eVision Online Marketing Blog

Here are some tips help you provide more useful information in your blog ~ Tips to help you promote your blog as well as help sell yourself and your products and services to your blog readers ~ Plus a few usability tips ~ With examples from some of Americas top corporate blogs.

Getting links from quality, trusted web sites is essential. In the WordTracker blog Ken McGaffin outlines 12 principles to follow to show quality web sites that you are worthy of their link.

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Don’t already have a blog?

Should you host you blog as a folder on your web site (or so that it appears to be a folder) such as www.domain.com/blog or as a sub web such as blog.domain.com or a completely different domain?

There are advantages to both approaches from a search engine perspective.

The latest Search Share Rankings have been reported and summarized on Search Engine Watch.
Microsoft and Yahoo took a tumble in their year-over-year search share in October 2008, according to Nielsen Online. Yahoo was down 12% and Microsoft was down 19%. Ask.com took a hit as well with a decrease of 22.9%. Google continues to dominate the search engine industry at a 61.2% market share.

See the full article and the complete chart of search engine rankings

Mark Jackson posted an article at Search Engine Watch about the impact of Google’s evolving Personalization including it’s affect on rankings.

He mentions a statement that Bruce Clay shared in a Pubcon 2008 session, “2009 will be the year of the end of the ranking report.”