SEO FrightSites: Top Thirteen Worst Website / Search Issues seen in 2005 (Part 2)

Everyone loves Top10 lists. In the SEO industry, where search engine results form the ultimate Top10 lists for clients and practitioners, the sheer number of ways a website, document or other spiderable object can be designed makes it very difficult to produce a general Top10 list for best practices. There are however, a number of […]

SEO FrightSites: Top Thirteen Worst Website / Search Issues seen in 2005

Everyone loves Top10 lists. In the SEO industry, where search engine results form the ultimate Top10 lists for clients and practitioners, the sheer number of ways a website, document or other spiderable object can be designed makes it very difficult to produce a general Top10 list for best practices. There are however, a number of […]

How Online Marketing Can Make a Difference For Your Business

Search engine marketing has boomed in recent years and statistics show that spending for online marketing is only going to continue to increase year after year. Several years ago the concept of running a website in conjunction with your “brick and mortar” store was seen as just another avenue to generate a handful more sales […]

Protect Your Brand With Competitor Intelligence

There are many ways competitor intelligence research can give you a competitive advantage in achieving your website business goals. Competitor research is an integral part of premium SEO services. It can help you beat the competition in the SERPs (search engine results pages), and it also works to protect your brand

Online PR and Press Release Optimization

Working with client PR firms to optimize press releases often generates some interesting discussion and education about writing style and keyword usage. A lot of press releases seem to be written by budding poets or ex-ad copywriters trying to be clever with the reader. This does not always bode well for keyword based ranking in […]

Google Bowling

Have you heard about the latest “sport” in dirty online business? It’s called Google Bowling and it represents a gaping flaw in Google’s system that allows your competitors to sabotage your site to the point of getting it banned or penalized.

All Your Bases are Belonging to Google

Google is rumoured to be developing a tool so powerful it could dominate the online auction and classified advertising sectors. Known as Google Base , what appears to be the Alpha-phase or first development stage of the program has been featured on Google focused blogs for the past 24 hours.

Realistic SEO Expectations

There are plenty of companies that will say they can do whatever you want them to do. You want to be #1 for spring? Sure, no problem. They will happily take your money, do some work, and promptly get no results. Don’t blame them though — they were just telling you what you wanted to […]

Time of the essence for online advertising

Online advertising is entering a fourth phase of innovation. Each of the previous waves of online marketing innovation has directly influenced or informed the development of successive waves. Starting with banner ads ten years ago, the online economy has revolved around advertising. While subscriber fees, government grants and private investment capital paid for the development […]

Splog Fraud Is A Big Problem For Google

Since the advent of Google’s AdWords grassroots distribution program, AdSense, several webmasters have built businesses out of taking content off of other people’s websites and using that content to build pages designed specifically to attract ad-clicks. These sites only exist to game Google in one way or another, mostly for money but also for increased […]