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Getting Press Releases and Article Ideas Accepted by Publications
Tips to get your press releases and article ideas noticed and accepted by publications (both print and online publications) from Marx Communications including researching the publication and specific reporters, checking the publications editorial calendar for upcoming topics, and contacting the right people at the publications.
6 SEO steps for a website redesign
Six steps you should consider having an SEO do early in a site redesign that will help ensure your new site is search engine friendly, improves organic search engine results, and doesn’t impact your existing rankings or the traffic you receive from referral sites
SEO Trends from 2008 & A Look into 2009, by Jill Whalen
Jill Whalen posted an article looking back at some SEO predictions she made for 2008 and takes a look forward into 2009 including: SEO Becomes a Priority in Site Redesigns for Larger Companies. Jill predicted that more large organizations would realize the value of SEO for website redesigns. She did see evidence of this in 2008 […]
Will Yelp review lawsuit lead to credibility issue for online reviews?
Will a lawsuit over a negative Yelp review lead to the public wondering how they much they can rely on online reviews?
Why Good Graphics is Vital to Site Success
User testing reveals that good graphics design is essential to improving conversions. In the early days of the web some leading usability experts claimed that graphics didn’t belong on web sites, how wrong they were. Good graphics design does more then present an appealing facade. The Stanford Web Credibility (http://credibility.stanford.edu/) studies show that […]
Setting Realistic SEO Expectations – by Jill Whalen
Jill Whalen has posted an article about being realistic with your SEO expectations. Her article helps emphasis some important concepts about today’s search engine optimization realities:
Blogging Tips: Promoting Your Blog, Your Products & Services, Usability Tips, Tips For Providing Useful Information.
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.
12 Steps to Building Incoming Links
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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Where to put your blog for best search engine results: Blogging Tips Part One
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.