May 31

Yahoo Closes Geocities
Falling victim to the hazards of competition from up-to-date blogging and social sites Geocities will no longer exist later this year. Yahoo announced its decision in late April to shutter the ancient web hosting site inspiring a range of responses. Keep reading for a look at Geocities history purpose reactions to its closing and the lessons we can learn….
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Public Relations and SEO
Before PR meant Page Rank it was short for public relations. This century-old science not only has a place in the new field of SEO but it plays a vital role if you want to get good buzz for your web site. Keep reading to learn how to get good PR for your company and how to combine its effects with SEO….
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The Decision-Making Funnel, Stage 4: Action, Part 2
Each product or service category only has room for a tiny number of established leaders, and they capture disproportionate value in their respective market categories. Although other products or services may be objectively just as good, they require additional attention to evaluate, and require additional steps to lead visitors to action. …

May 30

Search Engine Submission 101, Part 2
Search engine submission is not a silver bullet that will instantly launch you into higher rankings. Today, submitting XML Sitemaps is not necessary, but could potentially offer better response time. …

May 24

The Future of Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing and paid search share a lowly position in the marketing efforts of most Fortune 500 companies, mainly because it seems like a lot of work for a little return. What the industry needs is a new kind of affiliate marketing network. …

Before You Start Link Building
Link building is not something you should launch into without doing some planning. You need to think through the overall plan, because doing so will help you obtain significantly better results. …

Majestic SEO Review
Majestic SEO is a link analysis tool with an index of 52 billion pages a record of 35 unique URLs and 2.6 trillion mapping relationships URL pointing to URL . Majestic SEO maintains its own web crawler MJ12 and keeps its own database of the web like the major search engines . The project belongs to Majestic-12 Ltd and is run by volunteers with the goal of establishing a quality search engine to compete on the worldwide market. Majestic SEO is a side project of the Majestic 12 search engine designed to raise funds. In this article we take a detailed look at the Majestic SEO tool and its use in search engine optimization….
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Cabela’s, Performics, and Performance Marketing
Today. we’ll look at an interesting promotion that drives online shoppers to offline retail locations using coupons. There are some important things to learn from this successful online/offline promotion. …

Customer Segmentation and SEO — A Beautiful Couple
Search engine optimization on its own can be a very useful tactic to bring leads to your site. But developing a deeper understanding of your primary markets and using customer segmentation in your content become important SEO considerations that can lead to a higher probability of conversion. …

Search Engine Submission 101, Part 1
This two-part article will look at developing a healthy relationship with search engines so they can become aware of your site and then stay up to date as your site grows. …