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Google Launches For Charity Search Engine – All For Good

June 22, 2009 By 6 Comments
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Google has just launched a new search engine to support charitable organizations.  The new search engine is at allforgood.org where just like normal Google search you place the keyword of the type of charity you are looking for and the results give you opportunities in your area.  The goal of this project is to make finding and supporting charitable organizations easier for the average person. The new community search engine also indexes serve.gov which is a project of Obama to further encourage participation in people's communities. An added feature to further narrow down your search is that you can search based on today, this weekend, this week, and this … [Read more...]

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5 Factors You May Not Know that Affect Your Websites Google Rankings

June 19, 2009 By 11 Comments
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For every website, the goal is to rank in the top of Google search results for the keywords that are important to their business.  As businesses develop strategies for increasing their rankings and overall traffic there can be factors that affect their Google search results that they don't even think about.  These more obscure factors become more important the more competitive the terms you want to rank for are. 5 Factors You May Not Now that Affect Your Google Rankings Poor links: you may have heard that links for poor sites don't have the importance that high quality links do though did you know that if you are sending links to poor sites that Google can … [Read more...]

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The Problems with Over Doing Social Media for Your Business

June 17, 2009 By 1 Comment

Twitter is all the rage.  Everyone is tweeting now on who knows what from celebrities to serious news anchors.  Do you remember when MySpace was the biggest thing around?  The problem with social networks is they come and go so you have to keep up with what is the current one that is generating traffic. Myspace is now laying off jobs as they are over saturated with employees expecting their rocket growth to continue. I am not saying not to have a presence on the social networks far from it.  What I am saying what will not come and go is a consistent approach to building your own successful website.  If you spend too much of your resources on social media … [Read more...]

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How to Make Submitting to Directories Work for Your Website

June 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Once you started marketing your website you probably heard right away you need to gets links.  The important thing is that you need high quality links.  Google and other search engines have become very effective in determining scams to manipulate their search results. Directories, which are listing of websites, used to be a highly effective way of link building.  The problem with every good idea it gets abused online.  Because of this many directories hold no wait with search engines like Google. The best part is and this works in many areas of internet marketing, where there is abuse there is opportunity.  Now, most people have given up submitting to … [Read more...]

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How well is Bing.com Search Engine Doing

June 13, 2009 By 5 Comments

By now you have probably seen the keyword overload commerical by Bing which is the latest search engine to challenge Google.  Bing.com is created my Microsoft which uses past searches and more detailed information in the search results in hopes that people which switch from Google as the major search engine player to Bing. So how well is Bing doing?  One thing you have to keep in mind is that it is only been available for a couple weeks.  Bing now ranks forth in highest visited search engines.  This isn't too bad since people have only had a week to use.  The initial reviews are good as people like the search results interface. Will Bing challenge Google; … [Read more...]

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Ecommerce Review – Ranking Your Products in Top Ten of Google – 2 Min SEO

June 10, 2009 By 1 Comment

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How Many Links Does My Competitors Have Pointing to their Website – 2 Min SEO

June 5, 2009 By 4 Comments

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Top Keyword Ranking Google Competition – 2 min SEO

June 3, 2009 By 3 Comments

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Will Google Friend Connect Affect My SEO Rankings

June 1, 2009 By 4 Comments

Google has just released Google Friend Connect, which is a service that allows websites to easily add social media apps directly into their sites with no IT experience.  Just cut and paste the social application code you want and drop it into your website. Directly Google Friend Connect won't drive more traffic to your website.  The goal would be to enhance the social aspects of your site which can allow visitors to interact more.  You would need a fair amount of traffic already to have these features work so people have other people to interact with. Google in the future which is only a guess on my part could find a way to involve the data from Google … [Read more...]

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Microsoft Set to Release Kumo Search Engine to Compete with Google

May 30, 2009 By 1 Comment
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Microsoft is in the works to launch Kumo, a new search engine to rival Google.  Microsoft's goal with Kumo is offer a fresher look that focuses on organic results and better layout for advertisers. If Kumo can live up to the hype it will be the best search engine experience that Microsoft has ever offered to the public. The new search results of Kumo will place more importance on images and videos, and for have a stronger ecommerce presence.  The ecommerce features will give searchers more detailed information about the products, if they are in stock or not, and the different prices of online stores. For example if you search for the term "iphone" you will … [Read more...]

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Back to the Basics Instead of Facebook – Rush Hour Traffic by Authority SEO

May 29, 2009 By 5 Comments
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Rush Hour Traffic Podcast - Back to the Basics instead of Facebook Is social media like Facebook worth your time Why people are not successful driving traffic to their websites … [Read more...]

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What is google page rank

May 28, 2009 By 1 Comment

Google Page Rank has changed which has affected not everyone, though enough people were affected to make a significant difference. To better look at how PageRank has affected websites rankings in Google search engine, we first better have to look at what is Google PageRank. Google Page Rank updates every 3 months or so which typically doesn’t mean much to most websites. Google is always updating page-ranks of web pages and every three months you see an update to the numerical value. What is Google PageRank? Page Rank is the algorithm created by Larry Page the founder of Google that associates a value to every web page to demonstrate a level of importance. … [Read more...]

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Google 90% of Web Search Growth in 2008

May 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Google the leader in online searches continues to gain market share.  In 2008 Google increased its market share from 58.5% to 63.5% according to comScore. Most of the other major search engines like Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask.com had stagnant growth in 2008 with Google being the only major search engine player to have any growth.  For 2008, Google captured 90% of all search volume growth which means how you rank in Google's search engine is more important than ever. … [Read more...]

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Can My Google Pagerank be Hurt

May 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

So can Google PageRank hurt you? This question is really answered by how you are using your website to create revenue or increase brand awareness. As one way linking building has become important to Google for search results and PageRank, pay per post websites have sprung up to fill a demand for people looking for links. If you start to sell links from your site based on your Page Rank, the new links you are now sending out of your website will lower your Page Rank. Google has taken on a fight to also go after blog link farms. A blog link farm would be a blog set up that sends lots of links out from the blog to certain websites. Blogs can be created fast and … [Read more...]

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Google Local Search Rollout

May 28, 2009 By 2 Comments

If you thought searching online was only for national or worldwide information, not any more.  Google has finished its worldwide rollout of local search in its search engine.  Every time your search now Google will guess to your location to give your more geo centric results. How does Google know your location?  Google uses your IP address to get a general sense of your geographical area.  If you need to change your location you can click the “change location” link at the upper right hand corner of your page. Searching online is now more and more important for local businesses to create an effective web presence. … [Read more...]

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Click Fraud Reaches New Record

May 28, 2009 By 3 Comments

On pay per click advertising 17.1% of all clickthroughs are click fraud according to Click Forensics, which has been monitoring click fraud since 2006.  Click fraud on Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher is 28.2% of all clicks.  Majoring of the click fraud is achieved using automated bots and looks to be on the rise even more with the struggling economy. Click fraud is the #1 reason why organic search engine marketing is the #1 way to market your website online. … [Read more...]

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