One common mistake of online marketing is that the “SEO Experts” and “SEO Specialists” are brought in too late into the process. Instead of thinking of search engine optimization as something you tweak, how about considering it as something you build? What about the SEO Architects? And who would the SEO Architects be? They would [...]
Nowadays, online shoppers expect companies to invest real time and money into their websites. Businesses must make sure they have covered all the basic features of a trustworthy e-commerce site. To name a few: a good About page, a reliable and easy checkout process, and indications that the company has made efforts to protect customer [...]
Previously, we discussed the helpfulness of directories and shared some tips on how to avoid being labeled a spammer. Now, we show you the first “human-powered” search engine/directory that strives to be spam-free. Mahalo (“thank you” in Hawaiian) arrived in early 2007, and it has been in beta mode since January 2008. Unlike search engines [...]
For some time now, Microsoft has been making hints and/or threats about providing really serious competition for Google’s search engine. Its recent failed merger with Yahoo!, however, seemed to dull their prospects. But they’re bouncing back in unexpected ways.
Small and medium-sized businesses can learn something from the first quarter saga of Google, Inc. Despite a previous episode of preemptive panic and low expectations, Google smugly reported a profit increase of 42% compared to last year’s first quarter. Why did investors predict the worst? And how did Google bounce back? To answer the first [...]
Search engine marketing (SEM) usually involves two beloved methods, SEO (search engine optimization), and PPC (pay per click). SEO involves making your website “popular” or “worthwhile” by the search engine’s standards so that it appears sooner in search engine result pages (SERP). These types of search engine results are called “organic.” The other kind, PPC, [...]
July 28, 2011
Going by numbers alone, chances are that if you have an internet connection, you already care about Google+. In the past three weeks since it’s gone live, the new social media network has rocketed to over 20 million users. It’s worth noting that it got to that number much faster than the other big boys [...]
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