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Why Should You Get a “Google” Blog?

by Chaosmap on October 24, 2009

Simple. Watch this SEO / Blog video from Google directly. Have you considered a blog?

What do you think?

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Top Internet Marketing Mistakes To Avoid

by Chaosmap on July 29, 2009

Whether you are working with an Internet marketing company or on your own, it is important to make sure that your Internet marketing efforts succeed. Just as there are many Internet marketing tricks that you should try, there are also a lot of Internet marketing mistakes that you should try to avoid. This article will discuss some of the most common Internet marketing mistakes and how you can avoid them.

A great looking website goes a long way towards attracting the attention of visitors, but if you website contains graphics that take a long time to load, you will be losing potential customers before they even see your main page. When in doubt, opt for a faster loading web page over one that contains flashy graphics and animation. Many companies make the mistake of assuming that the way that their website looks is more important than how it functions, when in reality, the key to success is to find a balance of both.

Marketing special offers and sales on your site is a great way to drum up customers for you business. If you don’t keep your marketing efforts up to date, however, then your website will become stale and boring. Marketing is an ongoing effort. Going along with this, many businesses incorrectly assume that if they are marketing online, they can stop their offline marketing efforts. Successful marketing of a website include offline, as well as online marketing efforts.

People use search engines everyday to find information that they need, but if your website isn’t listed with the major search engines, the chances of anyone finding you are slim to none. Take the time to manually submit your site to search engines. If you aren’t sure how to do this, contact a professional Internet marketing company for help.

If you are trying to get your site visitors to sign up for a free account or to subscribe to a mailing list, keep the information that you collect from them to a minimum. Studies show that each question that you ask aside from their name and address costs you up to 15% of potential customers.

When it comes to Internet marketing, remember to use common sense and whenever possible, enlist the help of an Internet marketing company or Internet marketing professional. They will be able to take an expert look at your website and help you identify the issues that may be preventing you from reaching the top of the search engine results for your target keywords.

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Younger Children Less Accustomed To Internet Advertising, Study

November 1, 2008

Image by Getty Images via Daylife According to a recent survey by Nielsen Online, children aged 12-17 are less exposed to, and less accustomed to Internet advertising than previously thought. As more marketers and businesses are beginning to rely on online advertising for revenue generation, the results of this survey, according to Jon Gibs, vice [...]

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Sergey starts a blog!

September 20, 2008

I’ve checked with folks at Google and they confirmed that http://too.blogspot.com/ is Sergey Brin’s blog. The name “too” reflects Sergey’s additional life outside work. One of his first posts is about the fact that he might be more likely to develop Parkinson’s Disease when he’s older. That’s based on data from 23andMe, the personal genetics [...]

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Shiny Chrome bits, plus a fresh tip

September 20, 2008

A few neat Chrome things that I’ve seen recently: CrossOver ported the open-source Chromium browser over to Mac and Linux using Wine. Bear in mind that this is more of a proof-of-concept and not the official version, but you can still download the binaries and play with it. If you like the look and feel [...]

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The Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist for Shopping Checkout Processes

September 20, 2008

by Stoney deGeyter This is a continuation of a series of website marketing checklists. Check out all Web Marketing Checklists in this series. What this is about: This list covers items regarding the actual checkout process of the shopping experience, after products are added and the visitor moves to complete the purchase of the items [...]

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Bet You Didn’t Know Micro Blogging Could Be This Simple

September 20, 2008

by Karri Flatla When I finally did get on the micro blogging bandwagon (and no, I don’t count Facebook, not even the “new” one), I put my profile on pretty much all of the Twitter-ish sites I could find. Hey, why not? It’s sort of like one of those drinking games where you do a [...]

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Yahoo-Rhapsody Team Up Brings Music to Search

September 20, 2008

Yahoo has teamed up with Rhapsody to enable users to listen to the full copies of songs right on the Yahoo! Search results page. This is in addition to the other Rhapsody collaboration which provides music artist shortcut on the page. Whereas before, Yahoo search users can only find quick details about artists, this time [...]

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Oops! Google Did It Again, Gets Big Chunk of Search Market Share for August

September 20, 2008

As expected, the latest data from comScore shows that Google once again got the biggest chunk of the search market share for August and even managed to register a 1.1% increase from last month’s 61.9% to 63%. And we don’t have to guess who suffered from Google’s gain, Yahoo with a .9% decrease from last [...]

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URL Shrinkers – When, Where and Why to Use Them

September 20, 2008

Last week Jane posted a must-read overview of various URL shorteners and WebproWorld.com forum thread discussed the SEO benefit of TinyURL and similar services (there is no SEO benefit by the way). I think this is hot enough topic to discuss it at SEJ also. Why URL Shortening Services Exist? For usability purposes: most people [...]

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