launched updates in Webmaster Tools giving a user more insight into how their website appears in search results. Changes include the addition of a "Change" column that is tied to date range, making it easier to pinpoint a particular change. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE WHAT'S CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Ways To Increase Your Website Conversions
Increasing conversions of anything is usually a trial and error type of situation where you are consistently moving buttons and text in order to figure out exactly how things need to be positioned to work much more efficiently. Here are a few ways to improve and increase website conversions: Website Colors: If you want someone to click on a button try using different colors of the button and see how they respond. Sometimes changing the color is all you need for visitors to shift their eyeball over to that location. De-Clutter: Is there too much distraction on your web pages? Are visitors wandering around or off the site with little to no direction? Try cleaning things up a bit. Remove text that doesn’t need to be there, CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Build a Website Right From the Start
I often times see a brand new website get published without any search engine optimization efforts built into it prior. When a website is being built that is the perfect time to really apply all SEO related efforts so you don’t have to add an additional step to the entire process down the road. Here are some areas that should be addressed while a website is being built: Keyword Research: Conduct keyword research prior to building the website or during so you can use the data as ammo through the building process. Once you determine your navigation and your pages you will then be able to isolate which keywords you want to target for each page. URL Structure: Once you have completed your keyword research you now CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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