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Majestic-SEO Offers iPad to Most Creative Use of Link Data

Majestic-SEO

Majestic-SEO has been growing quickly over the past couple years and their database of valuable online linking data has worked it's way into many popular SEO tools, as well as being utilized unique ways by SEO ninjas all over the world. While many of … [Read more...]

SEO Content Building and Critical Thinking and Writing-

SEO Content Building and Critical Thinking and Writing- Congrats to me! I’m out of the sandbox! Really that doesn’t mean a whole lot except I passed the 90 day mark of my probation time at MorePro, I have more hours to work and the SEO team … [Read more...]

SEO VS. The World of Advertising

Derek’s Sandbox – Day 75 Almost there... Although I’ve graduated with a degree in technical communication, I’ve been surrounded by the marketing world for much longer from being in a band and working in radio promotions. Granted, I do not … [Read more...]

The Importance of Staying on Schedule

When it comes to SEO, timing is everything.  Just like with radio, television or even print ads; marketing your company online needs to be done in advance of busy seasons.  There are a few reasons for this which will be addressed later on in the … [Read more...]

How to Use Google Analytics

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If you have taken the time to install Google Analytics on your website, then you obviously have some sort of interest in analyzing your site’s visitors. But do you know what you’re looking for as you sort through the data? For a first time user, … [Read more...]

Why is Search Engine Optimization Important?

Search engine optimization is a phrase that is thrown out a lot these days, but just how important is SEO? The answer depends on whether you want to make money, generate leads, or just gain more traffic to your website.  The fact of the matter is … [Read more...]

Content is King

Content is King. Web content.  What is this “king” that search engines, web-savvy intellects and other industry gurus refer to?  According to Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville in Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, content is … [Read more...]

Preparing PPC Campaigns for the Holidays

If you have not started already; NOW is the time to prepare your PPC Campaigns for the Holiday Shopping Period. More and more people are turning to the internet to doing their Holiday shopping. Need more incentive, last year during the Holiday … [Read more...]

Site Tracking Shifts from Page Views to Time Spent on Site

One of the top site analytic/measuring companies in the world, Nielson/NetRatings, announced plans to shift from reporting Page Views as the metric of how popular a site is, to using how long users spend on a website (or Time Spent on Site). With … [Read more...]

The Good and Bad of the Panama Version of Yahoo

Yahoo Search Marketing has been switching users over to the new Panama Version since the 4th Quarter of 2006.  I have had the pleasure of working with the new Panama Version of Yahoo since November 2006.  While not everything is as user-friendly … [Read more...]

Hallelujah – Yahoo to Allow NOYDIR Meta Robots Tag!

Yahoo has finally wised up and implemented support for a new Meta robots tag that will allow you to opt-out" from having your Yahoo! Directory title and description show up in the search results. The tag is called "NOYDIR" or No Yahoo Directory, and … [Read more...]

Google Shows more Links, Yahoo Opens it’s Pipes

The two biggest stories the past few weeks related to internet marketing and SEO are probably the new tools that Google and Yahoo both rolled out. Google unveils more links Within your Google Webmaster Tools account, you can now view/download a much … [Read more...]

Common SEO Blunders… Must read for web designers

It' inevitable... you hire a design firm to build you a great website and you expect the site to perform well.  The only problem is, your web designer omitted some meta tags, used too many images, or added some bogus HTML coding to your … [Read more...]