When faced with a social site that boasts 90 million members, it’s valid to ask what all of those people are actually doing on the site. The answer, it seems, is “not much.” At least, that’s the case when the network is Google+, and the site reporting the activity is comScore.
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Dominating Local SEO
Yesterday I introduced you to John Pepe, owner of Pepe Tile and Installation. He comes up in the number two position for a Google search on quot;south jersey tile. quot; I showed you what he did right to earn that position, and talked about a few things he could be doing better. In this article, I’ll cover what he could be doing to dominate his local search space in depth, and give you plenty of suggestions that you can apply to your own website.
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Local SEO: Secrets to Killing The Competition
Let me ask you a question, how difficult would it be for you to roll into the “mortgage” market and rank well on the search engines? The truth is that for most decent search terms ranking well is hard. Flip that around and look at the same search locally and suddenly ranking well becomes easy and few people understand how much traffic that really can be (hint: done correctly it can be a lot). This is the first part of a two-part article.
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Is Google Tracking Your iPhone?
If you’re using Safari on your iPhone, you probably appreciate the browser’s long list of options and protections. These include one that prevents websites from tracking your behavior. It turns out, however, that you’re not as safe from Google’s and other websites’ prying eyes as you might think – even when that control is turned on.
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Searching Privately in a Post-Scroogle World
Until recently, those who wanted to search the Internet but didn’t want to have Google tracking their activities could use Scroogle. Now that owner Daniel Brandt has taken the site offline permanently, searchers deeply concerned about privacy must look elsewhere.
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How Well Does Your Website Work for You?
Is your website doing its job? Before you can answer that question, you need to know the answer to a different one: what, exactly, IS its job? Once you know what it’s supposed to do, you can consider the issue of how it does it.
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What the Wikipedia Study Really Means for SEO
A study performed by Intelligent Positioning caused quite a stir recently among SEOs. It revealed that Wikipedia appears on the first page of Google searches 99 percent of the time, and in the first position more than half of the time. What, exactly, does this mean for SEO? A lot more – and a lot less – than you might think.
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Google Playing Doctor With Health Searches
Have you ever experienced a sharp pain in your side or numbness in a leg and used Google to find out whether you should call the doctor? You’re not alone; in fact, so many searchers do this that the search engine giant modified its algorithm to help.
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Romney Feels Santorum`s Google Pain
Nearly everyone knows about Rick Santorum’s Google problem, and how it may be tripping him up in his long race to win the Republican nomination to run for president. What not everyone knows is that he’s no longer the only Republican hopeful with such a problem. Mitt Romney just recently joined the club.
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7 Secrets to Spreading Your Influence for More Traffic and Sales
When it comes right down to it, the best customers, those that are the easiest to “sell” your products or services to, are those that find you and decide on their own that youre the best in their field. They have decided, before they even contacted you, that they wanted to do business with you over and above any competition that you might have. People that come to you like that will nearly always be your best customers. The question becomes how to actually accomplish that.
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