You might have heard all the buzz about the term Social Bookmarking.

What is Social Bookmarking & Why is it so powerful and different from other web promotion tactics?

Social Bookmarking websites are basically sites that categorize and store ‘bookmark links’ (links which take one to a specific website). Millions of visitors flood these Social Bookmarking sites to search for information.

So the idea of bookmarking is to post links back to your web page from these Social Bookmarking websites. You need to specify some keywords (we call them TAGS) which categorize your bookmark.
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This allows others to search and even vote for your bookmark. Social Bookmarking is in a league of its own because of its ability to generate traffic by sharing links.

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And if you don’t truly understand search engine optimization, then this could be happening to you too!

You see, it happens all the time……Marketers, maybe even you, launch site after site with great offers, a nice layout, and everything else in between, but for some reason, the high ranking and sales just aren’t where you thought they would be.

Well, we’ll tell you now that nine times out of 10:

* It’s not because your sales copy isn’t persuasive enough

* It’s not because your page design isn’t professional

* It’s not because your price is too high

It’s because you have poor SEO, therefore, you’re not getting enough site views, your rankings are low, and you’re paying a lot more in advertising costs than you really need to, which can drain your wallet real fast.

Sick Profile Maker Profile creation and submission is one of the basic link building techniques that is necessary for every website and company to protect their brand name, trademarks and user names.

When done correctly, profiles are also one the easiest ways to get quality SEO friendly, one way links to your website.

However, taking the time to register, verify the confirmation email and fill out the profile for each of the sites is annoying and time consuming.

Because of the time involved most businesses and websites leave themselves open to someone else claiming their identity on these sites.

Now, you can do it quickly and easily ‚using Sick Submitter

I’ve converted, but my first experience with Google Chrome occurred about a year ago and it was not a positive one. It was disappointing and frustrating. However, after fighting with Firefox, which crashed many times daily and demanded updates that slowed browsing and constantly interrupted me, I gave Chrome a second chance.

However, that’s a problem with press releases and everything else you might do to sell a story. Reporters, in general, are skeptical. To overcome this, make sure your blog is up-to-date, provides valuable, honest, objective content. A good blog that is easily researched can give journalists a trouble-free way to research your industry and quote you. Make sure you provide background information, advice, multimedia, etc., to make it easy for reporters.

If this trend continues, Baidu in the future may become one of the biggest search engines, along with Google, its rival. This increase in market share also increases the importance of getting good rankings in the Baidu search engine, particularly if you are targeting customers coming from China.

Getting good rankings in Baidu requires understanding the search engine optimization guide that works with the Baidu search engine.

The objective of this article is present the general guidelines for optimizing websites to get a better ranking in Baidu. This includes the onsite and offsite SEO guidelines. This is a two-part article series.

The official guide is available at the baidu.com domain in pure Chinese: http://wenku.baidu.com/view/6991a97931b765ce05081485.html

To understand the document, it has been translated into English. The main key points and suggestions will be discussed here.

Technical and Quality Guidelines for the Baidu Search Engine

Like Google, Baidu uses a search engine crawler. It’s called the “Baidu spider.” Its job is to fetch content from web pages and put it in their index. This is the same process that the Googlebot goes through.

According to the Baidu Search Engine Optimization Guide, there are a number of important categories you need to consider.

Start your free trial now!It’s quite simple really. To rank higher, your site needs incoming links from many different sources. And we’re not talking about garbage blog comments or forum spam. You need links from authority sites with targeted anchor keywords and surrounded by relevant content. The more competitive the keyword, the more links you need. If you’ve tried to find links on relevant, high page rank sites, you already know what’s required – deep pockets. You might spend $50 per year to rent a meaningless footer link on one high page rank site. That gets expensive quickly. That’s where we come in.

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It was announced Friday of last week that website loading time (aka site speed) is now a ranking factor in the Google algorithm. For the majority of the SEO world, this doesn’t come as any surprise since Matt Cutts and others have been talking about site speed for almost a year now.

Even though site speed is a new ranking factor, Google has said that it doesn’t carry as much weight as other on and off-page factors. Google explains, “Currently, fewer than 1% of search queries are affected by the site speed signal in our implementation and the signal for site speed only applies for visitors searching in English on Google.com at this point. We launched this change a few weeks back after rigorous testing. If you haven’t seen much change to your site rankings, then this site speed change possibly did not impact your site.” You can read the entire announcement here.

For webmasters, there are a few tools to help diagnose which pages are in need of some serious help in the site speed area. There is a firefox plugin that helps website owners assess their site’s page loading time and gives recommendations to help speed it up. Google has also recently integrated a page speed checker in Webmaster Tools that can be found in the labs section.

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What this all comes down to, is that Google is all about making the user experience more pleasant (site speed), while delivering the most relevant content.

One the largest hurdles in getting a website to rank well and make money for a client, can be the client themselves. It is hard to watch a well-meaning client get in their own way and not know it. For that reason I am writing this post to help them understand what they can do (and not do) to make sure that they get the most out of their money when they hire an seo firm.

Choosing the right keywords

One of the most common mistakes that I see clients make when working with an seo company, or doing their own search engine optimization, is picking the wrong keywords. It is easy to become blinded by massive projected traffic numbers instead of focusing on the real number that matters – sales.

I have seen this happen repeatedly. Let me set this up for you. Here is a mock phone conversation after the SEO company has done some keyword research and recommended the appropriate keywords to the client:

Google announced a new feature this morning named Google Instant that focuses on returning search results faster than ever. The already fast search engine just got faster by returning results as you type.

Today I’ll talk about one of my favorite topics, Conversion Rate Optimization (or CRO). I won’t be speaking about tools, case studies, or tips on what layouts or buttons colors work best; Dr. Pete, Paras Chopra and Oli Gardner have written some excellent blog posts on these topics recently. Instead, over the next several weeks, I’ll be posting a few lessons I’ve learned from doing CRO successfully (and unsuccessfully) for a variety of organizations. These are things I wish I had known when I got started

Today we are going to take a look into Foursquare and, more specifically, we’re going to check out how to use it for events and conferences and uncover some of the answers to the questions that aren’t as easily avilable through the Foursquare site.
Quick Background on Foursquare

So, we’re not going to waste too much time on an introduction to Foursquare, because hopefully you’ve already been focussing on ways to incorporate this into your marketing plan. The implications for any business with a storefront or actual address are fairly straightforward, though the implications for online brands are a bit more difficult to tap into.

* Added TheBestSpinner integration.

If you go into the Social Network Nuke module, at the very bottom, the “Auto-generate spinner variations” button now integrates directly with TheBestSpinner’s API. You can EASILY get a 45% unique article with just one click of that button! It’s amazing, seriously. Make sure to enter your TBS username and password in the Auto-generate->Options screen.

This replaces ContentBoss integration. The best part about TheBestSpinner is that there are no limits to how many articles you can spin! ContentBoss limited you to something like 50 spun articles for $30 per month. TBS lets you do unlimited for $77 per YEAR (that’s less than $7 per month)! For those who don’t have TheBestSpinner yet (most of you already do), you can sign up here: http://paydotcom.net/r/95330/qianking88/26387616/

Google actually foreshadowed Google Instant a day or two before its release with an odd Google Doodle – a Google logo composed entirely of balls that moved when your cursor hovered over them, but settled down when you stopped moving your mouse. The company’s only explanation for the mysterious logo was that it symbolized how they thought search should be: fast, fun, and interactive. That’s what Google Instant is supposed to be.