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SEO Matters: Website Goals Increase Online Success


This is another article from our SEO Matters series, where we’ll consider setting Goals using Google Analytics and how that can really take your game up a notch. Note carefully that setting goals not only helps you increase “conversions” (get visitors to take a certain action at your site), but also helps you learn

In: Blogging Help, OS WebMaster, Online Business, WordPress CMS Help

WordPress, Drupal, Joomla Winning the CMS Game?

by Scott Frangos

Have you ever noticed how many Open Source Content Management programs there are out there? CMSMatrix.org that tracks and compare them, currently lists over 750. But of that number, only a handful have risen to the top of the heap, and a new study, The Open Source CMS Market Share report from Water & Stone names WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal as the winners.

The report author, Ric Shreves… Continue reading

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The Secret to Harnessing the Power of Social Media

By Daniel A Addington

I think advertising is going crazy at the moment over SMO using guerrilla tactics, fancy viral videos, flash games, and a multitude of other fickle engagement strategies to get people talking or thinking about their brand online. There is a false perception, I believe, that… Continue reading

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Will Google Offer Amnesty To SocialSpark & PayPerPost Bloggers?

A new convergence of Social Networks, Bloggers, and Advertisers came together in the Izea service, “SocialSpark”, which was launched earlier this year. Here, an experienced blogger and Social Media Marketer, Andy Beard, expresses his concerns about how paid blog reviews, and their sources, are being penalized in search rankings, inconsistently in his view, by Google and other search engines.

by Andy Beard

Since the first real information came out… Continue reading

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11 Tips To Fix Your Website’s Internal Search

How many times have you conducted a careful search for a product or service, only to arrive at a site and be unable to turn up a specific item using that site’s internal search? Too many times, that’s exactly what happens, and there’s no excuse for it. Justin Palmer has composed a check list so this won’t happen at your sites. - [Ed.]

By Justin Palmer

Google… Continue reading

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The Case Against Outsourced SEO

By Adam McFarland

About a week ago I got a phone call from a college buddy of mine named Paul who runs a soon-to-launch online business. Here’s how the conversation went:

Paul: “We want to hire your company to do the SEO for us. Whatever the price is, we… Continue reading

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Building the Perfectly Optimized Site Using WordPress

There’s a reason why WordPress is so popular (well over 1 million installations, according to WordPress.org), and aside from the fact that it’s user-friendly, it is also set up to help you optimize for the search engines easily and effectively. Adam McFarland gives you some great tips in this article, which is one in a series of continuing tutorials and articles (including a regular "WordPress Roundup&quot