Not a bad job for a SEO. This guy has put a lot of time into creating a search engine optimization rhyme. The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) has created a marketing rap. He describes how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site. It is…
Discovery Is The New Cocaine – Going Beyond Engagement. Learn the science behind creating a sticky website that users won’t be able to leave. Interaction was the promise of web 2.0 and new services must allow for user feedback if they hope to survive. Let users become the focus of your online activities, talk with…
I love seeing what other webmasters do to try to improve their rankings. This SEO technique (used extremely loosely here) demonstrates why SEO’s have such a bad reputation in the online marketing industry. This webmaster makes no effort to hide the keyword stuffed text, and trys to direct search engine spiders to his special content.…
10 Tips for Writing Powerful Website Copy Follow the 3 P’s: Preview > Proof > Post. Preview your content as it will look on your site, proof the text, then post with no errors. Use compelling headings. This makes websites easy to skim and can lure the reader deeper. Immediately answer the visitor’s first question,…
About 5 years ago search engines realized that blogs, comments and user generated content were going to pollute the web with an endless stream of low quality, off topic, unmanaged links. As the search engine ranking algorithm is primarily link based, this had the potential of making search engine results unusable. How to Stop Links…
We all love search engine conferences and online marketing events. Many of the search engine conferences offer a discount and I have compiled them below: Search Conference Discounts: March 17-20 SES Search Engine Strategies NY New York NY 10% off Discount Code: 10SMS April 15-17 AdTech San Francisco 20% off Discount Code: BRSFD or BRSFZ9…
This post will examine different kinds of search engine optimization spam and the shady SEO’s who create them. The easiest way to spot a beginner search engine optimizer is to examine pages for keyword stuffing, text in odd places, an over abundance of links, long gratuitous keyword stuffed filenames, Hidden text at the top or…
I like twitter and use it almost everyday to connect with contacts, spread humor and share information. I found a new service that shows Twitter rankings for different keywords and phrases. I typed in “Barack Obama” and it broke their script 🙂 Most search terms get considerably less traffic, such as the one for my…
It appears Google is going to be transitioning to the Google Suggest format as their new search default. This means that when a user performs a search in Google, Google will use a formula to decide what search phrases the user intends to search. Obviously any major change to Google’s core search functionality will have…
WordPress is a great platform for websites mostly due to the amazing flexibility and simplicity. Optimizing your WordPress blog for SEO can be easy as well. There are a variety of WordPress SEO plugins available for free that can give your site a huge boost in the SERPS. In most cases, all you need to…