How To Go Viral On National TV
Rand Fishkin, one of the leading search engine optimization experts and owner of SEOmoz, recently went viral in a way most online entrepreneurs can only dream of. He appeared on Oprah. It started when Rand proposed to his girlfriend Geraldine on her favorite show, Veronica Mars. Then Oprah found out and invited both of them to be on her show prior to Valentine's Day to talk about love. The story has been all over the Internet for the last couple of days. So what's the story here? If you want to go viral you need to get a name like Rand Fishkin? No. That's not it. How about this: Do something outrageous. Like propose to your girlfriend on her CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Why Outbound Links Are More Important For Your New Site Than Inbound Links
New webmasters often spend so much time fretting over gaining inbound links that they forget about or totally ignore the value of outbound links. But for new sites, outbound links are infinitely more important. First, they connect you to the wider Web and give you social proof. Since the search engines crawl links to go from one page to another, all you need is one inbound link to your website to get the whole thing crawled. But outbound links tell just as much about your site as the inbound links. They tell the search engines that you are willing to provide valuable information for your visitors and that you aren't just in it for the value to yourself. Outbound links show up referrer logs. Because most webmasters CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How Social Browsing Can Help You Optimize Your Website
StumbleUpon is one of the most popular social sites on the Internet. Unlike other sites, like Delicious, it isn't social bookmarking, nor is it, like Digg, considered social news. Rather, StumbleUpon falls into the category of social browsing. You can use the social browsing concept to help you optimize your website. There are two ways you can do this. The first way is to pay attention to hot topics within your niche. When you browsing the topics within your niche and you see a blog post or content on another website become popular then you have a clue as to what other social browsers might be interested in. Visit the page and look at the website to find out what it's keywords are and build a CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
4 Social Bookmarking Sites That Will Make Your Life Easier
Social bookmarking has become one of the most important ways for businesses to promote themselves in the new economy. Every time you write a blog post you'll want to bookmark that blog post at one of the most trafficked bookmarking sites online. But which ones? And how long will it take? It won't take you long if you use one of the automated social bookmarking services online. These 4 social bookmarking websites allow you to submit your blog posts and other content to multiple social bookmarking sites at once without the hassle of submitting to each bookmarking service one at a time. OnlyWire - OnlyWire has a free version and an ad-free version, which costs just $2.99 per month. Through this service you can bookmark CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How Far Can Social Go?
Social media marketing is powerful and fun. And it's getting a lot of attention right now. But is it really all it's cracked up to be? Yes. And no. Social media marketing can only go so far. Search engine marketing and optimization can go much further. Here's what I mean: If you join one social media website then you are limited to reaching only other people at that social media website who are interested in your type of product or service. Do you know how many people that is? But if you use search marketing strategies to reach your target audience then the pool of people who might be interested in your offerings will be larger. Your pool is now open to everyone with Internet access who CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Can Less Traffic Protect Your Copyright?
Online content creators have a big stake in protecting copyrights. Primarily because of the ease of distribution of RSS feeds and other subscription-based content, you can easily lose control of your creations. As pointed out by this article at SEOmoz, enforcing your right to ownership online can lead to a decrease in traffic, but what exactly does that look like? If you experience a decrease in traffic due to fewer RSS feeds or your subscriptions falling down, there are a few ways that you may actually lose traffic. The obvious one is that you'll have few people visiting your website by RSS feeds. But that's not all. Since RSS feeds include back links, and usually they are do-follow back links, you will also be decreasing CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Two Ways To Build Strong Anchor Text Links
There are two ways that you can use inbound link anchor text to help you push your web pages up in the search engine rankings. Both ways are viable, but which one you choose depends on whether you are just starting and have no rankings at all or whether you have existing pages that are beginning to rank for terms that you didn't expect to rank for. Anchor Text Trick No. 1 - This method is for new websites with no rankings yet. You know which pages you want to rank for which keywords. If you built your pages correctly, each page on your website should have at least two keyword phrases that they could rank for. It's better if there are three or four keyword CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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