What’s New in SEO for August 23, 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: The evolution of sitelinks: expanded and improved Google launched several improvements to sitelinks, including the way they look and are organized in search results. Sitelinks are now full-size links with a URL and one line of snippet text. They are arranged in columns and the number of links has doubled. WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK WITH YAHOO: Search Alliance Continues Global Transition Yahoo!’s algorithmic transition to Microsoft continues in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, the Netherlands, Sweden, and several countries in MENA (Arabic language). WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK WITH BING: Bing Shopping: CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Blog Posts to Read for August 18, 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! Social Media Measurement – Would You Still Do It If There Was No ROI? Even though social media is hard to track and can show no immediate return, it’s still important to be investing in it because our customers are there. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE How do you reach the guy with the wallet? In social media it’s important to find the users of a product/service and create a buzz and a demand from the bottom up. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Why Is My CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Often Forgotten On Site SEO Must Haves
When it comes to optimizing your site, there are a lot of things to remember to do. You have to conduct keyword research on a page by page basis, optimize the content, write meta descriptions, include call-to-actions in the content, create unique URLS, developing an internal linking structure and much more. It’s often easy to forget one or two things from your SEO checklist when optimizing your site, especially if your site has hundreds (if not thousands) of pages. Are you guilty of forgetting these on-site SEO musts? Optimized Images Search spiders can’t see images, they can only read text. That’s why it is important to optimize the most important images on any given page of your site. Chances are your company logo is an image. If CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Conducting Blog Research – SEO Video Tip
Blog commenting is an excellent form of link building for numerous reasons. However, the hardest part (and most time consuming) about blog commenting is actually finding good industry blogs to comment on. Here are a few tips to help guide your blog research so you can leave comments on blogs that are going to help your SEO. Watch this week's SEO video lesson here! For more SEO video tips and lessons from Nick Stamoulis, check out the Brick Marketing SEO video lesson archive . CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What’s New in SEO for August 16, 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: Supercharging Android: Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility More than 150 million Android devices have been activated worldwide and Google has acquired Motorola to supercharge the Android ecosystem. The latest update to Google Social Search: Public Google+ Posts Google search results will now start including posts shared publicly by people you’re connected to on Google+ when you are signed into your Google Account. WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK WITH YAHOO: Yahoo! Image Search Boasts New Design, Galleries and Facebook Tab Yahoo!’s new search results page has a neatly tiled look, with each image equally sized, CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Blog Posts to Read for August 11, 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! What Do You Primarily Use Google Plus For? This post includes the result of a Facebook poll asking the blog author’s connections what they use Google+ for. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE The Social Media Showdown: Google+ Beating LinkedIn, Closing In On Twitter, Facebook Google+ is worth the effort from a marketer’s perspective because it is already beating LinkedIn in driving traffic and is quickly closing in on Twitter and Facebook. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE No More Excuses! Pick Two: Money, Time, or Results. This post discusses CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
SEO Video Lesson -Tips for Launching a Social Media Marketing Campaign
If you are looking to develop a social media marketing strategy, here are a few essential tips to help you get off on the right foot. Just like any other marketing tactic, social media marketing requires a solid strategy to help you get the most value from your time and effort. This will ensure you branding and messaging stays consistent throughout. Watch this week's SEO video lesson from Nick Stamoulis! For more SEO video tips and lessons from Nick Stamoulis, check out the Brick Marketing SEO video lesson archive . CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Industry Specific SEO Consultants Not Needed
SEO is an undeniably important part of any site’s online marketing efforts. But not every site owner or webmaster feels comfortable enough to handle SEO by themselves. If they don’t have anyone in-house they can turn to, many will look to bring in an SEO firm or SEO consultant to handle to job. If you are such a site owner, don’t be afraid to do the same. A reputable, white hat SEO firm or consultant is going to do everything in their power (and within the guidelines of the search engines) to help your site succeed online. However, you do not need to hire an SEO consultant that specializes in your industry! If, while you’re researching SEO services providers, you find a company that you feel CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What’s New in SEO for August 9, 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: Get to your answer quicker with Instant Pages Google’s Instant Pages uses prerendering technology which helps you skip the extra seconds spent waiting for a page to load and get the answers you’re looking for faster. WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK WITH YAHOO: Yahoo! Search BOSS Adds Blog Search Yahoo!’s custom blog index provides users with a wealth of data such as the provider, the author, date of post and in some cases, contextually relevant terms associated with the article. WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK WITH BING: Mall Maps and Map Search come to Bing for CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What’s Wrong with the SEO Industry
Every once and a while I like to get on my SEO soapbox and talk about what I think is wrong with the SEO industry. Keep in mind that I have been working in this industry for over 12 years and I really love doing it, but every industry has its faults and the world of SEO is no exception. This industry probably has one of the worst reputations out of any marketing-related field, mainly because most news regarding the SEO industry focuses on the black hat, the spammers and the SEO con men. It’s no wonder John Q Businessman doesn’t trust me when we first meet. Once bit, twice shy and I have to work that much harder to convince him that I truly CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Blog Posts to Read for August 4, 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! Is Facebook Still Likeable? Google Plus added 10 million users in the first two weeks of limited beta launch. This post discusses how that could affect the future of Facebook. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Social Media Marketing Tips This post includes 10 steps to follow in your social media marketing campaign. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Page Titles and SEO – What to Avoid Page titles are one of the most important parts of SEO for your website. This post includes a list CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Should Your Site Include a FAQ?
A few months ago, I was toying around with the idea of developing an SEO FAQ and incorporating it into my company site. Over the years, I’ve found that potential clients tend to ask the same set of questions about SEO and my approach to SEO during our preliminary meetings. I thought that an SEO FAQ would be a valuable resource for potential clients, because they could find answers to their questions before we ever actually talked. That way, our meetings could be more focused on how SEO can help their company and what I could bring to the table, and less about what keyword research is. At first I thought it was a great idea. I would develop new pages of CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Tips for Creating Local Search Profiles
Not only do local search profiles provide valuable, quality inbound links to your site, they can also rank individually in the search engines, increasing your brand presence. Local search profiles are also incredibly important for mobile search. When conducting a search on their smartphone, must consumers are looking for quick information like a phone number or address. They aren’t going to take the time to dig through your site to find that information. If you aren’t listed locally, you are missing out on connecting with your local audience. For businesses that rely on local foot traffic, not having a local search presence could spell disaster. Here are 4 best practice tips for creating and developing local search profiles: Claim your listing Did you know that your business CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
SEO Video Tip- You Get What You Pay For!
Unfortunately, the reputation of the SEO industry as a whole has been tarnished by black hat SEO companies and spammers that take advantage of unsuspecting site owners. Don't let a black hat SEO firm con you! Here are a few things to look out for when hiring an SEO agency. Watch this week's SEO video tip here! For more SEO video tips and lessons from Nick Stamoulis, check out the Brick Marketing SEO video lesson archive . CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What’s New in SEO for August 2, 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: New Google Search experience for tablets Google has improved the search experience on tablets by simplifying the layout of search results pages and increasing the size of page contents like text, buttons and other touch targets to make it faster and easier to browse and interact with search results in portrait or landscape view. WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK WITH YAHOO: Search Alliance Transitions in Six New Countries Yahoo! has transitioned certain back-end functions for Yahoo! Search over to Microsoft’s search platform in New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK WITH BING: Get CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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