Article Publishing and Article Submission for SEO

Author: Keith Hickman
July 19th, 2011

Article Marketing is Alive and Well Article and article submission is a great way to drive traffic to your site and at the same time, establish yourself as an expert in your field.  However, like everything else in SEO,  there is a right way and a wrong way to accomplish the mission in this constantly [...]

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Video and Video Optimization Should be Part of Your SEO Strategy

Author: Keith Hickman
March 10th, 2011

Video and video optimization are an excellent way to increase the visibility of a brand to customers and potential customers so that they become aware of the products, services, or content that a site has to offer. The potential of video and video optimization is growing every day. A study conducted by Nielsen found that [...]

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The Changing Face of Online Marketing – Stay Ahead of the Curve

Author: Keith Hickman
February 15th, 2011

I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “The only constant is Change”.   This could not be more true than in the field of Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing and online marketing in general. Gone are the days of just adding meta tags, title tags and optimized copy. Google is now looking for much more [...]

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Online Video Editing Tools

Author: Keith Hickman
October 19th, 2010

According to statistics, online video is exploding.  YouTube serves approximately1 billion videos per day, Facebook users upload 20 million videos each month, 177 million U.S. Internet users watched video in June.  What is this trend telling you?  If you are selling anything online, you better start making, producing and publishing videos! With that being said, [...]

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Social Media does not replace Search Engine Optimization

Author: Keith Hickman
September 22nd, 2010

Are you in a rush to jump into Social Media?   Have you signed up for Facebook, Twitter, Buzz, Linkedin, etc?  That’s good because Social Media is another channel that can help sell your products/services and drive traffic to your site.  Social Media also plays a role in Search Engine Optimization.  However, Social Media does [...]

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Bing Takes Over Yahoo Organic Results

Author: Keith Hickman
September 1st, 2010

Microsoft’s Bing.com has finally expanded it search to encompass Yahoo! organic results in the US and Canada.  This increased Bings search market share to approximately28% overnight (depending on the statistics you look at).  Starting in September 2010, Yahoo sponsor links will be transitioned to Bing adCenter. Bing delivers more relevant results than than the ailing [...]

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New XML Sitemap Tool is Online

Author: Keith Hickman
July 24th, 2010

We have just completed development of our new XML Sitemap Ping Tool.  It’s a free and easy way to alert the search engines that you have uploaded a new XML Sitemap and are ready for the crawlers to index your site.  If you are a multiple site owner, you can submit up to 5 unique [...]

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Are Your Online Accounts Protected?

Author: Keith Hickman
April 1st, 2010

When you think of someone hacking your Computer, Website, email account or worse yet, bank account, what do you think of? Some geeky computer prodigy working out of his mothers basement, meticulously hacking his way into any computer system? The hackers you see in movies and on TV are a far cry from reality. Hackers, [...]

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Is Your SiteBuilder Site Search Engine Friendly?

Author: Keith Hickman
March 7th, 2010

The SiteBuilder developers have worked very hard to make your Sitebuilder Web site search engine friendly, however,  there are things that you can do to thwart all of those efforts. These are the top ways to make your Site search engine Unfriendly. 1. One of the worst things you can do is setup an intro [...]

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What is a Requirements Document?

Author: Keith Hickman
February 17th, 2010

When an off the shelf or purchased Web application doesn’t meet your needs, you will probably start thinking about custom development.  A few things you should think about first are: Cost.   Custom programming/application development from scratch is expensive. Have you thought the functionality of the application through thoroughly? If #1 is not an issue and [...]

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