Google analytics or any other analytic tools you may use can sabotage your PPC campaign. Internet marketers and SEO’s have been using tools like Google analytics for tracking the performance of websites and PPC advertisements. Google analytics provides you with the data about customer behavior in the last 24 hours. Although somewhat useful, this data [...]

Marketers talking to CEO’s about brand awareness, search ranking and keywords hardly help, and end up as unable to break ice. Bang clear on target, and let him know and understand, if money isn’t spent here, there will be lesser products to sell and sales will eventually drop. Explain how search marketing brings in revenue at low costs, and how what you are doing will coincide with the growth of his business prospects. CEO’s are least interested in any kind of jingo, apart from the money if this can make. They need to see that searches are able to increase share holder value and help them make money.

Today, significant parts of the stories we see on social networks, blogs and tweets, have originated from the traditional media. While this does not mean that the bloggers don’t provide original news content and commentary, the question is: If we need to pay more for news content that we used to get for free, then will it negatively impact the quantity or quality of social media discussions around those news items?

In some ten years from now, social media could significantly change for the better. You wouldn’t need to strain your fingers to type things into structure or type the uniform resource locators in the browsers, or bear with annoying communications about useless products. In the future, social media will be easy and in all places.

What happens when you search for “PPC Service” in Google and find “Pocket PC Services” displayed as the inaugural result.
As a customer you might just go through the remaining results, that catches your attention or try on with a new search phrase for a better set of results.
As a more technology savvy user, you might [...]

Will social media survive in the long run? Not sure. But today and for the near future, you can’t do without it. You have to jump in even if you do not fully understand it, or you will go the way of print media.

Google AdWords is a powerful advertisement arena, by Google through which it is managing PPC sites. The problem is that, Google is being unfair by promoting its own products on every page it springs out. Google is indexing itself first amongst the PPC sites, whenever any keyword is searched for, here is the catch. Even if the keyword is not related to Google AdWords or Google Maps or some other Google product, Google is systematically favoring its own products, and indexing it foremost on most of the pages delivered by the search engine, irrespective of the keyword.

Why read, when you can witness? Last year surely has been the year for video marketing. What with more You Tube views than Google’s searches, video marketing is a more lucrative assignment. Finding ways and means to ensure that your video will not be lost in the crowd is what SEO would now be looking for. You do not expect to put together a video and hope it would generate business for you. You sure can add on a welcome video, a virtual tour, or a helpful tutorial video to your website, and use this as a riveting factor to compliment your content and your attractive web design. Expecting your videos to open up vistas all by themselves will require some innovative, creative and fresh approaches, which will now have to be accepted as a new challenge.

Some basic elements are very essential to the conversion rate of any landing page, and needs to be kept in mind right from the start. Here is a track list that will help you make and maintain a professional landing page in order to optimize conversions.

The mobile search engines are also very new, evolving and imperfect. For these very reasons mobile SEO and SEM are also confused, and well, very immature. But for us, this is yet another challenge. We, as SEO enthusiasts still want traffic, and we still want users to find us in search results; and so we just won’t give up, we are born to fight.

Proxy servers are a computer system or an application that intermediates between the client and the server. It accepts the requests from the client and directs it to the required server that can cater the information or webpage requested.

This refers to how we are managing to interlink various pages within our own web-site. Wikipedia is a good live example of how Cross Linking or Internal Link Architecture can be effectively and efficiently utilized.

Every firm or company, small or big is running behind Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to carve a niche for itself in the Online marketing world which is the most competitive and ever growing world of marketing. SEO services are on a boom and SEO companies are popping out in every nook and corner. Some of [...]

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The number of WebPages on the internet is increasing rapidly on the web which is posing a challenge to the search engine crawler. The prime motto of the search engine crawlers is to index the true original content and help the search engine give its users ideal search results. The search engine optimization [...]

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CMS programs available today can have a negative effect on the visibility of the website in the Search Engine Result Pages (SERP). This makes CMS without Search Engine Optimization (SEO) abilities a big disaster. The major reason cited is that these programs were not designed keeping the search engines in mind.
Systems now days [...]