Tip: Link Building

Link Building counts for the credibility, and contributes to reputation, of your website. The more credible and reputable, the higher search engine rankings you’ll receive, and aims to accomplish the goal of attaining search engine positioning within the ‘Golden Triangle’ (top 3-4 search results) that drive more than 80% of click thrus from Search. Here

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Tips: Google Places Local Listings – Avoid Suspension

When optimizing a Google Places local account listing (or Yahoo or Bing local listing), attempt to exclude inserting keywords in your Business name. This could lead to account suspension. To lean on the side of best practices, use the keywords judiciously in “Description” and “Additional information” section; and massage to some extent the keywords into

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Tips: Search Engine Marketing – AdWords Quality Score

Most Internet marketers believe that there is only one type of Quality Score in AdWords. But in fact there are three types of quality scores that are considered. Search Network Quality Score Quality Score for Google and the search partners network, depends upon following factors: the historical clickthrough rate (CTR) of the keyword and the

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Part 2: Social Media Advocates – ‘The Social Media Plan’

Continued from ‘Creating Social Media Advocates‘ – Part 2. Where to start with your social media plan? Now that we’ve gotten through the myths of social media, we can turn our focus to developing the plan on how to turn our online audience, including customers, into our evangelists and advocates. Where to begin? Take your

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Google +1 Button – Another Facebook ‘Like’?

———————————————————————————————- Updated: May 27, 2011:  Google +1 & Search Rankings As we eluded to in the below post we published on Google +1, the affect of the new social media ‘recommendation’ button will impact search results. Matt Cutts confirmed what Google said when the +1 button launched: Google will use +1 activity to influence its search results. “It’s

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