Every web site owner wants more traffic and higher rankings in the search engines. In the midst of an SEO campaign, however, it’s easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees. So before you change a single title, you might want to shift your focus to answer some important questions. Discuss (1)
Metadata, in its simplest form, is information about data. In this tutorial, we are going to look at the HTML and XHMTL elements known as Meta Elements and learn to use them. Not all are still used by search engines to determine rank, but they still have their purpose, and that is what this article is all about. Discuss (1)
Please optimize this page title! It’s so boring I’m sure you wouldn’t want to steal it. Seriously, in this article I’m going to explain what page titles are (as opposed to post titles or article titles) and how and why to optimize them. We might even come up with a better title for this article along the way. Discuss (1)
No new business wants to turn down clients, and even older, more established businesses hate to do it. That’s true in SEO as well. Unfortunately, it is sometimes necessary. In this article I’ll talk about the kinds of clients you should avoid – and if you’re an SEO client, you’ll find out the kinds of behaviors you should avoid. Discuss (14)
In the first part of this article I introduced you to Viewzi, a visual search engine that takes a different approach to visual search by suiting the interface to the type of query made by the user. I only showed you a couple of Viewzi's views. In this article, I'm going to show you a number of the other views, compare results with Google, and finally discuss Viewzi's possible future. Discuss (1)
After launching Google Trends in 2006 to great fanfare, Google has been busy developing additional layers that help users better view the world's Internet activities. Google Trends for Websites is the newest tool in the shed. It lets people see just how popular individual websites are by ranking them across different geographical regions and comparing them to other related sites. This article will cover the pros and cons of Google's latest web tracker. Discuss (1)
You can’t write the same way for the web as you would for a print publication. Site visitors focus differently on the web; they skim rather than read. You can’t change their behavior, so if you want to get your point across, you need to change the way you write. Discuss (3)
If you're tired of standard search results that yield ten blue links per page, there are any number of visual search engines that can change the way you look at the web. But none offer quite the variety of Viewzi. Not content to provide one version of a visual interface on search, Viewzi offers more than a dozen. Discuss (3)
Your domain name should be the most memorable part of your business. Many web site owners struggle with this important decision, or lament that “all the good ones are taken.” I can’t tell you how to create the next Amazon or Google, but I can offer a few pointers on creating a domain name. Discuss (1)
Is asking a simple question and getting a simple answer too much to hope for from today's search engines? For the most part, it seems that way. But Answers.com is trying to change that. The three-year-old search engine hopes to give answers to your natural language queries that will keep you coming back. Discuss (1)
Well before Microsoft and Yahoo started discussing a merger that later fell apart, the venerable search engine seemed a little lost in its journey to an uncertain future. As we look at the latest news surrounding Yahoo, we can ponder what kind of soul stands revealed by the company; is it a phoenix or a zombie? Will the deal with Google save it – and if not, what's next? Discuss (3)
Lately, more and more national entities and small businesses have been trying to capitalize on local online advertising and Marchex, a company that has been devoted to local search for years now, wants to help. They recently created an exclusive platform, called Adhere, to help facilitate ad placement on hundreds of publisher websites and its own vertical search engine. Discuss (3)
If you’re a small business person with a web site, you’re probably working 12-hour days to keep things running. You may or may not have heard of search engine optimization. If you have, you’re wondering what you can do to get a better position in Google and receive more traffic. Hiring an SEO might be the answer. Discuss (7)
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