Browsing MonthDecember, 2007
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23 December 2007 at 18 : 45 PM
Competing For Organic Search Hits
If you ask any consultant how to rank on the first page in google, they’re going to probably tell you its a combination of effort, luck, some google “magic sauce,” relevance, patience and targeting a niche market. No matter how great your writing is, no matter how awesome your site looks, you may still have […]
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20 December 2007 at 03 : 51 AM
Design And Layout Pays Off
What is it about your blog that separates you from the other bloggers? Is it the content? Or, are you breaking news nobody else has been able to break? More than likely you’re not breaking any news stories but you are probably providing content that’s informative, interesting and well crafted. You can write the best […]
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15 December 2007 at 04 : 17 AM
Market Yourself Slowly To Google
When working towards great back links, referrals from other sites and social bookmarking, it’s important to work slowly and build up to it. It it said that Google likes a young site to grow over time, sites that show up in the google index and have thousands of back links may be suspicious to a […]
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12 December 2007 at 22 : 35 PM
Blogging On E-Commerce Sites: Marked As Spam?
Many SEO consultants will tell you the easiest way to get your companies site in the market, for free, is to advertise through organic search. However, most e-commerce sites have a fairly static set of content. If you’re selling widgets but don’t get a new widget brand every day you’ll probably have a bunch of […]
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12 December 2007 at 22 : 38 PM
Cross Linking To Yourself
Internal linking to yourself is important for a number of reasons. First, you can reason it helps your readers find related topics quickly, much like wikipedia does, it references to itself whenever a big topic or keyword shows itself. Wiki isn’t out to get huge page rank, it comes naturally to wiki, but it helps […]
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12 December 2007 at 21 : 33 PM
Better Content Equals Better Back Links
Have you ever noticed one of the most popular first entry to a search engine like Google is Wikipedia? You think it’s just dumb luck or maybe search engines are organizing things in reverse alphabetical order? No. Of course that’s not the reason. The reason is wikipedia has a crap ton of great information, references […]
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12 December 2007 at 04 : 17 AM
Google Analytics Too Slow? 103Bees!
Although I love to use Google Analytics for historical graphic and trying to drill down through my website content to see where users are coming from and what they’re doing when they are reading, it’s pretty slow to update. Their are other tools out there which you can apply to your webpage footer to get […]
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11 December 2007 at 04 : 02 AM
You Don’t Have To Compete To Be Complete
If you’re wondering why stupid blogs tend to get huge fast, it might be due to their parent company. There are many websites that masquerade as blogs but are really huge websites funding their popularity with TV shows and money. The word on the streets is “blogs are the new thing” and everyone has to […]
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10 December 2007 at 02 : 21 AM
Your Fate? Affiliate!
Working really hard at providing users with great content but their not clicking on your ads with enough consistency? You may be looking for some alternative, perhaps a different style of blogging or a different ad agency but you should slow down a bit. If you’re providing content there is a good chance you could […]
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8 December 2007 at 05 : 55 AM
Why Are Websites Always Blue?
In marketing terms, a blue website symbolizes comfort and trust. It is said that over half the population calls its favorite color blue. Why are websites always blue? Because people like websites that are blue and if they like your site they’ll probably stick around for a few minutes. Red, supposedly, symbolizes “danger,” however that […]
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