Archive for the ‘ Internet Marketing ’ Category
SEO & Internet Marketing Conference in 2012
Share There are a ton of SEO, SEM, and Internet Marketing conferences all over North America, sometimes even one in Central America. I listed some exciting new events coming through for 2012: Affiliate Summit West 2012 Location: Las Vegas, NV, United States Date: 01/08/2012 – 01/10/2012 Check it out: http://www.affiliatesummit.com/ About Affiliate Summit West 2012 [...]
Top 10 Yahoo Searches in 2011
Share Top 10 Searches on Yahoo! -iPhone -Casey Anthony -Kim Kardashian -Katy Perry -Jennifer Lopez -Lindsay Lohan -“American Idol” -Jennifer Aniston -Japan Earthquake -Osama bin Laden
gTLDs and SEO Impact
Share In June of 2011, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the world’s domain name system announced that Starting January 2012, established public and private organizations can apply for the rights to the gTLD(s) of their choice – both branded (e.g. .nike) and non-branded (e.g. .shoes). Price For $185,000 per application, [...]
Google’s Freshness Update in Search Results
Share Google just rolled out a new algorithm update designed to pick and select which queries demand fresher results impacts about 35% of searches. Where their Caffeine architecture allows Google to quickly crawl the mass and complex contents of the Web, this latest update is meant to select which queries require the most recent results. [...]
Google Updates Spam Reporting Page
Share Last night, Matt Cutts from Google tweeted they have “released the biggest refresh of our spam report form in, oh, say 10 years.” they break it down by type of “spam”: Paid links – This page is selling or buying links. Copyright and other legal issues – This page should be removed under applicable [...]
Google+ Cheat Sheet
Share With Google+ recently reached million members, and as Google releases more invites to its social network, more people are trying to learn the ins-and-outs of the Google+ ecosystem. That’s why I was excited when I stumbled across a Google+ cheat sheet, whose origin we’ve traced to Google+ user Simon Laustsen. The cheat sheet includes [...]
Google PR Update on June 27, 2011 Confirmed
Share I just quickly checked some sites that I have managed or optimized before, 80% of them received a higher PR score on most of the web pages, 15% remains at the same level, and 5% got a step back. This is the first major Google PR update after the Panda update of their natural [...]
SEO Tips for Website Redesign
Share – Before doing any site redesign, ensure that you have carefully backed-up all of your website files, content and databases. – During your redesign, don’t bury any content that was previously bringing targeted search engine traffic too deeply within the site . Ensure that any important content that will be focused on the more [...]
Monitor Site Loading Speed in Google Analytics
Share You can measure the loading time of your pages and overall website inside Google Analytics now. The time your pages take to load and the overall responsiveness of your site are critical in terms of usability, conversions, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and PPC (Pay Per Click). So it is great to be able to [...]
Dynamic URL vs. Static URL
Share Why Static URLs are Best for SEO When attempting to improve a site’s ranking, it can be productive to examine the URL structure and do what you can to make it more SEO responsive. Namely, if the URLs are dynamic, it would be in your best interest to change them to static. Dynamic urls [...]