SEO & Advertising

Google is expanding its use of multi first from same site results when it returns listings and this may be forcing your site off the first page or deeper into the index. The way this new feature works is that when someone makes a search on Google a new algorithm will decide which result is […]

Something that is probably not well known is that Google has started to take into account the speed at which a site loads in their page rank.  At this point about 1% of sites in their US English Search listings have had this new algorithm applied to search results and if your visitors are from […]

When evaluating your websites visitor traffic you are likely to find that a large portion of your hits are generated by webbots.  Many of the bots are nice ones and they are indexing your website for inclusion in a variety of online search sites. Unfortunately there are times when you may need to reduce the […]

The UK is introducing new regulation on Internet Advertising that will be managed through the ASA Advertising Standards Authority.  Like those introduced in the USA by the FTC and other governing boards the new rules are expected to hit many businesses, non-profits and even political influenced speech pretty hard. What is interesting about the loss […]

Way back in the day when the Internet was defiantly a Social experience web surfers depended on Link Archives to provide relevant links to information available on the internet. At that time the use of search engines was limited if your information or contribution was going to be found it had to be in one […]

Many people have this debate about what is more important to generate traffic and thus conversion to banner clicks or views… or sales of products and other conversion needs. If you are a professional blogger you know that there is a difference between Quality content and Quantity content. Depending on who you talk to you […]

When writing about different topics it is difficult enough to come up with unique content without worrying about how your page title may effect who you reach. The fact is that no matter what you title your page you may find the same content may attract people differently and search engines may not use the […]

There are some days when you have a lot to say and others when you just can’t find time to get a post out. Even if you can find time to write it may be at 3am and no one will be listening when you press publish. You may also write a lot on the […]

When you write a new page in your blog you want the world to know about it right away. If you have subscribers to your RSS Feed they will see updates in their Readers and if you use a plugin that posts to Twitter or another social network all of your followers will see your […]

Everyone wants to be indexed by Google, Yahoo, Bing and the other popular search engines but often there are parts of your website that you should keep out of the indexes. There are a number of ways to accomplish this but if you are dealing with reputable search engines you only need to do a […]