Dominate YouTube for Your Local Business

It's ironic that in a culture that loves to fast forward through commercials, the first sites viewed after an Internet search are often video-based commercials. YouTube can be a powerful source of advertising for small and medium-sized businesses as long as it's done utilizing best Search Engine Optimization (SEO) practices. Best of all, it's completely free. Here are some tips on how to use local search marketing to dominate YouTube with PR

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Of Pandas and Penguins

Google s Penguin update builds on the multiple Google Panda updates tradition to improve relevance in search results. While the Panda algorithm targets low quality content, the Penguin algorithm targets low quality links. Therefore, it's important to determine which algorithm has caused a drop in your site's search traffic.

There are three ways to help you determine which update affected your site.

  1. First is the date of the traffic drop. A Panda update occurred on April 19, 2012. Penguin rolled out on April...

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Why Acquiring Glancee is Just as Important as Instagram for Facebook

I’m sure you’ve heard the news - it is Facebook after all – that Facebook has acquired Glancee for an undisclosed amount of moolah. Speculation is still stirring on what they plan to do with the ‘friendly stalking’ app, but it’s quite simple. And while Instagram was purchased because its popularity and skyrocketing user base was starting to scare the social networking giant, Glancee has been gliding relatively under the radar since its inception in 2010. Let’s take a look at some numbers…


January 2012 Google Search Updates

Although the January 2012 Google updates are less noteworthy than the initial introduction of Panda, they provide evidence that the search engine giant continues to focus on providing results that are faster, more timely and more accurate.


Finding Only the Freshest Results

Minor improvements were made to the freshness update that Google implemented in November. "Freshness" refers to search results with an element of timeliness, such as hot topics or recent events. The latest change in this area involves an...

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Online Marketing Trends for Businesses in 2011

The year 2010 was the year of social media. Social media consolidated its position and by the end of the year major search engines admitted that their algorithm took into account the visibility of a website link on the profiles of the famous and the popular!

The year 2011 will be the year of mobile applications. Internet access via mobiles will increase. Mobile browsers on the other hand will display search results based on location. So ensure your website is a part and parcel of those applications especially if you are in retail,...

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Interviewing Your Potential SEO Company (Part-2)

The main objective of this weeks post? Interviewing Your Potential SEO Company (part 2) is to cover the areas of partnership between the prospective SEO company and your business. The blog consists of questions which help in determining?? whether the company is going to take an active interest in the success of your business or just punch the clock and charge the monthly search engine optimization fees. The basic questions that a company must ask are:-
'How often will we communicate' , 'What is our timeline and how will we...

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Fifteen Things You May Not Know About SEO

The daily evolution of search engine optimization results in the birth of new myths on a regular basis but the old ones dont seem to die with the same regularity. This may be due to the idea that some myths make it easier for companies to sell their SEO services, while others just carry on under their own power. The following is a list of some of the new myths as well as those that might take either a silver bullet or a wooden stake to kill.

  1. That Google partners with or approves SEO companies - This one is unlikely to die any...

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Search Engine Optimization Ten Myths and Mistakes

A lot of confusion exists in the Search Engine world.a lot of myths and lot of Mistakes:-
  1. It’s All about Meta tags and submission
  2. Web Designers and Developers understand Search Engine.
  3. Multiple Submission Improve Search Position
  4. you don’t know your keywords
  5. Too many pages with database prameters and session id.
  6. Bulding the site and then brining in seo Expert
  7. Can get you site number one position
  8. Google partners get you number one...

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