|
|
I know many of you search Google on your own brand name to see how your company ranks on Google. It seems you can never get the ranking you want. For your brand name you better be ranking #1. I just search on my brand “Coach Parker” and was very please with the Google results today on 8/28/11.
As you can see on the first page of Google, CoachParker.org has 4 listings in the Google first page results. The first listing is the actual homepage of Coach Parker. The next result is my personal blog at eparkers.org which has a listing of the top articles from coachparker.org. The next listing in the results is my @coachparker_org Twitter page and lastly is the Coach Parker Facebook page. To be honest I need to write a few articles outside my own network and hope the get pushed to the first page of Google and I guess I should add more info about my Coach Parker blog to my LinkedIn page but I have purposefully been keeping them separate. Maybe I need to connect them more. 
If you need some help with your search engine optimization, SEO, PPC, SEM, eCommerce, or general web marketing or management, please give me a call at Steve Parker 817-965-1982.
I must agree with this article. Not much going on just yet, but I also like the video hangout area.
Google+ is great for semi-sharing. You use it to have private discussions with adjustable groups of people. For business meetings and family gatherings and planning your weekend or vacation or career change with a small subset of your social circles.
Read more via So What the Hell Are We Supposed to Put on Google+?.
The war has officially started. I guess the claim that you can’t patent a chair is becoming a reality. Oh well, these social sites come a go, AOL, MySpace, Facebook and now maybe Google+ . GMail is a big monster in the room along with search. If Google can get people moving over like I am starting to do with my Yahoo email, cloud drives and hosting accounts, then Google could win this battle. Its so easy to have everything on one place.
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has so far refused to speak about Google+. Unfortunately for him, actions speak a thousand words: Facebook has officially banned the “first ever” Google+ advertisement from appearing on its pages, reports Erick Shonfeld at TechCrunch.
Read more via Facebook blocks Google+ ad – Yahoo! News.
This article is really good but I love this question and answer. Its all about Uniqueness. Earlier in the article Mark talks about sweat equity and and I am sure this relates to the last sentence about not being just a financial investor.
You get thousands of pitches from entrepreneurs looking for you to invest in their companies. What do you use to filter the pitches and how to you decide what to invest in?
I can tell after reading the first paragraph if I’m interested. If the pitch starts with a sob story, I’m out. If the pitch talks about personal issues. I’m out. If the pitch starts off with how big the market opportunity is, I’m out. If the pitch tells me what is unique about the product, how it can make a profit, AND it’s an area where I have expertise, I will read on. From there, it has to be something I feel is a unique product /service that can scale, be profitable AND again, matches my skill set so i can add value. I try to never be just a financial investor and I rarely do deals that are built on financial engineering.
via An Interview With Mark Cuban on Social Media and Entrepreneurship – Yahoo! News.
Ok, so I am working on a client’s web site / WordPress blog from Pittsburgh. Its been about 3 weeks and already the web site / WP Blog is in the top 10 natural search engine results in Google, Bing and Yahoo for its main search phrase. Not too shabby. I am pretty happy and excited about the quick SEO results. Not sure the client understands the significance of the achievement yet, but hopefully they will once we load more information up on the web site.
If you need SEO consulting help, please contact me at 817-965-1982.
Another very simple SEO search engine optimization step missed by small to medium sized businesses is submitting your site and xml site map feed to the search engine’s webmaster tools.
- http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools
- http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
- http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmasters/
If the search engines don’t know your web site exists then its like having a retail shop in Timbuktu. Yahoo, Bing and Google are the Park Place, Boardwalk and Broadway Boulevards of the Internet Super Highway. If your website location is not on one of these main web properties then well your web site is probably invisible to your customers and the world.
Each of these webmaster tools will ask for a site map feed submission, /sitemap.xml. Look in your web directories and see if your web publishing CMS software generated one for you or you can easily find free sitemap generators by searching for ” free google xml sitemap generator”
If you need help submitting your sites, please call me at 817-965-1982 and I’ll be glad to assist you. Thanks.
There are a ton of small to medium sized businesses that are missing a free marketing opportunity for their local listing with Google Places, Yahoo Local Listings, Bing Business Portal and Merchant Circle. Yes, your business might already be listed since many pull information from the state business records, but most do not have your company’s website address listed which is the key to help your website be more visable with the search engines, especially Google. These business directories help your website by linking to your website.
There are a ton of other Local Listing sites, but keep it simple at first. Take next week and do one of these 4 each day of the week and have an extra day just in case you’re busy. You will be glad you did.
If you need some help, give me a call at 817-965-1982.
Recently on a WordPress project I decided to look at one of the highly touted WP blog hosts to host our new WordPress project client demo site. I am not going to name the WordPress Blog hosts but its on of the 10 hosts that get listed as a top WordPress blog host. I was excited to try another web host because based on the pricing, I thought I had been over paying for Yahoo hosting at $12.95 a month.
I’ve used Yahoo Small Business hosting since 1999 when I started my first product oriented ecommerce company. I set up a Yahoo Store, and we had great success on Yahoo Small Business hosting. I have been a loyal Yahoo Small business customer ever since.
Many of the features / tools Ive used with Yahoo Small Business were similar to the new host. The WordPress blog loaded quickly and we were able to set the blog up quickly and easily load plug-ins and have WP automatically update as needed. All the back end functions worked the same. I was thinking great, I can save about $100 a year on hosting. Hey I know $100 a year doesn’t sound like a lot, but in my household we are looking to cut all our expenses so we can save for our month long European vacation in a few years.
Anyway, the issues we found with the new WordPress host over Yahoo were performance related. Many times the WordPress site would stall both on the front-end and back-end when visiting the site. Several times we requested the host to address these performance issues and they did not. So once again, you get what you pay for. Yahoo Small Business at first seems overpriced but its like a Timex watch. It takes a Lickin and keep on Tickin.
So, yes I recommend Yahoo Small Business hosting. They have treated me well. And no I am not an affiliate. I also recommend WordPress.com hosted solution for WordPress Blogs., especially if you are a newbie to blogging or setting up your first website.
If you have any questions about setting up your first WordPress blog, web design, seo, Internet Marketing or any web development question, feel free to contact me at 817-965-1982. I’ve been in the Internet business since 1995 and computer business since 1988.
The much talked about Google +1 button is coming very soon to a web site near you, says Google at a recent technology conference. Google’s +1 button is Google’s answer to Facebook’s Like button. Some lucky users have seen the button on Google search results for a few months as they test out Plus one. Now you can start using the Google +1 button by going to Google’s Experimental Page, and start voting on your favorite websites.
So what does this mean to SEO? Well, I think it may effect page rank in the future. Websites with high +1 votes will be ranked higher, but I am sure Black Hats and Google will battle it out over voting rights, maybe Google will need to set up an electorate.
Find out more about about the Google +1 here from Search Engine Land article… Don’t forget to read the related articles.
Copyright 2010 2011 BrainScouts / Stephen Parker at http://www.Brainscouts.com All Rights Reserved. You may republish and or distribute article as long as this tagline is also included.
Ok, so I am very surprised. I just had one of my client’s WordPress.com websites that I added domain with mapping to yesterday is now 53 out of 3 million for their top keyword phrase. Yep, I’ve hardly done a thing to the website except add about 35 draft pages and blog posts. I have not added Google Analytics or even Google webmaster tools yet, because the site is a live development site that I am working on for the client. There are also no incoming links. Yes, the industry is fairly competitive for their metro market.
This is the same results I had with CoachParker.org on WordPress.com when it first launched and now its a leader in youth football, its main keyword phrase area.
Pretty exciting stuff. If you’re a small to medium sized business and are looking to develop your first website or upgrade your SEO Internet Marketing, please contact me today.
Copyright 2010 2011 BrainScouts / Stephen Parker at http://www.Brainscouts.com All Rights Reserved. You may republish and or distribute article as long as this tagline is also included.
|
|
