http://greatwebstrategies.com Online Marketing ...That Works... Period. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:12:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Want effective proven techniques that will increase your placement on the search engines and your bottom line? … and don’t want to waste your time with theoretical concepts that ‘might’ work…give us a ring or email us and let’s talk about your web marketing needs and to see if what ... http://greatwebstrategies.com/hello/ While reading this article on Webpronews.com I came across a very interesting article that begins: As previously reported, Microsoft has made deals with both Facebook and Twitter, which will see Bing feature updates from both networks in real-time search efforts. To me, this says that social media just became an even ... http://greatwebstrategies.com/bing-to-rank-twitter-posts/ Why should you care? Is this a good or bad thing? What does nofollow mean anyways? Glad you asked. You should care because a lot of folks were trying to game the Google ranking system by link dropping their space junk onto Google using social bookmarking...of which Digg, is the king. What's social bookmarking?  Also ... http://greatwebstrategies.com/digg-to-apply-nofollow-to-external-links/ PLEASE... DO NOT CREATE SPACE JUNK "What are you talking about?" is probably what you're thinking right about now. Let me explain.  Just recently I was doing some work for a client who wanted to promote his legal practice's web site and while evaluating his competitor's backlinks and anchor text it was ... http://greatwebstrategies.com/directory-submission-backlinks-and-space-junk-oh-my/ What's your favorite place to get market research? Today while browsing the web looking at a variety of information on social media, I ran into a blog that also had some other topics that were interesting.  Anyway, the owner of the blog had asked some market research questions so I offered ... http://greatwebstrategies.com/market-research-sources/ To start off let me begin with this…  In the words of Matt Cutts “Don’t build websites for the search engines, build them for people.” Which of course is very good advice. That being said, if you are publishing good content and want users to find your “stuff” you ... http://greatwebstrategies.com/how-much-content-to-publish-for-seo-and-how-fast/ Check this out, very interesting graph and information on the market share that Twitter now controls... "Twitter attracted 11 million visitors from Europe, 7 million from Asia Pacific, and 4 million from Latin America -- a total 22 million uniques from those three regions, up from about 2 million the year ... http://greatwebstrategies.com/not-sure-if-twitter-is-worth-it/ As with any serious professional endeavor, it's a great idea to plan your strategy.  This also applies to your internet marketing plan of attack.  The first thing we recommend is get very clear on your search phrases (keywords) that customers will use to find your product or service.  This can ... http://greatwebstrategies.com/your-internet-marketing-strategy/