6 Ways to Let Google Optimize Your Business
August 25, 2010 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Google, Guest Posts, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Media
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 [...]
7 Simple Ways to Improve Conversion on Your Website
June 4, 2010 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Business, Guest Posts, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Website
The whole point in having a website is to either generate sales or gain readers, other than that there is no other real value. Blogs want more people to reads their news and general ramblings, whereas retailers, tour operators, car leasers and directories want to generate sales. Making money is a core element in anyone’s [...]
Internal Linking Best Practices to Help Boost Rankings
May 31, 2010 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Guest Posts, Internet Marketing, Link Building, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
When putting together a website, it’s important to think about optimizing your internal link structure to make sure it’s as search engine friendly as possible. A lot of the time, the potential of internal linking is overlooked in favor of other SEO factors, focusing mainly on the specific pages and not looking at the website [...]
Ask Mirna: Will My Blog Be Penalized for Duplicate Content?
April 28, 2010 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Ask Mirna, Blogging, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
QUESTION:
“What is the impact on your blog rankings if you take some of the blog posts and repackage them as e-zine articles? Effectively, you are using the content twice. Will my blog rankings be penalized? If so, how much?” — Rob B.
ANSWER:
The duplicate content penalty is used by Google and other major search engines [...]
Ask Mirna: How Crucial is SEO for an E-Commerce Business?
March 2, 2010 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Ask Mirna, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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
January 28, 2010 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Internet Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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
January 2, 2010 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Internet Marketing, Search Engine Marketing
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
October 8, 2009 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Media, Social Networking, Video Marketing, Viral 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
October 5, 2009 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Bookmarking, Social Media, Social Networking, StumbleUpon
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
September 29, 2009 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Google, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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
September 20, 2009 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Google, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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 [...]
7 Worst SEO Mistakes
August 12, 2009 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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 [...]
The Benefit of Social Bookmarking for SEO
March 15, 2009 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Viral Marketing
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 [...]
3 “Must See” SEO Charts
February 17, 2009 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
We wanted to share what we think are great charts for anyone starting to dabble with SEO.
Two of the charts are posted on SEOBOOK, a great blog by Aaron Wall, one of the masters of search engine optimization (SEO). SEOBOOK offers online marketing strategy tips and search news.
The first chart is the SEO Flow [...]
An SEO Glossary – Common SEO Terms Defined
December 15, 2008 by Mirna Bard
Filed under Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has become an essential weapon in the arsenal of every online business. Unfortunately, for most business owners and marketing managers (and even many webmasters), it’s also somewhat of an enigma. This is partly due to the fact that it’s such a new and rapidly changing field, and partly due to the [...]





