Online Brand Success Dependent on User-Generated Content

Yesterday we reported that a vast majority of Fortune 100 companies aren’t utilizing social media marketing properly, thus missing out on the positive perks it can bring to a business. Their pitfall was due to half-hearted social media marketing efforts. Yes, social media marketing is great for branding but companies need to keep in mind…

Don’t Overlook This Step of Keyword Research

Many understand the concept of keyword research, but there’s an important step that is often skipped or missed. Many small businesses knows keywords are crucial to search engine optimization (SEO) efforts and follow the basics for keyword research. First, they check to see which keywords bring the most traffic and optimize accordingly. If they’re smart,…

Google Now Offering Promoted Videos in AdWords

Promoted Videos originally enabled advertisers to promote their videos in YouTube search results before finding its way to the “related videos” section on YouTube and the AdSense network. The methodology behind Promoted Videos is all about search engine optimization (SEO). For example, AdSense matches up the contextual relevancy of a page to determine what ads…

The Necessity of Video in SEO

It has become increasingly vital in search engine optimization (SEO) to include video, audio, pictures, maps, charts to engage and encourage visitors to interact with your website. What you should know is these “engagement objects” can affect your page rank, particularly with the advent of universal search. Their search algorithm used to analyze 120 variables…

All About Cybertegic, Inc.’s New Voice Intelligence System

One of the most difficult tasks e-commerce business owners face is knowing which advertising medium works and which do not. Oftentimes, hard-earned advertising money is placed on all possible Internet advertising channels just to cover all bases. Cybertegic’s new Voice Intelligence Service puts an end to this never-ending guessing game. The VIS is a powerful…

How to make Billy Mays’ pitch work for you

Just read this very interesting semi-tribute to Billy Mays’ memorable As Seen On TV ads written by Search Engine Watch’s Herndon Hasty. Hays took Mays’ marketing pitch and made it applicable to search engine optimization marketing. Hasty maintains that as mock-worthy as Mays’ pitches were, there’s plenty that can be used to develop a successful…

Search Engine Classifications

There are different classifications of search engines, namely: Crawler-based search engines, e.g. Google, Yahoo & Bing, are those that use programs called spiders who crawl web pages to gather information that are sent back to their respective servers for storage and future indexing. Directories such as www.DMOZ.org, a.k.a Open Directory Project or ODP (DMOZ stands…