There’s nothing quite like having a knowledgeable team of experts on your side when striving to expand the reach of, and increase the traffic to, your online business. I embraced the beauty of outsourcing several years ago when I first discovered Elance. Outsourcing as many of my projects as possible allowed my wife Arlene and [...]
SEO
You may have heard about this new algorithm update by Google called Penguin wreaking havoc in numerous SEO forums. This is due in part to a vast number of websites that experienced sudden free falls in search engine rankings leading to a huge drop in traffic. So, if you are depending on organic traffic from [...]
It’s not a secret that search engine optimization is a very cunning and complicated craft. The actions you take in order to give your web resource more publicity may either result in having it highly promoted and indexed by search engines, or downgraded or even banned because of an incorrectly chosen strategy. That is why [...]
Search Engine Optimization is an old term that has evolved a huge amount over the last decade. Making a site both user and search engine friendly can be difficult, but keeping up with what actually works can be even harder. Not that long ago SEO used to focus simply on backlinks and on-page optimization these [...]
Google is the No.1 Search Engine without any doubt, but are you spending time to increase your search ranking on Google? In my experience, many blogs get 75%+ of their niche traffic from Google Organic Search. This is critical to understand how to maximize and get the most of it. Here are some easy ways [...]
Why are you creating a blog? Is it to share your personal thoughts and daily occurrences with the world? Is it to promote yourself or your company? Or is to make money? Of course, it’s very possible to make money with a personal or corporate blog, but if making fast money is the express purpose [...]
One of the hardest, and yet most important, things about getting started with an online business is building your cyber reputation. It’s difficult because it involves creating material that will draw customers to your site. This is important because without customers, you don’t have a business. One of the best ways to get people to [...]
I know how much it hurts when you find someone saying bad things about you or your business. Any kind of negative publicity can be fatal for online businesses where criticism or negative remarks can throw you out of the market in a heartbeat. With increased global connectivity, the role of negative publicity has become [...]
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the main way that businesses bring in new traffic. Mainly company’s, after creating a website, try to do whatever they can to have their site show up on Google, and other search engines, and then try to increase the ranking that their site has on said search engines. While there [...]
The introduction of Google Panda in late February, 2011 represents a laudable attempt to increase user satisfaction among Google’s enormous user base. Users surf the Web everyday for a huge variety of topics and are the driving force behind the huge advertising revenue which Google generates each month. Before Google Panda was introduced, junk content [...]
