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.
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.
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.
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 you’re 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.
When it comes right down to it, the titles of your content or your posts ARE your “hooks. Titles of blog posts, articles, videos, or any kind of content that are compelling and instill curiosity or a “need to know” will get looked at. Those that don’t, will not. What kinds of titles hook readers? Keep reading for some compelling data on the subject.
Can you imagine paying $1,000,000.00 for a measly hamburger and soda? Is there any possible way that you would ever, for any reason, pay such an exorbitant sum? What I am going to do is prove to you that asking you to pay that amount of money for a hamburger would actually be a bargain. I’m going to set up a situation where you’ll happily pay that much and more. Not only that, but I’m also going to explain why you might be focusing on all the wrong things with your marketing efforts.
What do you do if your pet enterprise fails? If you're a brave (or perhaps foolhardy) entrepreneur, you build something even more ambitious. Such is the case with Nick Oba. When his contributor-driven online magazine failed back in 2010, he came up with a bigger idea: take on Facebook, but make the members into shareholders. And thus Zurker was born.
When trying to rank well on Google, you want to get as many factors working for you as possible. If you can use a few effective techniques your competitors overlook, so much the better. Keep reading for some ideas.
You run a local business, and you claimed your Google Local listing so searchers would see your website. That's a start, but with Bing and Yahoo together holding more than a quarter of the search market in the US, you're still leaving money on the table. Fortunately, you can easily get onto Bing Local by following a few simple steps.
In this article I’m going to lay out a method so devastatingly effective for getting top search rankings really fast that its simplicity might surprise you.
What do a great cook and a great blogger have in common? A lot more than you might think. So grab a quick snack and keep reading for an explanation you can really sink your teeth into.
Streamlining and simplifying seem like such good things on paper. Strangely, though, when Google is the one doing the simplifying, and the subject of the process is its privacy policy, most observers get hot under the collar. Why is it so bad when Google does it?
I've only just started writing here at SEO Chat and already I think I’ve created a bit of a problem. I’ve discussed several techniques, but provided no real way of turning those into a single cohesive strategy. Consider this piece the first part of my correcting this issue.