Oct 26, 2007 | content, content creation, internet marketing, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, search marketing, SEO, web marketing, web site marketing
We’re still amazed at the number of times we get contacted about optimizing a BRAND NEW web site that is lousy from an optimization standpoint. Usually the problem is that the site is constructed in such a way that it is very difficult to get any optimized...
Oct 24, 2007 | internet marketing, search engine optimization, search marketing, SEO, social bookmarking, social media, web marketing, web site marketing
For one of our clients we are currently promoting, we are doing a lot of linking – pretty standard stuff for a search engine optimization campaign. As part of this process, we are doing a fair amount of social bookmarking of our client’s web pages. We...
Oct 22, 2007 | google, internet marketing, search engine marketing, search marketing, sitemap, web marketing, web site marketing
If you don’t currently have a Google WebMaster account that you use to submit XML sitemap files to Google, get one! The URL is: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverviewThis allows you to directly tell Google about the structure and indexable content...
Oct 18, 2007 | ad writing, google, Google Adwords, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing
We are perplexed by how mysterious Google tends to make things. Certainly, the company does everything it can to hide the intricacies of its search algorithms so as to disallow anyone taking advantage of it for artificial gains in search rankings. Fair enough. But...
Oct 16, 2007 | api, application development, google, Google Adwords, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine optimization, search marketing, web site marketing
We’re big on gaining as much Google “shelf space” as possible. In other words, for any particular keyword we are targeting, we want to have a paid search listing on the search results page as well as at least one natural search ranking. We think it...
Oct 11, 2007 | google, Google Adwords, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, Quality Score, search engine marketing, search marketing, web marketing, web site marketing
We don’t do a whole lot of complaining in this blog. We like to stay on the positive side. But Google is really getting on our nerves with its keyword “Quality Score”. A representative from Google described Quality Score thusly:”Quality Score...