seo: Google Sells Search Engine Optimization side of Performics
- 04/04/08 03:12 PM
Since Google acquired Performics, many SEO guru's have been concerned about the ethics involved with Google acquiring the company’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) division. Google has just announced that while they intend to keep the affiliate marketing division, they have decided to sell the Search Engine Optimization side of Performics. For more information, read Google’s blog post about it This is good news - to the "little guys" like me! Plus with Google's claim early on that "search engine rankings can't be guaranteed" this would really have been a conflicting, dare I say unethical, division to add to their fold. SearchFeature.com provides … (1 comments)
seo: SEO vs. PPC
- 04/04/08 01:52 AM
An associate of mine contacted me a few weeks ago asking me to handle a PPC campaign for her and I refused. I don't do PPC! PPC is a temporary (and expensive) fix to having your site found in the search engines - and more often than not, your ROI is rarely recouped. I told her if her client wants to throw away her money like that, just send ME a check for doing absolutely nothing instead of sending it to the PPC companies who are already making tons of cash off of people/companies. While a PPC company returns virtually nothing in … (4 comments)
seo: New visual search engine: SearchMe
- 03/24/08 08:05 AM
I’m not sure how many of you have seen this new search engine that is in beta testing right now – but it looks freakin’ amazing. http://www.searchme.com/
The importance of a good design is going to be an essential part of marketing your site in the future. Now that SearchMe is coming out, I see this as making a huge impact on the way people literally *view* your web site and decide whether or not to visit. Originally when I started designing sites, I was heavy on the flash and graphics, but started drifting away from that when I started … (4 comments)
seo: SEO: Is the word "and" a "stop word" for titles?
- 03/24/08 07:20 AM
An important thing to remember in search engine optimization is that using the word "and" in a page title means you should have two different pages as opposed to combining two phrases on one page. What does this mean? If you're an agent who supports many cities in a particular area/county, you (or your webmaster) may have combined city names (or counties) in your page title. For instance your page title may read: "North Dallas and Collin County homes for sale" This is not the right way to market your page. The search engines when crawling your page will delete the "and" from your page … (6 comments)
seo: Google now offers SEO services
- 03/19/08 06:27 AM
Google has acquired DoubleClick Performics (http://www.performics.com). So what does this mean? There's no sure-fire way to tell at this point, however I have heard both good, bad and indifferent comments regarding the acquisition. Amongst talk groups, I've seen comment such as "who said a search engine optimization company couldn't guarantee rankings?" and "...the era where someone can rank a site strategically without Google financially benefitting from it is going to come to an end." Others don't see it as anything to be worried about "...it seems to be one very minor part of the company, and very basic at that." One thing is … (5 comments)
seo: Blogging and Joomla and SEO
- 08/11/07 06:40 PM
I recently changed my web site over to Joomla (Content Management System). As a web site designer, this was very hard for me to do and I'm still learning the ins and outs of Joomla on a daily basis. Deciding to go to a Joomla format was very scary, I'm a designer, not a programmer and it was more than a little intimidating...but I did it! Here's my site: www.TheVirtualLink.com. Yesterday I decided to try out an extension for Joomla that displays the titles of your latest blog posts. It took maybe all of about 10 minutes to set up. I was floored. Now, each time I … (5 comments)
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Since Google acquired Performics, many SEO guru's have been concerned about the ethics involved with Google acquiring the company’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) division. Google has just announced that while they intend to keep the affiliate marketing division, they have decided to sell the Search Engine Optimization side of Performics. 
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