Archive for September, 2008

21 Off-Page SEO Strategies to Build Your Online Reputation

This is an excellent article from SEOmoz.org that sums up techniques available that are used beyond the fence line of your website to increase your search engine credibility and push more traffic to your site:
21 Off-Page SEO Strategies to Build Your Online Reputation

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Drinking the SEO Kool-Aid – An Interview with SEO Consultant Ed Cehi

I am fortunate to work with a talented team of experts at NetSource Technologies.  One of these experts is Ed Cehi, our search engine consultant.  Ed gave me a few minutes of his valuable time to answer some common questions clients ask me.
Brent: What is the first thing a site owner can do to [...]

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Google Turns 10

Google Turns 10

Google, the rulers of planet earth, turns 10 today.  It is amazing that such a young company has risen so far in so little time.  It wasn’t that long ago when it was just one of many search engines that you had to focus SEO efferts on.  Now, it demands the bulk of our time.
In [...]

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Economy Fight Back

With the current market instability over the Big Fannie-Mac Attack, I have been scanning the marketing and business blogs for some relevant and useful information to share.  There is always an opportunity for those who seek it out, so here is an article that may offer some new ideas if you’re feeling a less than [...]

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Just for fun.

While I want to focus on ways to help build your business online I also want to take time and smell the online roses.  While you are entering new products in your e-commerce shopping cart or checking your website statics, here is a fun site you can have open in another browser window:
http://www.pandora.com
It is an [...]

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Don't Let Your Emails Get Lost in the Clutter

Everyday we get tons of email.  And if you are like me, everyday you send out tons of email.  A while back I noticed that a good portion of my emails were not getting found in the cluttered in-boxs of the individuals I was sending to.  It wasn’t a matter that the emails weren’t getting [...]

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Useful (and fun) Online Tools – Toodledo.com

Useful (and fun) Online Tools – Toodledo.com

There are a lot of very useful and fun online tools out there that can help you with your business and/or personal life.  A enjoy using an online to-do list tool called Toodledo.  This is basically a very customizable to-do list that you can access from anywhere on the internet.  And if you are fortunately [...]

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RSS Feeds – How To Guide

RSS Feeds – How To Guide

Are you using RSS feeds?  Do you know what RSS feeds are?
If you answer no to either of the above questions, you are not alone – actually you are part of the large majority.  While RSS feeds are continuing to gain more and more mainstream use, they still remain a bit of a mystery to [...]

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How to Read Your Webstats – Part 5 – Search Engine Referrals

My final post in my weeklong blog on using your NetSource hosting webstats.  By now you’re probably picking up on how the webstats program works and following through with the logic flow outlined in my earlier posts.  The section of the webstats program I want to talk about today is probably the most exciting to [...]

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How to Read Your Webstats – Part 4 – Most Popular Pages

How to Read Your Webstats – Part 4 – Most Popular Pages

Ok, now that we know how long visitors are staying on your site (see last post here) we will want to determine which pages are getting the most views. Knowing your most popular pages will help you to determine what is of most interest to your viewers as well as what is getting overlooked.
The [...]

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