6 Ways to Let Google Optimize Your Business

It’s easy to take the idea of search engine optimization for granted. Yeah, the marketing landscape is abuzz with all things SEO today, but did you even know what the term “search engine optimization” meant ten years ago? The term has no doubt covered a lot of ground in a short period of time.
But let’s [...]

3 Valuable Tips for the Yahoo! and Bing Search Transition

After a partnership agreement was signed exactly one year ago, Yahoo! has finally started testing organic and paid listings from Microsoft Bing this week. Yahoo! states if all goes as planned, users should expect Yahoo!’s organic search results to be powered by Bing around August/September.
The organic search transition will happen automatically. However, if [...]

9 Ways to Reduce Scraping and Catch Blog Post Theft

Content scraping or theft is when original content is stolen from a blog to republish on another blog or site.  This is considered to be plagiarism or copyright infringement, but since the Web is not completely regulated yet, scraping has become an extremely common problem.  Although, this process can be done manually, normally it is [...]

Ask Mirna: How Crucial is SEO for an E-Commerce Business?

QUESTION:
“Hi Mirna.  Just how crucial it is for a start up e-commerce business to invest in an SEO campaign, and when would you say is the best time to do that?” — Ali Badruddin
ANSWER:
This is a very common question and most e-commerce business owners fail to budget for (search engine optimization) SEO into [...]

5 SEO Scams to Avoid

As a business owner, you know that search engine optimization (SEO) is important. Without it, your website will languish in anonymity. It can be very easy to get obsessed with getting higher rankings and more traffic, something that everyone wants. Unfortunately, there are many unscrupulous people out there who prey on those desires to make [...]

7 Questions You Should Ask Your SEO Firm

SEO firms or consultants can be of great benefit to your business, but unfortunately, there are some frauds out there. You can’t just assume that someone is an expert in the field because he says he is. It’s up to you, the consumer, to take the time to do your due diligence, but the following [...]

5 Tips for SEO Video Marketing

These days, video is really growing on the Internet. Where text was once the content of choice, that’s not necessarily true anymore. Video and audio are becoming extremely popular and the fact that more people have faster Internet now means that videos can be more complex and longer than the 30 second bites from before.
While [...]

7 Ways to Make StumbleUpon More Useful for Small Business

Of all the social media sites available, StumbleUpon is perhaps one of the most complex bookmarker available. It allows you to connect with others, message them, send links to friends, vote up and down and a myriad of other actions. If you are using SU for business promotion, chances are you’re missing out on a [...]

3 Ways to Use the New Google Descriptions

Google has just rolled out a new feature that makes the descriptions shown under each search result title more useful. You can now search within a page right on the search results by clicking on a link below the description. It’s essentially a search within a search, something that can make it far easier for [...]

5 Reasons You Should Be Optimizing for Bing

The standard for search engine optimization has been Google for a very long time, but now people are starting to think about another option. Bing has been far more popular than anyone anticipated. Even with Google Caffeine on the horizon, it would be foolish not to take this new up and comer into account when [...]

Google Caffeine: A Desperate Attempt at Competition or Something Worthwhile?

The brand spanking new version of Google Caffeine is about to be launched, but the internet is already buzzing about it. Last week, a developer’s version was released and the testers have been reporting some excellent results. So just what can you expect from this new and improved search engine when it finally makes a [...]

7 Worst SEO Mistakes

These days, everyone knows that SEO is important to running a successful website, but not everyone is aware of how to implement search engine optimization successfully. Could you be sabotaging your website’s search engine ranking? Read on to find out.
The 7 worst SEO mistakes are:1. Using Flash or JavaScript. It might seem like a great [...]

Search Engine Marketing: Building Your Business Economically

One of the biggest advantages to promoting your business online, even if it`s a brick and mortar business, is the fact that it is affordable. You can literally spend tens of thousands of dollars for the same results that you`ll get for a fraction of the price online. Search engine marketing is one of the [...]

How Visible is Your Website?

Everyone wants their website to be seen and with your business website, this is particularly important. If no one ever comes to your site, how will they learn about you to buy? Unfortunately, too many businesses set up shop and then leave their website to gather dust, frustrated that no one is showing up. Meanwhile, [...]

The Benefit of Social Bookmarking for SEO

Social bookmarking has become a great tool in building web presence and promoting a business on the Internet. In addition, if you place your links wisely and know which social bookmarking sites offer dofollow links, this strategy will also help your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts.
What is Social Bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is a [...]

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