The Yahoo! Directory is a powerful tool for any SEO. A listing there can boost your traffic from devoted Yahoo! users and gives you a strong link to reinforce your SEO efforts. How to get a listing in Yahoo! Directory? That part is rather simple, you need to submit your listing and pay $299. Within 7 days your submission will be reviewed and if accepted you’ll get a nice listing with a link to your website. The initial $299 is a review fee, so if your listing is denied you’ll lose the money. If accepted, you’ll incur the $299 fee on annual basis. The fees (both review and annual) are $600 for adult websites. But how to get a free link from Yahoo Directory!
Well, there is a rather simple way, although it is not guaranteed to work. What you must do first Continue reading “How to Get a Free Link From Yahoo! Directory”
Tags: DMOZ, Link Bulding, SEO, Yahoo! Directory
How to get .edu links?
Together with content, links are the most important factor for your website’s search engine success. Of course, some links have much greater value than others. Due to their scarcity, incoming links from pages on .gov and .edu domains have [arguably] more value than those coming from the regular .com’s, .net’s, etc. So, how to get .EDU links? Fortunately, just because something is scarce doesn’t mean that we cannot get it.
The easiest way to get links from .edu domains are student pages. Many universities allow small hosting spaces on their servers for students’ use. As of yet, Google doesn’t [once again arguably] distinguish between an ‘actual’ university website and a student homepage, so those links are gold for an SEO. Continue reading “Send Your Child to School and Get Quality Links for it”
Burger King Facebook App
What happens when Burger King decides to use Facebook as its base for a new online marketing campaign? 233,906 people lose their friends… not real ones of course – the ones on Facebook.
What’s this all about – Burger King launched a promotion for US only, where you could install a Facbook application developed for Burger King which gave you a coupon for a free whooper after you deleted 10 friends from your list. You could of course add those friends right back on, but the idea was to show that you are willing to sacrifice friendship for a whooper (uhmm… yeah right).
People at Facebook apparently didn’t like this (surprise, surprise..) and disabled the application – after 233,906 friendships were “lost”. Continue reading “Sacrifice Your Friends – Viral Marketing By Burger King”
Tags: BK, Internet Marketing, SEO, Viral Marketing
Link Building
Everybody wants back links. Everybody wants QUALITY back links that will generate relevant traffic and increase their rankings in the search engines. Here’s my list of 10 fool proof ways for link building that will bring results. Don’t expect a turn-key golden solution that will do everything for you. You’ll have to spend time and possibly money as well but you WILL get results doing things this way.
Yahoo! Directory – Getting listed in Yahoo! directory can give you a valuable link and additional traffic from people that are using the directory. Cost – $299 per year for commercial websites, otherwise free (inclusion not guaranteed).
Continue reading “10 Fool-Proof Ways of Getting Quality Back Links”
Tags: Link Building, linkbuilding, links, Search Engine Optimization, SEM, SEO
I just wanted to take a quick moment to wish all the SEO’s and web designers a very happy New Year and great fun at your New Year’s Eve parties!!! Also, Happy Hangover on the New Year’s Day!
Tags: Happy New Year
A Dirty Dozen Step DIY Guide to Starting an SEO Business.
There are many internet marketing resources out there that give out tips and pointers about increasing your website’s rankings and traffic, getting back links, optimizing a PPC campaign, etc. Just do a Google search for “SEO” or “How to get my website ranked in Google” and you will get millions of results. Unfortunately, when you try a search for “How to become an SEO specialist?” you only get websites that offer help in finding a specialist or job postings. There are no resources for those who are wondering how to actually become an SEO engineer. Here are some pointers that I think will be helpful in actually becoming a professional Search Engine Optimization (SEO) specialist. Continue reading “How to Become an SEO Specialist?”
Google Analytics New Features
On December third, I went to a Google Analytics seminar in Google’s Chicago office (a very NICE office I might add). I always thought that I was getting close to a 100% from Analytics – boy was I wrong! That’s especially true in the light of recently added features, such as motion graphs and advanced segmentation.
I think every internet marketer, SEO or a webmaster should take a closer look at Google Analytics and what it can do for you. First of all it is a free, web-based service that gives you very in-depth data about your visitors. You can find out exactly who, when, and how got to your website and more importantly what was it that hey did while on your website. Continue reading “Google Analytics – A Forgotten Gem From Google”
Tags: Analytics, Google Analytics, PPC, SEO, Traffic
I just talked to a support representative at MSN Ad Center today and found out that they are supposed to roll out a new update to their PPC system during the last week of October. I asked if the date is approximate and been informed that it is rock solid. Continue reading “MSN – Microsoft to Roll Out New Ad Center By End of October”
Tags: Ad Center, adCenter, eMarketing, Internet Marketing, Marketing News, Microsoft, MSN, news, Pay-Per-Click, PPC, PPC News
I have recently started optimizing my Chicago SEO homepage for keywords related to Chicago and Search Engine Optimization. Rather quickly I achieved first place in the “Big Three” – Google, Yahoo!, and MSN for “Chicago SEO Freelancer” and its permutations. Continue reading “Chicago SEO Services – Search Engine Optimization in Chicago”
Tags: Chicago, Chicago Search Engine Optimization, Chicago SEO, chicago seo services, eMarketing, Google, Internet Marketing, Link Building, link exchange, linkbuilding, links, Live Search, MSN, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engines, SEO, SERP, Yahoo!
So, what do we do when we go overboard with SEO and cross the fine line between White and Black Hats? Well, first of all we have to remove all the spammy techniques that we used. Second, we should take an objective look at our website and try to find anything that Google’s Search Quality Associate might find sneaky.
Continue reading “How to write a Reconsideration Request To Google?”
Tags: black hat, google ban, linkbuilding, reinclusion, SEO, SERP, white hat
I have just designed my very first widget! It’s a web design quiz, so if you want to test your skills as a web designer, then feel free to take the quiz. Upon completion you’ll get an image with your score, so you can display (show-off) on your blog how good a web designer you are 
Continue reading “Check your web design knowledge with a Web Design Quiz!”
Tags: Web Design, Web Design Quiz
Search Engine Optimization activities can be divided into two sets of ongoing processes: on-site optimization (ways of building and improving your website) and off-site optimization (outside factors, such as links from other websites). These techniques may be further divided into “good” SEO, that is accepted by the search engines, also known as “White Hat SEO Practices”, and the bad, techniques, such as spam, link farming, etc., that can get your website penalized or even banned from search engines like Google or Yahoo. Continue reading “SEO Tips – improve Google ranking of your website”
Tags: eMarketing, How to rank high in search engines, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engines, SEM, SEO, SERP, Web development
Quick thought about links.
We all know that one of the major factor in Google SERPs is the amount of inbound links from external sites. So why not use what the guys at ‘Big G’ offer us and sign up for Google Page Creator and get a link from the Google’s server itself? Continue reading “Build Your Googlepage!”
Tags: Add new tag, Google, Google Page Creator, Google Pages, Link Building, SEM, SEO
Well, hello there!
I wanted to start this blog for a very long time now, but I had problems with motivation. Now that I graduated and have some more free time on my hands, I’ll try to get this blog up and running.
In a couple more days I’ll start sharing here my thoughts and ideas about SEO/SEM, Web Design, Marketing, and all those goodies. Hope you’ll find some useful information here, or atleast enjoy my ravings in some way.
So, till my next post: Ciao!
P.S. You can also check out my chicago website design webpage at: www.kocisz.com
Tags: Welcome
