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LookSmart is not Small Business Friendly

LookSmart is not Small Business FriendlyThere is a firestorm of negative press regarding LookSmart’s recent marketing stumbles via numerous discussion groups, including two of the oldest and most influential, I-Search and I-Advertising Digests. Most of the critiques center on LookSmart’s inabilit. . .

"If an RSS feed is the Yahoo backdoor, is a Blog Google’s?"

Copyright © 2005 Tinu AbayomiPaul Though the answer is in a book I wrote this July, the question is still asked of me repeatedly. Why does it work for some sites and not others? And how come some blogs get indexed in a day and then are dropped, and others stay in Google indefinitely? Well, let’s . . .

Keywords for all doors

Keyword research is certainly the most important phase in Search Engine Optimization process. Whether you hire a SEO company to do the job or you are doing the SEO process in-house, take your time during this process. You should not be a spectator, but you should be an active part of the decision. . .

Thinking of Creating Gateway or Doorway Pages?

Thinking of Creating Gateway or Doorway Pages?by Jill Whalen (The Web Whiz)Written May 2000 How many of you think the best and/or only way to get top placements on the search engines is to create gateway pages (aka doorway pages or bridge pages)? If you raised your hand, you are certainly not alo. . .

Driving your website through Google Sandbox

What is Google Sandbox?Google Sandbox is applied on new websites, it determines the timing of site inclusion as well as ranking in Google search engine results (SERPS).This process could take up to 6-8 months, which could be against your plans causing frustration to webmasters.The question is wha. . .

What Did we Learn From the Great Search Engine Experiment!

LastWeek I did a Search engine Experiment. I wanted to see if I couldbrand myself as the coolest guy in the universe. I created a web pagethat said Mike Makler is the coolest Guy in the Universe. In that WebPage I repeated that Phrase over and over. In less then 24 Hours I wasNumber 1 in Yahoo fo. . .

What is Link Trading and How Do You Trade?

Link trading is the task of getting links to your site on other sites by trading.. umm.. links. This is done to get more traffic to you web site. Link trading creates more traffic in two main ways, increased search engine rankings and also from the traffic the links themselves generate from peopl. . .

Link building

A web directory is a internet web page consisting of categorized links to other web pages. They specialize in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links. Web directories often allow site owners to submit their site for inclusion. One such web directory is http://directory.google.com/. . .

Aritcles - Do They Open The Way To Search Engine Rankings?

Who doesn't what to get high rankings in the search engines for your website. I've read everywhere and have been sold a bill of goods that writing and publishing your own articles get you to the top of thesearch engines.Think this through with me. You will see for yourself it's notall together tr. . .

Google's Next Big Move

By David Leonhardt (Will your website be ready, or will you be playing catch-up six months too late? November 2003 might go down in history as the month that Google shook a lot of smug webmasters and search engine optimization (SEO) specialists from the apple tree. But more than likely, it was ju. . .

Google ranking tips

By David CallanGoogle is by far the most popular search engine available today for both ordinary surfers and webmasters alike. Surfers like it because of the highly relevant results it gives and the speed at which it delivers them. This is due to its complex text matching algorithm and of course . . .

Who / How to target for reciprocal links

By David CallanReciprocal linking is one of the most effective ways of driving targeted mass numbers of people to your website, however in order to be successful you've to carefully target and choose the sites you want to link with.What you need to be doing is focusing on linking to similar high-. . .

The Myth of Rankings - Beyond Search Engines

By: Scott Buresh /Medium Blue Search Engine Marketing / www.mediumblue.com /What follows is a condensed version of a conversation that happens all too frequently when I am approached by a prospect interested in search engine optimization (SEO): / /Prospect: We need our website optimized, because. . .

The Mystery of the Magical Keyword Density Formula

Keyword density. When it comes to SEO copywriting, this has to be one of the most talked about subjects. Why? Because keywords are the very foundation of search engine copywriting. Without keywords we wouldn’t even have SEO copywriting. Because keywords (or more accurately, keyphrases) play such . . .

What is LSI

What is Latent Semantic Indexing or LSI ?Latent Semantic Indexing or LSI has changed the world of search engine optimization. One fine morning, SEO experts found that most of their best ranking sites on Google were in jeopardy. Google has simply updated its crawler-program to accommodate LSI and . . .

WebPosition Release v2.0, Reject Reporting Issues

By Kalena Jordan kalena@high-search-engine-ranking.com 27th May 2002 As you would have heard, FirstPlace Software™, creators of the hugely popularWebPosition Gold ™ search engine marketing software, recently announced theforthcoming release of the long-awaited version 2 of their product. WPG v2. . .

Resources you can use to promote your online business.

At least 85% of people looking for goods and services on the Internet find websites through search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. The idea of optimizing your pages for high search engine rankings is to attract targeted customers to your site who will be more than likely to make a purchas. . .

Rules, Regs, and Recommendations

Copywriting is a primary factor when it comes to achieving good search engine placement. However, many times all that is done is to include keywords in the tags of a page and to include a few keyword mentions. While not extremely difficult, writing for the engines is a little more complicated tha. . .

Keyword Popularity Check

Before using keywords for your site, it is always better to check for the popularity of these sub theme keywords. Some or all of the tools mentioned in the keywords tools section could be utilized to measure the popularity of these keywords. Based on the popularity count of these tools we should . . .

Absolute Top Five Search Engine Marketing Myths Uncovered!

Absolute Top Five Search Engine Marketing Myths Uncovered! It’s no secret that Search Engine marketing can drive significant amounts of very qualified traffic to a web site – as 85% of Internet users utilize search engines to find/research for goods and services. The problem for many companies i. . .

Table Structure For Top Search Engine Positioning

Table Structure For Top Search Engine Positioning / by Mary Davies / So you have a beautiful website that you paid a pretty penny for / and you are completely happy with it … except no one can find / it. Many web designers do not understand sea. . .

Making Keyphrases Work for Your Site and the Search Engines

Making Keyphrases Work for Your Site and the Search Enginesby Jill Whalen (The Web Whiz)Written May 2001Does your site rank highly for keyphrases that no one searches on? If no one is searching on your keyphrases, it won't matter how highly your site is ranked on the search engines. Here's a tech. . .

The secret of Adwords Copy Writing

The secret of Adwords Copy WritingAs you progress in your Google Adwords efforts,sooner or later you run into this- no matter howgreat your keyword choices are, unless you canmake good ads your campaign is dead in the water.What is the secret of a good Adwords ad? Read onand find out.The biggest . . .

Link Analysis vs. Link Popularity

From Leading Australian Professional - Anthony ParsonsLink Popularity is the easy one to explain. This is a link of any sort on any page pointing to your site. Any link pointing at your website, that's it. Simple Huh? Now your wondering how link popularity affects your website? Well if done corre. . .

Part 2- Do Not Ever Link to a Site Without Doing This First!

Writing Linksr /r /In the first part of this article we learned some techniques to build a solid potential link partner list for your website. Those sites aren't any good to you if you don't use a strategy for writing the textual content of those links. Yes. I mean those few little words that. . .

How Your Network Affects Your PR Ratings!

How Your Network Affects Your PR Ratings!By: Martin LemieuxDate: March 20th, 2004It's been long overdue that I've been wanting to talk about how owning a network of web sites, drastically affects your page ranking within Google.For some of you, you may closely watch what goes on with Page Ranking. . .

10 Steps To Higher Search Engine Position

10 Steps To Higher Search Engine Positioning / by Dave Davies / There is perhaps no more level playing field in business than the / Internet. It is this fact that has created millionaires from paupers. / The amount of money that can be made dep. . .

Google Creates Video "Vending" Machine Online

© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved http://www.thenetreporter.com-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-It's really no secret that search giant, Google.com, wants to own the gateway to all media online. They operate the Web's most popular search engine, largest free blogging service, and one of . . .

Optimize your website for Google

By Jakob Jellinghttp://www.sitetube.comGoogle is one of the most important search engines that you need to consider when going through the website optimization process. Google holds a large share of the total web searches. If you will be able to get a high ranking on Google you will definitely se. . .

A Review of WebPosition Gold™ v2.0 BETA

By Kalena Jordan 8th July 2002 FirstPlace Software™, creators of the popular web site marketing software WebPosition Gold ™, recently announced the forthcoming release of the long-awaited version 2 of their product. WPG v2.0 is already available in Beta format (see link below) and boasts an imp. . .

Google's Giant Sandbox

Google’s Giant SandboxWhat is the Sandbox?Before we get too far into an explanation as to what Google’s sandbox is, it must be noted that not everyone even agrees that the sandbox exists. The sandbox is actually nothing more than a theory developed to explain what many different SEO experts have. . .

The All Powerful Link Myth

The All Powerful Link MythNovember 4, 2004How Much does an Extremely Powerful Link Cost?The price of links depends on a ton of things. Generally it comes down to perceived value, but the value is going to depend on many issues.Link brokers set their prices based on market demand. This means that . . .

How to Monitor and Improve your Search Engine Rankings..

How to Monitor and Improve your Search Engine Rankings..Part 2 of 2(c) by Detlev Reimer2.) Analyze your competitor's websitea.) Analyzing keyword density :- go to your competitor's page and count how many times your mainkeyword expressions appear in the body text of his page- write down WHERE he. . .

How to Increase Link Popularity

Link Popularity refers to the number of links coming from other web sites to your web site (also called inbound links). The competition between search engines and webmasters has led the search engines to find new ways to measure the importance of a site. Google has been responsible for introduci. . .

Promote Your Website - Link Popularity

The quantity of links in different websites pointing to yoursites is called link popularity of your website. The morepopular is your site the more links you get from other websitesand vice versa.Why is it so important?Links from high traffic websites furnish you with constantstream of visitors. O. . .

Ten Steps - Step 10: The Extras

Welcome to part ten in this search engine positioning series. Over the past nine weeks we have covered the nine fundamental steps to a proper search engine positioning campaign. From choosing keywords and writing content to optimizing your pages and building quality links we have covered the requ. . .

Keywords, Competition and Being Number One- Uncovering the Algorithm

By following these steps you will see that most closely guarded secret-- the search algorithm. Remember the movie "the Matrix?" The Matrix is there, you just can't see it. So is the search algorithm.It's easy to pay a Search Engine Optimizer to give your pages some ranking power. Unfortunatel. . .

10-Minute Homepage Tune-Up

10-Minute Homepage Tune-Upr /r /By Dan Thiesr /r /Is your site's home page search engine friendly? Think so, eh? The vast majority of websites, even those belonging to Fortune 500 companies, are far from optimized. I use a simple four-step process to find the most common errors. Using this to do . . .

Free vs. Paid Submission

From Leading Australian Professional - Anthony ParsonsFree vs Paid submission has been a topic of debate for many years with regard to the actual credibility of services. Several business and websites offer Free submission services. Usually the program gives you a report, of sorts afterwards, det. . .

Keyword Targeting Strategy In Your Site

Once the keywords have been decided for the site one has to come up with a strategy to target those keywords across the site. Here is a primer on that.Keywords Targeting Strategy for Keyword of Single word:-------------------------------------------------------Keyword of Single word is useful to . . .

How important are back links?

By Jakob Jellingwww.sitetube.comWhen setting up your website for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) on Google there are several factors you need to look at in order to obtain a high rank on their search engine. Of course your content and meta tags must be inline with positive density percentages an. . .

The SEO Tragedy of the Commons

The SEO Tragedy of the CommonsDecember 3, 2004The Tragedy of the Commons is...An amazing read which is exceptionally thought provoking. It talks about how a lack of control in the name of freedom will lead to our own self destruction. If we do not control the birth rate and place the rights of hu. . .

Smart Campaign Management Tips

by Christine Churchill So you’ve decided to give pay-per-click search engine advertising a try? That’s a good move, because PPC advertising is one of the most affordable marketing options available to small businesses. But like all advertising, you need a good strategy to get your money’s worth. . . .

Good Rankings but No Sales

It's been a myth for as long as the Internet has been in existence. Get good rankings and your site will be successful. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that has never been the case. What you get when you achieve good search engine rankings is a lot of traffic. That *can* be a wonderful t. . .

Seecrets On Internet: An Ant Watching Giants Fight Part 2 (Google vs. Yahoo vs. Microsoft)

A new message reveals itself whenever there is a change within our society or culture. This is the effect of a new medium. With this early warning, one can identify the new medium before everyone knows it – which could take months, years or even decades.As Marshall McLuhan, many regard as the Pro. . .

What is Gmail?

By Jakob Jellingwww.sitetube.comLike most other prime search engines, the ability to freely giveaway an email account is a positive tool that signals to the user community that this search engine is here to stay! Google is no different in this approach. Recently, Google has been beta testing Gmai. . .

Google - A Bit of History

The first question most people have is, “What the heck is a “Google?” It is a play on the word “googol,” which is the mathematical figure 1 followed by 100 zeros. Depending on the level of your love for math, this is either the greatest or lamest name for a search engine. Regardless, the clever k. . .

10 Practical Ways Search Engine Optimization Companies and Clients Can Get Along

Even the best of intentions can go awry without careful attention to details and expectations. We’ve tested these methods out and they work.1. Get it in writing.Define the service scope in detail (i.e. we’ll research keywords and optimize these pages with approved search phrases for this long).2.. . .

How best to use Links

How best to use LinksBy Clare Lawrence 21st August 2003IntroductionGoogle is the world’s leading search engine and it measures link popularity as a key component of its ranking algorithm, using what is calls PageRank. Read the following quote from Google’s advice to webmasters:www.google.com/tech. . .

Google Page Rank Is Dead - Or Is It?

Google Page Rank Is Dead - Or Is It?By: Martin LemieuxFor a long time now, marketing gurus all over the world have been talking about google page ranking. Page ranking is simply Google's way of measuring your pages accordingly. But there is a problem...More and more we tend to see NO consistency . . .