Get Up to Speed on Google Caffeine

By R. Smith

The need for speed is one of the most important changes in the Google Caffeine update, which includes the amount of time it takes to load web pages. In the search engine marketing industry, there is a general consensus that faster loading sites may now have an advantage over slower sites in competing for search engine rankings.

Best practice studies have shown that web page load times can be improved by following these guidelines. The list below includes some performance issues that can affect page load time: Read More…

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Number One Rankings – A Quick Look at a Slow Process

By Guido Nussbaum

If you could grant anyone with an online business a wish, one of the wishes that you would hear more often than not is that they could secure a spot at the top of Google for a keyword of choice. To be certain, this would be one way for them to guarantee their success because owning that top slot can send an avalanche of traffic in your direction that does not stop, day or night.

For some people, this dream has actually become a reality and they are able to rank for a number of different keyword phrases that make them wildly successful with their business. There is something that all of them have in common, however, and this is something that you would do well to pay attention to. In order for them to achieve those rankings, they had to work very hard and they had to be patient while the entire process took place. Read More…

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An Introduction to Web 2.0 For Internet Marketers

By Lissa Ray

What is Web 2.0 Marketing

Essentially, Web 2.0 marketing is done to enhance the natural or “organic” rankings of a website to drive targeted traffic to a site instead of using PPC advertising. This method is done by getting a excessive number of “backlinks” with other websites and your own website URL.

Simply put, the more “backlinks” you have linking back to your URL the better you will rank on search engines. However, it is considered by many people to be tedious and time consuming to generate a Web 2.0 campaign to effectively gain extensive amounts of free, ongoing traffic to your website. Read More…

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Three Traffic Tactics That Won’t Cost You a Cent

Constantly frustrated because you’re not receiving enough internet traffic to your web site? Is information overload bogging you down, swamped by all the latest free website traffic tactics?

Have you maxed out your credit card trying to improve your ad position in Google AdWords? Confused because your website mysteriously dropped out of the Google search results? Read More…

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7 Tips For Successful Article Marketing

The key to improving search engine results is to develop quality links to your website. There are a variety of techniques you can use to get others linking to you. One of the most popular and effective methods is through article marketing. 

The concept of article marketing is to take authored content that you create and distribute it to websites in need of content. When you distribute your article, you include links back to your website (usually in the About the Author section). These links help to improve your website’s link popularity and therefore search engine results. Read More…

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