Archive for May, 2006

9 ways to drive more traffic to your website

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Here's a list of 9 ways that you can get more traffic to your website today 1) Use PPC. Sure it costs a lot of money, but if you're careful and do visitor analysis, the payoff might be well worth it. The big advantage of PPC is that the ...

4 surefire search engine marketing tips

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

Search engines can be baffling at times, and all of the different search engines work slightly differently, but they have a lot of factors in common. If you do certain things extremely well, you can end up ranking relatively high in the search engine results pages. Here's a ...

GoogleFlux: the index that shifts every second

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Normally, I won't so a repetitive site: command, because I know just how addictive it can be. If you type site: in you'll get a different value from one minute to the next. I'm familiar with the concept of Google Data Centers and the like, but really, it's ...

Google - the sole judge of quality on the internet

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Google is big on quality these days. In fact, that's all they talk about. At long last, Google mouthpiece Matt Cutts has released the fact that Google has made serious changes to their PageRank system, which are severely impacting the number of indexed pages people have in Google. ...

Mobility and multi-lingual capablity - twin towers of Web 2.0

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

We're seeing all kinds of Web 2.0 applications, and some of them are quite impressive. But we haven't seen the true power of Web 2.0 just yet, IMHO, until we find an application that harnesses two of the biggest trends going: 1) More people use mobile devices to access the ...

Google Coop - what benefits does it have?

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

If you're a search engine marketer, then the first thought that comes to your mind about hearing a new product has been released from Google should be: how will the world and I benefit? One of this week's barrage of new products is the Google Coop. What is the Google ...

Reliability is at the core of a Web 2.0 strategy

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Web 2.0 makes a lot of sense, and the sites that are adopting the mindset are doing quite well. There's one central precept that I think is essential to continued success: Web 2.0 websites must be reliable, in order to build strong relationships with repeat visitors. Users come ...

Estimating your keyword’s traffic potential at Google

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Google, who is on a rampage announcing new "products", has announced you can use their Traffic Estimator tool now, whether you have a Google Adwords account or not. People with AdWords have been familiar with this tool for quite some time. The tool gives you a rough idea of what ...

Web’s Best Directory is now PDA friendly

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

We're happy to announce that Web's Best Directory is now PDA friendly. The best part is, you don't have do to anything on your part to access the service. We're using auto-detection to determine if you're using a mobile browser, if so, we automatically serve you the shrunken ...

Google’s indexing problems roll on - pages fall out daily

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Google has a lot of trouble keeping pages in their index these days, and the best part is, it doesn't appear to be getting any better. We've all heard webmasters complain in the past about drops in rankings and the like, but this time the complaints are even more ...