SEO & Marketing

  • January 2010 Traffic Stats - In January this blog received a daily average of 730 visits and 3495 pageviews. For the month that works out 15,415 unique visitors, 27,008 visits, and 108,354 page views. Prior to January 2010, November 2009 was my record month. Compared to that month, unique visitors increased 13%, total number of visits [...]
  • Bit.ly Shortens Your URLs And Tracks Click Through - Bit.ly Shortens Your URLs And Tracks Click Through. Sunday evening I posted 25 ECO tweets using bit.ly link shortener and received 194 click-throughs Sunday evening and Monday, and 14 new follows. I may need to do that more often. Bit.ly Click Through:
  • SEO Questions - Q1: Why is understanding SEO important? A: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is all about optimizing your website for high rankings in the search engines results pages (SERPs). High rankings in the SERPs bring traffic and converted traffic is sales, and sales is money. Visit SEOCompany.ca for Introduction SEO Consulting. Q2: What is SEO? A: [...]
  • SEO For Newbies - After the Webinar I will be adding to this post and answering all questions you post in the comments. I have started answering questions at SEO Questions. 1. SEO For Newbie’s How To Get FREE Organic Traffic 2. What Google Wants To See The 4 Main Things Site Authority On-page Optimization Off-page Optimization Lots of Content 3. Site [...]
  • Examples Of Comment Spam - Below is a couple of examples of comment spam. Example 1: I was going to write a similar blog concerning this topic, you beat me to it. You did a nice job! Thanks and I well add your RSS to our blogs. Thanks so much, Jon B. Example 2: The way you have described [...]
  • Acer Aspire 3003 WLCi Battery Canada - When I am looking for a product to purchase through the internet typically I will search using Google and look at the Sponsored Links. Sponsored Links are in the far right column in Google and sometimes, depending on how competitive the product you are searching for, they will be [...]
  • WordTwit Plugin - WordTwit by Brave New Code is a plugin for Wordpress blogs that Tweets all you blog posts. Brave New Code does WordPress Design and Consulting and Theme Development. Check out their Design and Development Website Portfolio. Using WordTwit saves you from Tweeting each blog post. If you are not already [...]
  • Twitter Counter Stats - Well it probably looks from my posts that I have Twitter on my mind. I have been Tweeting more than usually and at the same time I picked up a few more followers. I when from 144 to 178 followers this week. Part of that is because I am now [...]
  • How to Get Re-Tweeted - Lately I have been spending more time on the micro-blogging social media site Twitter. I follow about 50 of some of the top Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Consultants on twitter. This helps keeps me up on the latest news in my field of work as a SEO/SEM Consultant. I was [...]
  • Twitter Words - Twitter — A social media network where people micro blog. Also refers to a message send on Twitter. “Twitter has become very popular in the last few months.” Twitterer — Some one that uses Twitter. A user of Twitter. Also referred to as a Tweeter. “How do you delete a Twitterer [...]
  • Try Twitter Micro Blogging Before You Start A Blog - By the beginning of 2007 there were 120,000 new blogs being created every day. Technorati reported in their 2008 state of the blogosphere that out of 133 million blogs they track only 7.4 million have updated their blog in the last 3 months. That is more than 94% of blogs [...]
  • Top SEO Twitterers To Follow - The following list is some of the top names in Search Engine Marketing. There is a link to their blog and to their twitter. Matt Cutts — mattcutts SEO Moz Rand Fishkin — randfish SEOBook Aaron Wall — aaronwall Jim Boykin — jimboykin DaveN David Naylor — Davenaylor *http://www.johnchow.com/ John Chow — JohnChow *http://www.shoemoney.com/ Shoemoney Jeremy Schoemaker [...]
  • Twitter: To Follow Or Not To Follow - For those that don’t know Twitter is like mini blogging. Each tweet (a twitter post) is 140 characters long. The messages posted by the people you follow are all posted on your twitter page which is http://www.twitter.com/username . In the last month there have been are a number of people that [...]
  • Improve Website Traffic - Question: If you were working on ICIS, what would be the first five things you would do to improve the search engine optimization and conversions from those visitors? Answer: Here is a quick free 30 minute review of a Website I did for Avanta Serviced Offices in London, UK. This was [...]
  • What’s That Website Running - If your wondering what kind of an Operating System (OS) and what kind of Webserver software is running on a Website Netcraft has a nice utility to help you find that out. The utility is Whats That Website Running. It also gives you the history of what hosting company [...]
  • Reasons You Should Have A Blog - This article gives six good reasons you should have a blog on your website from a SEO point of view. Before we go to these reasons lets go over what gives a website higher rankings in the search engines. a) lots of content — lots of human developed content of good quality [...]
  • Which Is More SEO Friendly CSS or Tables - There are some SEO Firms that tell website owners that converting their website from Tables to CSS HTML markup will help the site rank better. Matt Cutts dispels this myth. While there are many reasons not to use Tables for Layout, using tables versus CSS in your HTML doesn’t effect your [...]
  • Geographic Location Of Server Effects Rankings - Some website owners don’t realize that the computer that hosts their website should be in the country that their target market is located, or in the country that they would like the best rankings. Matt Cutts makes this point pretty clear. Question: Could you confirm whether the geographic location of the [...]
  • SEOCompany.Ca Ranks #1 On Google.Ca - Well I have an authority status (shown by the extra links) with Google.ca for my SEO Company site. When you Google up SEO Company you get my authority status entry, an extra entry to my SEO Tools page and right under that I have an entry from Google maps.
  • Prices For LL.ORG Domains - Pricing 2 Character domains that are forsale? LL.ORG domains for sale have an average asking price of $73k in July 2009. I am updating this post regularly as I find more information about LL.ORG domains. Asking Price For LL.ORG Domains At BuyDomains.Com Buy Domains is one of the bigger domain auction [...]
  • Ranking By Site Authority - I was Googling today trying to find the average pricing that 2 character domains were selling for as I am considering buying a LL.ORG. There are three different kinds of characters that can be used in domains — a letter, number or hypen. When people are referring to shorter [...]
  • Prices For LL.NET Domains - Pricing 2 Character domains that are forsale? LL.NET domains for sale have an average asking price of $172k in July 2009. Here are the LL.NET domains on BuyDomains.Com. In the left column you need to deselect the .com and .org check boxes and a bit further down in the same column select [...]
  • iSpeakVideo Flash Videos - I was Googling up Buy Domains to find sites that sell used domains and I found Active Domain a domain registrar that is selling .info sites for $2.85. Of course they just advertise “domain name for as low as $2.85/yr” and they don’t tell you it is only for .info domains. But [...]
  • Prices For LL.COM Domains - Pricing 2 Character domains that are forsale? LL.COM domains for sale have an average asking price of $346k in July 2009. Here are the LL.COM domains on BuyDomains.Com. In the left column you need to deselect the .net and .org check boxes and a bit further down in the same column select [...]
  • Sites On My IP - Sites On My IP has a number of nice tools on their site. The one I like the best is their home page Sites On My IP tool. It’s a nice SEO Tool that can help you in a number of different ways. 1. Other way you can use [...]

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