So by now nearly everyone has heard of Bing, the new “decision engine” from Microsoft. It’s an obvious challenge to Google, and naturally SEOs and Promoters want to know the answer to the obvious first response “how do I optimize for it”. I will offer up some suggestions and theory. (more…) Read More →
How to Optimize Your Website for Bing
So by now nearly everyone has heard of Bing, the new “decision engine” from Microsoft. It’s an obvious challenge to Google, and naturally SEOs and Promoters want to know the answer to the obvious first response “how do I optimize for it”. I will offer up some suggestions and theory. (more…) Read More →
Twitter Success Series Part 2 - How to add followers to twitter
In the last installment of the Twitter Success Series, I talked about building your tribe. I talked about ways to build your followers by keeping them happy, and getting them to spread the word. In retrospect I realize that I actually did this in reverse! In this installment I’m going to talk about how to find your “tribe” (more…) Read More →
Twitter 101: For Beginners
So, you’ve finally signed up for your twitter account, and you are probably wondering: what now? How does this work? I thought I’d write a quick guide to twitter, for the absolute beginner, to lay down some of the basics of this fast paced social platform. This isn’t necessarily targeted to marketers, as much as just beginner twitter users. (more…) Read More →
Twitter Success Series - Part 1. Build Your Tribe
Are you wondering what the trick is to making it big on twitter? Have you heard the success stories and wondered how to get in on it? This article describes a general strategy that could help you make the most of this social networking phenomenon. This is the first part of the “Twitter success Series”. (more…) Read More →
A new way to promote your site on the net?
According to SEOMoz, this is a list of the top 500 most important pages of the internet. But how do you get on the list? At first glance it looks like backlinks are a big factor, so what strategy should you take? Here is a new idea. (more…) Read More →
Google Announces the Canonical Tag
Thursday Google announced support for the “canonical tag” which is essentially a tag to tell Google and the other two search engines which version of a url you want crawled or indexed. In theory, this should help with duplicate content issues, but is this something you want to try? (more…) Read More →
How to make an SEO friendly WordPress Blog
So, you want to start a blog, and make sure it gets noticed by google? It’s actually easier than you think, and you can do it absolutely free. I’ll show you how to install wordpress and tweak it for good SEO, so it gets picked up by google, and you start getting more traffic to your blog! (more…) Read More →
How to install WordPress
Want to know how to install WordPress on your website? It’s super easy! First off, here is what you’ll need: A webserver running PHP 4.3 or greater A webserver with mysql 4.0 or greater. That’s it! While I would recommend using Apache under Linux, it’s not required. I’m going to show how to install it on a godaddy hosted site, but it’s pretty similar on any web host. First Step: Get WordPress Go here to download WordPress to your computer. Save the file somewhere... (more...)
What you should know before hiring an SEO
So, are you thinking about hiring an SEO? As more and more small businesses look for opportunities to grow, the term SEO (Search Engine Optimization) always seems to come up. Someone has a story about some business who made millions off tweaking a meta tag, and people get very excited. (more…) Read More →
What the heck is bounce rate?
Bounce Rate is a web analytics term that defines how many people visit a page, and then leave that page without going anywhere else on your site. If someone lands on one of your pages and (more…) Read More →