When it comes to doing SEO for your website, one of the major concerns you may have is how much time and money you'll need to spend on it. If you're hiring an SEO firm, then time IS money, and you'll want to know a rough estimate of how much time the SEO firm will put in and, therefore, charge you for.
You can break down the steps necessary for SEO work, making it easier to judge how much time you or your SEO company will need to spend on each. The estimates given here do not take into account any major issues or technical problems that may arise. You may want to add in a few extra hours to each step to account for any problems that you may have to deal with. If your website is exceptionally large (a thousand pages or more), you may also want to add more time into your estimate.
Last week, I talked about how the economy will sort out winners and losers even faster. This week, a trio of news releases seems to confirm that search, and Google, in particular, will be a winner. Unfortunately, almost no one will recognize that they’ve won.
Many people assume that podcasting is all about audio and fail to acknowledge the writing behind the show. Skilled communicators understand the type of planning required in order to pull off a clean final product. The most memorable and effective podcasts are always well planned. Some of the best podcast shows use a script and follow a structured format. The preparation that occurs behind the scenes is similar to what would take place for a radio show.
If you need to get the word out about a product or service, a Press Release is going to do that for you. Press Releases are a bit different than your normal article marketing, but let's take a look for a moment at some of the things that you can do to master the art of press releases.
Link exchange requests have a very bad reputation. The reason for that is that many people send mass link exchange requests that are nothing more than spam.
However, if you want to get links from authority sites, you have to send link exchange requests. The secret of successful requests is to write link exchange messages that aren't spam.
When you host an audio conference call, web conference, or video conference, you are engaging in an interactive dialogue with your participants. This reveals a weak point: if you conduct the best webinar in the world, but without any participants, do you make a sound?
I am an unrepentant Darwinist, which probably doesn’t surprise anyone who reads my columns on a regular basis. The whole topic of evolution and emergent behaviors in complex systems constantly fascinates me. As Steven Johnson pointed out in his recent book, Emergence, patterns rising from complexity is a ubiquitous theme that could well define the 21st century.
Brooklyn, New York. January, 2009 – TemplateMonster.com, the Internet's largest templates provider, keeps it's official course in providing media innovations. The new product from them is High Definition Intros which according to the company, is the result of one of the many directions in the company's development. This product launch follows the launch of Flash CMS Intros, that was presented in December, 2008 and is a product representing the media products range.
Link building is one of the most important things that you have to do if you want to get high rankings on Google and other major search engines. SEO blogger Gyutae Park recently compared link building with losing weight.
Indeed, there are many parallels. The following points illustrate why link building is like losing weight and how this can help you to get better results.
I got involved in a discussion board thread today where someone was lauding the success of their branded PPC campaign. The clickthrough rate was through the roof! Turns out, they had a 22 percent CTR since starting up the campaign. That sounds great, doesn't it?