Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07

  • Google Chrome is Above the 5% Market Share as It aims at Firefox and IE. (IE: 62%, FF: 24%, Chrome: 5%, Safari: 4%, Opera: 2%). #
  • Google Squared has a new design (easier to read and includes multiple images) to better handle queries looking for a single thing. #
  • Use xenu link sleuth to find broken links on our website. #
  • Canonical tag syntax: <link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.yourwebsite.com/canonical-page.html”/> #
  • Google Store Views will allow people to walk into the any store, off of Google Street Views. Pretty cool 🙂 #
  • Most watched Canadian Video – EVER: https://sandrosalsi.com/2907/most-watched-canadian-video-ever/ #
  • Webserver safety tip (6): name your download pages difficult to guess names. #
  • Webserver safety tip (5): Put an index page (even if blank) in every directory on your server. #
  • Webserver safety tip (4): password protect your weblogs #
  • Webserver safety tip (3): Change the default setting (username and passwords) when installing scripts on your server. #
  • Webserver safety tip (2): Update older scripts that you are using #
  • Webserver safety tip: Delete old scripts that you no longer use from your server. There may be vulnerabilities that can be exploited. #
  • Fix high bounce rate pages by making your path to conversion super easy. #
  • Fix high bounce rate pages by using ClickTale to get results based on the eyetracking from actual visitors. #
  • Fix high bounce rate pages by capturing a .jpeg of the above the fold portion of web page, and run it through the Attention Wizard tool. #
  • Fix high bounce rate pages by making sure you use the keywords they have used to find you in the headline. #
  • Fix high bounce rate pages by eliminating unnecessary distractions. #
  • Is the order of links on a page important for SEO? Matt answers this question here: http://bit.ly/c6qdX4 #
  • RT @mookimp: I need more traffic…come on…kill me if uu can!! – that was funny 🙂 #
  • Conversion tip (2): place a subscribe/take action button at the bottom of the page/blog post. #
  • Conversion tip: put a subscribe button at the top of the page #
  • Using social media to drive traffic: publish the content > Submit to Social sites > Submit to Niche Social sites > Post to Social networks #
  • Econsultancy and ExactTarget released a new report today that says that Digital Marketing Budgets To Increase In 2010 #
  • Need a break…I am really sick 🙁 #
  • Use the “alt” attribute or include the keywords in your text to be found for some keywords which are only found in images on the page. #
  • The best way to submit an XML Sitemap file to Google is the “Google Webmaster Tools”. #
  • If you are adding paid links to your site make usre you use the rel=nofollow tag to please the “Big Brother”. #
  • Disallow (with the robots.txt file) prevents Googlebot from “seeing” 301 redirects, meta nofollow, and noindex files. #
  • To help bots crawl your site more efficiently with If-Modified use a 304 “Not modified”. #
  • Learn SEO with Google Webmaster: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=714f1d51d53e5747&hl=en #
  • SEO tip: Use the ~ operator for synonym search. For example ~pear would also return search results with “fruit” in it. #
  • SEO tip: Use wildcard operator with Google search. For example: +vancouver *travel would find substitutes for the word travel. #
  • The most beautiful city in the world: https://sandrosalsi.com/2870/vancouver-bc-the-most-beautiful-city-in-the-world/ #
  • Use RSS feeds to increase the number of backlinks to your site #
  • Use RSS feeds as an Alternative Communication Channel #
  • Google is considering disclosing the share of AdSense revenue they share with their publishers. That would be interesting to know… #
  • Google Fixes Webmaster Tools iGoogle Gadgets. #
  • Google announced a new feature for Google News that lets users “star” news items. You can “star” clusters by clicking on the blue pale stars #
  • Food plots video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNbn2qwMTys #
  • Arbitrage in Internet Marketing: https://sandrosalsi.com/2854/arbitrage-in-internet-marketing/ – tools and tips. #
  • FIVE GOOD REASONS FOR USING ASSESSMENTS: http://www.prevueassessments.com/blog/2010/02/five-good-reasons-for-using-assessments/ #
  • Voluntary green power programs (podcast): http://bit.ly/bUXYGU #
  • YouTube tip (7): reply the video by Appending ‘&loop=1′ to make the video start again without user intervention after it reaches the end. #
  • YouTube tip (6): you can make a video playing immediately by adding ‘&autoplay=1′ to the url part of the embed code. #
  • YouTube tip (5): Embed only a part of Video by appending ‘&start=xx′ to skip first xx of the video #
  • YouTube tip (4): The search box appears when you hover over a video. To hide the search box add ‘&showsearch=0′ to the embed url. #
  • YouTube tip (3): link to the most interesting part of a video directly by adding #t=XXmYYs (XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of URL #
  • YouTube tip (2): embed high quality videos by appending “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″ and “&ap=%2526fmt%3D22″ to the embed url. #
  • YouTube tip (1): use the high quality video option is avaliable. #
  • PPC conversion tips (5): use (short) videos whenever possible. Sometimes that is the best way to explain a service. #
  • PPC conversion tips (4): be sure the message is clear or you will never make sales. Have outsiders judge your message and study the feedback #
  • PPC conversion tips (3): segment visitors by their intentions. That creates extra work but it is well worth it. #
  • PPC conversion tips (2): if you can prove that you are the best at what you do, TELL THEM ! #
  • PPC conversion tips (1): before doing anything else you need to figure out why your visitors are not buying. Everything else comes after. #
  • I am really sick today but…I still have to work 🙁 #
  • Hippie Masala, the spiritual travellers: https://sandrosalsi.com/2840/hippie-masala-the-spiritual-travellers-that-decided-to-stay/ #
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