Umbraco, is it the best Open Source CMS?
I worked on several projects involving SiteCore CMS, Ektron, DotNetNuke, Joomla, Mambo and custom Content Management systems. Out of all of the above mentioned CMS softwares, Sitecore stood out the most. In fact I was so impressed that I even got certified for Sitecore version 5.3.1
The features I like about Sitecore are its Structure, the ...
Reviving The Long Tail of SEO
The topic of long tail search engine optimization is elusive at best. The fact is, when considering keyword research and acquisition you have the choice of targeting the appropriate keywords that deliver relevant traffic that converts to your website.
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Improving Your Chance of Link Bait Inspiration
There’s been hundreds if not thousands of articles written about link bait. I’d hazard a guess that there’s probably even more articles about how to write the bait than there is paid up pieces of link bait for clients.
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But with this post I’m going two try and write about something slightly different. With
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SEO, is it Method, Art or Science?
Aside from SEO being a collection of mere tactics and techniques, practicing search engine optimization is just as much of an art as it is a science.
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Guide to Buying Traffic
While many niches depend on PPC search traffic, there’s a wide group of sites that benifit from bought traffic from individual sites. Often times you can get very high quality traffic that converts very well from niches that tend to deal in a more direct site to site type traffic deal, rather than 3rd party ...
6 Common Website Mistakes That Are Costing You Money
As I'm reviewing company websites to prepare for our August SEO Training Class, I'm struck by how often I see the same website mistakes.
Since we've been offering the SEO classes over the past 7 months, we've reviewed over 40 websites. In each class of 6 online marketers, there's never a dearth of problems to point out to them. I'm not talking about minor glitches here, but stuff that prevents the website from reaching its full potential with the search engines. In other words, as long as these problems exist, they're not going to be able to gain all the targeted search engine traffic that they could be.
To put it into terms that anyone can relate to--the company is basically losing money every day they don't fix their website.
Here are 6 common website mistakes that could be costing you money:
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Every Cloud… Search Industry Opportunities Caused By Credit Crunch
At the moment doom and gloom seems to surround the economy, whether or not search marketing budgets are going to fall remains to be seen though.
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We’ve had a few clients get more pragmatic with their spend; but generally it doesn’t seem as bad as everyone feared. Though that could easily change.
But ...