Gerald Weber is President and Founder of Search Engine Marketing Group (a Houston SEO and web development firm), in Houston TX. He is also a moderator at MyBlogGuest which is a guest blogging community
If you're a blogger, you should be well aware of the power of social media. Sharing your content among multiple social platforms can help you get as many eyeballs as possible on your content. The only problem is that trying to manually do this on a regular basis can be extremely time-consuming. If you wish there was a way to easily spread the word about your content, you're going to love 16 Comments
For those of you who haven’t yet visited SERPd.com, it’s essentially an SEO and Internet marketing professionals' social voting community. Yours truly along with Chris Burns launched SERPd.com this past September to fill what we perceived to be a need for an SEO voting style community on the web. So far, we are extremely pleased with how far our community has come in such a short period of time. We’re always listening to the community to find...
I’m assuming most of you are already somewhat familiar with StumbleUpon. For those who aren’t, Ann wrote a great post last year StumbleUpon Essential Basics A beginners Guide. As most of you already know, StumbleUpon made some significant changes to the interface last year that weren’t received very well by the SU community. Besides changing the look and feel of SU, they made other major changes, including taking away the ability to share...
Recently, @MichDe wrote a post entitled "New Media Concepts, The Digg Bury Brigade and How to Fight it." I took a personal interest in this post because I have also recently found myself as the target of a Digg "Bury Brigade." As you can see from the screen shot below, when you go to bury an item, you have a few choices. The options are Duplicate Story, Spam, Wrong Topic, Inaccurate, and "OK, This Is...
For the last five months, I have been an active user of Reddit. When I first got started with Reddit, I was really impressed by how much more democratic Reddit seemed to be than Digg and some of the other social media websites. As I talked to other Reddit users, I realized that I wasn't alone in feeling this way. As Brent Csutoras noted in a recent post, there have been a significant amount of...
Joel Drapper recently made a post which was titled "Why I Unfollowed Everyone on Twitter and Why You Should Too." While I am friends with Joel and think he is a bright fifteen year old blogger and web designer, I strongly disagree with this post. After reading his post, I started thinking about this subject quite a bit, and these are the three main reasons I came up with as to why it is a...
It seems that over the past several months, Digg has been waging a war against it's own users and alienating the very people who have helped Digg to achieve its current level of success. Since it's never fair to make accusations without facts to back them up, let's look at a couple of steps that Digg has taken over the last year or so. First, Digg went on a "power user" banning spree, which was...
Today, I’m going to show you how to rank for your localized keywords in Google maps in 3 easy steps. Aside from the obvious fact that you are ABOVE the SERP results, there are other advantages to ranking well in Google maps. Potential customers can instantly get detailed information about your company, and your contact information is easily accessible for those looking to take action now. Note: If your business is already listed in Google maps,...
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