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Search Engine Optimization: Why a Blog is Important

Bill Hartzer

When talking to business owners about marketing their businesses on the internet, I often get asked about why I always recommend that their online marketing strategy, their search engine optimization efforts, include a blog. And the search engines will notice, as well. – You can publicize the RSS feed of your blog.

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122 Social Bookmarking Sites and How To Use Them

Little Web Giants

The last few years have seen many in the SEO community proclaiming that social bookmarking sites are dead. Black hat and grey hat techniques that were effective prior to Google’s Hummingbird, Penguin and Panda updates often leant heavily on social bookmarking sites. How to use social bookmarking sites.

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Search Engine Optimization: Why We Still Need Meta Tags

Bill Hartzer

Recently, there has been a lot of debate in the search engine marketing community about some of the more simple or basic elements of search engine optimization, a web page's meta tags. The search engines did not look at the content of the entire web page. Let me explain. But now, in 2010, we are way past that.

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Takeaways from Google’s Updated Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

Bill Hartzer

A while back, I took a long hard look at Google’s first version of the Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. Google has now updated their Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, along with some interesting information: interesting if you read between the lines ,so to speak, in the document. quality content.

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77 Social Bookmarking Sites and How To Use Them

Little Web Giants

The last few years have seen many in the SEO community proclaiming that social bookmarking sites are dead. Black hat and grey hat techniques that were effective prior to Google’s Hummingbird, Penguin and Panda updates often leant heavily on social bookmarking sites. How to use social bookmarking sites.

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New Leapfish Demo Brings Even More Search Engine Power To The Table

Bill Hartzer

Not too long ago, LeapFish unveiled a demo of it’s new multi-faceted search engine to the public, and it was received with warm reviews, although it did contain many glitches that needed to be worked out. The bookmarking capabilities of a toolbar are built right into the infrastructure of the LeapFish search engine.

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43 Social Bookmarking Sites and How To Use Them

Little Web Giants

The last few years have seen many in the SEO community proclaiming that social bookmarking sites are dead. Black hat and grey hat techniques that were effective prior to Google’s Hummingbird, Penguin and Panda updates often leant heavily on social bookmarking sites. How to use social bookmarking sites.