How Many Links in an Online Press Release? – SEO Video Tip
A good rule of thumb to follow is one link for every 100 words. This lets you get both full http links (like your full web address) into the press release, as well as a few anchor text links that target your top keywords. If you try to stuff too many links into your online press release, it might get flagged as spam by the online PR distribution site and they won't publish it. For more Internet marketing video tips and lessons from Nick Stamoulis, check out the Brick Marketing Internet marketing video lesson archive . CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Google Is Focused On Site Speed
Google freely admits they use site speed as a ranking factor. That right there should be enough of a reason to make you care about the speed of your site. While site speed doesn’t carry as much weight as some of the other 200 odd signals Google takes into account when ranking your site, the fact that the search giant has bothered to let us mortal site owners know tells me it’s worth focusing on. Check out this video from Google about making the web faster: Even though the video is a few years old (and some of their predictions have already come true!), it still has some valuable information to think about. One point in particular sticks out to me: like CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What’s New in SEO for November 22, 2011
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: Ten recent algorithm changes Google provides a highlight list of many of the improvements it has made over the past couple weeks. WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK WITH YAHOO: Site Explorer Reminder Yahoo! Site Explorer has merged into Bing Webmaster Tools and Yahoo! Site Explorer services are no longer available starting November 21, 2011. WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK WITH BING: Introducing Bing Editors’ Picks: A Guide to Great Sites Bing Editors’ Picks were designed to enhance Bing results by bringing editorially selected sites to your search experience. So there you have it, the latest news in search CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How Will Encrypted Search Data Impact SEO?
In late October, Google announced that, in order to make search more secure for their users, they were “enhancing our default search experience…when you’re signed in to your Google Account. This change encrypts your search queries and Google’s results page.” Basically, Google is no longer passing data about users’ search behavior (like what keywords they used) over the site they clicked on from the SERP. So what does this mean for website owners? Google spelled it out in the same blog post What does this mean for sites that receive clicks from Google search results? When you search from https://www.google.com, websites you visit from our organic search listings will still know that you came from Google, but won't receive information about CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
3 Changes to Help Increase Your Conversion Rate
All the off-site link building in the world doesn’t mean anything if your site doesn’t convert the targeted traffic being delivered to your site. At the end of the day it is your site that is going to convince a visitor to act. If your site isn’t seeing an increase conversion rate like you had hoped, consider making these three changes: Break up blocks of content Ever heard the phrase “too long, didn’t read?” It means that someone found a piece of content (blog, article, webpage, etc) but didn’t bother to actually read the whole thing because it looked like it was too long to bother. Huge blocks of text can be very intimidating to your visitors, and it may turn them off from further exploring CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Is Your SEO Ready for Cyber Monday?
I’ve spoken with more than a few e-commerce site owners who freely admit that more than half of their annual PPC budget is going to be spent in the next few weeks, as sites prepare for the onslaught of shoppers that begin with Cyber Monday and carry through to just before Christmas. Just like Black Friday is supposed to put brick and mortar retailers “back in the black” for their year, the Monday after Thanksgiving has become the same source of revenue for etailers. The profits that stand to be gained on Cyber Monday are astronomical, is your site’s SEO prepared to earn your piece of the pie? Here are 3 quick things you can do to get your site ready for Cyber Monday: 1. Schedule out CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Blog Posts to Read for November 17, 2011
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! When in a Rush, Better to Not Blog than to Blog with Mistakes If you want to build a strong community and following, you have to get it right. You can’t have a post littered with spelling or grammatical errors. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE How to Turn your Web Traffic into Loyal Readers This post includes four ways to transform website traffic into loyal readers. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE New Info on How Social Affects Search This post discusses Google’s encrypted search for users that are CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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