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Matt Cutts Explains Why Google Helps Webmasters with Search Engine Optimization

The public ambassador to Google, Mr. Matt Cutts explains why they provide information and help to SEO’s.

Matt is a master public speaker and is extremely sincere in his explanation. I have met him and he is a very personable and friendly guy in real life, and listening to him speak you can feel his passion for his work and devotion to Google.

Google could not ask for a better spokesperson, it is rare to have someone with high technical ability and good public skills.

Listen to how Matt explains how Google thinks long term and wants users to have the best experience possible by finding answers to their questions quickly. He publicly supports search engine optimization when it helps searchers find quality information quickly.

August 4, 2016 4 CommentsSearch Engine Optimization, Search EnginesBy patrick

What Do The Top 300,000 Websites Look Like and How Can You Beat Them

The map above is an infographic of the largest online web properties.

Notable websites are Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Craigslist, Wikipedia, Youtube and others.

What is most impressive is the way that these sites got so large. None of them had any large scale advertising program, and most did no advertising at all. These sites all grew to become industry leaders through viral marketing and word of mouth.

How can you replicate this success? Build an online business that people have to use.

July 10, 2016 17 CommentsOnline Business, Search Engine Marketing, Web DevelopmentBy patrick

The Strangest Secret In The World: Why Don’t We Think

Earl Nightingale has a great monologue about success, work and beliefs.

Albert Schweitzer was asked whats wrong with men today. His response: Men Don’t Think.

He continues with the definition of success: The progressive realization of a worthy ideal.

The opposite of courage is not cowardice- its conformity.

Listen to this great 10 minute clip by Earl Nightingale.

June 3, 2016 4 CommentsOnline BusinessBy patrick

How To Increase Site Speed For Google’s Page Load Algorithm Changes

Google and Matt Cutts announced that site speed is now a factor in Google’s ranking algorithm, this means you need to refine your websites and remove all unnecessary code. Clean coding is good coding, and will make your websites easier to update, maintain, and upgrade in the future. One thing to note: Page load time…

June 2, 2016 16 CommentsSearch Engine Optimization, Search Engines, Web DevelopmentBy patrick

How To Overcome Duplicate Content Problems and Boost Your SEO

Duplicate content is a huge problem online, and this is not helped by content mills such as ehow.com that mass produce text written by people who may not be experts in their field.

There is no greater frustration for an SEO than fighting duplicate content issues the client may not know about.

There are multiple kinds of duplicate content that you may inadvertently have on your website. Find out how to remedy this problem and fix your search engine optimization problems.

June 1, 2016 20 CommentsSearch Engine Optimization, Web DevelopmentBy patrick

Social Media Properties for Quality Link Building

Social media and web 2.0 properties are great places to submit content and acquire links. They have authority, a large user base and have very focused niches that work well for topical websites.

When submitting content you must follow these rules:

May 18, 2016 5 CommentsLink Building, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine OptimizationBy patrick

Google Defies Economics with Unlimited Ad Space

Google makes money – a lot of money. The question is, how long can this continue? How many more ads can they make that generate $2 or more each time someone clicks on them?

May 10, 2016 5 CommentsSearch EnginesBy patrick

Surefire Ways To Increase Product Sales Using Photos

Using photos is on of the most underrated method of search engine optimization I have seen. Lots of good quality images not only help sell products to customers, they also will get you more search engine traffic.

Image search engines, particularly Google’s, send some of my sites 50% of all traffic. So imagine if you had no images on your website, you would be loosing 50% of potential visitors.

May 9, 2016 3 CommentsSearch Engine Marketing, Search Engine OptimizationBy patrick

Most Expensive Google Adwords Keywords

Google has released a list of the top 20 keywords and grouped them into categories based on user searches.

Using data from an in-house keyword research database and Google’s Keyword Tool, the team compiled the top 10,000 most used keywords and organized them into main markets. These represent English language searches over the last three months.

May 6, 2016 12 CommentsSearch Engine Marketing, Search EnginesBy patrick

Top 10 Marketing Tactics For Online Lead Generation

Through extensive marketplace research, we have identified the top 10 lead generation tactics for 2012, used by marketers each and every day.

See the top 10 lead generation methods in order of effectiveness

May 5, 2016 1 CommentConversion Rate Optimization, Search Engine OptimizationBy patrick