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Since this thread seems to have arrisen from the dead; I'd like to put in my two cents. The answer is dependent on what your website is about. Google+ is a great start because of how it ties in with the rest of Googles products and services which will help …

Although wikipedia gives them both very similar definitions they are slightly different and as trends and strategies change those definitions will continue to change. In way they are both just buzz words being used by alot of Companies to show that they are knowledgeable in the social media niche of …

It all depends on what we are marketing. Joe's plumbing service isn't going to have the same marketing requirements as John Doe's Pizza Delivery or Jane's Gaming Clan. See Joe's plumbing service is going to do better focusing on offline marketing, direct response marketing, PPC campaigns on google, yelp, yp, …

@topic starter; I would strongly advise you to google nofollow links. By understanding the multiple types of links that a webmaster can use you'll get part of the answer to your question. If you were to run the mozbar (on FF); there is a great little tool which Highlights links …

Here is a brief summary of Search Metrics report on effective SEO trends for 2014: http://searchengineland.com/searchmetrics-released-seo-ranking-factors-2014-content-now-really-king-202756

I would tend to agree because SEO as we know it very much revolves around Google itself. However on the other hand saying that Google is the father of SEO is also like saying the catholic church is the father of organized religion. Just because they currently hold the most …

Dani is correct. Marketing needs to be well rounded. What many many people fail to realize is that PPC is nothing short of renting traffic to a website. Sure if you have a huge budget then quality PPC will get you a ton of traffic and some might even return …

*"The Google “Zebra” update is both rumor and an SEO inside-joke. As of today, there is no Google Zebra update. The myth arose after comments Matt Cutts made at a conference regarding merchant quality. It was dubbed “Zebra” because Google seemed to favor black and white animal names for their …

Analyze your competitors, if you do that well you can see what they are doing to rank where you want. Then just do a better job of it than them.

The above posters have added some great tips for you to help with SEO of your website (creating good content, exposing your content as much as possible through creating quality inbound links, and some of the methods you mentioned in your original post, etc.). These are all important parts of …

You didnt provide enough details for us to help. **Is your website new? If not, how old is it?** If you have a new website it could take 2-3 months for your website to get crawled, especially if you don't have a good inbound link strategy. **How often is content …

It is speculated that .edu and .gov still hold alot more weight then other domains. However some might argue that backlinks using keywords to your site would be more effective especially when linking from high ranking relevant websites.

@lukaskille - question for you; are you monitoring the effectiveness of your efforts? To clarify, are your efforts reaching people and people just arent converting? Or are your efforts falling on deaf ears? In the first scenario, things are relatively easy to diagnose. I am assuming that if you are …

Mat is correct; you need to find relevancy whether it be PPC related or social media campaigns. Sure getting on social networks *might* increase awareness of your product/service but not getting on the right social network and targeting the right customers will result in fewer conversions and makes your efforts …

Sure, why not? Adsense has become increasingly better at providing relevant advertising on websites and embedded video so you can be sure that a user will see ads geared more to their specific demographic which will help keep them engaged. I don't see anything wrong with it as it just …

Problem with google stats and analytics is they generally lag behind by 3 or more days. If he is looking for a more up to date solution he will need to hunt down a stats tracking script or create his own.

You ever heard of the 80/20 rule? This CEO is putting his Company into the 80. To get 30-40 **UNIQUE RELEVANT QUALITY** backlinks a day will be possible for the next 3 months probably (difficult but not impossible). Beyond that you'll be scratching links from websites with less merit and …

@johnmicheal - Although on and off page SEO will drastically increase the amount of traffic so will SEM and SMM (when done correctly). As for Page Rank; it is pretty much dead to the general public (Last public update was Dec 2013). Unless you are working for Google where you …

There certainly is; make sure your website's Calls to Action are working, have a newsletter sign up, build trust with your subscribers by not spamming them with viagra offers, make sure that you are following the laws applicable to the country your target market is in, and provide value to …

SMO - Social Media Optimization; the process of optimizing your social media pages in an attempt to gain more followers/likes/etc. which in turn helps boost social ranking signals on Search Engines. SMM - Social Media Marketing is the process of marketing your product and/or service through PPC, Copy, and Viral …

Its impossible to learn SEO overnight;over 2-3 months you could get a feel for it but you still wouldnt know it all. Especially when the SEO world is constantly evolving.

I bet we still see 5+ posts a month asking on how to increase pagerank. I am glad they finally came out and said it though especially since they have so many stronger ranking signals now that link building is only one portion of it all.

You won't be able to rank a single page perfectly because you are at a severe disadvantage. However that shouldn't stop you from being able to rank well. First to understand why you wont rank perfectly: Google and Bing both prefer quality content and lots of it. A single page …

You shouldnt need to pay w3c anything to get an error free result. It should be part of your site QA/QC process; you just need to keep running it and correcting errors; it takes time but it should be done anyways. Error free clean code with good markup is just …

Let me first start by saying that this is kind of a complex question. In theory its alot like learning to drive. You take the course (I'm assuming you are doing your Google Partners program) and then you get fed to the wolves and after a few fender benders hopefully …

Since this thread was brought back from the dead; I have a question if any of these users are still active. How did your facebook campaigns go for you? All of you seem very much pro-facebook (rightfully so with it being so large with such endless possibilities); but I really …

Verify that your redirection of cannonical content is actually working; this will include ensuring your htacess is correct and all of your links are pointing to the correct version of the page. If it is then just be patient. Depending on the rate google is crawling the website it may …

I'm going to have to agree with ResourcePool; we tend to migrate people to Magento. It has a decently steep learning curve but the amount of flexibility it has and the needs it fullfills for small business make it an almost go-to solution. Heck theres a reason 1 in 5 …

Here is how we've tackled large website SEO in the past: 1)Inventory all of your potential quality links 2)Rank these links and organize them by highest quality and by their relevancy 3)All of your general high quality links/web 2.0 links/etc. you want to tie directly to your main page. 4)All …

Most mid-large scale US companies are used to the storm created by black friday/cyber monday (I mean afterall they did drive the trend globally). Canada will be the one to watch this year because they seem to have adopted black friday as if it were their own holiday and I …