What would happen if your ecommerce shop cancelled all advertising and offered customer free shipping instead? You may be petrified at the thought of stopping all pay per click ads, online banner ads and targeted ads but there may be better ways to virally create business and fortify your sales. Offering customers something special can…
Many web development websites and search engine optimization blogs are posting year end statistics, and who am I to not be a slave to convention, so the Naked SEO guide will be baring all. Below is a graph showing traffic increases and I must say I’m extremely pleased at the increasing trend line. Month Number…
The good folks at XKCD.com created an illustration of web 2.0. This is a representation of the current state of the social internet represented by a cartography style of 15th century map makers like Amerigo Vespucci. See a hand drawn map showing all your favorite websites, with size displayed by prominence. Displayed is a list…
Videos are and up and coming component to a good search engine optimization campaign. Online video optimization can help drastically increase product sales and increase site exposure. Website traffic does not come directly from videos or clicks, but from extraneous links, references and typed in domains from references in the video clips. The goal of…
Best of the Web is a great directory with high authority and tens of thousands of backlinks. BOTW is definitely a directory you want to be listed in, and now you have added incentive with a directory submission coupon. Save $15 off directory submissions at BOTW.org with a discount promotion. This is one of the…
This is an excellent piece of linkbait that shows how to bait the most prominent social network, Digg.com. It is well known in the search engine optimization community that a piece of linkbait making the homepage of Digg can get 30,000 to 50,000 hits in 24 hours. This creates enormous incentive to submit spam quality…
At the pubcon.com search engine optimization conference last week, the conference organizers were kind enough to give us complimentary tickets to the Blue Man Group. The Blueman Group currently performs in Las Vegas at the Venetian hotel, which is one of the nicest hotels on the strip. This hotel has the most interactive water features…
Using these tricks for search engine optimization research you can find more details about a website. SEO’s need as much competitive information as possible to create the best possible online marketing campaigns for our sites.Google Fresh Date Search See how many times you were mentioned in the previous week http://www.google.com/search?q=netpaths&as_qdr=w q= keyword search as_qdr= times…
Microsoft has launched the Adcenter Affiliate Program where they will pay you for new live advertising adcenter signups. The affiliate program seems to be a bit unfocused, it never states the payout, and the admin area is quite sparse. To be honest, when I stumbled upon this a few weeks ago I thought it was…
Mike Mcdonald did an excellent interview of Google employee Matt Cutts and former Google employee Vanessa Fox. These are two of the most notable figures in the search engine optimization world and they casually reveal important information about the current Google search algorithm. Great takeaways from this informal conversation: Matt explains how paid links can…