Add Flickr Into the Marketing Mix
Many businesses out there venturing into the world of search engine optimization don’t realize that photos often make for great ways to push through the SEO space online. You might already have many company photos sitting around that you have never really thought about putting online, but now you should. Take your images, fire up a Flickr account and always make sure you optimize the descriptions and titles of your images so they bounce around when people search. Never leave just the default title that populates when you upload your photos. Here are some types of Photos to Upload to Your Flickr Account: Physical Structure Photos Most businesses have photos and images sitting around of the physical structure of the actual business building everything takes place in. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How to be a Great SEO Client
Being a good SEO client will ensure a smooth and effective relationship with your search engine marketing company. Not to bash anybody but there are some things that a client should understand when they get involved with either a freelancer or an SEO company. You Are Not Our Only SEO Client You have to understand that you are probably not the only client your company or person is handling. If you need to get ahold of someone try pushing scheduled calls. If you call over and over during the day and you don’t get someone on the phone it is ok, they might be out of the office or have other engagements that particular day. Even though, you are not the only SEO client, at my CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Juggle Your SEO, But Don’t Be a Clown!
Search engine optimization can be a very time consuming process if you don’t effectively streamline your efforts. There is an endless amount of work and marketing items you can execute on any given day and you need to figure out how to make a balance between being efficient and over obsessive. Regardless of how much you do and how often you do it things take time to sprout in the search engines so don’t worry about seeing results tomorrow. Prioritize Your Efforts If you have been doing your own SEO for a while you probably know by now which websites bring in more traffic and which ones don’t do much of anything. Think about what is more important and head in that direction. Maybe you perform CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Blog Posts To Read Week of November 4, 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! Google Place Search - What is it & How Do I Survive? This post talks about the newly launched Google Place search function and the features it now provides. The question here is, how now will this new change affect the visibility of businesses that aren't in the top 7? Is the mobile activity you are counting really mobile? This post brings to light the fact that the metrics to measure mobile marketing aren't keeping up with the ever evolving mobile market. Another CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
SEM Budget Planning Tips
There are a lot of people online and you know that it is crucial to tap some of them on the shoulder and let them know you are there. How can you do that with a limited marketing budget? What should your budget even be? Are you one of those people who have contacted several search marketing companies to help you only to get back widely different proposals? With so much differentiation in pricing how do you even set your budget correctly? As you look ahead to plan your search engine marketing budget for the next year, here are some helpful tips that might better help you allocate or re-allocate your SEM budget. Explore Your Competition What I mean by this is to conduct some CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
SEO Planning Can Help Speed Things Up!
You can’t really do much to speed things up but if you are not operating at 100% efficiency than you really can make serious improvements if you just make some changes. There are certain elements and efforts of search engine optimization that you can tweak in order to see movement that much quicker. Of course this all depends on what industry, niche or vertical you are in and just how much competition exists in the online space. Target Different Keywords Let’s face it, ranking for “web designer” is not going to happen too quickly. What kind of web designer are you? Where are you located? Change the direction of your keywords so that you can pull your website in different directions. Ranking for broad keywords is going CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What’s New in SEO for October November 2, 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: Best Practices for Running Multiple Sites: In this post, Google discusses important items when running multiple sites, and the importance of ensuring that your sites have fresh valuable content. They also suggest that when it comes to sites, more isn't always better. It is more advantageous to have one or a few quality sites instead of many low value sites. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE WHAT’S NEW THIS WEEK WITH BING: Getting places faster with Bing Local: In this post, Bing discusses their newly revamped Bing Local search feature, and how it is a faster, easier way CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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