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Cranberry Launches PeoplePond.com Search Engine Optimization for People Service

Cranberry, a company led by led by Internet visionary David McInnis (formerly of PRWeb), has launched PeoplePond, an Internet service that provides search engine optimized (SEO) profiles and online identity verification services for individuals. It was officially launched to the general public during the annual South by Southwest conference and ...

Net Builders Launches Sulumits Retsambew SEO Search Engine Optimization Contest

Will Spencer the owner of Net Builders has recently kicked off another SEO (search engine optimization) contest called the the "Sulumits Retsambew SEO Contest". The whole point of the contest is to test the Google algorithm. The winner will own the top-ranked search result for the "made up" keyword phrase ...

6 Ways to Get Nearly Instant Links to your Web Site

It seems as though everyone wants something done quickly, or nearly instantly. We want success quickly. We want to be successful online and we want to get links to our web sites quickly. We want traffic to our web sites quickly. There are many reasons why you would want to get ...

Search Engine Workshops Now Offering Online Search Engine Marketing Resource Center

Search Engine Academy is now offering a networking community for search engine marketers. This new networking community is the first on the internet to offer a place where search engine optimizers can meet and share strategies, access other online areas, and get the latest updated material on a regular basis. Search ...

What Does Social Media Have to do with Search? Plenty

Back in the "dark ages" of search engine optimization, way back a few years ago, actually, we created content on our websites. We then paid attention to on-page optimization, like optimizing our title tags, our body copy, and we mentioned our keywords in the copy. Linking campaigns were important, and ...

Latent Semantic Indexing - SiloMatic

The days of keyword stuffing, single phrase optimization and concentrating only on incoming links to gain traffic are slowly being phased out as a more holistic approach to judging website content comes online. This new concept has many webmasters hopping, and it should. Latent semantic indexing is quickly becoming the ...

Latent Symantec Indexing LSI is the Key To Great Search Engine Rankings

By Guest Writer Monica Hendrix There are billions of pages online today and the web is growing at such a fast rate that many sites simply can’t get ahead of established websites – but now they can. Imagine building a site to a formula that search engines are looking for and will ...

The Painful Truth About Getting Your Website to the Top of the Search Engines

By Guest Writer Ivana Katz “How do I get my website to come up on top of the search engines?” – That is one of the most frequently asked questions I get asked by clients. The truth is, it’s not easy. With millions of websites on the internet right now and thousands being ...

What Are Search Engine Friendly URLs?

By Guest Writer Dirk Lester They are one of the most important elements of web design, and one if the most overlooked. Each of the major web crawler-based search engines (meaning Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista. Excite and so on) relies on a unique algorithm, methodology or formula to settle on a given ...

Getting Out of the Google Supplemental Index

My fellow linking master buddy pal named Andy Hagans has a great post about escaping Google's supplemental index. “What exactly is that supplemental index again?” I won’t parrot the quasi-official Google answer here. (In fact, I can promise that I will never give you the “official Google answer” on Tropical SEO.) Take ...

Amazon.com Shuts Down Amazon Associates Affiliate Program

Amazon.com has "jumped the gun" so to speak and shut down its affiliate program, the Amazon Associates Program, to associates who live in the State of North Carolina. Amazon.com is taking this unprecedented step of shutting down their affiliate program ahead of what they're calling an "unconstitutional tax collection scheme ...
June 24th 2009
Tags: Word of Mouth Marketing 3 Comments

Zuberance Webinar June 24 Shows How to Turn Word of Mouth into Sales

Zuberance, a Word of Mouth marketing company that provides an on-demand platform that enables B2B and B2C marketers to identify and mobilize their Advocates, generating leads and sales, is hosting a free webinar on June 24th (today) 11 AM Pacific Time about how to turn "word of mouth" into actual ...
June 18th 2009
Tags: Internet Usage 6 Comments

comScore Releases May 2009 Search Engine Rankings

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the United States search marketplace. In May 2009, Americans conducted 14.3 billion core searches. Google's websites continued to lead the US search market in April 2009 with 65.0 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! (20.1 percent), ...
June 17th 2009
Tags: Ask.com, Search Engines 9 Comments

Ask.com Unveils Database of 300 Million Questions and Answers

Got a question? Well, according to Ask.com, they have the answer. Well, apparently they now have the answers to 300 million questions. Ask.com has unveiled a database of 300 million "Q&A pairs". Ask.com used their "proprietary core search technology" launched in the fall of 2008 and came up with 300 million ...
June 8th 2009
Tags: Search Engine Marketing 18 Comments

User Centric Releases Results of Eye Tracking Study: Google Versus Bing

User Centric has released the results of an eye tracking study that compares data between Google and the new Microsoft search engine Bing. What is interesting to note is that sponsored links are attracting more attention than they are on Google. Google users appear to be more aware of the ...

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