Posted by a guest poster on April 29th, 2009 in Guest Posts
This is a guest post by Adam Lee
For those of you that don’t know, Google Suggests offers search suggestions and the number of resulting pages as you type into the text box.
Typing ‘car insurance’ for instance will offer results like ‘car insurance for woman’, ‘car insurance for young drivers’ etc. This is really useful for search term research but has now become even more important.
The tool has now been integrated with Google search, (if you haven’t spotted it you maybe using ‘iGoogle’ select ‘classic Google’ and you should see it).
The Google Suggest Optimization Effect
Your original search term research…
Posted by James Duthie on April 1st, 2009 in Guest Posts, SEO Tips, Search Blogger of the Day
‘Instant’ and ‘rankings’ are probably the two most grossly inappropriate words a genuine SEO can ever use in the same sentence. Indeed, the somewhat seedy reputation of the SEO industry has been born from dodgy snake oil salesmen peddling the promise of instant Google rankings. The sad fact is that instant rankings can never be guaranteed. Sorry to disappoint you. But… there are methods that can be used increase the likelihood of attaining high rankings in a relatively short space of time. Today, I’ll provide a case study of how I achieved a number two ranking within Google in a…
Posted by James Duthie on March 4th, 2009 in Guest Posts, SEO Theories, SEO Tips
Today I want to talk link building. To be frank… I’m not a master link builder. In fact, I’m not even an everyday SEO. I am but a humble web marketing strategist (with a solid grasp of SEO concepts). However, that doesn’t mean I haven’t managed to pick up a few nuggets while running my own marketing blog. And today I wanted to share one of those lessons with you. It’s not rocket science, but I think it’s an important lesson for every budding marketer to recognize. The lesson is all about link quality.
I’ve got plenty of links to my…
Posted by Barry Welford on January 28th, 2009 in Guest Posts
That title goes to the crux of why some people rave about Twitter and others reject Twitter. Of course different folks have different tastes so that might explain this divide. However another answer may be that some have learned how to use Twitter and others have not.
Twitter Guides
If you have just returned from Mars, and the word Twitter is new to you, then you may wish to back up and do some reading. Google lists a host of Twitter Guides and any of the first three they list will probably give you more than sufficient information.
Posted by DazzlinDonna on December 18th, 2008 in Guest Posts
There has been something playing on my mind more and more lately. Especially the longer I spend online involved with social media.
Recent weeks have convinced me that what I am seeing is true.
Information on the Internet can act a lot like natural disasters. The most unnerving amazing part is: those forces are getting stronger every day and the similarities are frightening.
Posted by Barry Welford on December 11th, 2008 in General, Guest Posts
The continuing trend is for desktop computer monitor screens to be getting bigger. That raises a website design question but more importantly a question of how to use that bigger screen real estate. More is not always better.
Screens Are Getting Bigger
Two years ago Jakob Nielsen had the following advice for the online world as he viewed it:
Optimize Web pages for 1024×768, but use a liquid layout that stretches well for any resolution, from 800×600 to 1280×1024.
Screens have grown since then. The following chart shows the current pattern of screen resolutions for visitors to one typical business blog.
1024 x…
Posted by Barry Welford on November 25th, 2008 in General, Guest Posts
One of the most interesting and exciting phenomena that has been created by the Internet is online communities or social media as they are sometimes called. Just think how often you hear the words, FaceBook or Twitter. It is a natural evolution from the connectedness of the Internet that was heralded in the Clue Train Manifesto. Here we will discuss how one can best profit from involvement in such online communities.
Social Media / Communities
Whenever one interacts with other people, the results can sometimes be unpredictable. There are four good, recent articles on how best to handle these interactions, perhaps not…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on November 14th, 2008 in Guest Posts
The following post is a guest post. SEO Scoop endeavors to showcase and highlight guest bloggers, in the hopes of giving up and coming bloggers and SEOs a chance to shine. Please take some time to appreciate their efforts by visiting their sites, or by networking with them.
SEO Scoop does not necessarily agree with or condone any tactics mentioned by guest posters.
By: Leila Davies
Link building is widely known as one of the hardest search engine marketing tasks out there. Of course, there are a few link building (dare I say it) Gods…out there like Eric Ward who just seem to have…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on October 15th, 2008 in Guest Posts
Can the web save real estate? The short answer to that question is: no it can not. Not alone, that is. There are a lot of uncertain variables in the housing industry that will make it hard to predict how long the real estate industry will suffer. In order for housing markets to get active again a whole host of things are going to have to happen, including stabilization of credit markets, rise in consumer confidence, and even a decrease in unemployment.
Posted by DazzlinDonna on September 25th, 2008 in Guest Posts
SEO articles drive traffic and sales, — plain and simple. Whether you have an online business, or a brick and mortar enterprise, SEO articles may just be the best free marketing you can do to drive traffic and sales, bar none. Here, we will briefly discuss what SEO articles are for the unintiated. Then, we’ll go over how to write effective, traffic-driving SEO articles.
Posted by DazzlinDonna on August 25th, 2008 in Guest Posts
Right off the bat, I want to disclose that I’m not an SEO guru. Yes, I’ve studied it and I do know something about SEO, but my expertise is actually in generating great content. I work for a magazine and write articles each month, but I also have a website with lots of info and I make some good money off it as well. While I am not quite ready to quit my job and work from home in my pajamas, I have had some great success with my website using article marketing, and I want to share some of the tricks I’ve learned with you.
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 15th, 2008 in Guest Posts
Just a few hours ago TechCrunch reported that one of their readers was seeing a new interface on the Google SERP. The interface is a Digg style interface allowing users to vote for/against the search results. Can you really see Google doing something like this long term? Whilst this was the first I’d heard of it, it isn’t anything completely new. Google have been testing something similar since late 2007. This feature hasn’t ever been available in the experimental area on Google but it seems like it has been available to a small percentage of users. This latest test features differences to what has been seen previously, namely that users can change their vote.
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 30th, 2008 in Guest Posts
Pop quiz – If you could choose between 1,000 social media visitors and 1,000 search engine visitors for your blog or business, which would you choose? It’s a no-brainer right? Everybody knows that search engine traffic is of a far higher quality! … So I decided to put the traffic quality assumption to the test myself, and find out how social media traffic compares to organic search traffic.
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