LinkedIN: What’s Needed is Purging Spammy Groups!
Okay, I’m a firm — and I mean FIRM believer in the value of LinkedIN as a business social networking site. I’ve blogged about using LinkedIn to gain some new traffic from an SEO practitioners point of view here. I’ve been ‘hooked-up’ by LinkedIN marketing folks for local press to interview me on using LinkedIN for business here. I go each and every day at least two or three times to view my Answers areas and home page updates too….and the real issue for me is the Groups areas…and what I find there.
Spam. Big, spammy posts by folks who you’d think by membership alone in say an SEO group, would KNOW that what they’re doing is wrong from a whole bunch of POVs…
Google.ca and Google.com.au ~ Ah the Difference!
What are the differences between Canadian and Australian SEO?
It has been claimed that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is no longer an option for online marketers. Truthfully, it is an essential feature required to succeed online. Website developers around the world are busy at work designing websites that should bring their customers record revenues, improved sales figures and top rankings with the most popular search engines.
Companies specializing in fields like comprehensive SEO campaigns, Pay Per Click (PPC) , management, Internet marketing solutions, web strategy, link building services, organic search engine ranking, and social media marketing, have their hands full boosting web traffic and achieving their customers’ goals. They generally perform well, as they know their local market, and the practices used in their own country.
Breaking News:Google RealTime is UP!
After a wait of almost 9 months — gestation I figure, Google has today launched their own RealTime search index and it’s LIVE and up for our use! And us Canucks are included!
Go to this link here — http://www.google.ca/realtime – to get a first look at same….and I’ll run thru some of the features here for your edification….
Breaking News: Bub-bye Yahoo!
Well, the official “merge” tween BING and Yahoo is complete for the search engine results…
And Yahoo search is no more….
And the POWERED BY BING tag is now in the yahoo.ca footer too….
DIY Canadian SEO: Chapter 5
Okay, time today to delve back into the SEO tactics of using the <alt img> tags for your various website images, and whether or not such time and effort are rewarding…and for us the decision is still a mixed one, eh!
First the Wikipedia definition of the <alt img> tag is this –
“The alt attribute is used in HTML and XHTML documents to specify alternative text (alt text) that is to be rendered when the element to which it is applied cannot be rendered. In HTML 4.01, the attribute is required for the
imgandareatags. It is optional for theinputtag and the deprecatedapplettag…”
Yahoo/BING Merge Updates: Powered is Up!
For those of you who are following the merge between Yahoo and BING, there is one new development today that is kinda neat-O if you ask me — though its US based at this point only….let me explain….
Here’ s what you can do to test this out yourownself. Go to www.yahoo.com and insert any kind of keyword link….I used “Hamilton web developer” and then click SEARCH. You will most likely see what I see too….shown here below –
UncorkedVentures SEO: Followup Success!
For those of you who read us here weekly (and for those who don’t either), I thought that I’d follow up on a post from 4 months ago or so, on two new online entrepeneurs over at uncorkedventures.com, an online wine club and store. And a quick glance left shows you that yes, they’re doing swell as I’ve given their SEO Campaign two green arrows! So far, well done lads!
Info Design: A Recap by SEO.COM
Okay, I understand fully the ability of infographics to explain/tell/display/rationalize an overall POV for an idea. I like infographics and have pointed out quite a few over the past year or so, that offer up same….ie a real “look & learn” opportunity. But the folks over at seo.com have surpassed my own searching and I thought I’d share their great post on same here with you….
This is near and dear to my own SEO client campaigns, in that we both understand that the creation and use of an infographic will bring links to their sites…via bloggers, forums and social media too! The creation of same is yes, sometimes difficult and yes sometimes lengthy and the fodder for another blog post to come, but the use of same is surely big on the web!
Online Maps Review Credibility: What do you see?
Okay, let me start by saying right up front, I don’t know if this shows to you what I think it shows to me. And that is that when reviews are published online in Google Maps and are available to be seen by one and all, that they are actually “true”, credible and rightous. Or are they? You tell me…and here’s the points to ponder on this for all us Canuck SMBs, eh! And a big “tip-O-the-hat” to Miriam for the finding and blogging on this late last week that got me thinking about our canuck google maps and what I’d find too, eh!
First, go to maps.google.ca and use “Leggat Pontiac Buick” as a search term…to open up a link to a local GM car dealership website, located a few miles away from where I live and one that yes, I’ve used for service to my own car in the past. Always had pretty good service and pricing too, I believe….but that’s for another blog posting.
Of course, you will need to be using the ‘un-logged’ in google settings to get the same default serp results that others get, ie you need to turn off your own settings for this….and once you have clicked, then you will see the same report that I do as shown here below….
Google Places:SMBs can now Respond to Reviews!
Yup, just announced yesterday, Google now allows a SMB biz owner to respond to reviews from customers or clients in the Google Places milieu! Which of course is great news, sort of….for one and all, eh!
First the official notice on this is found here at the Google LatLong blog and you should make sure that you read same.
Next, that article has links to here, the Google Places Help area, where they show you exactly how Google thinks you should respond to reviews on your Places pages….using these simple items –
- • Be nice!
• Don’t get personal!
• Feedback is important!
They go on there, to point out a couple of other items like offering up Ground Rules for your postings and Example Responses too, to show the not-so-social SMB owner that a rant here is not good for business!
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