Daryl Clark's Search Engine Optimization Tips and Internet Marketing Information

Google quality raters handbook 2011.

admin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:37:56 +0000

This post comes from Search Engine Land. ” The documents are used by Google Quality Raters to aid them in classifying queries, measuring relevancy, and rating the search results. To do so, the Quality Rater must understand how Google works and this document has a bunch of that. Let me pull out some of those details in easy to read bullet points.” Click here to read the rest of this article.

Complaints Cherie Young online marketing strategies – real estate web sites.

dsclarkkk — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:05:34 +0000

In my 13 years of working with customers on the Internet, I have never dealt with a service provider worse than Cherie Young of Online Marketing Strategies. I have so many examples of this ineptness as well as her devious nature, I cannot possibly list them all here. However, if you are considering doing any kind of business with Cherie Young of Online Marketing Strategies for real estate website design or any other project, I would recommend going to a dentist and getting a root canal without anesthesia before I would recommend working with her. I maintain a long list of under references of unhappy customers and complaints that I would be glad to share with you if you want to do real due diligence before spending a dime with this service provider. Feel free to contact me 951-286-5551 if you would like to discuss my complaints and those of others who used to use her services.

Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engine Market Share August 2011.

dsclarkkk — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:03:20 +0000

Google, Yahoo and Bing August 2011 market share was just announced by Comscore.com last week. According to them, “Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in August with 64.8 percent market share (down 0.3 percentage points), followed by Yahoo sites with 16.3 percent (up 0.3 percentage points) and Microsoft sites with 14.7 percent (up 0.3 percentage points).” Click here to read the rest of their press release.

How to optimize images for Google.

dsclarkkk — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:02:25 +0000

A number of years ago Google introduced what they called, “Universal Search.” Today this is just known as the choices you have on the left hand side of the search results. Businesses with a lot of images can see their website traffic grow by as much as 5% if they optimize their images for Google search. Here is a great article by tagSEOBlog on how to optimize images for Google search.

Free SEO evaluations by an expert.

dsclarkkk — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:04:07 +0000

For four years now I have offered to provide anyone a free SEO evaluation. I average 15 evaluations a month. The amazing thing to me is how many people come to me with proposals from other SEO Temecula firms and national SEO firms with cookie cutter SEO proposals!

SEO is not a Gold Program, Silver Program or Platinum program where one size fits all. Every website is similar to a doctor’s patient. When the patient comes to the office the doctor examines the patient based on their symptoms and then prescribes a cure. SEO works the same way with websites. Every website has certain ailments that need to be cured. You can’t cure a website with a one site fits all SEO program that requires a monthly fee. If you receive one of these proposals I highly recommend you run and run fast.

A qualified SEO professional is like a website doctor. He or she will examine the patient and then prescribe the right cure. Every website is different and every situation is different, so there is no one size fits all if you are working with a real SEO professional. Professionals will also explain exactly what is wrong with your website, what steps they will take to cure your website and what the potential outcomes will be. Real SEO professionals will provide you with a snapshot of your on-page optimization issues, your website structure and Internal link issues. You should also receive an analysis of your back link profile vs. that of your major competitors. They will also help you understand website analytics. Especially important items like, “what is the average website bounce rate.”

Don’t be fooled by voodoo SEO’s who are the same as voodoo doctor’s. If one size fits all, then it is time for you to find a new doctor!

What is the average website bounce rate?

dsclarkkk — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:48:13 +0000

Recently Google released their first edition of the “Google Analytics Bench Marketing Newsletter”. The only way you can receive a copy of this newsletter is if you have chosen the anonymous data sharing in your Google Analytics set up. Google provided the following documentation to show the average website bounce rate in the United States, The United Kingdom, France, Brazil, China and Japan.

“Our anonymous database has aggregated geographic breakdown at the country level. Here are a few representative countries and their respective aggregate metrics. The first number in each cell represents the metric for the date range 11/1/10-2/1/11. The parenthesized number is the Year over Year delta compared to a year ago.“

Country	Pages / Visit	Bounce Rate	Avg Time on Site
United States	4.7 (-0.1)	42.5% (-6.1%)	6:06 (-0:10)
United Kingdom	4.9 (-0.3)	41.5% (+0.2%)	5:38 (-0.27)
France	4.4 (-0.4)	49.7% (+1.4%)	4:40 (-0:08)
Brazil	4.1 (-0.1)	47.8% (-2.9%)	5:20 (+0:03)
China	4.1 (-0.1)	58.2% (+1.0%)	3:46 (+0:37)
Japan	3.9 (-0.1)	48.6% (-9.0%)	3:47 (-2:59)

Custom Facebook Fan pages for corporations & small businesses.

dsclarkkk — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:26:09 +0000

We are now offering affordable customer Facebook Fan pages for corporations and small businesses. You can view our sample pages by clicking on the links below.

Custom Facebook Fan Page Sample 1

Custom Facebook Fan Page Sample 2

Custom Facebook Fan Page Sample 3

The cost of a Custom Facebook fan page for your company or small business is only $250. Projects take four to five business days to complete. Call us at 1-951-286-5551 to explore your goals or fill out our contact us form.

New directory submission services San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles.

dsclarkkk — Thu, 12 May 2011 00:20:53 +0000

For years I have stayed away from directory submissions. Over the years Google has really gone after low level directories as sources for links by removing them from their index or deleting their link authority. Now with Google cracking down on all types of link building, directory submissions are back in vogue. The problem is good directories are really hard to find and submitting your site manually takes a long time!

I’ve finally created a team to submit client sites to 300 Google PR3, PR4 and PR5 sites for only $300. This is a cost of only $1 per website. Projects take only 3 weeks to complete and you can use over six different link anchors. If you are in San Diego, Orange County or Los Angeles or virtually anywhere, we can advise you on the best anchor phrases to use and get your site submitted quickly. Visit our link building services page to learn more.

Compressing JavaScript and CSS Files to Increase Your Website’s Page Loading Time

B. Flores — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:31:25 +0000

With the dynamics present in JavaScript and CSS files, a web developer’s website can produce very beautiful layouts and navigation. Although these designs can attract visitors, you should also focus on the loading time that can actually make or break visitor traffic. In addition, you should consider that page loading time will affect search page ranking. If you want to increase your organic search page rankings, you should ensure that your website loads fast.

Compression of your JavaScript and CSS files is a great way to shorten page loading time, which can help both please your visitors and improve your Google page ranking. You should understand that JavaScript and CSS files can take up a lot of time to load, but if you can, compress them effectively to combat the problem.

First, you should solve an Internet Explorer issue that can affect your website loading. Inserting a meta tag in the part of your website can fix compatibility issues commonly affecting load page. Just insert this above and tags: . If your website is standards-compliant, put IE=8 instead.

Conventionally, Gzip is regarded as effective software to decompress and compress your files. You should, however, realize that Gzip can actually result in slower loading time due to the way it compresses your files. What you should do is consider these alternative tools that can achieve this and provide you with faster results for your visitors.

SquishIt – For JavaScript and CSS files, you can compress them with relative ease, providing you with quick results when you need them.

Packer – Equipped with the technology used for compressing or decompressing your JavaScript files, this tool allows you to optimize run-time JavaScript decompression by pasting in your code and removing unnecessary syntax that slows down load time by “packing” it with the simple interface.

YUI Compressor – With a higher compression rate to boast compared to other tools, you can compress your JavaScript in a safe manner that will secure your compressed files and run them smoother and faster.

Dojo Shrinksafe – In order to effectively compress your JavaScript and CSS files, this tool caches them and shortens variable names.

Google Closure Compiler – A highly effective tool for JavaScript compilation, with it you can also check for any errors in syntax and variables in order to enhance your JavaScript code itself.

JS Compressor – In order to compress your files effectively, this tool removes new line characters, unnecessary spaces, and comments that increase file size and consequently slow down loading time.

Minify – By using caching technology for JavaScript and CSS files, the compressor tool optimizes your code in order to shorten page loading time.

JSMin – Also acting as a filter that removes unnecessary white spaces and comments, this tool reduces your JavaScript’s file size up to almost 50% in order to provide faster loading speeds for your website.

When you use these tools for your website, you are able to speed up your page’s loading time with your files compressed. This reduces the space they take up on your server while enhancing your website’s overall performance. Make sure that you compress your JavaScript and CSS files before uploading them to get the best results for your website.

Web developers should practice a more streamlined approach in their website’s files. This will allow them a more optimized navigation as well as better traffic and search results due to faster loading time that allows visitors to read the content without any issues. With these tips in mind, it is important to compress files such as JavaScript and CSS in order to optimize a web user’s experience on the website.

Brian Flores is a SEO and blogger for InMotion Hosting, one of the top providers of dedicated hosting in the country. He works with a team of awesome writers to post useful tutorials on WebHostingHelpGuy. You can follow him on Twitter @WHHG_InMotion or @BrianAFlores.

Custom wordpress websites costs can vary.

dsclarkkk — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:05:28 +0000

As a leading custom wordpress website design company, we have done a lot of work to make sure our costs and prices are below the industry average. Typically companies will charge between $3,500 – $4,000 for a custom wordpress design. However, you should be very careful when someone tells you a design is going to be a custom design.

Most U.S. based firms will sell you a template not a customized design for your site. Templates have a lot of disadvantages.

1. They are very hard to customize.

2. They are not flexible when you want to make additional changes.

3. Hundreds if not thousands of other companies can be using the same design.

Our designs are customized specifically for you and we don’t ever use templates. Depending on your needs and budget, we can design sites for as low as $1,500 and as much as $3,500 with flash and a blog included with all on-page search engine optimization (SEO) included too. We also can complete most projects in 45 – 60 days. So if you need a high quality site that is a custom wordpress website design, we dare you to find a company that can match our unique designs and services at the same price point!