SEM News Jan 14th 2010

I have a few things to talk about today in this rainy and gray Thursday morning. Let’s go: Page size limit and Google News Bot I have just heard that you need to have your articles/PR/News to be under 256k to be indexed by GoogleBot and included in Google News. Something to  pay attention to. …

Twitter Updates for 2010-01-13

Smart Wind Turbines Can Predict the Wind # Greenpeace Guide to Consumer Electronics: http://www.globe-net.com/articles/2010/january/10/greenpeace-guide-to-consumer-electronics.aspx # Funding for Clean Energy projects Announced # Haiti’s Earthquake Relief Begins, Thousands Feared Dead: http://bit.ly/7O29t1 # Google may shut down its operations in China: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html # Lane Kiffin 34 leaves Tennessee to succeed Pete Carroll at USC as footbal coach. …

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10

Ways to use twitter for your business: https://sandrosalsi.com/2646/ways-to-use-twitter-for-business/ # PPC AD tip (4): split-test your ADS extensively # PPC AD tip (3): make sure you add a call-to action to your ADS. # PPC AD tip (2): add benefits to your ADS # PPC AD tip (1): Make sure there is a keywords in your …

Twitter Updates for 2010-01-09

SEO Tip: Answer questions on Yahoo Answers. You’ll get links (NoFollow) traffic, signups and conversions. Leave your URL in the resource box # Tommy Tuberville will be the most highly regarded football coach ever hired by Texas Tech according to Tim Griffin. # Sharrif Floyd has picked The Florida Gators At The Amry All-American Bowl …

Links building in 2010 – what works now

Lots have happened in the year 2009: real time search, twitter and facebook surpassing google in terms of traffic, pagerank sculpting, google new algorithm caffeine, personalized search and much more. Let me give you some recommendations for the year 2010 and beyond: Careful with easy to manipulate links like blog rolls, sponsored themes and paid …

Twitter Updates for 2010-01-07

Social media SEO is good for going viral and getting links for the community (the very best kind of links you could get) # Social media SEO is good for having more pages in the Google SERPS # Social media SEO is good for gaining links (some of them DoFollow) from media sites # SEO …

Social Media Optimization

Social media is not just about getting on Facebook, Twitter and adding friends like there is no tomorrow. Social media is about building a community of trusted followers. Not hard sells. That approach doesn’t work. One of the benefits for the community is that, since it is based so much of user feedback, companies with …

Additional ways to optimize content network traffic

Google Adwords team has developed a Getting Started Guide and a series of 6 videos to help you getting more targeted website traffic at cheaper prices. Topics include: Campaign setup Best practices Selection keywords Creating adgroups Bidding AD creatives Tracking conversions etc The video below will walk you through how to set up a new …

SEO thoughts

Fast SEO food: Want Bing to index your pages? And fast? Then submit your website/page to Digg.com and Yahoo Buzz Looks like there are more Google MCC phishing attempts going around. Be careful !!! FriendFeed is becoming increasingly important to get traffic and in terms of brand management No-follow links count (a little) if coming …

Cross domain canonical tag – how to use it properly

Very recently Google has announced the support for the cross domain canonical tag that basically allows webmasters to have the same content in more than one place and telling Google which one is the main version. The one that show up in their SERPS; your master copy so-to-speak. This is pretty big. Basically if you …