Marketing on the Web Carrie Hill just published a summary of directories that should be on every one's link building list. These are credible sources that the search engines use to help determine the relevancy of your site for things like products, services, or locality. See Carrie's list of Must Have List of Directories Related: Building Incoming Links Directories and Incoming Links
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Rel Canonical now supported by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo
There is a new Canonical tag that is supported by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. This is important news, especially as people are working more and more with CMS systems and database driven websites (such as Joomla, WordPress, etc). The issue is that people can arrive at your content in a variety of ways. The simplest variation being www. versus non www. version of your site. What's that, you say they are the same? Au contraire mon fraire, to a search engine www is a separate sub-domain. There...
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One of the cornerstones of improving any business is referrals. Nothing promotes a product or service better than positive comments from someone you know and respect or from an authority in the field. The same is true for your website. To explain the importance of incoming links to grow traffic to your website, I often use a metaphor of selecting a roofer. You don't know a roofer, but you have a friend that builds houses, so you ask who he would use. The answer provides not only who to call,...
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It is beneficial to separate and track your Pay Per Click traffic from Organic in Google Analytics. If you don't make the effort, PPC and Organic traffic will be lumped together, making it difficult to know how your SEO efforts are progressing. Once you make the link between Google AdWords and Google Analytics accounts, the tracking will occur automatically. To set this up, simply access the Analytics tab in your AdWords account and then either select Create New or Link to Existing. Once you...
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Perhaps the single most important thing that affects your web sites ranking is incoming links. However, it isn't as simple as just getting incoming links pointing to your site, the links need to come from credible sources. To boost relevancy, links surrounding text need to contain industry phrases and the link itself can give you a boost if the linked text contains a key phrase that you would like your site to be known for. See: URLs and Linking for SEO Before I start working on directory lis...
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I mention on my SEO page that having a descriptive URL is a good thing. In the example I say that www.huntsville-bike-parts.com is better than having www.bobsbikes.com. Why?? -- You know that incoming links (sites linking to yours) are very important, perhaps equally important is the phrase that links the URL. When you have a descriptive URL, this link and phrase association are one and the same. For example, here I have linked the phrase Search Engine Marketing to www.marketing-ontheweb....
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