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Using Twitter: 10 Things Every Twitter User Should Do

30. June 2009

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If you are getting ready to get involved with Twitter, you need to know the top things you can do in order to get in the best position possible. Make sure you follow the top ten things every Twitter user should do so you can maximize your exposure and have a powerful search engine marketing campaign.

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10 Things to Never do on Twitter

29. June 2009

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Are you new to twitter? If so, you likely need to know what you should avoid. There are some bad practices people use when they go on Twitter that annoy other uses. Once you become known as an annoying Twitter user, it is hard to recover. If you want a solid search engine marketing campaign, you must avoid certain things while on Twitter.

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SEO Changes: Is it Time to Abandon the NoFollow Directive?

6. March 2009

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Unless you’ve been living in a vacuum, no doubt you are keenly aware of the roaring popularity of micro-blogging sites such as Twitter and Tumblr. The popularity of these sites, combined with the ease of updating them, has transformed the blogosphere. Today, more people update their micro-blogging sites more than they do traditional blogs. Millions of people are linking to their status updates left on these sites and the search engines are happily crawling along looking at the links. The question for SEO firms is this: How does this change affect SEO techniques, and is it time to abandon the nofollow directive?

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Google Japan Punished by Using Pay Per Post Practices

12. February 2009

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Hello Fellows, Recently Google Japan launched a new home page where it was promoting a list with the most searched terms typed on its search engine. It´s a kind of "HotWords" also found on Twitter. Accordantly with TechCrunch, that new service has been already available to include in the iGoogle page of any user. The big trouble arose when Google Japan decided hire an online marketing company, Cyberbuzz, to promote that new tool, already available as a widget to webmasters, through pay-per-posts.

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SEO Testing – What Works and What Does not

14. January 2009

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How many times have you worked on a client’s site and thought to yourself, “I hope these changes work!” For many people in the SEO field testing is not a part of their toolkit. They make changes based on what has worked in the past and hoped it would work now. Only time would tell if the changes actually helped or hurt the site – and by the time you knew the results, so did the client!

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Using Social Media to Your SEO Advantage

29. April 2008

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A growing trend in search engine marketing and search engine optimization is known as Social Media Optimization. This involves uses the myriad social networks available to drive traffic to your website by marketing through them. Interestingly, this also works to increase your link popularity, which will in turn boost your PageRank. However, there are some things to remember in order to make your social media marketing strategy most effective.

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Using StumbleUpon to Draw Traffic

24. April 2008

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Social media sites can be very good at drawing traffic to your website, as well as at increasing your link popularity and thereby your PageRank. Social bookmarking sites such as Digg or Del.ici.ous are proven to draw vast amounts of traffic within a very short amount of time.

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