Bill Hartzer

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 Marketing Traffic Jam

I was doing some blogging over the weekend and came across a blog that was sending one of my blogs (yes, I have quite a few of them) a considerable amount of traffic. Not only was it sending traffic, it is listed as the number one search result for a ...

Timing of Link Credit for New Links

I've been experimenting and doing some testing recently to try to figure out how long it takes to get "credit" for new links to your site. It appears that the organic rankings credit comes about 5 days after you get a new link to a website. To verify some of my ...

Search Engine Marketing and Squidoo

I'm not sure that you're aware of it, but you might be missing out on a great opportunity to get a few additional links to your site, and viewers/readers/visitors to your blog. Squidoo is a great way to boost your site's visibility. And, Squidoo (www.squidoo.com) is what I would consider to ...

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 19 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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