Can SEO Exist Beyond Google Personalization?

By Kalena Jordan Speculation in the search industry is rife this week with claims that Google Search Personalization has changed the SEO playing field. But has it really? Or are people freaking out for no good reason? To find out, we’ll look at how it impacts SEO in the negative and positive. But first, let’s […]

Google Caffeine And The New Ranking Factors

By Titus Hoskins Google Caffeine is the name given to Google’s “Next Generation” search engine, which it will use to rank and index all the pages on the wonderful world wide web. According to all indications, this is not just another one of Google’s infamous Updates, but a major “Overhaul” of its index and algorithm […]

How To Control Your Listing Text in Google’s Search Results

By John Metzler A Google Webmaster Help video from Matt Cutts released on Nov. 10, 2009 got me thinking how the listing text in Google’s search results can easily be overlooked by some webmasters in their SEO efforts. SEO is all about extending the reach of your web site content to your target market using […]

Creating an HTML sitemap and a XML sitemap for your website

Creating an HTML sitemap and a XML sitemap for your website could be the easiest thing you do to improve your exposure on the web. For those of you who pay close attention to the search engine optimization (SEO) of your site, this could be the one thing that gets you onto the first page […]

10-plus SEO Questions – Google Rules

This morning I woke up to someone having submitted a pile of SEO questions using our newsletter question form. At first I thought, “Yikes, that’s kind of pushy to think I have time to answer all those questions!” But then I remembered that this was a newsletter week and I still had no idea what […]

7 Social Media Tactics for Explosive Results in Your Business

Tinu AbayomiPaul First, let’s define the term Explosive Results for our usage. A standard social media campaign helps spread the word about you and encourages other people to as well. An explosive social media campaign has inherent viral exposure, inspires community driven communication, helps make the web a better place, and even brings joy to […]

3 Reasons Why Adsense Is Essential For Content Sites

To know why Adsense is essential for your content sites is to know first how this works. The concept is really simple, if you think about it. The publisher or the webmaster inserts a java script into a certain website. Each time the page is accessed, the java script will pull advertisements from the Adsense […]

Real-Time Search – 5 Reasons Why

If you don’t understand why the Real Time Web is huge, you will soon. Thanks to micro-blogging sites like Twitter, a constant stream of human-posted content has infiltrated the Web. This growing infiltration has created a bottoms up approach to content creation that via the progressive support of rapidly developing applications has and will continue […]

Cutting Rank: How an Improper Domain Name Redirect Can Forfeit Your Top Rankings

By Tom Shivers Can my site rank better with a keyword-rich domain name? Sure. Can my site rank better without a keyword in the domain name at all? Absolutely. I get questions (or assumptions) like this regularly. Actually, there are many other things going on behind the scenes that impact rank, and the domain name […]

Free Website Traffic Secrets of the Gurus

By: Tyler James Ellison It seems to be the first question every newbie online asks in the popular marketing forums. How do I get more traffic for free? There are many answers and many experts on this subject who will share a few tidbits of their genius every once in a while, yet many still […]

Does Google PageRank Count Anymore?

By Titus Hoskins Being a full-time SEM (Search Engine Marketer) I have been conditioned like Pavlov’s dog (not a pretty picture) to jump every time Google twitches. Lately Google has been doing a lot of twitching. Specifically, the rather startling news from Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Susan Moskwa that Google has ditched PageRank from Webmaster […]

5 Popular Joomla Extensions

By Ryan T Hudson With Joomla emerging as one of the most popular CMS being used today, you can find yourself stuck in dilemma–which extension of Joomla to use for your website. Using Joomla core software programs can have enormous benefits and considerable effort has been put in developing those Joomla components, templates, modules, plugins, […]