The Naked Truth About Website Traffic

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The above picture reflects current technology. The camera on the left was just released and is the size of (right) chewing gum. How can Universal Search be related?
Answer: Video! Make sure that you read the [...]

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Google once again is King of Search.
As seen in the hitwise intelligence report, it’s pretty obvious the big is getting bigger…
“Google accounted for 63.98 percent of all US searches in the four weeks ending September 1, 2007. Yahoo! Search at 22.87, MSN Search at 7.98 and Ask.com at 3.41 each”..
Download the August Nielsen Netratings PDF [...]

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Outside of quality content on pages of your website, links (internally & externally) is sound advice. In fact, just optimizing your internal website link strategy can rank you much higher.
For external back links, make sure you:

Use the keyword/phrase in the anchor text - use the keyword you want to be ranked for
Make sure you get [...]

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Ever wondered how to check number of backlinks on your competitor’s site? Check this backlink video on how to do it manually. This is a simple, but effect way to get a heads up on your competition. Use this in your SEO link research.

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Nothing like good solid advice for FREE online promotion. Blogs is a must for anybody serious online these days, but it can be a lot of work to get it off the ground. This does not count setting up a corporate blog, for example.
Check the 99 ways to promote a blog.
Happy weekend!
P.S.
The last tip for [...]

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This is simple, the SEO importance list goes like this:
Title Tags
Anchor Text
Keyword Density
Page Reputation
Internal Links
Inbound Links
Site Structure
Link Popularity
PageRank
It all boils down to content and links! Wow, how simple.

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So much money is lost (read: wasted) in the pool of PPC - Pay Per Click.  In fact, I have spent thousands learning PPC and made a lot of mistakes. This is on a personal level.
Companies spend a lot more money, and is under the thinking that “spend the marketing budget and we’re ok” - [...]

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RIP! The tool is officially down. Use Wordtracker, Keyworddiscovery and Google now. Of course, you can set up an account with Yahoo search marketing, but you’ll have to pay.
Look also at MSN Adcenter KW tools.
Thank you OT!

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This is a 45 minute from the search engine strategies conference in 2007 (San Jose). It talks about the various web analytics packages, the pros and cons, and what you as a business might choose as a final package.
Google Analytics gets a lot of press, but it is owned by the search giant, and for [...]

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Local search has been a great way to get to “top listings” in the search engines. If you are in the insurance business for example (highly competitive), you will spend a lot of time and money to get ranked for “health insurance services”. This is not a highly targeted keyword either, since many would be [...]

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