Although SEO is not an exact science, experts can, of course, easily tell the truth from the lies in terms of the efficiency of an SEO campaign or whether your business or whatever endeavor you have will benefit from any strategies or not.
Lee Odden of TopRank clarified five wrong notions about SEO:
Images are getting more known on helping drive traffic to a site. However, aside from writing descriptive alt tags, headings and other textual descriptions, how else do you make sure your site get the most traffic from Google’s Image Search feature?
Google Image Search can be especially beneficial to those with e-commerce sites or are using images for their e-tail business products. But how can you make this Google product help your image get your site indexed?
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Check out your site’s visitors’ demographics, which include their age and gender through Microsoft’s demographics prediction tool.
Here are the results for SEO Dance:
What could be sweeter this Christmas than to have these sweet cupcakes as gifts? And what a definitely smart linkbait idea from Jayvee of Abuggedlife.com, don’t you think?
He even has cellphone cookies inspired by his Cellphone9 blog.
Jayvee Fernandez, Christmas linkbait, linkbait idea, Cellphone9
There’s the linkbait, drinkbait, sharkbait, all kinds of baits.
And one has just become more creative with a hatbait. Search Marketing Gurus’ Liana Evans is the brainchild behind this fun linkbait in the form of voting for your favorite hatbait pictures. Pictures of many of the most prominent search engine marketing experts holding the linkbait posters have joined. So who do you vote?
Aside from the main winner, here are some possible additional awards:
If there’s enough comments on the picture, perhaps will bestow an “honorary” HatBait.com award …. like “Most Tortured HatBait Participant”, or most “OxyMoronic HatBait Picture”.
Who will I vote? Who else?!
There’s the pagerank toolbar, traffic analysis tools, and traffic ranking tools. These are SEOs’ tools of the trade. And we can’t avoid competition amongst them, such as that of between Compete and Alexa.
After the nudging of many traffic analysts or maybe just some rumormongers on how Compete, competes against Alexa, the two are the most popular traffic ranking tools, here’s Compete’s take on the matter:
Always on the lookout for the perfect web statistics tool out there, today, I’ve signed up for Clicky Web Statistics.
It just took me five minutes to sign up because of its real straightforward interface. It has easy-install instructions for Blogspot and Wordpress users.
Are you using a webcam from Axis Communications?
Owners of Axis Communications’ webcams are able to publish online their streaming webcam page and will have a default URL pattern similar to as follows:
http://www.domain-or-ip-address.com/path/view/index.shtml
Knowing this, a search command can be done in Google called inurl. You can search the following in Google:
inurl:/view/index.shtml
Now you can have the time of your life viewing other people’s webcams or be terrified or whatever.
Uh-oh.
via Ituloy-AngSulong
Google inurl command, inurl command, view webcams, streaming webcam
Search Engine Journal has again opened the nominations for Search Blog Awards for 2006.
Here are the categories for this year’s Search Blog Awards:
* Best SEO Blog
* Best SEM Blog
* Best Search Agency Resource Blog
* Best Link Building Blog
* Best Social Media Blog
* Best Search Engine Corporate Blog (owned by the search engines)
* Best Contextual Advertising Blog
* Best Affiliate Marketing Blog
* Best Search Engine Community/Forum Blog
* Best Web 2.0 Blog
* Best Search Linkbait of 2006
Why isn’t there a category for Best Search Engine Blog from Blog Networks? I’d surely be nominating a lot of blogs. Hehe.
Nominations and voting details here.
2006 Search Blogs Awards, Best Search Blog, Search Engine Blogs, SEO blog, Search Engine Journal
Keyword suggestion tools can be very handy in ensuring that your site maximizes its usability. If your readers or potential traffic would like to know about a certain term but can’t remember the exact term, and can only think of related keywords, those related keywords should also be found on your site’s content.
KWBrowse is another keyword suggestion tool that Chuck Huckaby, a successful work-at-home blogger, concludes..
The usefulness of the tool is that it helps you and I as marketers break out of our tunnel vision.
Internet marketing experts Aaron Wall, Lee Dodd, Dave Taylor, and Jeremy Schoemaker will be holding an online business event namely Elite Retreat Conference. The conference, which will cover a wide array of search engine optimization, social networking, and monetization topics, will take place on December 18-19 in Marriott RiverCenter San Antonio, Texas. Attendees have to pay a whopping $4,850 each but will acquire business wisdom from the top four internet marketing gurus AND get the following stuff, too:
If you’ve been blogging or running a website that has had a traffic surge, most likely, you tackled topics like:
- celebrities and whatever they flash
- celebrity babies (Suri and Shiloh)
- death of famous people (Steve Irwin, Anna Nicole’s son and recently CNET’s James Kim)
- seasonal preparations (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas)
Yes, they are the most searched topics. Now, here if you’d like to know the top searched keywords on Yahoo! for 2006 and here’s Google’s monthly version of most popular keywords in every theme - Zeitgeist.
keywords, keyword search, social network, zeitgeist, buzz creation
GSINC, a team of SEO and Internet marketing consultants working for e-commerce businesses, web design agencies, business associations, and trusts presents a number of free video tutorials about a number of important info regarding the basics of SEO.
Among the SEO topics they’ve covered include:
- What is a title tag and its importance. One specific info about optimizing title tags is that they need to be 63 characters or less to appear in full on Google.
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From leaving Search Engine Watch to coming up with a new search engine blog, now Danny Sullivan ventures into holding a search marketing conference called Search Marketing Expo, SMX for short. Its first event will be held in Seattle on June 4-5, 2007 at the Bell Harbor Conference Center.
Together with the announcement of this new search marketing event is Danny’s new company - Third Door Media
Read full press release here.
SEM event, SMX, Search Marketing Expo, Danny Sullivan, Third Door Media
It use to be enough just to have a website to reach web surfers since the Internet was a much smaller place. Now it takes work to ensure that your website shows up on the World Wide Web radar. SEODance.com is committed to bringing tips and tools to make a website search engine friendly. There is no denying the power of search engines to drive traffic to websites. Establishing good search engine optimization practices as well as taking advantage of the right web tools can make a successful website. SEODance.com is here to help by spotlighting the latest SEO news, reviewing tools, and offering advice.
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