Archive for March, 2009
What is Google Local?
Mar 11th
Searching business according to location is made easier by Google. This is another breakthrough for Google in boosting the internet marketing industry.
Google search engine is excellent in delivering relevant search results that makes the internet researching easy. Anything that you would like to search can be found by typing the right key phrases. However, the researching process is even made easier with Google Local. Google Local is a service from Google search engine that allow business searching easier. With the Google Maps, the location of the business is easily found. Google Local is like yellow pages that contain business information and addresses that are gone totally online.
The benefit that internet searchers can get is that through Google Local, the exact location is at your disposal, right before your very eyes. Just like how the Google Maps work, you have the option to view the location of the business establishment in traditional map form wherein you are given a 2D image of the streets and landmarks. You can also view the location in satellite image or terrain and zoom in the place for a clearer view of the place.
Thanks to Google that web marketing is being empowered and even made the process easier with Google Local service. Truly Google is the unbeatable search engine ever.
Reasons Why Search Engines Blacklist Your Site
Mar 10th
Getting your site blacklisted among the major search engines is such a great internet marketing failure. All your SEO efforts are wasted into nothing. Well, having the site blacklisted is the price of using unethical SEO campaign. Black SEO strategy is the easiest way of getting a higher ranking in the search engine results page but for a very short period of time. After that, you get banned.
There are some instances that even if you are using some of the unethical SEO techniques, the site is not banned. However, you are buried in the search engine listing–deep enough in order not to be found by internet users. As a result, you don’t get any traffic much as any return on investment. Here are reasons why search engines blacklist your site.
Doorway Web Pages
A doorway page is often confused with landing page but the difference lies in the purpose and the content. Doorway pages are usually created for the purpose of driving traffic for the real site. They are usually containing keyword-rich contents that are nonsense. The content is purposely made for search engine spiders so that the real site can gain higher ranking organically. The content does not only contain text but also anchor text which links are leading the internet users to the main site. However, this spam technique is considered outdated because this is detectable by search engines already.
Mirror Websites
This technique is characterized by sites with the same content which URLs are different. Before, this is ideal for achieving higher ranking. But recently, search engines are getting smarter. This technique is considered cheating and so the site the uses this method would be blacklisted.
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How to Make a Mind-Blowing Promotional Video
Mar 9th
Making a promotional video is not as easy as doing SEO. However, both video marketing and SEO are one with the aim of achieving internet marketing success.
Video marketing material really seems very easy to produce because we often think it is as simple as speaking in front of the camera. There are actually several things to consider before the event of speaking in front of the camera is done. The most crucial part is the making of the script. Every thing that must be spoken should be informational and all the details must be relevant to the purpose of the video. No single detail must be far-fetched or else, you get all your video marketing efforts doomed to failure. The script must be divided into short and concise paragraphs. These paragraphs, though short, should not compromise any detail that explicates what your business is all about.
You also have to consider the design of how your video must appear to the audience as well as the setting. It is recommended to have a simple but formal enough to contribute in the credibility of the speaker, which is you. You credibility will be added up through the way you’re being dressed and the way you speak to the audience. Confident speech is ideal but very achievable.
Of course, everything will be fine if you have outlined anything that is needed in making the promotional video. Aside from the video of “you” speaking in front of the camera, you also have to take note of other video shots or working shots that are relevant and important in making the promotional video “complete.”
The last task of creating a promotional video is the submission and distribution. There are already lots of sites that are dedicated in video sharing such as YouTube. No wonder that it is also hailed as one of the preferred sites for web marketing.
Internet Marketing Education
Mar 6th
The World Wide Web is the most preferred when it comes to a choosing a venue for internet marketing opportunities. It is of course the biggest market that would maximize your service and product promotion efforts.
Though it is interesting to think that you can have as many customers as millions in number because there are already billions of people who are using the internet to shop for products or services, internet marketing is harder than it seems. Sufficient knowledge on the concept of web marketing and other sorts of online business strategies is needed in order to avoid the expected destiny that inexperienced web marketers would more likely to undergo; that is to fail.
Succeeding online will be attained even if you do not have that much experience in this particular online battlefield of entrepreneurs. How? Of course, a simple seeking of advice from web marketing experts is already a great help. It would be better if you got friend who is an internet marketing expert than hiring someone to teach you the necessary skills. If you don’t have any friend with these skills, your only choice is to hire a web marketing consultant.
Doing a research may help such as getting some tips and learning from informational resources such as books, manuals or e-books. However, most of the situation, these things do not help. Nothing so far beats the method of hands-on teaching for on-the-spot learning. Though learning web marketing all by yourself is achievable, only few succeed. Everyone needs a teacher for better learning.
Other Things You Should Know About
Mar 5th
Keyword Density, Web Design and Meta Tags are just among the several we should consider for SEO. However, there are still other things to consider to make your internet marketing efforts work.
(a) Alt Tags: There are some instances when an image does not show due to some reasons such as low bandwidth. Thus, Alt tags are also important because it serves as the name of the image if the web visitors cannot see the image. Alt tags or alternative tags are texts that serve as the image’s name. The Alt tags must bear the keyword and what the picture is all about. It is also crawled by search engines for relevancy aspects for image optimization. Creating excellent alt tags would boost your ranking in relevant keywords.
(b) Link Popularity: Nothing is considered to be the most important factor that would boost not only the page rank for your web page but also your search engine ranking but link popularity. Inbound links are the contributors of your site’s link popularity. They are also the ones that search engines would take as credits for the ranking of your site in the search engine results page. The more relevant those links are, and the more aged they are, the more that they get being flagged as quality link for your site. If you get quality inbound links, your site ranking for particular keywords you are optimizing would eventually gets to top.
(c) Rich Theme: The web pages of your entire site must be of one theme. Meaning, there should not be pages existing that are off-topic or not connected by theme with other web pages. Building content such as articles, FAQs, tips and others would help you boost your site’s potential. Your site’s web pages must content 200-500 textual content with keywords in them.
If the above things are achieved and properly done, you only need time for search engines to update and expect to be crawled and expect that more of your web pages will be indexed. Expect as well of getting ranked higher. The things pointed out here are merely ethical SEO. Only with ethical SEO that you can get long term higher search engine ranking.
Search Engine Submission: Does it Help?
Mar 2nd
Major search engines are offering services such as accepting websites to be included in their index. However, it is a common misconception among people who ventures on web marketing that submitting your website to search engines would guarantee higher ranking and traffic. Sometimes, this belief may be true but at very rare situations.
One should comprehend how the quality search engine submission is done. It would somehow affect the success of your internet marketing ventures. There are lots of search engine submission services that offer and promises search engine listing, even higher ranking in the search engine results page. Though some of the sites offer genuine services by really submitting your site to several search engines, but the promises are just phony. No third party or anyone can manipulate the search engines but search engines themselves.
Recently, search engine submission is already a pass. There is no such thing as search engine submission that will guarantee higher ranking, traffic and sales. But there is search engine optimisation. Through ethical search engine optimisation process, you are already doing efforts to maximize the potential of your website. It is through this process that your web pages can be automatically indexed by the search engines. The process that is closely related to search engine submission these days is Sitemap submission. You are only submitting the sitemap to the search engines so that the spidering process will be done easily and efficiently.
To answer the question, search engine submission does not help; SEO and sitemap submission do.