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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Nonetheless, as I was identifying their needs; talking about where they are now; and what they’re goals and challenges are, one of the partners was skeptical about search engine optimization (SEO). Bookmark a site on a social bookmarking site where they can look it up later and where some of their contacts might discover it.

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How Social Media Helped Get Top Search Engine Rankings with 2 Hours

Bill Hartzer

Today, I performed a really simple test to see if Likes from social media type websites could contribute to a top search engine ranking in the search engines. So, what did I do to set up and prove my theory that social media likes contributes to search engine rankings? The results? The Experiment.

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How to Get Found Where Your Buyers are Looking: Web Presence Optimization

Webbiquity SMM

It starts with a well-optimized website of course, but there’s much more to it than that; a website isn’t the only way to show up in a search, and traditional search engines aren’t the only online tools that buyers are using to learn about products and services. Provides referral visits to your website.

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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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Be Careful When Choosing an SEO for Google Panda or Penguin Recovery

Bill Hartzer

I think the title of this post, “be careful when choosing an SEO” (search engine optimization) professional really says it all. Dear Site Owner, A while ago, the task search engines were accomplishing was to deliver a result page matching the keywords in the query box. Search Engine Optimization' To: Bill Hartzer.

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How NOT to Build Links to Your Website: Courtesy of American Express

Bill Hartzer

As a courtesy and value-added service, American Express is building links and doing search engine optimization for many of their small business clients. Through a division called “ American Express Market 3D “, American Express is doing Inbound Link Building, Social Bookmarking, and General Directory Submissions.

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How to Get More Blog Traffic – Real World Data

Webbiquity SMM

The key is a balanced strategy of search engine optimization (SEO), social media, syndication and guest posting. But it makes sense: the more often your blog is “seen&# on other sites, the more people will bookmark it, subscribe to your RSS feed, and type in the URL directly. Every blogger wants more traffic.