SEO Ranking Factors
Search Metrics released a new infographic that lists important trends for ranking in SEO for 2013. Looking at Backlinking, Social Signals, On Page Technical SEO, and Content Marketing factors as applies to getting higher in the SERPS.
Social Media Prospecting
The internet world is bigger than just Facebook and Twitter. There is a ubiquitous amount of people out there on the web begging for help. This video delves into where to find them on Facebook, but also how to get out of the McDonald's of social media and into where your prospects.
Word Press Bots and Hackers and Bugs Oh My!
WordPress (Photo credit: Adriano Gasparri) There is an ongoing major attack on Word Press blogs by the (in my best GWB voice)"Evil Doers" overseas. Not to make light of the severity of this but they are evil. I won't go too much into the background of this attack other than to say it is coming to...
Ranking On Google Places/Maps
Google Refrigerator (Photo credit: Aray Chen) Ranking on Google Places is similar to organic SEO in that you need links called citations. Or NAPs. NameAddressCity, State, ZipPhone You will also want to put a geo site map on your site as well as a .kml file. Remember you are ranking your Google...
Local Places Encroaching on Google SERPS
Many local website owners have recently seen their search results get encroached upon by Google Places 7 packs. Realtors, Mortgage pros sites, dentists, doctors and more local based sites have seen Googles preference for local force their organic results down below the Places results. Many believe...
Socialized SEO Presentation to RIAOC
Last Tuesday I went back to my roots. As a Realtor 20+ years ago I would network with Investment Real Estate Brokers for pocket listings. Usually it was for apartment buildings. I was invited back by Michael Stark. And this is a reenactment of the presentation:
Did Your Favorite Super Bowl Ad Win?
Is entertainment marketing? Is marketing entertainment?For most of my clients the answer is a resounding no/yes.We need something a little faster. We need a phone call, an optin.A buying compulsion if you will. And paying for something that will not payoff for perhaps years...
For Better Facebook Shares
My Best Marketing Tactic of 2012
Contacting Old Prospects and Clients Wow Tim, that's it? I know I know. But hear me out.... Contacting old clients but with a twist. Instead of reaching them through my newsletter emails. I contacted them from a personal email. But even better than that, I contacted them as a reply as far back as...
Optimism and Goals for 2013
A new Year brings new hope. As entrepreneurs we must have a hope for a better year backed up by targets and a solid plan. So I offer you a curated mash of good predictions for 2013 and setting golas and resolutions for the New Year. Jim Cramer Warren Buffett, Tony Robbins, Sarah Blakely CEO...
Penguin Fix
Penguin-fighter (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There are a couple easy fixes that you can do to help you if your site has been bit by the Penguin. And I am guilty too, so if you look at this site, I repeat a bunch of words in the category links. Hopefully by the time you see this it is fixed. Mr...
Blog/Social Commenting For Traffic or Spamming?
This is an oldie but goodie and can be used for social marketing too.
Google Penguin Over Optimization Update
Podcast Transcription: Recent changes in Google. A lot of sites have been decimated off the web, basically off Google, therefore off the web. A lot of things have happened this year, and we're right now in the middle of the eye of the hurricane. We're right in the eye of the storm. And I'm...
Google’s Most Successful Social Network is Not What You might Think
What is Google's most Important Social Network? Google Buzz? Google Wave? Google Plus? Search Plus your World? Perhaps you are aware of these current networks. But did you know that Google has been into social networks since just about the time they went public. Some of Google's social holdings...
Finally the Truth About Getting Google Traffic Revealed
Image via Wikipedia This is the story of Google and SEO. Condensed as it may be. One day Google founder to be Larry Page attended Stanford University. He had many choices for his thesis but was most intrigued with the notion that the inter-relational words and links on websites can be similar to...
What Does Google and Facebook Want From You?
What Google and Facebook share in common? Both exist to do one thing. That is to provide you and I advertising. Not the social media thing and the search engine thing. They are merely vehicles to gather information. Google and Facebook are tracking us so that they can produce better ads....
Traffic Battle Plan 2012
Check out my Traffic Domination Plan for 2012 I announced the war with Google and Facebook over a year ago.Did SEO Just Die Since then many have said that yes SEO is dead. As Google has changed time and time again. Over the next few weeks I will be chronicling some of these deep changes that are...
Video Emails
You have seen them in your email box.This is what I just received in my inbox not too long ago. A Video that you can actually click and it will play. However, of course you find out it will not play in your email. It is only a graphic that looks like a video say from Youtube. So I was recently...
Facebooking for SEO Rankings
Image via Wikipedia About a year ago I asked this question. Does Facebook help your SEO? Since then Google and Bing have made some changes. It is well worth a read as it delves into the importance of links in ranking power. Today, links can be defined as more than just a link. It falls under the...
SEO Nugget
Image via Wikipedia On flawed SEO logic: remembering simple scientific method helps. So if variables are not isolated it is quite difficult to make an authoritative declaration of causality. Only experience can be declared.Similar to believing that just because there are firetrucks at a fire means...