Internet Marketing For Serious Players

Internet Marketing is a specialist skill but one that is a must in the 21st Century business environment.

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By hiring an Internet Marketing firm you'll be able to make your business effective online. You not only have to have a credible website; but your ability to market the website clearly to attract traffic and then convert that traffic into solid business outcomes is not something that comes eaasily to most people. In fact, most businesses would benefit from having a lead expert in this field...
 

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One of the leading experts in Internet Marketing for small business is Lee Gilbert - known by many as "The Serious Players' Webmaster". He runs his own Internet Marketing agency offering a wide range of Internet Marketing Services

 

The links below are some of the latest Internet Marketing news, articles, blog postings, tips, techniques and proven strategies that can help any serious player stay up to date in this fast and ever changing world - internet marketing, website design, promotion, SEO, programming and the 3rd Party tools. Here is a list of useful resources:
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  • Geotargeting : How Does Webmaster Tools Geotargeting Affect SERP Exposure -
    "I seem to be drawing a disproportionate number of foreign customers. I see the site setting for Geotarget and mine was to unlisted. My IP reports Plano, TX but my server is in Chicago, same time zone so no biggie I guess."
  • No Ranking Movement despite On-Page Changes -
    Bunch of on-the-page changes = Whole bunch of nothing: "I feel like im flogging a dead horse."
  • How to Find a Writer - What to Pay -
    "I need to boost a site up with some content and would like to hire a writer. If I could offload some writing for a bit, I could work on other things to help move a project along."
  • SEO Benefits from Affiliate Links -
    Indepth article on SEO and Affiliate Links: "... ideas that you might want to consider to eliminate the dup content and split link juice issues caused by the canonicalization problems associated with affiliate links" (-subscription required)
  • Wordpress 301 Redirects Via Apache htaccess Mod_rewrite -
    Nice indepth thread on a common WordPress htaccess mod_rewrite problem.
  • Nielsen: US Search Volume Down 16% While Bing Jumps -
    "The number of searches conducted in the U.S. over the last year has decreased by 16% from 10.5 billion in July 2009 to 8.8 billion in July 2010. MSN/Windows Live/Bing was the only one of the top three engines to have experienced an increase in search volume - a 28% increase from 0.9 billion to 1.2 billion."
  • Exact Long Tail Phrases in the Title are Not Ranking Well -
    "I've notice recently that exact phrase match in the title does not seem to work well. It does work if you put quotes around the query phrase, but clearly only geeks do that."
  • FedEx vs UPS vs USPS -
    annual refresh of a popular discussion.
  • Google Launches Dedicated Realtime Search -
    There's now a dedicated URL for Google's experiment with Realtime Search... with new tools and options to bring more search value.
  • Best Countries to Immigrate to for Webmasters/Site Owners -
    Where is a good place to setup shop?
  • Yahoo! Transitions Organic Search Back-End to Microsoft Platform -
    "... the transition of organic search between Yahoo! and Microsoft is complete"
  • Google To Show More Results From a Domain -
    Some sites now control 7 to 10 of the top 10 results.
  • Google Now Shows Many Results from The Same Domain -
    Google formally announced a big change today. For some query terms, more than two results can be shown from the same website.
  • Why Are There "Canonical Disasters" - Is Google Messing Up? -
    "I don't get it. This tag was introduced a year and a half ago and it should be relatively straightforward..."
  • New Google Test - Updating the SERP Live While You Type -
    Every letter you type in the search box on a results page creates not only a "Search Suggestion" dropdown box -- it also dynamically loads a completely new SERP, from top to bottom, via AJAX. The SERP seems to be based on the top Search Suggestion.
  • Sudden Boost in International Traffic from Google ccTLDs -
    I run a website mainly focused on Australia. Around 20-26 July, I started getting heaps more traffic from Googles other than google.com.au. US up by 120% - UK by 90% - India by 380% - Brazil by 360%
  • Domain Auctions, The Economy and The Web - Are We There Yet? -
    "Interesting domains at upcomming auction but are there buyers or bargains."
  • Is Google Giving Too Much Weight To Keyword Domains? -
    "You know, the type of content that is built around keywords rather than the reader."
  • Yahoo and Microsoft Search Alliance: Yahoo Site Explorer -
    "...you should continue to provide your site information to Yahoo! using Site Explorer, because in many parts of the world search results will continue to be powered by Yahoo!'s systems until the full transition is complete for all markets by early 2012."
  • comScore: July Search Share, Google Down, Yahoo Up, Bing Stable -
    "The new numbers only measure 'explicit' searches, in which a user types a term in a search window and clicks 'search.'"
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