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 | Re: Free Shipping ? To add to what Scott said, one thing we have encountered in the past is a Company will work out a contract flat rate agreement with a shipping company (UPS/Fedex/etc) and if they offer their products in say 3 countries they will average the shipping cost across all three countries … |
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 | Directories still have their places. But you should be verifying that: 1) its a follow link that they give you (nofollow links wont really help you) 2) its relevant to your website in a category thats relevant 3) that the website has high google PR and DA And @Dani; Yahoo, …  |
| | Shouldn't it be him charging you for publishing links and reviews on his website? |
 | For all the internet marketers out there; you may want to begin formulating a new Adwords strategy for your Clients. Google Adwords is pushing a change which will spell out the end of exact match keywords. This change comes into effect sometime in September. Previously when you setup a campaign … |
 | This off topic however are many many many solutions out there, most of which you can find through a quick google search. However depending on the age of your business, your business goals, etc. you may want to consider a custom solution that can provide something tailor fitted to your …  |
| | So who is your target audience? I know you said its narrow but who are they? How does you friend intend to monetize this (monthly subscription, outright sale)? I hope you dont think any of this is negative because its meant to be real and not build you a fairy … |
 | 2-3 years ago yes it would have mattered. A big push back then was basically keyword stuffing which would include repeating keywords in meta tags, header tags, content, image tags, links, etc. Back then using www.mysite.com (assuming mysite was a keyword you were trying to rank for) would have been … |
| | Re: Travel Forum Google is your best friend. I see that you are connected with a Car Rental service in Van City. I would highly recommend you begin doing research on your competitor's inbound links and figure out which are high PR/high mR websites. You may want to focus more on the latter … |
| | @ Husky3700 http://www.google.com/ads/ |
| | Create a quality website, with quality content that can go viral; share it on social media and win OR you could spend thousands and rent your traffic through PPC. But if your website has been live for any amount of time you should ask yourself; why aren't people coming to … |
 | We have not done alot with Adobe Business Catalyst as a Company and we don't generally recommend it to our Clients not because it isn't a good product but because it lacks versatility. Now it isn't all that bad because for someone who just wants to easily launch their Company … |
| | Great post Geek; now lots are aware of the security flaws in snapchat which relies on things caching on your device's storage. The one hope are new items such as crypto-phone and Mark Cuban's cyber dust may actually provide users a bit more safety to their privacy (due to relying … |
 | Hello and welcome; First I'd like to say that pay per download is pretty much CPA (Cost Per Action); an advertiser or yourself is paying for each successful action - in this case a download. This is such a broad question because its so situational. I guess to begin the … |
 | Re: Dublin core The idea behind dublin core is pure standardization for cataloging multiple types of resources (including but not limited to webpages and online media such as videos, pictures, etc.). It's debateable how much weight search engines give to websites that utilize dublin core meta tags however the general consensus seems to … |
 | freelancer.com is usually pretty effective for somebody looking for a freelance professional and prices are usually relatively low - no garauntees on the work though. |
| | A great man once said; if it can be built....it can also be taken apart. I think between iCloud being breached, this happening, the target attacks, etc. This is all just about par for the course. I think it'll be a long time before we see the end of breaches … |
 | Honestly looking after the update it was a slight increase in traffic but nothing considerable on any of the websites we own, have built for others or maintain. |
| | No matter what context you are talking in; pre is always before, post is always after. As mentioned in a few posts above all it refers to is when the ad gets paid for, do you pay for it before (pre) or do you pay for it after (post)? Unless … |
 | I've never heard of any sort of SEO game to learn about SEO beyond what happygeek mentioned. However if your thought is to try to train people through gamification on SEO you'd find yourself having a very inefficient business model. This is only due to the fact that internet marketing … |
| | Optimizing single pages take alot of time and are honestly getting to become next to impossible. You will still probably need to set up a blog (making it not a single page) so that you can provide ongoing fresh content (either through blog format or resource documents). This will be … |
 | Re: Alexa rank Alexa is just another way to measure your website. It can be found at alexa.com. Some say its pointless but others swear by it. Personnally I like Alexa only because it goes to show how effective the content on your website is. Alexa takes into account five main metrics of … |
| | I saw this on Search Engine Land this morning. I agree with the study that the average website will see far more traffic from organic search. The problem is, that looks at the average website (and who knows what their test sampling is). I have seen some websites which have … |
| | Maybe blue hat SEO is when you use 5+ year old SEO tactics and make little or no effect on search engine ranks hahaha. Read Google Best Practices, learn each aspect of SEO indepth and as Happy Geek has said you will be doing SEO the right way. |
 | Re: How to learn SEO Well in his defence if he launched his website after December 2013 - he wouldn't have publicly visible Page Rank.  |
 | @Kelly Burby to be quite honest the meta keywords tag is pretty much useless nowadays. All it really does is give your competitors your keywords on a silver platter so they know what to compete with you on. @driazi. Here are some easy steps: 1)First thing you should do is …  |
| | If you are not visible on google after alot of SEO effort; make sure that the page is not/has not been penalized by Google (you can see this by logging onto your google webmaster account). Make sure your robots.txt aren't hiding your website from crawlers. Make sure there aren't major … |
| | First and foremost, many of the major social media companies are present around the globe and available nearly everywhere where an internet connection exists and geo-political relationships aren't blocking access to their service. So you should inititally be focusing your social media activities on the major staple social media services …  |
 | Going to SSL is a good thing in principle. As stated before as much as I appreciate where the web is heading this does spell the demise for alot of smaller hobby websites (ones which don't necessarily generate the revenue to afford the extra $100 a year for an SSL …  |
| | When you are talking about the website not ranking well I assume that you are referring to SERPs. However if its an Alexa or mozRank issue then you will need to let me know. A single blog post shouldn't negatively effect your entire website. Google likes new content 750+ words … |
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