SEO and Google Alerts
Have you tried Google Alerts? It is a great way to monitor reputation management. In other words you can see if anyone is smack talking about you or you business. By typing into Google your name or your business name you can monitor sites that come up into Google's index with your name or your...
What They Are Not Telling You About Hyperlocality
Today is Take My Gloves of Thursday! part 1: +How did hyperlocal emerge?+Two types of hyperlocal as it is sold and why it is wrong+And why that benefits you+Why it is nearly impossible to get content feeds for the hyperlocal area and why it is your opportunity+Four ways to create hyperlocal...
Yahoo+Bing=BingHoo!
Image via Wikipedia Yahoo Organic is now powered by Bing. I feel the earth shifting on its axis and hell freezing over. Actually it is more like Yahoo getting to its roots having been powered by Inktomi,Alta Vista (they bought these first two companies) and Google in the past. This last part of...
How to be an “Internet Guru” for a Day
Image by Dan Patterson via Flickr As an avid reader of books and biographies I have learned that very few people can describe the reason for their success with an a to z plan that anyone can follow. Instead you the reader must dig deep and read the lines behind the story. Having read several "road...
How to Increase Sales By 61%
A cool video of a talk by Dan Kennedy. Some interesting ideas that came from this set of videos. (I have included the first one). Ever notice how much direct mail you get? Next to nothing anymore right? Kennedy points out that like Infomercials the Internet Mediums are begging to get regulated....
How Do You Sell a $40 Million Dollar Home?
Frank McKinney will show you how to sell a $40 million dollar home and much more. This eye opening interview reveals gobs of Luxury Home marketing as well as how to live a life you want and desire.He covers open houses, website marketing and even how social marketing helped sell one of his uber...
Why Marketing to Only Women May be Your Best Move This Year
Image by freddthompson via Flickr If you have been around real estate anytime at all then you know that the women pick the house. In fact, women have become a major economic force in our society. Not only are they earning more. Married and Cohabiting women making 80% of all buying decisions....
Ideas with SEO and Real Simple Syndication
Image via Wikipedia Uses of RSS and SEO External Sitemapping: A new website has new pages and a new page needs to be indexed into Google before it can be ranked into Google's top pages. So what is the best way for Google to find a page? From an external link. RSS syndication can be used to link...
What is an RSS Feed?
Image via Wikipedia RSS is most commonly defined as "Really Simple Syndication" but sometimes "Rich Site Summary". It is a way for a webpage, most commonly in the form of a blog to syndicate either as a partial or full representation of the pages content. RSS can allow you to quickly check your...
Reconsidering the Value of the Page Rank Bar
I got an email from a client the other day. He was asking about a seemingly low Page Rank listing in his Google bar. I explained to him the consistently wrong results that the bar illustrates. In the above video I show how the bar lies about the indexing of this very website. For some background...
Spring Clean Your Online Marketing
Image via WikipediaHave you ever enjoyed the freedom of going into your closet and emptying all those clothes and nick nacks that you haven't worn or used in years? The energy it opens up is amazing. The same thing can happen in your business if you let it. As THE longest standing SEO company in...
Social Media: What Comes First the Chicken or the Egg?
Image via Wikipedia Betty White hosted Saturday Night Live last Saturday. The 88 year old charmed the audience with cameos in many of the SNL favorites like Magruder. As Mary McKnight recently posted in her Sacrilicious blog, Betty White thanked Facebook for getting her onto SNL. The headline...
Google’s Fast Keyword Tool
Guest post on Google Keywords Drop Down tool Ever notice that magical little drop-down box that appears when you start typing search terms into Google? That’s your marketing future staring you in the face Google Suggest is a powerful keyword research and online reputation management tool that most...
Fix Your SEO With This Easy Tool
Xenu is a free tool that can reveal your dead links. Dead or Broken Links Xenu can help you determine your broken or dead links within the pages of your website. Even if you think you are careful. A quick scan will reveal link rot that you would have never known if not for this tool. Types of...
Twitter Saved the Blogging Star
Getting Back To Blogging Basics When blogging first hit the scene it was seen as a panacea to expensive SEO and webhosts. Rightfully so. There is much to be admired within most blog structures. Adequate html code, easy editing, pinging and syndication. And the mythological advantages that...
Does Your Website Have Perfect HTML?
Hey Tim,How's it going? Do you know anyone who knows a lot about W3C? On my website, I have 2 pages that contain a link to our Google Map Ad Reviews, and W3C looks at the links as errors. It's not like the problem is with my simple code. Tested at:http://validator.w3.org/ Regards,Name WithheldI...
Google Social Search Explained
Google is always testing new search features. And Google labs is always full of new, interesting and sometimes useful things. Google is fascinated by the social media as they obviously have felt the exodus away from their engine to Facebook and other social sites. Check out their new social search.
ERA Repositions Brand
Anne BlumensteinERA's new VP of Marketing anne.blumenstein at era.com ERA Real Estate recently concluded their International Business Conference (IBC) and Anne Blumenstein joined me for Fun Friday to discuss their new moves and how agents and brokers alike may learn something from this new rebrand...
Rank Quickly in Google with Social Media SEO
Check out this video and find out how to get easy rankings in Google. Look for a word under 50,000 or less competition. Rank in Facebook pages, notes, and Twitter. This is a follow up to my recent blog post Does Social Media Help Your SEO? Notice in the video I do not say that Facebook Fan Pages...
Page Rank Bar Myths
As far as SEO or search engine optimization, that green pixie dust that shows up in the Google Toolbar used to be everything to getting a top ranking in Google. Today it is at best two months late. And more than likely very, very flawed. In case you are not aware ever since Google has had a tool...