Category: Internet Marketing
WordPress Tip: Don’t Forget to Ping
Pings are a simple way to tell other sites to check your blog for the new content that you’ve posted. Each time you hit publish it sends out a ping to the sites you define in your WordPress settings.
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Six Golden Rules of Domain Names
Domains still play a very important role on the success of the websites built upon them. A good domain can be the difference between a successful site and a flop. It is important to do some thinking (with your marketing cap on) before deciding on a name for your website or blog.
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Using the Power of Video for SEO
When you perform a search on one of the major search engines, take a look at what you get. You get more than just search results, notice the results now include images and videos. The videos returned in the search results stand out on Google because it includes a thumbnail image with a play button. Web surfers have a tendency to jump the the video link even if it’s not the top search result, simply because video is more engaging. Having your videos indexed in Google can be a great way to get ahead of your competition when it comes to being discovered on the major search engines.
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Organic Traffic vs. Paid Traffic – Which One is Better?
When it comes to internet marketing on the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing there are two ways to get exposure in the search results – either organic or paid. Is one way better than the other? Is it worth the money to pay-per-click on the search engines? Let’s look at the difference between organic and paid placement:
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Anatomy of a Keyword Phrase
Keywords are the foundation to any successful Internet marketing campaign or strategy. Simply put, keyword phrases are the combination of words that people type into Google to find your website. A good place to start brainstorming your website keyword phrases is to ask yourself, “what would my ideal customer type into the Google search box to find me?”
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Do you want traffic on your website? Do you want traffic you don’t have to constantly pay per click? Well the answer is content. You need to have more than just a 5 page website brochure if you want to build organic (not paid for) traffic. The best way to add more pages to your website is through a blog. Don’t use a third party blog, you want one hosted on YOUR website so YOU get all the benefits.
Google is making it easier for webmasters to tag their video content to get indexed in the Google search results. Because video content is graphic based and not text based it’s hard for Google’s spiders to index this type of content.
If you have a blog where you want to reach more people and drive traffic to your website you really need to be creating videos and uploading them on the web. Compete.com shows that YouTube had 85 million unique visitors in July 2009! Just imagine what it could do for your site if you happened to create a viral video that got 100,000 views… 200,000 views…. 1 million views!
It can be overwhelming to think about all of the content you have to create to maintain a social media and internet marketing campaign. Coming up and generating original ideas for blog posts, tweets, fan pages, videos, and podcasts can be challenging. However, by compounding your content and using a blog post to inspire a chain of related tweets, posts, and video you can reduce the time and increase the effectiveness of your online marketing.
Becoming an authority site is the ‘holy grail’ in the hunt for top position on the search engines. Most websites either lack content our lack the incoming links to be considered authority sites. On most search engines, you will notice that the top 10 results are usually loaded with authority sites. There are some exceptions, but in general, the search engines reward authority sites with top rankings.