How to Do or Not to Do a Good SEO

What is the big deal if JCPenney hires the SEO optimization firm to do SEO optimization and the company succeeds. Allegedly, JCPenney hired SearchDex, a privatively held US-based company established in 1998 to work on the SEO optimization.  Well, at least JCPenney hired a US-based company. The bottom line is SearchDex has successfully achieved its goals because over the …

Great Idea On How to Increase Your Alexa ranking

Is it important to have a good Alexa ranking? I think it is. It defines your traffic and hopefully improves your website SEO score. Great idea by Novice Bloggers, the online community for young bloggers – Top Commentators Contest. Top Commentators Contest: 1. Top Commentators Contest is held every month in NoviceBloggers 2. The objective is simple. Those …

Google to improve anti-spam filtering

Spamming is deferentially not cool these days. Despite Google is working hard on eliminating spam pages off the search results once in a while spammers can get break though the defense line.  Matt Cutts,  Google’s principal engineer says in the Google Blog “have seen a slight uptick of spam in recent months, and while we’ve already made progress, we have …

Twitter worm fakes anti-virus

A fast-moving Twitter worm is in circulation, using Google’s goo.gl redirection service to push unsuspecting users to a notorious scareware (fake anti-virus) malware campaign. At 8:45 a.m EST today, this Twitter search shows thousands of Twitter messages continuing to spread the worm. The malicious links go through a number of redirections which. The redirection chain may …

The SEO Basics

I came across a very good article for the SEO beginners written by Owen. J and highly recommend to read more of his posts. In article “The Basics of SEO” Owen outlines the basics of the SEO: Website needs visitors SEO is a tool which can bring visitors to your site Longevity will help your …

What is WordPress Trackback?

Interesting article about trackback feature in WordPress by Telly Adlam. Telli Adlam writes: “When used properly, trackbacks and pingbacks are an excellent way to build links and traffic to your blog, as well as building relationships with other bloggers.” Wikipedia defines trackback as “one of three types of linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links …

How To Spark An Emotional Connection with 140 characters

TheNextWeb.com [2011-01-14] – Twitter has challenged brands to reach out to consumers in a completely different way than how they did in the past through both traditional media and marketing campaigns. This social media platform “forced” brands to put their megaphone down and listen to their customers, changing the dynamics of their relationship. Today Twitter is on …

History of SEO

Webmasters and content providers began optimizing sites for search engines in the mid-1990s, as the first search engines were cataloging the early Web. Initially, all webmasters needed to do was submit the address of a page, or URL, to the various engines which would send a “spider” to “craw” that page, extract links to other …

Have you heard of Zeitgeist?

I am discovering new things every day. I would never guess what Zeitgeist is and this is very cool to see how the world has been searching in 2010. Zeitgeist 2010: How the world searched