In: Blogging Help, FireFox Tricks, SEO Matters, Social Media-Marketing

SEO Matters: Discovering Backlinks that Matter

This is the first in a new series on SEO Matters, where we’ll look at the basics, with some intermediate and advanced level tips to help your Blogs and Websites rank better in search results. Since Backlinks are very important, we’ll watch a short, informative video about the concept, then learn

In: Blogging Help, Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

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

In: Social Media-Marketing

A Search Engine Optimization Campaign - Quick & Dirty

By Edward Beckett

An effective Search Engine Optimization campaign begins by using keywords to target the subjects which you intend your web site to rank for. In order to rank in the search engine results pages (SERP’s), a web site has to have a position of relevance to the search engine for a given search term. This is usually achieved by having keyword rich content on the site that coincides… Continue reading

In: Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Best Australian Search Engines

When you want to do Search Engine Marketing (SEM) in other countries (or just do research), you have to get beyond Google, even though they have extraordinary reach. But how do you learn what search engines are best in other countries? Well, Mr. Gow is going to tell you here, and he’s going to do so by teaching you how search engines may be analyzed using

In: Web Help

SEO a Scam? The Truth About the Industry

By Steve Devries

I frequent many SEO and Web Marketing forums on a daily basis and every so often there is a debate about the SEO industry and ethics. After being involved in a number of these debates, it has become really obvious that the main problems are the facts that no two SEO companies are alike and there is no unified methodology. It’s very hard to make… Continue reading

In: OS WebMaster, Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Is Google Evil?

Do you love Google? Well, Search Engine expert, Aaron Wall finds a lot…. NOT to like, including some “half truths” about PageRank, Link Equity, Organic Linking, and more. Remember the Google executives who said their mission was not to do evil? Hmmmmmm. Mr. Wall here details a number of border line offences, of interest to WebMasters and BlogMasters alike. Does he have a

In: Web Help

Alexa and Your Traffic

How Alexa Rankings Affect Your Traffic

by James Mahony

The following paragraphs summarize the work of SEO experts who are completely familiar with all the aspects of SEO. Heed their advice to avoid any SEO surprises.

Alexa is a very powerful tool, used to rank website traffic. The relationship between how Alexa rates your website and how popular your website is, however, isn’t as obvious as it might seem. You need to… Continue reading