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A good logo can help your website stand out from others. It adds brand recognition so your clients remember you. Your logo is the first point of contact, your first impression on potential clients, if it doesn’t strike them as the right image you might as well send them out the door yourself! When it …

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If you are investigating new and exciting ways to use the Internet to market your business, then you might have heard about a site called Technorati. Technorati is a blog search engine that actually registers information from the web in real time in order to make the latest blog posts and updates available to Technorati …

Online Business Tips: The Importance of a Technorati Account Read More »

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years (and a rock without free Wi-Fi at that) you will have no doubt seen or heard the acronym, SEO. Someone may have recommended it to you as a way of growing the number of visitors to your site, or maybe you read that …

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We all know Website Design is very crucial since it will catch the attention and trigger the intention of potential customers to stay on your website and read information and purchase the services that are being offered. What about Content? Article writing is easy only if you know how to write accurate content for the article on your …

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Setting up a website is more difficult than many people think. The design, layout, and features can take time to perfect. It is difficult to present your products in such a way that it leads to sales. Photography, descriptions, and design layouts must be perfected to show your products off in the best way possible. …

What Not To Do: Top Website No’s Read More »

Can you snag blog post ideas out of thin air? Or are you always suffering from the malady know as writer’s block? Creating blog posts on a persistent basis is a great secret of online success. Prolific writers generate leads, increase their readerships and grow their opportunity with ease. How can you generate creative blog …

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Anyone who has set foot online, especially to create their own blog or site, has heard of WordPress, but there is a huge misconception about it. Many business owners that think WordPress is exclusively for creating a simple and ordinary blog, as you are about to discover, this is far from the truth! In fact, …

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Developing a strong sales team is key for many businesses. Choosing the right sales people to make up your team can be difficult but when a solid team is in place a business can really begin to soar.  Sales recruitment requires a watertight recruitment process and people with an eye for spotting talent.  Here are …

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With images and video running the roost for majority of social media campaigns, it pays to post visual media that has been properly optimized. Content optimization may be popular with users on the prowl for relevant data, but what if there was a way to generate the same interest for videos? Sure, the typical ‘How …

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So you are going to launch your website, maybe you already have, and you want all the content possible to make it a robust and informative resource.  But if you really want to serve your content in the optimal way, hold back on pushing the publish button too soon! Real traffic comes from a frequently …

SEO For The Busy Business: Building An Online Authority Read More »

Experiential marketing is the method of connecting with your customers on an emotional level. The aim is to trigger an element of emotion, or any other thought process that enables the customer to intellectually connect with your brand. Creating an experience for your customers is something that is fast becoming one of the biggest elements …

4 Core Ideas to Succeed in Experiential Marketing Read More »

Got An iPhone? Do you and your friends love playing jokes and pranks on each other? Of course you do. There are all sorts of epic pranks you can pull, but sometimes the simplest ones can be the best and most unexpected. With a few prank apps on your iPhone, you can get your friends …

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Blogging can be a full-time job and can earn you money, if you are willing to give it time and provide your readers with quality content. There are several ways in which you can use your blog to make money. Here are five common ways in which you can monetize your blog: Affiliate Marketing This …

Does Your Blog Earn Enough Money? Read More »

If you’re organizing a new event, you know it can be difficult to get people to attend.  Even if you have access to a large network of people in your target market, generating that initial excitement can be difficult.  One way you can increase attendance to your event is by optimizing your event info display.  …

Improve Event Attendance By Optimizing Your Event Info Display Read More »

Overzealous new site owners often find themselves caught in the Google Sandbox within the first year of launching. There’s much speculation about why they land there and whether or not the “jail time” is to force site owners to pay for Adwords. There’s been plenty of debate on the subject, but in the end, no …

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The idea that companies can get better value for money and a higher standard of work by investing in infrastructure and workforce overseas is rooted in the failure of the British economy in the 1970s. Even after a £1 billion gift from the UK taxpayer, vehicle manufacture British Leyland could only deliver orders at less …

Why Ride A Rickshaw When You Can Drive A Jaguar? Read More »

When running a business, there are a lot of different ways that you could potentially try to reach your customers. Twitter is one tool that has become popular in recent years, and offers a number of benefits to business owners. If you are already familiar with the basics of Twitter, it may be time to …

Advanced Twitter Strategies For Business Explained Read More »

Admittedly, there are some differences between biscuits and the social intricacies of using a network such as Facebook. Things can go wrong with both biscuits and Facebook for many reasons, although I suspect you are probably more comfortable dealing with a few biscuity crumbs rather than the meltdown managed hosting – pc support, or other complicated …

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In the race to be at the front of the content generation movement, it can be easy to focus on pushing out new material without stopping to think about how it lands.  It’s similar to efforts in social media that focus on attracting new followers or posting a lot of tweets, with only a limited perspective …

What It Takes To Elicit Reader Responses Read More »

Every year there are lots of fabulous inventions in the technology which promises you in every field. These inventions are made through the research on the internet as it plays the efficient role in making some one carrier and provides you with the amazing ideas to do and to start your business. There are lots …

Top 10 Latest Web design Tips to Impress Your Readers Read More »

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the way webmasters and businesses around the world gain visibility in major search databases. Link building is a specific component of SEO that when utilized in the correct way connects similar ideas, businesses and products to one another. Like virtually any other process on Earth, there are people who take …

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Even though Twitter and Facebook may not know how to make billions of dollars from the huge amounts of traffic they receive around the clock, that doesn’t mean they haven’t had a significant impact on the Internet. Because of their reach, not only have these sites shaped the face of social media, but they’ve also …

How Has Social Media Changed the Way People Use the Internet? Read More »

Link building is performed by top SEO companies.  However, it’s done a bit differently than in the past.  In modern-day online marketing, link building is a lot more strategic.  It’s not about getting links from anywhere, from any webmaster or outside entity.  The search engines have evolved, penalizing those who abuse link building.  The changes …

How Top SEO Companies Perceive Link Building Read More »

So You’re Hungry… and all that you want is a tasty sandwich. Maybe a sub stuffed with your favourite fillings, drenched in the most beautiful, rich sauce, sprinkled with the best quality organic fresh garnishes and all washed down with a healthy, refreshing juice. Sounds good, right? But before you start you’re going to have …

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SEO, including the on and the off page parts of it, has to be one of the most hated things among bloggers. Your job as a blogger isn’t to just write – you have to make sure that your writing is seen, and no one else but you will be interested enough to bring it …

Blogger’s Guide to Keyword Optimization that Will Always Work Read More »

How many times could you fill your room with the paper that might represent Internet pages that exist on the World Wide Web? There are many ways to imagine the magnitude of information that is accessed on the Web, but physically recreating the materially would be difficult. There are more than a trillion pages of …

Putting the Internet’s Size in Perspective: INFOGRAPHIC Read More »

Guest posting is probably one of the best ways available to create backlinks for search engine optimization (SEO) currently. What makes it so great? First of all, you are not spamming. The source of the backlink is voluntarily publishing your backlink in exchange for free quality content that you supply to that publisher’s website. It …

How To Fail At Guest Posting Read More »

You often hear the word press release either in television and radio or read it in newspapers. It is a document being released by the media either the information is from the government, company or from a known person and even from the entertainment industry. In planning an event or activity, you also need a …

4 Fast Points to Writing A Killer Press Release Read More »

By now, you’ve probably realized that social media should play a large part in marketing your business. You may even have created accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Now what? Following these 10 commandments of social media can help you get off on the right foot. #1. Observe First, Participate Second Before you post your …

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Best known for photo manipulation, Adobe Photoshop is software used by graphic designers to create digital artwork and professional logos as well as vector graphics. Most people know it as software that web designers, developers and graphic artists used in order to manipulate photos in print and in digital format while also creating unique images. …

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SEO also known as Search Engine Optimization is one of the best ways you can get your business ranking high on Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing.  What is this process really about? Is it worth it?  SEO can be a very time consuming task, which is why SEO agencies take the heat …

SEO: A Quick Overview Read More »

Attracting organic traffic to your site is what will help to establish your company or brand as an authority in the market. It can help to place your company in the enviable position of having a positive online reputation. In order to get increased referrals for your business, you need strong search engine rankings and …

7 Tips For Writing SEO Friendly Articles To Optimize Your Business Outreach Read More »

One of the best things about using WordPress is that it offers a lot of gallery themes. These choices come in handy when your content is more about the images than the text. E-commerce websites and users who prefer a magazine-style layout will find it preferable to use WordPress gallery themes, especially premium themes which …

Top 10 WordPress Gallery Themes Read More »

On Sept 28, 2012, Google released an algorithm update designed to target exact match domains (EMDs).  For years, EMDs have enjoyed special treatment in the search engine rankings.  Websites whose domain names matched a particular search engine query would often outrank more authoritative sites based solely on the strength of the so-called “EMD boost”. On …

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The simple answer is no – search engine submission isn’t necessary. The majority of search engines nowadays (most notably Google) crawl and index pages by following links. Using that logic, a single inbound link from any already-indexed page will identify your page to the engine. Subsequently, if that page links to other pages within your site, they …

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The answer is simple – inbound linking cannot hurt your search ranking. How is this known for certain? Well, for one, if inbound were to hurt your rank, your competitors would continually link to your site from link farms. Such a scenario is beyond your control. For this reason, Google cannot penalize your site for any …

Can Any Inbound Linking Hurt My Ranking? Read More »

The importance of anchor text with respect to a linking strategy cannot be overstated. Back-links are a huge part of the search engine algorithm. When initiating a linking campaign, it is vital that external sites link using the appropriate keywords and terms in the anchor text. Almost always, linking candidates will use the company name as anchor …

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The debate between absolute links and relative links continues to live on in the SEO world. The individual significance of each has been contested, but it is widely regarded that absolute links provide better SEO value on the whole than relative links. Many believe that absolute links have less potential for getting messed up when search engines …

Absolute Links vs. Relative Links – SEO Value Read More »

SEO is not an exact science. This becomes apparent when trying to incorporate both SEO and branding into a strategy. This process is finicky to say the least. On the one side, SEO deals with the placement of keywords and phrases. On the other side, branding deals with company loyalty and culture. Incorporating both sides dilutes the …

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When assessing page structure and layout, there is a subtle, yet strategic way to use images in an SEO-friendly manner (beyond ALT tags) that improves your search rank while allowing you to integrate the necessary marketing message(s). Confused? Let’s look at an example: Suppose you operate a travel site and you want to optimize a given page for …

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For a long time, reciprocal links have remained at the forefront of most inbound linking strategies. This is going to have to change. Google now discounts all reciprocal links. The algorithm has been altered to identify the exchange of links by two parties for the purpose of increasing their number of inbound links. The concept of reciprocal …

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