Facebook has announced on December 20, 2012 that they were starting a small experiment by giving a small amount of people the option to pay to send a message to someone they were not Facebook friends with, and have that message routed to that persons Inbox rather than their Others folder. This test is designed […]
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Advantages of Web Based Email Marketing Providers
Many marketers and online business owners are not aware of the advantages of web based email marketing providers over purchasing their own software. While there are pros and cons for either side, professionals tend to choose web based email marketing providers for several reasons which I will discuss throughout this article. After-all when it comes […]
Google Ads New Clickable Arrow to Text Adsense Ads
Google has announced last week a few changes to their Adsense text ads. One change, rolling out already, will make the look and feel of text ads more consistent as consumers and advertisers use screens interchangeably, and distinctions between devices fade. You’ll notice a new clickable arrow icon, as well as slight optimizations to font size, […]
Internet Marketing Ninja’s Launches Page Speed Analysis Tool
When your website takes a while to load up – this causes a series of traffic and SEO related consequences. No-one wants to wait a long time for your website to load up; and search engines such as Google and Bing always take your page’s load speed into account when generating your websites ranking. The […]
HootSuite Ranked #1 Twitter Client
A recent Brandwatch study found that HootSuite is the #1 Twitter client being used by businesses to manage their social media. This ranking is an great indicator of where social media for business is headed. Download or view the Brandwatch report here. In the meantime take a moment to check out HootSuite’s new video with their own social media coach to […]
Does Google Take Action on Spammy Guest Blogging Activities?
As everyone makes themselves familiar with Google’s latest link scheme guidelines, more and more questions are coming up. The latest question coming in from Nandita B in India asks:
LunarPages Partners with Conversion Pipeline
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]LunarPages has recently announced a partnership with online marketing agency Conversion Pipeline in an effort to provide their web hosting customers with Search Engine Optimization and Pay-per-Click services. This new partnership with Conversion Pipeline affords clients the opportunity to promote their brand and advertise their website with first-class Internet marketing expertise. Lunarpages Marketing […]
1&1 Introduces Web Apps to 1&1 MyWebsite
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]1&1 have launched a free suite of drag-and-drop style web applications available for use within its MyWebsite package. Up to 100 applications have been included, many offering useful sector-specific functionality across areas including eCommerce, communication, social media, and daily management tasks. The development means that customers signing up for selected 1&1 MyWebsite packages can […]
Growing Your Business Online with Yola Gold
If you own a small business, simply having a website is usually not enough to really grow your business online. Your website needs to be found online by potential new customers. Thankfully there is now an easy and affordable way to get found online using Yola’s newest hosting package, Yola Gold. As you may already […]
Google Updates Link Schemes Guidelines, Hates on Footer Links
Google has updated their Link Schemes Guidelines – which to be honest – I think has made things that much worse. If you really read through the new guidelines – you’ll find that linking, in general, is really hard to do now. I guess the big problem here is that with terms as vague as “various […]
Yola Changes Terms for Free Google Adwords Credits
As of October 1st, the Yola Bronze, Silver packages no longer include their respective $50 and $75 worth of free Google AdWords credit. Instead, users that spend $25 in Google AdWords credits will get an additional $100 worth of credits for free. Furthermore keep in mind that since Yola Gold includes all the features of […]
Examine the Quality of Your Backlinks with LinkDiagnosis.com
Simply obtaining backlinks isn’t the only thing to worry about when improving the SEO status of your website. Quality is just as important as quantity, which is why it’s important to look at the status of your backlinks. With LinkDiagnosis, you can look at the Google PageRank along with various other ranks of your site’s […]
Google Webmaster Guidelines Have Been Updated
The official Google Webmaster Guidelines have long needed an overhaul in various areas. For starters the introduction of rich-snippets has brought with it a handful of new questions – which some clear documentation and guidelines would help. Luckily yesterday Google announced their new, updated guidelines – with a set of quality and technical guidelines for […]
Upcoming Google Algorithm Change Focuses on Exact-Match Domains
Matt Cutts has recently announced that Google will be rolling out a “small” algorithm change that will “reduce low-quality ‘exact-match’ domains” from
New Focus on Google Adwords Sitelinks Policy
Sitelinks give users a choice of destinations on your website that they can visit directly from your text ads. Hopefully you’ve already been using sitelinks to improve your Adwords campaign performance; and if so – make sure to pay close attention to Google’s Adwords Sitelinks policy so you do not run the risk of being penalized. […]
Google Announces New Keyword Meta Tag
A few days ago Google announced the introduction of a brand new meta tag to be used for news articles – the news_keywords meta tag. The goal of it is simple: empower news writers to express their stories freely while helping Google News to properly understand and classify that content so that it’s discoverable by our wide […]
Google Adwords $100 Credit Giveaway
All of my clients always receive a $100 Google Adwords credit to help them jump-start their online marketing. To help give something back to the community I decided to give away 5 $100 Google Adword credits randomly to those who sign up for our email updates and post a comment on this post. Make sure […]
Adobe Becomes Social!
Adobe has introduced a new service that, it says, will provide the information and tools needed to implement advanced social strategies. Adobe Social is a mixture of analytics-laden social listening, management and publishing tools. “Just because social feels intuitive doesn’t mean you can run it intu-itively,” senior vice-president/GM of Adobe Digital Marketing Business Brad Rencher told […]
The Basics of Inbound Link Building
Inbound links are one of the most controversial topics in SEO. There is no doubt that having a ton of sites linking to yours used to juice up your site into great rankings several years ago. But is that really true anymore? They search engines have gotten a lot smarter and savvier about what site […]
Good Link Building Techniques
If you want to increase the pagerank and traffic to your site there are many SEO options available but one of the most crucial methods is by gaining relevant backlinks to your website. Backlinks are vital in raising the profile of your website as up to 75% of Google’s ranking factors are attributed to off […]