Blog Category: Web Marketing

Creating A Business Networking Event

31 August, 2010 (09:52) | Web Marketing

The Twelve Step Program… Creating an Event worth drinking to!

Business events serve many a purpose; it could be to celebrate a business milestone, welcome new staff, launch a sale or simply spread some good will. Whatever the occasion, when you can’t afford an event planner and publicist, there are 12 simple steps to make sure your event is memorable and successful.

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Basic Branding Tips

13 July, 2010 (10:40) | Web Marketing

The Quick Guide to Finding Your Market Position

Your brand is the intangible feeling customers get when they view your products or use your services. Like it or not, every business has a brand, it might just be “amateur”. Finding your market position isn’t brain surgery, especially if you know your stuff. You might already have a premium brand without even knowing it. It might just take a little time thinking about it to bring it to life properly!

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Lack of Advertising

18 May, 2009 (11:56) | Web Marketing

There are many companies that are constantly being cautious of how they are spending their money especially when in a recession. According to a study conducted by Ad-ology,

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Conversational Writing

1 May, 2009 (10:00) | Article Marketing

Article marketing is one of the most powerful forms of internet marketing that any webmaster can use. This means that an internet marketer has to be a good writer or at least be able to get their point across in a way that everyone can understand.

Here are some tips when writing:

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Tree Like Structure

20 April, 2009 (13:43) | Web Marketing

At Innovation Simple, we recommend and consult our clients to typically create a “tree like structure” with the layout of their website pages/links.

This means that the user comes in to the home page and is generally given a few options to try to filter them to the correct portion of the website for their needs. After the user finds themselves in that place, they then get more options related to that topic. After they click another link, then it gets deeper into that topic, thereby creating a tree-like structure as briefly shown below (image by Wikipedia):

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Bounce Rates and SEO

13 April, 2009 (09:45) | Search Engine Marketing

When I say bounce rates to most people they are not sure exactly what I am talking about because they normally associate the word bounce with checks, not with websites and internet marketing. Bounce rates are very important when it comes to search engines because

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Building Natural Inbound Links for SEO

10 April, 2009 (08:10) | Search Engine Marketing

Google has made several changes to their algorithm to better improve their search engine and the majority of the time when they are making changes it is to fix bad practices or black hat practices of internet marketers.

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SEO Solid Foundation

9 April, 2009 (08:20) | Search Engine Marketing

SEO is fairly simple to explain, but there are many individuals who have so many complicated definitions. I have spoken to people who do not know what it is and I would say that a majority of

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PageBoss – SEO Health Checker Tool

2 April, 2009 (09:45) | Search Engine Marketing

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There are a variety of SEO tools that have been created in order to get a glimpse into how

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Squidoo Lenses and SEO

26 March, 2009 (09:08) | Search Engine Marketing

Squidoo is one of those authority websites that are often talked about in search engine optimization and internet marketing. When you are marketing a website you want to

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Writing Reviews

25 March, 2009 (07:37) | Search Engine Marketing

One thing that a lot of consumers do online is search for reviews of any type of product or service. The internet has provided a way for average people to

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301 Redirects and Moving Domains

24 March, 2009 (09:43) | Search Engine Marketing

Innovation Simple has moved their Utah web design website from www.webdesign-utah.com to http://utah.innovationsimple.com. This move will better the

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Google Ranking Factors

23 March, 2009 (10:10) | Search Engine Marketing

Google is the number 1 search engine in the world with almost 80% of the search market share. Google has

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What to do if in the Google Sandbox

20 March, 2009 (07:29) | Search Engine Marketing

Many times webmasters feel that Google is out to get them or to make their life miserable by not improving their website search engine rankings. Many times there are websites especially new websites that will seem to experience

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Google Inside

19 March, 2009 (08:32) | Search Engine Marketing

When it comes to search engines Google is the King of the World in many aspects. Google owns over

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Giving Away Things for FREE

16 March, 2009 (11:37) | Internet Marketing Tips

There have been several business models around and some have changed over time due to the economy and nature of the business. One of the more popular business models of late is the FREE business model which is where companies give things away for FREE.

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GeoTarget Search Engine Marketing

26 February, 2009 (08:54) | Search Engine Marketing

Search is still one of the best forms of advertising today. For those who have local businesses there are several things that they can do to more target the geography within the search engines.

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Mistakes in Resource Boxes

20 February, 2009 (08:52) | Article Marketing

Writing articles and publishing them across the web is one of the most effective way in building a websites popularity and backlinks. Using your expertise to the fullest potential is critical in showing people online that you know what you are talking about. The best way to increase the backlinks is in the resource box.

Here are some common mistakes that people make when filling out their resource box:

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Is your Website Helping Your Business?

17 February, 2009 (09:42) | Web Marketing

One of the most important questions a business owner should ask themselves is

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Every Marketer Should Ask Themselves

10 February, 2009 (15:35) | Web Marketing

Every marketer should ask themselves several questions when they are putting together a marketing plan for any type of business especially their own business. Here are some questions that you should constantly be thinking about as a business owner as well:

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PPC Web Spy

3 February, 2009 (09:31) | Internet Marketing Tips

Brad Callen has a new keyword research tool that he has been working on for the last 8 months called PPC Web Spy. There is a standard version for FREE and then others that you can upgrade to. You can download PPC Web Spy at

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Run of Site Links

2 February, 2009 (10:10) | Search Engine Marketing

In SEO (search engine optimization) having backlinks is very important. It is the most important thing to focus on in off-page optimization. The search engines know how many backlinks are pointing to a website and where they are coming from. The more quality backlinks that a website has the more important they look to a search engine.

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Traits of a Successful Business

23 January, 2009 (09:50) | Web Marketing

In business there are several things that must happen in order for the business to be successful. Here are some traits of successful businesses and why they continue to increase their sales and have higher conversions.

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Google Adding Time Stamp to Search Results

16 January, 2009 (08:35) | Search Engine Marketing

Google is continually changing the way they pull back search results to better serve individuals who are searching for any type of information, product, service, or anything else. They have added

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Addictomatic

15 January, 2009 (11:18) | Internet Marketing Tips

One of the hardest things to do is find new information that you want to talk about on your website. I have used several sources to help me find new things that are happening in my industry including blogs and news sites. I have found a website that pulls everything into one place called

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Increase Your Baclinks

14 January, 2009 (13:18) | Search Engine Marketing

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Does Anyone want to increase their number of backlinks on Technorati? If so, then join the movement on MoneyBush™ and watch your blog grow with us.

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Add Text Along With Video

14 January, 2009 (08:54) | Video Marketing

On the web today we are seeing more and more individuals create and publish videos on their websites. Right now the search engines are contiunally improving the way they index

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The Power of Compounding

29 December, 2008 (10:22) | Search Engine Marketing

In the finance world compound interest is the key to making

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Online Shopping Becoming More Mainstream

22 December, 2008 (11:22) | Web Marketing

It is that time again when everyone is busily jumping from one store to the other in order to get that last minute Christmas shopping done. There are a lot of people that do their shopping

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Web Usability For SEO

18 December, 2008 (10:27) | Search Engine Marketing

The search engines are at this time improving their algorithms in the way they determine the way a user interacts with a website. They are experimenting with

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How Much Time Does It Take To Get In The Top 10

17 December, 2008 (11:39) | Search Engine Marketing

Many people have asked the question for SEO, how long will it take to get into the top 10?

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Have Recent Cache Dates

8 December, 2008 (11:25) | Search Engine Marketing

It is very important in search engine optimization to constantly have the search engines crawling your website to have new information. There are several ways to have the

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Google Friend Connect In Beta

8 December, 2008 (10:03) | Web Marketing

User Generated Content is a huge thing in the internet world. Years ago there were many internet companies who built platforms that would allow internet users the ability to

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Grow Naturally

2 December, 2008 (10:08) | Search Engine Marketing

When building and growing a business online it is best to grow naturally. When I say grow naturally I am talking about

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Virtual Spokespersons

24 November, 2008 (09:57) | Web Marketing

Internet marketers are constantly trying new things to increase conversions and traffic. There are many types of tools and applications that are designed to do just this. One of those tools is using a

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IUSHER set to Pre-Launch

21 November, 2008 (10:03) | Web Marketing

IUSHER.com is coming soon and set to pre-launch in Beta. This website is awesome as all of the products are designed to improve the effectiveness of a website and increase sales for business owners.

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People Search for 3 Reasons

18 November, 2008 (10:06) | Web Marketing

There are billions of people who use the search engines throughout the world to find anything they want with Google being the largest search engine being used. There are a variety of reasons why people use the search engines.

The 3 main reasons are:

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SEMRush.com In Beta

17 November, 2008 (09:58) | Search Engine Marketing

The developers of SeoQuake and SeoDigger have developed a new tool called SEMRush. This new tool is in beta testing and offers a variety of services.

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Realistic Expectations For SEO

13 November, 2008 (10:44) | Search Engine Marketing

When starting a business a person or a group of people have to put together a plan of action as to how the business is to grow. There are a lot of factors that have to be taken into consideration when building a business.

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Bookmark the Bookmark

10 November, 2008 (09:58) | Search Engine Marketing

Social bookmarking is a huge thing that is happening in the world of internet marketing. The main reason why is because these social bookmarking companies are gaining more authority as they get

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Videos Stay Longer

10 November, 2008 (09:33) | Video Marketing

Trying to get into the top 10 in the search engines can be a daunting task to get into. There are several things you can do to get into the top 10. Social bookmarking is one of the

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Invite Search Engines To Your Website

30 October, 2008 (10:05) | Search Engine Marketing

One of the most important factors in search engine optization is to have the search engine crawlers

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Utah Search Engine Optimization

28 October, 2008 (09:01) | Search Engine Marketing

Utah search engine optimization is a big field to go into in Utah because of the technology that has also come out of Utah. There are many different seo firms in the state of California as well. Of course there are huge

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IM Broadcast

27 October, 2008 (08:34) | Video Marketing

IM Broadcast Logo

Online video is getting bigger and bigger as more people upload and watch videos online. CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, said that right now there are

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SEO-Browser

24 October, 2008 (09:57) | Search Engine Marketing

When doing search engine optimization (seo) it is important to know how the search engines see your website. Search engines do not see websites the same way people see them. Search engines do not see

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Update Website Software

23 October, 2008 (08:27) | Web Marketing

If you are running a piece of software that is running your website you want to make sure it is up to date and has the latest version. With technology moving so fast there are always

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Social Netwoking Directory

22 October, 2008 (08:31) | Internet Marketing Tips

There are many ways to drive traffic to your website and to increase search engine rankings. One of the best ways is to use

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Elements of a Landing Page

21 October, 2008 (09:19) | Internet Marketing Tips

When building landing pages to sell products and to grow a list there are some essential things that you need to have on a landing page. The most important goal of a landing page is to get someone to

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Why Use WordPress – 5 Reasons

17 October, 2008 (08:51) | Search Engine Marketing

There are many different types of websites online and today I am going to talk about WordPress websites. Now many people would ask why do so many internet marketers like to use

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Sign-Up For News Sites

17 October, 2008 (07:43) | Internet Marketing Tips

Trying to constantly have new content on your websites can be somewhat a daunting task. One of the best things to do is to sign up for news sites that are in your industry.

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Forums For Branding

16 October, 2008 (09:21) | Internet Marketing Tips

Forums are an excellent place to increase your company’s branding. There are several types of forums on many different topics. The best way to go after forums is to look at

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Authors Biography

16 October, 2008 (08:48) | Article Marketing

A very good way to increase your exposure online is to write articles and market them across the web. Article directories are constantly looking for new content that they can offer to their customers and visitors. The most important part in writing articles is the

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Disallow Images

15 October, 2008 (09:38) | Search Engine Marketing

There are things that you do not want the search engines to find and index. Some of these things may be your privacy policy, terms of conditions, printer friendly pages, or any other legal documents that you may have. One really good thing to not have the search engines index is

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Increase Website Load Time

13 October, 2008 (08:36) | Search Engine Marketing

One of the most important factors in having a website is to have it load very quickly. There are multiple reasons for this. One is for the

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Contact Your Hosting Company

11 October, 2008 (06:42) | Internet Marketing Tips

One of the most important things to have when having a website is how fast it loads. This is depending on the hosting of the site. To make sure you have enough

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Add A Frequently Asked Questions Page

10 October, 2008 (08:40) | Search Engine Marketing, Web Design

Every industry has its own type of questions that people ask over and over again. There are a couple things you could do:

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Add A Glossary

9 October, 2008 (14:03) | Search Engine Marketing

The search engines are constantly improving their algorithms to be able to detect how relevant a page is about any particular topic. When building a website that you want to rank well in the search engines you have to provide

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Broaden Your Keyword Authority

8 October, 2008 (08:45) | Search Engine Marketing

Every website owner is looking to rank well in the search engines for certain keywords and the majority of those times it is for big keywords. These tier 1 keywords that bring in the most traffic also have the most competition and that is why it takes longer to rank well for those keyword strings.

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Post That You Take Orders 24/7

8 October, 2008 (07:46) | Internet Marketing Tips

For a lot of people they have been trained that brick and mortar businesses are opened during certain hours. This is not true however for online businesses as they are opened all the time.

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Getting Testimonials With Google Maps

7 October, 2008 (07:36) | Internet Marketing Tips

A good way to get testimonials is to send out your Google Maps listing for your business to all of your customers.

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Ask For The Money

6 October, 2008 (09:17) | Internet Marketing Tips

When selling online it is imperative to ask for the money. You should always have a call to action and many times this is asking for money. Do not be afraid to ask for people to give you money for your products or services.

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Have A Guarantee

6 October, 2008 (08:35) | Internet Marketing Tips

Having a guarantee can dramatically increase sales. People who are shopping online like to do business the same way as offline. They like to do business with a company that stands by their product or service.

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Email People Who Comment On Your Blog

3 October, 2008 (10:56) | Internet Marketing Tips

If you are running a blog then you will have people who will be able to comment on posts that you make. If you do not have a blog get one.

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Posting Content On A Schedule

3 October, 2008 (10:42) | Search Engine Marketing

Continually writing content and adding it to your website is invaluable. The more information you add on a continual basis shows that the company is a big growing company. Think of it this way, Yahoo and MSN

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Use Offers In Title Tags

3 October, 2008 (10:14) | Internet Marketing Tips

To draw attention to visitors who are scanning the search engine results page having offers in the title tag is perfect at getting more clicks. You can use words like

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Laying Out Website Navigation

3 October, 2008 (08:45) | Search Engine Marketing

When laying out the navigation of a website it is tempting to stuff keywords in there. Do not do this as it is not eye appealing to users. In your main navigation you will want it to be as easy as possible to follow. Here is what you do not want it to look like.

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Building A Keyword List

1 October, 2008 (14:26) | Search Engine Marketing

The most important thing in marketing in the search engines is having a good keyword list. So how do you start to build a keyword list that will properly tell visitors what you offer and most importantly bring you more customers.

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Bigger Is Better

29 September, 2008 (09:07) | Search Engine Marketing

When it comes to wanting a website to rank high in the search engines, search engine optimization, then it is much better and easier to rank a bigger site rather than a smaller website. Search engines are content eaters and the more they can eat the better.

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Google Turns 10 Years Old

26 September, 2008 (10:17) | Search Engine Marketing

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is a name that everyone in the world has in their vocabulary. If you have not heard of Google then you have been living under a big huge rock for the last decade. Google has put up a website time-line showing their accomplishments and what they have done in the past 10 years.

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The Keywords Buying Cycle

25 September, 2008 (09:04) | Search Engine Marketing

Keywords are what we call the words that people use to type into the search engines to find things. For internet marketers targeting which keywords to go after is vital to their success. There are several methods to finding which keywords to use that most appropriately explain your business and that people will type to find you. There is a buying cycle with keywords and here are the different sections.

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5 Steps To Writing Web Copy

23 September, 2008 (09:14) | Web Marketing

When writing content for a webpage there are several things to keep in mind to help to sell customers in your writing. Here are 5 steps to writing good web content:

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The 3 P’s

22 September, 2008 (10:20) | Web Marketing

When selling anything to someone you have to know what they are going through. What I mean is if you are trying to sell a piece of furniture to someone then you have to know more than why did they come looking at furniture. This is where you have to know a customers 3 P’s.

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SEO Dumb Version

19 September, 2008 (06:23) | Search Engine Marketing

SEO (search engine optimization) can be overwhelming to a lot of people. There is so much out there on the internet in regards to how to effectively do seo. So I am going to make some of the seo in lamans terms so it is easy to follow.

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Why Do People Buy?

17 September, 2008 (08:58) | Web Marketing

Every single company is trying to sale some type of product or service. The question is why do people buy things and why should they buy your things that you offer. People buy things to solve

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Search Strings On Google

15 September, 2008 (09:09) | Web Marketing

There are a lot of different things you can do with Google in regards to searching for things. There are some extra strings that you can use to increase how you find stuff that you are looking for. Here is a list of some search strings.

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Is Your Website Special?

12 September, 2008 (09:00) | Web Marketing

There are many people who may think they have put up a website for their company and then after that is smooth sailing and they are going to get business just because they have a website that is online. This is a sad mistake for any company. If you think that publishing a website will make you successful then you should ask these questions.

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Inbound Link Analysis

11 September, 2008 (09:02) | Search Engine Marketing

The search engines rely heavily on the analysis of links that point into a website. There are some ways to get an overview of what types and how many links are pointing into a website.

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Increase Your Size

10 September, 2008 (08:41) | Search Engine Marketing

I see a lot of websites out online that are very small and trying to compete in the search engines. In this day and age having 30 pages for a website is nothing. Yet you see a lot of people who put up a website with pictures, a little text, a little about their company, and how to contact them and that is pretty much the whole site.

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Header Tags

9 September, 2008 (11:39) | Search Engine Marketing

Header tags are very important when it comes to search engines. The search engines like organization of content and the website as a whole. H tags are what web developers use to organize content on a page.

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Topical Directories

9 September, 2008 (08:49) | Search Engine Marketing

Placing your website in directories is one of the easiest and best things to do when building inbound links to a website. However it is important to submit to directories that are reputable and place your website in the correct category.

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Grow Your Net

8 September, 2008 (09:46) | Search Engine Marketing

As you own and operate a website there are some very important things to constantly do. By far the most important is to continue to add good valuable and relevant content. This one thing is vital in building a company online.

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Steady Marketing

8 September, 2008 (09:00) | Web Marketing

When marketing for any company it is important to constantly be moving forward. Especially in doing search engine optimization it is better to constantly be moving and changing your website as this shows growth and improves size.

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Link Targets

4 September, 2008 (09:18) | Search Engine Marketing

As you build and promote your website the most important factor is that there has to be some value. A website is the place where people can find information or entertainment. No matter which one it is there has to be that value as to why someone would think this is a good website to go to, stay on, and possibly link to.

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Broaden Your Inbound Links

4 September, 2008 (08:40) | Search Engine Marketing

When building links to your website it is vital to make them look as natural as possible. You do not want to be a one hit wonder meaning that you are solely going after one keyword. As you build links they have to show a variety of anchor text.

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Website Authority

3 September, 2008 (09:33) | Search Engine Marketing

Many websites do very well in the search engines without doing hardly any link building at all. So how does this happen. If you see a website that was in the 20’s or so in position and then noticeably jumps to the top 10 or 5 positions then this is a sign that the website has good authority.

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SEO Mistakes

3 September, 2008 (08:55) | Search Engine Marketing

There are many different websites that are trying to optimize for certain search terms in the search engines. There are some common mistakes that I have seen websites make when it comes to search engine optimization.

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What Is Google PageRank

2 September, 2008 (09:24) | Search Engine Marketing

The idea of the internet is to have documents that hyperlink to other documents that are on the world wide web. Google, originally called Backrub, started by being able to create a system on how to calculate the importance of a webpage by the links that point to it.

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Using Keyword Patterns

2 September, 2008 (08:47) | Search Engine Marketing

When selecting keywords for a new website is best to not target some highly competitive phrases because it will be very hard to get your new website listed in Google. It is best to use a variety of phrases to go after. If you are going after furniture then it will be best to go after

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Get Indexed In Google in Less Than 1 Week

28 August, 2008 (08:51) | Search Engine Marketing

There are many people who are constantly hearing that if you want to get indexed in Google then you need to add your url to Google. This is not the best way to get Google to index your site. What happens when you add your website to Google’s add your url page.

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Internal Link Structure

27 August, 2008 (10:03) | Search Engine Marketing

Optimizing a website for search engines is by far the best way to rank a website in the search engines. In order for the search engines to index and rank a website in the search engine results pages they need to crawl the site and see what the theme of the site is about.

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Build Content and Links

25 August, 2008 (08:42) | Search Engine Marketing

Owning a website can be a lot of work to keep it up and going. Marketing and search engine optimization are comprised of many different things. A lot of people ask what is the most important thing to do in building and marketing a website.

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SeoQuake Firefox Extension

22 August, 2008 (08:53) | Search Engine Marketing

There are several tools to help in the search engine optimization process. Firefox has several extensions to help in SEO. The one that everyone should have that is doing SEO is called SeoQuake. This extension has many different tools that will show many parameters of a webpage.

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DoFollow Search Engines

21 August, 2008 (08:29) | Search Engine Marketing

When doingsearch engine optimization for a website link building is one of the most important things to do. There are a variety of ways to do this including press releases, submitting to directories, submitting to social bookmarking companies, and commenting on blogs that do not have the nofollow attribute turned on.

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Ask Where Your Customers Are Coming From

21 August, 2008 (07:37) | Web Marketing

There are a lot of businesses that do all types of marketing: direct mail, fliers, billboards, newspapers, and obviously the internet. Yet there are a lot of businesses that do not actually know where there customers are finding them or coming from.

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9 Punctuation Tips When Writing Articles

20 August, 2008 (08:34) | Article Marketing

When writing articles to market across the web there are certain things to keep in mind. A lot of different punctuation and grammatical information can often be overlooked. Here are some punctuation and writing tips:

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Google vs. Yahoo vs. MSN

15 August, 2008 (14:04) | Search Engine Marketing

Dear Innovation Simple clients and anyone else out there that have someone who uses SEO, we want to keep you up-to-date on search engine market share.

These are results for April 2008 from Hitwise.

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Flash vs. SEO

15 August, 2008 (08:26) | Search Engine Marketing

When it comes to the different types of websites and search engine optimization, flash websites mix with SEO like a square peg in a round hole. They just don’t fit together. The reason why is because in flash all of he code of the website is embedded so a search engine crawler cannot see all of the code.

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Search Engine Results Pages

14 August, 2008 (08:43) | Search Engine Marketing

All search engines have what is called a search engine results page or (SERP’s). The serp’s are different for each search engine but their are some basic parameters on search engine results pages.

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Capture Subscribers

12 August, 2008 (08:48) | Email Marketing

One of the most important parts of having on online business is to generate leads. In internet marketing the money is in the list. What does that mean by the money is in the list. Capturing information from people who visit your website. This is where they give you at least their first name and email.

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Getting Testimonials

11 August, 2008 (08:22) | Web Marketing

Testimonials are an essential part of marketing for any business. People like to do business with a company that has a good reputation. Having testimonials on your website is a way to reinforce your reputation. As customers do more research on companies one of the things they are looking at is what do other people think of this company.

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