What If A Client Doesn’t Like Link Building?

What if you have a client who wants SEO but simply does not want you to do any link building even though, over and over and over, you’ve told this sweet client that link building is a key component of doing well online? I’m not talking about the outright purchasing of links here either. I’m [...]

5 Startup Tips From the Father of Gmail and FriendFeed

Andrew Warner is an Internet entrepreneur and the founder of Mixergy. He interviews successful people to learn how they did it.
I asked Paul Buchheit for advice on launching startups because he fathered two of this decade’s most successful online products: Gmail and FriendFeed. As part of his work on Gmail, he also developed the [...]

Total Search Marketing

It’s been a long held concept that natural search, aka SEO, is a top internet marketing tactic for acquiring better conversions, leads, and ROI. Now, eConsultancy has collected data and documented a study in the U.K. showing that natural search is the best tactic for generating online leads, concluding it is greatly underused despite the [...]

5 Ways to Keep Abreast of What’s Happening in Your Niche

While learning about things outside your niche is always encouraged too, you should always be on the look out for new strategies and trends that pertain to yours. This will be incredibly beneficial to you for staying competitive. Your thoughts?.
Following are a few tools you should be using to do just that.
1. StumbleUpon
StumbeUpon [...]

Places to leave your stamp offline?

Obviously you can purchase advertising space in newspapers, magazines, radio, television, etc. But lets face it, paying for ad space can get pricey, so let’s look at a few cheaper ways to brand your business away from the computer, because shockingly, some people still don’t spend their entire day on the Internet.
Stickers
Giving your customers free [...]

14 things you can learn from the Google story

Connections – human, computer, biology – are everything. Life = networks.
Never compromise your ideals because someone said it’s impossible, stupid, or a waste of time.
Do focus on changing the world, don’t focus on the money. If you provide value, the money will come.
Have a healthy disregard for the impossible. If someone hasn’t done it yet, [...]

Five myths about entrepreneurs

Many myths have arisen about entrepreneurs. These ideas are the result of a lack of research and understanding. As many researchers in the field have noted, the study of entrepreneurship is still emerging, and thus “folklore” will tend to prevail until it is dispelled with contemporary research findings.
Here are the five most notable myths:
Myth 1: [...]

Google denies staff ‘brain drain’

Google has denied there is a brain drain of talent at the firm following the departure of its communications boss to social network Facebook.
Elliot Schrage’s departure as head of global communications and public affairs is the latest in a string of senior Google staff to have quit.
Google spokesman Matt Furman said: “Elliot [...]

Keywords and Content

These things are perhaps more important to the Small Business than even the larger enterprises. Where the big boys tend to already have that brand recognition, people will search specifically for their sites, but for the small business, SEO tactics are ever so important for getting found.
SEO Copywriting
When it comes to copywriting for SEO purposes, [...]

7 Questions to Ask When Planning a Website Redesign

As a site owner or Webmaster, at one time or another you will consider redesigning your website. Maybe it’s because you are bored, maybe it’s because your site is old and out of date, maybe it’s because users are having difficulty finding what they are looking for on your website. Whatever the reason is, at [...]