Archive for January, 2006

Structure of your site

There is a lot of talk about how to organize your site and what Google wants. 
Google says sites should have a logical link structure.
There doesn’t seem to be one clear-cut definition of what a logical link structure is.
After reading many articles and posts and looking at many sites, here is a  brief explanation of what seems [...]

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Happy Halloween

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween.
Boo!
Jenn

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Google local

There is no denying that local search is increasing…
Users are adding local terms to their searches more and more.  This gets them the closest, most relevant results. 
It also reduces your competition!!
So, how can you get involved in Local Search?
1) Have your site optimized – you still need to get in the regular organic engines.
2) Make [...]

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Q&A with Matt Cutts

As Good as It Gets Recently Matt Cutts has starte answering questions people have submitted.  This is a question I hear a lot and I thought it was worth posting Matt’s response.
 Q: “On sites directed to international audiences with the same (high quality) content in several languages is it better to do several TLDs [...]

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The Problems With Search Engine Spiders and Bots

All savvy search engine marketers know how to create a search-friendly site that can be easily read by a search engine spider, or bot. But what happens when those bots go bad?
A special report from the Search Engine Strategies conference, August 7-10, 2006, San Jose, CA.
Many site owners tell horror stories of lost uptime, wasted [...]

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A recent study showed that between 3% and 5% of the people who visit your webpage click on the "About Us" link

The world doesn’t care about you:-) — Well, at least 95% of the world doesn’t care about you.
A recent study showed that between 3% and 5% of the people who visit your webpage click on the “About Us” link to find out more about you. The good news is that the visitors who click on [...]

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Less people use 1 word phrase in search engines

Less people use 1 word phrase in search engines according to OneStat.com
Amsterdam – July 24 2006 – OneStat.com ( www.onestat.com ), the number one provider of real-time intelligence web analytics, today reported that most people use 2 word phrases in search engines. Of all the search phrases world wide, 28.91 percent of the people use [...]

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Exciting new tool

Rick Butts, a colleague and friend of mine has just launched an amazing new tool.  For all you bloggers out there, Rick has created a tool that will save you time as you build multiple blogs for Adsense (or other purposes).  Rick can tell you better than I can the power of this tool, so [...]

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ArticleBurner.com

EcomBuffet has acquired www.ArticleBurner.com from Rick Butts.  Rick is the genius behind the creation of ArticleBurner, but over time he has focused on other things and wanted ArticleBurner to go to someone that would work on developing it so it would have maximum benefit to clients.  EcomBuffet purchased ArticleBurner with plans to add on to [...]

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Marketing and SEO

I’m back after a short break, and ready to continue talking rankings, traffic, and all those fun things. 
One of the most important and most overlooked factors in your website’s success is your conversion rate. 
You make the decision to get SEO done, you hire a great company, you get more rankings than you had hoped for…but [...]

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