by Sharon Housley
Choosing a domain is one of the first steps in establishing an online presence. Changing a domain after-the-fact can be time consuming, and can be harmful to search engine ranking, so it is best to get it right the first time around. Follow these simple steps to select a domain name that will [...]
Disclaimer: nothing that you read below has been confirmed or approved in any way by major search engines such as Google. At best it is a summary of what industry commentators say about successful linking strategies. Some of these have been tested, but many can not be proved with testing and must be considered speculation.
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1. Hidden Dollars in Email
Given that it is far cheaper to sell to an existing customer than find a new one, and marketers suggest 12 “touches” per annum for each customer, doesn’t email present itself and a cheap and fast means of keeping in touch?
Go low tech, just start with Outlook. Set up groups and [...]
The Keyword Effectiveness Index or KEI compares the number of searches for a keyword with the number of search results.
Suppose the number of searches for a keyword is 486 per month and Google displays 214,234 results for that keyword. Then the ratio between the popularity and competitiveness for that keyword is 486 divided by 214,234. [...]
Pay per click advertising is essentially bidding in an auction for position on the search engine results pages. You set a monthly budget, say $50, set the maximum you are prepared to pay for a click say $1 and the search engine will serve your ads (top and right) amongst the natural results UNTIL your [...]
You may have noticed that sometimes when you use Google it returns a map with the search results. The map has pins on it that correlate to the top 3 most relevant sites right of the map (see example).
The map is clickable and it can move you to a bigger Google map page. Each of the [...]