Top Ten Items in SEO and Search Marketing
The connection between an IP address and SEO
The term IP addresses seems to be very intimidating especially if you don’t have a particular experience when it comes to web hosting. IP address is a specific location that is given to a website by its hosting company. IP addresses are unique just like any other normal home address or e-mail address that we have. This article tackles the influence that IP addresses have to SEO. It differs in whatever which way you choose to look at it, but it definitely has significant impact on SEO.
Internet Marketing Skills that should be natural to any expert
This article gives a rundown on the top 11 internet marketing skills that should be natural to any expert. These skills are: XHTML and CSS, Search engine optimization, Pay per click marketing, analysis, usability, complete sentences, RSS and feeds, blogging and media, e-mail marketing, Statistics 101 and Marketing.
The link between SEO and Social Media
The terms SEO and Social Media are sometimes used interchangeably. SEO is linked in social media in such a way that without social media sites, SEO will surely suffer. Getting links is important in SEO and this can be done through many social media sites. Through social media, the makers of SEO will know their target audience well through analysis of user behavior used by popular search engines.
Google recently conducted and completed a study about sitemaps during the WWW 09 Conference held in Madrid. The study’s aim was to measure the extent of the use of sitemaps in Google. Some of the interesting facts lifted from the study are 35 millions sitemaps were built as of October 2008, these 35 million sitemaps have billions of URLs in them and most popular sitemaps use XML, Unknown, URL list, Atom and RSS.
Ways on how you can use Google Calendar as a Productivity tool
Google Calendar is useful enough as it is. But this article presents more ways on how this program can be used as a productivity tool. The ten ways highlighted in this site include: using Gears so you can use Google Calendar offline, integrate with Gmail, integrate with Facebook, get to know more features of this program like calendar notifier and the milk, use Google calendar beautifiers and alternative management.
Updates on Google Adsense policies
Updates on the Google Adsense’s policies were introduced this week. Some of the additional policies include banning sites which are: pornographic in nature, uses mature and violent content, content which promotes racism, excessive profanity, stolen or hacked content, content with drugs or drug paraphernalia and sales of beer and tobacco among others.
This article tackles the rising popularity of programs which offer to make your URLs shorter. Thanks to the number of characters restriction in Twitter. If you are entertaining thoughts on shortening your URLs, this article suggests that you do it on your own instead of employing a program to do it for you.
Pitfalls of small business when it comes to making their website
The common pitfalls of small businesses when making their website are as follows: they hire cheap designers, they hire some unknown person they know to make the website, they reinvent the wheel on the navigation of their site, the website they make have identity crisis, no call to action, they are led to believe that their site can be the number one website, copy content from another site, not search engine friendly, excessive advertising, link out to everybody and poor domain choices.
Sites that Small Business should go into
Small business usually doesn’t have the capacity and budget to hire big and popular consultants to help them with their websites. Due to this a small business owner should be creative enough to think of ideas that he can use to help his website. Four top sites that small business owners can use to help them out are Yahoo Answers, Twitter, Wordpress and Flickr.
As SEO practitioners, we all know that links are very important in any site so that it can improve the rate of traffic to your site. It is important that you find sites in which you can get popular links to be used in your site. Different sources for link intelligence are: Google, Yahoo Site Explorer, Majestic SEO, SEOmoz Linkscape and Alexa among others.
Alternative Keyword Suggestion Tool
Keyword research is very important in SEO and this is the reason why a lot of keyword suggestion tools are very popular right now. One specific keyword tool is reviewed in this blog and that is Actual Keywords. It is a newly launched keyword tool which offers list of keyword phrases and full package for popular phrases, free of charge.
