Social Media Marketing
Social Media Marketing is a skill and should be taken lightly. Social Media has known to make or break companies in this time of day. The first step to understand Social Media is to realize that it is not just Social Networking with friends. Social Media is a way to communicate with your paying customers and keep them up to date with your company. The second step to understand Social Media is to realize this is the easiest way to stay connected to your friends as there are over 600 million people on Facebook today!
How Much Does SEO Cost?
SEO Moz put together an infographic which shows the cost of SEO from over 600 SEO agencies across the world. It seems that most companies will charge between $76 to $200/hour. Share with us how much you charge or how much you’ve heard people charge....
read moreI Have The Secret To Getting You To Number 1 on Google in 48 Hours
….Just Kidding Here is a video Matt Cutts just uploaded about one of his biggest surprises that he and his team still uncover in 2012. “I would probably say the sheer number of people who continued to be snookered by snakeoil salesman products…that promise to instantly rocket you to number one,” says Cutts. He then goes on to say “I would expect that in 2012, people would be a little bit more skeptical about that, especially after we do a pretty good job of finding various link networks, different ways of spamming Google – all...
read moreThe Personalities That Make Great SEOs
Here’s an infographic from a blog I just started following called Cucumber Nebula which offers some comical relief and twisted humor for the conventional SEO related news. Here is an infographic which made me laugh about the different personalities that make up great SEOs. Which one are you? by Cucumber...
read moreSEOs Are Like Financial Advisors and Here’s Why
SEOs are very much like Financial Advisors if you think about it. There are many similarities between these two industries more so than you may think. ROI is very important with both SEOs and Financial Advisors. Read on for more similarities: To gain each client there must be a cold call. A lot of the cold call is explaining what exactly they do. Both promise a return. There are a lot of people in the industry, so choosing one is tough. A lot of people in the industry lie. A lot of people go into the industry because they excel in sales and...
read moreMatt Cutts Warns About Spammy Guest Blogging
In Matt Cutts’ recent Google Webmaster Video, He warns about using Spammy Guest Blogging on your website and also about sending spammy guest blogging to other websites. Here Matt says that “article spinning” as a means of placing content on other websites are clear indicators that the links won’t provide much value and can actually hurt the website’s reputation. The 3 main websites I’ve used to find guest bloggers in the past were the following: BloggersMeet.org MyBlogGuest.com BloggerLinkUp.com I will say...
read moreWhy You Should Not Use Google’s New Disavow Tool
As the Disavow Tool was released the other day, after much given thought I’d highly recommend you from not using the Google Disavow Tool. And Here’s why: No Promises from Google if and when you should gain your ranking back. You’re admitting that you cheated to Google. Free Crowd Sourcing for Google with no promised returns. Your hurting a lot of websites which may be getting backlinks from that potential site you deem as spammy. A lot of webmasters are going to submitting lists and lists over to Google which contain...
read more[Webmaster] Why Is Keyword Not Provided in Google Analytics?
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Ever since October 2011, Organic Keyword data that was logged from people using Google.com as a search term has provided more and more instances of the dreaded (Keyword Not Provided) on Google Analytics. As a webmaster it’s very frustrating that most of the keywords that are typed into Google to locate our website is no longer made available to us. The lack of information is troubling for the SEO industry as we used this information in order to utilize the search terms that our customer base used to find our particular...
read moreGoogle’s Disavow Links Tool Is Finally Here
Google has just released its Disavow Links Tool which is not a tool that is necessary for any website. Watch the video below of Matt Cutt’s explanation of it.
read moreTop 15 Websites and Programs I Can’t Live Without (Webmaster)
1. Hosting Bluehost I’ve tried many different hosting accounts and for a low-budget hosting company which can hold a multitude of websites and have a good uptime, I haven’t found one better than Bluehost. I’ve used Fatcow, iPage, Host Gator, GoDaddy and many others and have always had the best results with Bluehost. 2. Analytics Google Analytics There are a few different options you can use for Analytics, but by far the easiest to use with good information and FREE is Google Analytics. No competition here on this one in my...
read moreThe Importance of AuthorRank in the Future of SEO
Ever since AuthorRank was implemented by Google I knew that I should jump on the wagon here. When Google slightly hints that something might be a determining factor in search results, why would you not jump on the opportunity? Luckily there’s so many SEOers out there who don’t stay up to date on what’s relevant and continue to do what they’ve been doing for the past 10 years, so they haven’t fully implemented AuthorRank into their SEO Strategy. So will you be different and stand out? AuthorRank is an idea that not...
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