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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 …

Contact Google support; if you still had access to that account you could atleast login and there are settings within the profile to make the account private. It takes about a week or so for the profile to stop showing up but that would have been ideal. Beyond that you …

> There is no point. It's a bloody toe in the water test before the full dive into shark infested waters :) I fixed it for you happygeek hahaha

Good morning bhavna, First and foremost you should research the Countries you plan on promoting your product in. If you are offering products or services you may need permits, licenses, etc. to conduct business (online or otherwise) within those Countries. Although North America and Australia are fairly open to allowing …

Yeah there is a bit of a difference and we can thank google's effort for local search and the natural geo-location of their servers. Google will always attempt to show the results as cached by the nearest location of their servers - hence why google.ca and google.com SERPs will display …

Basically it is just a way to describe the way Google verifies if you are ranking correctly. So if you are trying to rank for the keywords "Website Design"; if you just began showing up in the search results for this phrase it might start you off on page 3 …

This is a blackhat technique and commonly found on alot of websites running illegal content. I'm not going to go too far into it but you can get the jist of the idea here: [Wikipedia Cloaking Definition](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking) If and when the search engines catch onto you doing cloaking you will …

1. Depending on if its your website or someone elses - you can either use any one of the free tools that can be found on Google or you can just count the amount of times a keyword appears in your code & copy. 2. Use google adwords, and their …

https://www.google.com/cse/ thats for your google custom search bar. As for website performance use a tool like y-slow to find suggestions on changes to speed things up. Compression and caching are your best friends.

Google takes into account social signals when ranking a website. This includes how much your website's content gets shared, the amount of followers you have, and the amounts of likes/favorites you have. Google uses this ranking algorithim because unlike other ranking factors, social media can accurately guage a website's interaction …

They are generally stored within the database itself since ubercart and many other ecommerce platforms are dynamically driven. If he has an online store why would you switch him off a system like ubercart?

Funny how this update lined up with all the legal activities surrounding the founders of pirate bay over the last month and a half.....

Your question is all too open ended; you won't get any sort of solid answer without more solid information. What is your B2B product? What size of company are you targetting? I highly doubt if you are providing a service/product to large scale enterprise users you will see the ROI …

Link wheels can be effective tools but they need to be done right. You need to ensure that each link is sitting on a seperate C-Block to be the most effective (same C-Block will work just not as well) and the content needs to be quality content relevant to your …

If you do a search you will find multiple references to dublin core on both these forums and on google itself. The very quick easy way of explaining what dublin core is - its semantic meta tags. If your entire site follows semantic guidelines then dublin core will probably be …

Contact their support team....or just create a new account? But try and remember the email id this time

You my friend are unfortunately stuck in the chicken or the egg conundrum that many people get stuck in when they are first starting out. You need to do work to get and show your experience, you need experience to get work. Freelancer.com, odesk, and a few others are great …

w3c errors can and will effect your SERPs if they are serious errors. Alot of crawlers have improved to the point that they can overlook alot of minor errors (forgetting to close a tag for example). However if the error is serious enough or there are enough errors sometimes the …

To answer your questions: **1. What are infographics?** Infographics are an indepth way of communicating an idea or content in a visual form **2. Why does it work for SEO?** Google and Bing both love images; when you see on-page seo advice about keywording images. It's because search engines rate …

You wont get a firm answer on the amount you can expect to spend as mentioned above. However what I can tell you from experience is you need to do some serious keyword research before investing any money. Find high search volume keywords with very little competition. Also remember that …

Depends on the forum software being used. If you study up on inbound marketing you will realize that all links (followed and nofollowed) both add weight in a search engine's eyes. A site like daniweb for example where you can get a followed link in your profile has large weight. …