Posted by admin in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Sep 28th, 2007 | No Comments
This superb post comes from one of my favorite true SEO Experts Mr. Jim Boykin…..
The Cool Aid is running thick, and the Google FUD Campaign is doing a great job at letting SEO’s and bloggers spread the paranoia.
In a post by Graphic Designer David Airey originally titled “Google Search Ranking Penalty” (title has since been changed to “Google Search Rank Drop: Advice Needed”) David shows how his site has lost rankings for his name as well as some other phrases he once ranked high on. It’s obvious that something has gone wrong…..David consulted...
Posted by admin in Internet MarketingSep 27th, 2007 | No Comments
I use Google as my home page on my computer. I was pleasantly surprised to see that today is their 9th birthday. For those of us who count on the Internet for a living, Google has been important part of our success. I started my first Internet based business in January of 1999. At the time the big players were Yahoo, Alta Vista and LookSmart. Interesting how things have changed. Happy Birthday Google!
Posted by admin in Internet MarketingSep 26th, 2007 | No Comments
Palmer Web Marketing has a great 25 Ways series. I normally don’t quote the same source more than once or twice a month and almost never twice in the same week. I really like this series though and I hope you find it useful too. Here it is…
“I’m constantly astonished at how many large e-commerce sites have seriously deficient product pages. Many large companies, especially click-and-mortar retailers, seem to forget that products cannot be touched, tasted, or tested over the internet. While the internet will never perfectly mimic the in-store experience, there are dozens...
Posted by admin in Sales and MarketingSep 25th, 2007 | No Comments
This great post comes from PalmerWebMarketing. Shopping cart abandonment is every online merchant’s worst fear. After all, with all that you invest in marketing your website, it’s painful to leave money on the table when would-be buyers don’t convert to sales. In this post, I’ll share some ways to improve your shopping cart that I’ve used or seen used by other savvy online retailers. Click here to read the 25 Ways to Improve Your Shopping Cart.
Posted by admin in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Sep 24th, 2007 | No Comments
RESTON, VA, September 21, 2007 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace. Among core search engines in August 2007, Google Sites remained the top search property with more than 5.5 billion core searches conducted, representing a 56.5 percent share of the search market. Time Warner Network was the only other core search engine property to increase share, up 0.1 share point to 4.5 percent, with 441 million searches.Â
In comScore’s recently introduced expanded search report,...
Posted by admin in Sales and MarketingSep 19th, 2007 | No Comments
Google has officially released Google Docs.
Create basic documents from scratch.
You can easily do all the basics, including making bulleted lists, sorting by columns, adding tables, images, comments, formulas, changing fonts and more. And it’s free.
Upload your existing files.
Google Docs accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, PPT, etc. So go ahead and upload your existing files.
Familiar desktop feel makes editing a breeze.
Just click the toolbar buttons to bold, underline, indent, change font or number format, change cell background color and so on.
Posted by admin in Internet MarketingSep 18th, 2007 | No Comments
This interesting post comes from Larrys Chase’s Web Digest for Marketers. It offers a number of ways to building inbound links to your web site.
“Getting other sites to point to you yields dividends. Not only do you get traffic from those links, you also come up higher in search results when those sites linking to you are relevant and of high quality.
We came up with over 53 ways to get other sites to link to you. Out of those 53, we pared it down to the very best tactics. Those 12 tactics and tools are below.” Click here to read the rest of this article.
Posted by admin in Direct MarketingSep 17th, 2007 | No Comments
This interesting post comes from the AIM Clear Blog.
Attorneys, plumbers, financial advisor’s, electricians, pizza parlors, cleaning services, snowplow drivers, caterers, insurance companies, and hardware stores alike ask us similar questions: “How does the Internet change things? Should we keep our Yellow Pages ad? How do we keep from being left behindâ€
At SES San Jose
Posted by admin in Search Engine Marketing (SEM)Sep 13th, 2007 | No Comments
MarketingSherpa has released a 23 page report where 3,186 search marketers reveal what works. Click here to download this special 23-page PDF report for four practical data charts, featuring new stats on:
- How much will marketers’ SEM budgets increase in 2008?
- What tactic gets the highest ROI: SEO, PPC or email?
- The biggest challenges in hiring SEM staff
This file is only available until October 4th.
Posted by admin in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Sep 12th, 2007 | No Comments
If you haven’t heard this song and you are involved in the SEO business. You have got to hear Benj Arriola’s SEO Song.
