Category Archives: Search Engine Optimization

The Beauty of Top 10 Posts for Supercharged Traffic

Top 10 lists will always gather attention. Before David Letterman, Malcom Forbes, and the early European media publishers, lists thrived.

It is very easy to scan lists, which makes them ideal for the web. Also, people love to see things ranked and ordered. Structured information is best suited for our brains.

Below is an excellent example of a top-x list: timely, controversial, ubiquitous (if you are reading this you are online)

Here are Media Metrix’s top 15 Web properties from April 1999, before the dot com crash. Monthly unique visitors rounded to the nearest million.

November 20, 2017 7 CommentsOnline Business, Search Engine OptimizationBy patrick

7 Must Follow SEO Tips For Quickly Building Links

We have created a list of seven ways to get links that will drive new traffic and search engines will love. Persuading other websites to link to you is easier with a solid plan and consistent dedication to the task. The link building flowchart on the left outlines the process of building links.

7 Link Building Tips

August 17, 2016 12 CommentsLink Building, Search Engine OptimizationBy patrick

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

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

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

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

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

SEO Rap Video

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…

April 24, 2016 3 CommentsSearch Engine OptimizationBy patrick

How Twitter Can Help with SEO (and more)

Social sharing has indeed become an SEO factor and micro blogging can help not only your website but your business, so you want to start using it to help you get some nice traffic benefits. But, how do you do that?

How Do Your Tweets Help Your Website?

It is funny how search engines (Google, specifically) works in very mysterious ways. At one point, a specific tactic may work, and after an update, it may be harmful to your website instead. However, Twitter and quality tweets are on the green side of the fence, especially when used to its full potential.

Twitter is the second most popular social media website today after Facebook

April 20, 2016 1 CommentSearch Engine OptimizationBy brianix

Search Engine Optimization Infographic to Visualize the SEO Process

Most of the basics of SEO are fairly well known by a lot of internet marketers. It is nice to have a visualization of the systems behind search engine optimization and the tactics used to get better rankings.

We have an infographic presenting solutions and explanations to common SEO questions. This is a graphical display of the search engine optimization process that appeals to visual learners and can be used as a quick reference guide.

March 25, 2016 11 CommentsSearch Engine Optimization, Search EnginesBy patrick