I've got a question for you: would you want to do anything with Kevin Federline? Personally, the more Federline-free my world is, the better. But apparently other people don't see it that way. You may have noticed earlier this week that K-Fed is actually launching his own search engine. Well, to be more accurate, he's slapping his face on an existing back end, so to speak. I won't go into the details of the K-Fed engine, except to say that it's powered by Yahoo and it's offered by Prodege.com.
Google is testing a new advertising system that allows businesses to advertise on a cost per action basis. You can find Google's own announcement here.
Recently I have read a blog posting about the five secrets PPC agencies don't want you to know. The majority of the blog centered on dissatisfaction from business-to-business (B2B) marketers with PPC agencies. For the most part I agree with the arguments made in the blog posting for the majority of PPC vendors, mainly those who don't 'get it.' The core Search Engine Marketing (SEM) has never been about bidding on keywords and optimizing quality scores, true SEM stems from an in depth understanding of the target customer and the purchase decision process.
Google tries to keep its search results as clean as possible. For that reason, they have a variety of spam filters in their ranking algorithm that try to remove low quality web sites.
If your web site gets caught by one of these filters, it will be very difficult to get high Google rankings. In this article series, we're taking a look at the 15 most common Google spam filters and how you can get around them.
Duplicate content, false use of the robots.txt file and Google bowling can be the reason if your web site rankings on Google dropped. This article will help you to find a solution.
Podcasts started out as fun ways for ambitious garage DJs, independent musicians and talk show hosts, who had not ventured into radio broadcasting as a way to show their stuff and make a name for themselves. What started as a hobby for many, has turned into a lucrative profession for some. Not surprisingly, podcasters, just like radio stations, have looked for ways to profit from their on-air dialogue.
ResellersPanel, the free web hosting reseller program, announces that the new version of its Resellers Control Panel, simply named Resellers Panel v2, has been built, tested and launched. Some of the upgrades include better client management tools, a new Invoice Manager section, an improved statistics section with more details and an easier to work with main navigation menu with modified titles and descriptions of the different sections. Resellers Panel v2 now offers technical support through a new trouble ticket system, where the resellers can request help by opening a ticket or themselves provide direct support to their existing hosting customers.
The primary purpose of search engine optimization is to drive more traffic to your website and to increase the ranking of your website on the search engines in various search terms. Search engine optimization is the process that is meant to convert site visitors into online customers.
However, confusion may have overpowered other webmasters and web marketing so-called specialists. These webmasters believe they can achieve the highest rankings on the search engines on all the keywords that come into their mind. But SEO is not about getting your website listed for all the keywords and keyword phrases you can think of.
There are a number of basic marketing fundamentals that everyone needs to know in order to generate attention, interest, desire and action among prospects. But to be successful in today's competitive environment, you need more than a basic understanding of a traditional AIDA model and the 4 P's (product, place, price, promotion).
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is placing a fairly large bet that people can trump technology in the search engine game. According to a recent report in Yahoo, He's putting $4 million (of other people's money) plus an undisclosed 'large amount' from Amazon on the line, betting that he can steal 5% of the total search market away from Google with his new project, Wikia.
There are two major and powerful things that you can do to optimize your web site or blog site for search engines.
The first is that you should take time to research the best keyword phrases to use and then ensure that your content is keyword rich with the particular keyword phrases that you do come up with.
Then the other very important thing you can do is to make sure that you are all the time acquiring as many one way links pointing at your site as possible. One of the best ways to do this is through Web Directory Submission.
These are the two key search engine optimization elements that will make the most impact in any search engines' ranking of a site in search results.