Effective Web Site Promotion…

When it comes right down to it, the best customers, those that are the easiest to “sell” your products or services to, are those that find you and decide on their own that youre the best in their field. They have decided, before they even contacted you, that they wanted to do business with you over and above any competition that you might have. People that c […]

When it comes right down to it, the titles of your content or your posts ARE your “hooks. Titles of blog posts, articles, videos, or any kind of content that are compelling and instill curiosity or a “need to know” will get looked at. Those that dont, will not. What kinds of titles hook readers? Keep reading for some compelling data on the subject. […]

Can you imagine paying $1,000,000.00 for a measly hamburger and soda? Is there any possible way that you would ever, for any reason, pay such an exorbitant sum? What I am going to do is prove to you that asking you to pay that amount of money for a hamburger would actually be a bargain. Im going to set up a situation where youll happily pay that much and mor […]

What do you do if your pet enterprise fails? If you're a brave (or perhaps foolhardy) entrepreneur, you build something even more ambitious. Such is the case with Nick Oba. When his contributor-driven online magazine failed back in 2010, he came up with a bigger idea: take on Facebook, but make the members into shareholders. And thus Zurker was born. […]

When trying to rank well on Google, you want to get as many factors working for you as possible. If you can use a few effective techniques your competitors overlook, so much the better. Keep reading for some ideas. […]

You run a local business, and you claimed your Google Local listing so searchers would see your website. That's a start, but with Bing and Yahoo together holding more than a quarter of the search market in the US, you're still leaving money on the table. Fortunately, you can easily get onto Bing Local by following a few simple steps. […]

In this article Im going to lay out a method so devastatingly effective for getting top search rankings really fast that its simplicity might surprise you. […]

What do a great cook and a great blogger have in common? A lot more than you might think. So grab a quick snack and keep reading for an explanation you can really sink your teeth into. […]

Streamlining and simplifying seem like such good things on paper. Strangely, though, when Google is the one doing the simplifying, and the subject of the process is its privacy policy, most observers get hot under the collar. Why is it so bad when Google does it? […]

I've only just started writing here at SEO Chat and already I think Ive created a bit of a problem. Ive discussed several techniques, but provided no real way of turning those into a single cohesive strategy. Consider this piece the first part of my correcting this issue. […]

Should Google’s search results be personalized based on past searches and information from social networking sites? Forty-five percent of respondents to a recent Google search survey said no, compared to 15.5 percent who said yes. […]

To simplify importing ads for AdWords to adCenter and align with industry standards, adCenter has changed the allotted character count in ad descriptions from 70 to 71. Here's a quick look at all the latest changes to Microsoft adCenter. […]

Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research and co-author of bestseller "Groundswell", shared tips for success in social and instigating positive change by causing trouble in a way that’s disruptive at Covario’s recent INFLECTIONPoint 2012 conference. […]

A new Google project called Screenwise is offering web surfers the chance to get paid to surf the web and help "make Google better." You have to search the web using the Chrome browser and share your data with Google, according to the signup page. […]

Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility could soon be approved by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ,) sources told the Wall Street Journal. The DOJ is reportedly poised to issue a formal approval on the deal as early as next week. […]