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The Best Kept Secret Search Engines

When it comes to search engines, there are lots of them. However, many of us are only familiar with the main search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. However it doesn’t end there, search engines can cover everything on any interest. Today we’re going to look at 3 fantastic search engines that hardly anybody knows [...]

Google: Friend or Foe?

When it comes to SEO and in fact most forms of online marketing, Google is really where this all ends and begins. In fact it is fair to say that most people probably don’t really practice SEO so much as GO – not search engine optimization, but Google optimization. When was the last time you [...]

Do Visitors Understand What Your Business is All About?

If you’re a local business owner who has a website already created for your business, it’s important for the website to be laid out appropriately so it gets a person’s attention and makes them want to continue reading the content on the website. This includes making sure you have the relevant information on your main [...]

Seven Search Engines You’ve Never Heard Of

Remember back in the early days of the Internet? When the Internet was new, you might remember there were all types of search engines popping up… AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, WebCrawler and more. Fast forward to now, and most of these once great search engines are either dead or on life support. However, that doesn’t mean [...]

A Stat-Based Look at Social Bookmarks and the SERPS

As the owner of a back-linking company, I deal with a huge amount of readable data on a daily basis regarding various types of links and the effect that they have on the SERPS. As an experienced SEO knows, attempting to guess the outcome of a link-building campaign is very difficult, and a lot of the time is completely [...]

Outbound Linking, Giving In Order To Get

Outbound linking has been around since the beginning of the Internet. The practice involves purposely linking to sites other than your own. If you are new to SEO, the practice of linking to other websites may seem counter intuitive. After all, we all know the importance of inbound links, but what value is there in [...]

Link value – Not all links are created equal.

The value of links when SEO’ing your site is extremely important. While keyword stuff used to work well to rank in the top ten back in the day, it is much harder and more competitive to rank well for a widely searched term. Besides on page factors, the most important factor search engines look at [...]

It’s your turn to get into the social media game

Everyone is telling you that you should have a social media presence, so what do you need to know to get started? Perhaps you have been approached by a firm offering to manage your social media presence, or possibly you have already taken steps to manage your own social media persona online. Regardless of where [...]

The real difference between China and US E-commerce

I’ve been based in China since the end of 2007. I have been selling online in USA since 2004, and started selling online in China in 2008. Still active both in USA and Chinese e-commerce, I will take this post to outline differences I have noticed along the way doing Chinese e-commerce and “American” or [...]

Link Building Strategies

If you’ve been on the Internet for any length of time, you probably have heard the phrase “incoming link.” An incoming link is a link that is coming from another site to yours. An outgoing link is a link that goes from your site to another site. Together, incoming and outgoing links make up an [...]