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Search Engine Optimization: Search Engine Ranking Problem Solved for a Reader

Bill Hartzer

Perhaps in response to one of my recent blog posts about search engine ranking problems , I got an email today from James who owns a website called 4insure dot net. He asked me if I would take a look at his web site and see if I can figure out why he is having search engine ranking problems. getting penalized for incoming links.

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Why Every Brand Should Have a YouTube Channel

Socialized

Many businesses post exclusively to YouTube to take benefit of many advantages that the site provides. YouTube is the second most popular social media site in the world and is only exceeded by Facebook, ever since it was introduced in 2005. Google owns YouTube, and you profit from optimizing your videos towards one network site.

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Search Engine Optimization Horror Story Contest Launched

Bill Hartzer

Do we really need another Search Engine Optimization (SEO) contest ? This Search Engine Optimization is different. They’re looking for Search Engine Optimization Horror Stories, extreme examples of cases where Search Engine Optimization efforts have failed. 6 month subscription to Trackur Corporate (worth $528). –

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Today A Search Tool Dies

Small Business Mavericks

has announced that today spells the death of a search tool that has been with us since 2005. actually tried to be a search engine. Site Explorer is no more. Site Explorer is a tool that many webmasters used to see who was linking to them, and who was linking to their competition. Site Explorer. Site Explorer.

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Evolving on Facebook From Then to Now

Ari Herzog

Reviewing my Facebook history from Day One (which you can learn how to download yourself ), I’ll guess I joined the social networking site in the spring of 2005 shortly after I gained an.edu email address in graduate school. Facts from my Facebook past… August 30, 2005: I wrote a message to someone for the first time.

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9 YouTube stats to inform your marketing strategy in 2019

Sprout Social

When YouTube first arrived in 2005, few likely had any idea how valuable it would become. The first video, “ Me at the Zoo ,” launched on April 23, 2005, and the first ads followed two years later. 2. YouTube is the second-most visited site in the world. By 2010, YouTube was generating more than two billion views each day.

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Why Images Make For Good Marketing

Small Business Mavericks

For a long time, it was mainly constrained to search engines. Since 2005, however, social media has taken on a much greater importance. Instrumental in that growth have been such sites as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Pinterest. Online marketing has increasingly grown since its inception in the early 1990s.