Archive for October, 2007
« Previous Entries8 Methods Of Adding More Content To Your Site
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Content is king and your content site is your kingdom. When the adage “content is king” was first coined, the web was, in many respects, a simpler place for Webmasters. Creating a website with ten to twenty pages of keyword rich content would generate excellent search engine results and a mass of traffíc as a [...]
Google wins in blind search test
Thursday, October 18th, 2007In a blind “taste test” searchers chose Google, then Microsoft and Yahoo. That’s according to the results of a poll created last week by the Google Operating System blog. Participants could try out three unidentified search engines and vote which had the best results. The results are in and 51 percent of the more [...]
Are you unintentionally spamming search engines?
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Are you sure that your website is free of hidden text? There are many ways to create hidden text unintentionally. By checking your web pages, you make sure that you won’t be penalized for something you did not intend to do.
Why is hidden text a problem?
Google doesn’t like hidden text and hidden links [...]
GOOG-411 Is Out Of Beta
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007This is another post that shows Google is one more step closer to world domination (Internet Marketing)
The Google Blog announced that GOOG-411, Google’s voice enabled search service, is now out of beta.
To use GOOG-411 just dial 1-800-466-4411 (aka 800-GOOG-411) and listen to the voice prompts. As part of a promotion for GOOG-411 leaving beta, Google [...]
Photoshop’s Blend If: An Overview
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Blend If is very much an overlooked and even mysterious feature to almost any Photoshop user. If you ever tried looking this feature up in manuals and books, you may not have been able to find it. In fact even searching Photoshop Help will not yield a title with Blend If in it (though the [...]
Google Tops Feed Reader and Social Bookmark Rankings
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Some interesting audience-engagement data just came out from AddThis.com, which ranks the top feed readers and bookmarking services by how actively they are used. These rankings are based on how many times people across the Web add a link to a bookmarking service or a feed to an RSS reader using the AddThis button. (That’s [...]
Improving Google Adwords Campaign Profitability Through the Elimination of Low Quality Clicks
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007With increased competition leading to higher keyword prices, one of the most important metrics in a search marketing campaign is the conversion rate of clicks to actions. An action might be a sale, a lead, or any other desirable, quantifiable result. Faced with increasing keyword prices, maintaining an acceptable return from a search marketing budget [...]
source code
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Program instructions in their original form. The word source differentiates code from various other forms that it can have (for example, object code and executable code).Initially, a programmer writes a program in a particular programming language. This form of the program is called the source program, or [...]
Web 2.0 and Social Media Optimization Trends: Memetrackers
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007I have been scoring the Internet the last few days trying to find resources related to Web 2.0 and/or Social Media Optimization and I came across the idea of “Memetracker Web Sites.” From a Web 2.0 perspective these sites are geared towards collecting information about “hot topics” or things that create a “buzz” in the [...]
Google Hinting at Its Own Social Network?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Unlike our good friend Steve, Eric Schmidt is one of the “true believers” in social networking. Perhaps he’s just one of the “younger people” (or younger at heart people) that Ballmer said were so absorbed in the faddish nature of social networking, even though he is a couple months older than Ballmer.
Whatever the case, Schmidt [...]