Paid links: Valuation techniques

October 31, 2007 by Tim Gill  
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To purchase links or not? You really need to know the type of link popularity that is going to be passed to determine a monetary figure to associate with the link. This way you know what kind of deal you’re getting if you are buying links. There’s a few ways to associate a value with the [...]

Growing Your Inbound Links

October 29, 2007 by Tim Gill  
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It should be emphasized that the more quality inbound links your website has, the more likely it is to be deemed “important” by the search engines. Therefore, a good SEO package includes the development of a quality linking strategy. This is a technique that connects your website to other relevant websites, through the placement of [...]

Penalized By Google?

October 29, 2007 by Tim Gill  
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The Official Google PageRank Update has just happened yesterday. Many websites have been penalized for selling text adds. If you see a different PR on different datacenter as well, you probably are being penalized by Google for selling Text Link Ads. If you would like to get your PageRank back, you can go to Google [...]

The best open source CMS?

October 29, 2007 by Tim Gill  
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I always prefer Wordpress, is nice, friendly and have a lot, a lot of extensions…And for the clients is very easy to understand. The only thing that Wordpress lacks is a good forum plugin. Wordpress.. yes, it seems too much popular but isn’t it just for blogs? For clients that desire greater customization [...]

How to blog as a corporation . . .

October 28, 2007 by Tim Gill  
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Transparency is Paramount People who read and write blogs generally speak plainly and expect others to do the same. The cynical nature of bloggers causes them to quickly dismiss messages that employ buzz-words and marketing speak. It is important that blog posts always be candid and honest. It should also be clear who is blogging and why. [...]

Don’t make your visitors have to think . .

October 28, 2007 by Tim Gill  
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Ensure your site has intuitive navigation and usable site architecture, not just an appealing look and feel. Visitors should be able to accurately guess what a button or link does before clicking on it. The search function (you do of course have one!) should appear in the navigation bar, preferably at the top right, where users [...]

Rich Media. Rich Results.

October 24, 2007 by Tim Gill  
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Every advertiser – and every ad online campaign – is unique. Campaigns have different sets of objectives, and different creative goals and rich media implementations are required to deliver the specific and quantifiable results that today’s online advertisers expect. What is your next Campaign’s Objective? Your rich media has creative goals for each of the four primary [...]

Flash and Search Engines

October 24, 2007 by Tim Gill  
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Flash suffers from under optimization, and is perceived as harming search engine rankings. . . Why are search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners concerned about Flash, and how can we SEO Flash content? The main problem with Flash is that search engines don’t yet understand it, and probably won’t in the [...]

Search Engine Marketing

October 24, 2007 by Tim Gill  
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There is a lot involved with search engine marketing. In fact, it can be a bit overwhelming, even for those with a great deal of experience. It really boils down to creating best practices. The good news is that by taking it one step at a time, it is not hard to learn. And [...]

Get Verified by Google

October 19, 2007 by Tim Gill  
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Using Google’s webmaster tools you can obtain comprehensive stats and and error information about the pages in your site. Its as easy as adding a meta tag to your site.<meta name=”verify-v1″ content=”wUgn2fcqOau6b4u84ZVxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=” /> Why do it? To further take advantage of additional webmaster benefits from Google, we have introduced support of verifying site ownership with Google. Merchants can [...]