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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

SEO Top Strategies and Intelligence...


Why More Traffic Just Isn't Good Enough Anymore - How to merge SEO with conversion to build business

Is the point of SEO to get as much traffic as possible to a website? Many SEO companies will lead you to believe that more traffic is all there is to it. Let me suggest that the focus of SEO should be audience engagement, rather than traffic.

Setting Up A Membership Site: Vital Factors To Consider

There are many things to consider when setting up a membership site. Having a clearly defined plan on setting it up, and running it, will make your life easier in the long run.

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Ins and Outs of Local Search

As the population with internet access explodes, and more and more people are using search engines to find what they need, the usage of local search also continues to rise. For any sites servicing a local or specific geographic audience, submission to local search based engines is becoming more and more important.

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5 Things To Hate About Web Design (and how to fix them) Part 1 of 2

Whether you have limited web design experience or have been designing websites for years, this list probably includes at least one mistake that you or someone you know has been making (or are about to make) during the web design process.

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Questions, Answers and Discussions From Our Members...

SR Webinars- Would you like some?

Whether you just read the newsletter or you're an active participant at Site-Reference, we need your input: would you like us to start putting on Webinars? These would range in topic and be designed to assist our members with through 'live' and interactive training sessions. If this appeals to you, have you say here as we'll only get them going if enough of you put requests in.

Checking All Your Pages

When you're implementing something like an analytics program it is crucial you place the code on every single page of your website or you'll get skewed results. How can you make sure you haven't missed any pages?

Question Marks and Query Strings

I've never had a problem with "dynamic" URLs, but I'm trying to convince a client that they're okay - and I'm not having much luck. Most stuff I read says not to use them, and although I could re-write using htaccess or similar, is there anything wrong (from an SEO point of view) with the following format...

Using Compete to Monitor Competitor's Keywords That Drive Traffic

How reliable are sites like Compete and Quantcast. We're looking to find which traffic producing keywords our competitors are using. Should these sites be relied on?

Site Tanking

One of our members asks if we can help him: " I have a website that's been ranking really well for a relatively long time. Initially we had some issues with the site ranking, but we sorted things out. About 2 months ago, my site dropped from 10 000 hits a day to 2000 and I haven't got the foggiest idea of why."

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