Sujan Patel is the co-founder of Single Grain, an SEO Agency based in San Francisco, CA. Single Grain specializes in helping start ups and Fortune 500 companies with their digital marketing strategy. You should follow Sujan on Twitter.
Imagine this. Let's say, that like a whirlwind romance, you all of the sudden get popular on StumbleUpon or hit the Digg homepage and hoards of traffic are coming in to see your work, what could you do to keep them coming? Many new bloggers live under a mis-belief that landing on a popular homepage will increase your traffic for the rest of eternity, when in reality you will be back to normal...
Blogging, for many is a business, and just like any other business you will have to show some level of appreciation among your peers. Do you have to like them? Absolutely not! Can you benefit by befriending them, Absolutely. Many bloggers looking for their big break, tend to leave this stone unturned, they avoid communication with fellow bloggers, seeing them as the enemy, or worse yet the competition. Many of...
Digg, much like many other social bookmarking tools, is built around a small community of highly “ranked” users that control ninety percent of the overall success for the other millions of registered members. It is not a big secret that an article does not have to be excellent in order to climb through the Digg infrastructure and come to rest on the homepage. As I am writing this, a quick look at...
With more than two million registered users, StumbleUpon has rapidly become a major player in the social networking craze that has swept through the computers of millions of web users, worldwide. Founded in 2001 by software engineers, Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith and Justin LaFrance, the three Canadian Nationals set forward to build a new take on an age old tool, the search engine. Later purchased by Ebay, Inc. in 2007, StumbleUpon...
SES San Jose is next week and we’re all looking forward to it. It is a good chance to network, learn some new tips and relax. Here the top 5 sessions you must attend at this years SES San Jose: 1. Universal & Blended Vertical Search Day 1 11:00 to 12:30 “Search isn't just for web pages anymore.” Let’s face it, search engines are evolving, and its going to affect your rankings. Google...
Many people who are new to web site optimization may be unaware of a small corner of the market known as paid inclusion. Paid inclusion was once a major tool for ranking on Yahoo's Web Search index, but has become less of a player with more traditional, spider based search products. What is Paid Inclusion? Paid inclusion refers to programs that are available that allow your web site to be included in the...
Recently, Dan Crow of Google addressed a group of SEO professionals at a regional event in Providence Rhode Island . At that event, Crow commented on the ability to optimize alternative media such as Flash, Video, and similar media files. Today, we'll take a closer look at how you can improve rankings for pages and sites that rely on the use of alternative media. Videos Need Offsite Optimization With the growing use of web...
When it comes to search engine marketing and optimization, let's face it -- it's all about Google. That's great though, especially providing the number of ways in which you can promote your web site in Google's search results. For many though, the entire process from start to finish is one filled with myths, ideas and stories tend to be misleading. Today we'll discuss the process of getting a page indexed in Google, from...
More than 70% of online consumers start their quest for a product, service or support call using a search engine. If you're a small business, how can you honestly afford NOT to be associated with this massive audience? The bottom line is that you cannot afford to miss such opportunities -- and today -- we'll discuss how you as a small business owner can use search to drive more business from people who have never even...
One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can't all be relevant both on material content and time -- can they? Of course they're not, and Google is hoping to solve this problem through the adoption of the unavailable_after META tag. What is unavailable_after? The unavailable_after META...
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