Testing and Optimizing your Traffic

by Admin


07 Nov
 None    Site Promotion

You can have the most fluid, creative, perfect business website in your chosen field but if your marketing and promotional efforts do not bring users to your website it is useless. An important aspect of building your business successfully is knowing what pages of your website your users are viewing most often and for how long and what pages they are on when they exit your website.

Tracking Software is necessary to compile this information and once you start building these reports, you will be able to properly decide how to improve your website and the online sales process for your marketing and promotion.


B2B Marketing - Using Search Engine Marketing to Intercept Your Target Market

by Admin


06 Nov
 None    Internet Related

by Jody Nimetz
http://www.enquiro.com

My previous column discussed dealing with increasing amounts of competition in the B2B world. It is no secret that B2B companies are facing increasing amounts of online competition. Many times competing for the prime real estate means dealing with category killers and competition that can be considered direct (a distinct industry competitor) or indirect (those sites that are vying for the same real estate on a SERP but are not necessarily a true competitor that provides a similar solution). Indirect online competition can also come in the form of .gov or .edu sites. B2B sites that are ranking well in the search engines and have a proven solution are effective in dealing with indirect competition due to the relevancy factor.


Facts and Fiction of Search Engine Submission

by Admin


04 Nov
 None    Site Promotion

New marketers commonly believe a good way to promote their new website and become indexed with search engines, it is necessary to submit your site to the search engines. This is fiction, and falls under the same general category as Get Rich Quick schemes.

While submission to search engines used to be beneficial to getting your website indexed, and even necessary, five and ten years ago, submitting to search engines no longer has value. Major search engines wanted more comprehensive and independent data, and developed their own technology in the form spiders and crawlers. All major search engines now have the capacity to effectively search the web continuously and find new websites, plus evaluate the content and value. All major search engines now rely completely on their own technology. So, submission to a major search engine has either no impact, or even possibly a negative impact.

Top 10 RSS Do's and Don'ts

by Admin


03 Nov
 None    Internet Related

by Sharon Housley
http://www.feedforall.com

RSS is not quite a household word, but technically astute individuals are adopting the use of RSS feeds at an alarming rate. If you are interested in jumping on the bandwagon, but not quite sure of where to start, consider following these simple RSS feed tips to maximize feed compatibility and make your feed stand out from the crowd.


Choosing a Domain Name

by Admin


02 Nov
 None    General

The domain name of a website is often one of the most overlooked aspects of web development. Yet, when it comes to marketing, it is potentially a very powerful tool. Businesses looking to establish an online presence should use their website to assist in company or product branding whereas stand alone websites can promote their pages in the search engine results.


Finding your real competition on Google

by Admin


01 Nov
 None    Search Engines

by David Callan
http://www.akamarketing.com

Seems to me that doing a simple query on Google and then having a glance at the amount of results returned isn't really the best way to gauge how competitive a keyword or keyphrase is. This figure represents all the pages in Google's index which are even only a small bit relevant for the query, it does not give a fair indication of the amount of naturally relevant pages or the pages which have been specifically optimised to appear for the searched upon query.

The Real Cost of a Sponsored Campaign

by Admin


31 Oct
 None    General

by Rick Tobin
http://www.enquiro.com

In the past week I have had two prospective clients raise questions that ultimately stem to the "real value" of having a sponsored campaign, but more importantly, how you derive that "real value."

First of all, lets get some semantics out of the way.... Clicks are valuable; visits are valuable; reducing the CPC is valuable; brand awareness is valuable; but nothing is as valuable as a return on the bottom line. This doesn't mean just improving conversions, but improving the cost/conversion and the lifelong value of every single sale or lead. This is "real value," and sometimes being able to recognize and/or reconcile that true metric is not that easy, especially if you have a longer sales cycle and the purchase decision involves a longer than normal research phase.


Link Building And Its Use In SEO

by Admin


30 Oct
 None    Site Promotion

Link building has long been heralded as one of the most important aspects of any effective SEO campaign, and with good reason. The major search engines certainly give some weight to the number and quality of inbound links that a website receives. It's also true that with good links from high traffic websites you can generate a very good amount of direct traffic from your links. However, the evolution of SEO and search engine algorithms means that gaining links from your site has become a different challenge when compared to link building of old.

Googles 8 Specific Quality Guidelines Revisited

by Admin


28 Oct
 None    Site Promotion

by Mei Rose Galang
http://www.webworksfirst.com

Being removed from Google's index and falling traffic are probably the two worst SEO nightmares. And as they say, "ignorance is not an excuse" since Google have publicly stated their guidelines for websites. The article aims to inform the SEO newbies and remind the experienced SEO experts of the 8 Specific Quality Guidelines set by Google.

My Google Wish List

by Admin


27 Oct
 None    Search Engines

by Sharon Housley
http://www.feedforall.com

There are a number of "wishes" that I have for Google's future. While I would like number one ranking for all of my important keywords and phrases, but I would be willing to settle for Google acknowledging at least a few of my wishes that will benefit the search community as a whole.

Google started out as the beloved child, a fledgling start up that was all heart, and today they are a "hated" brand. Why the fall from grace? In some ways Google is a victim of the too big, too powerful, and too successful affliction that attacks companies that achieve a level of success that few companies dream of. Now that does not mean that I am giving them a pass, they have room to improve and I really do not hate them. I just think there is a lot of areas they could improve.


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