November 12th, 2009 by Mitch Larson
Someone once said, “Let information be freely available in digital form for humanity to peruse as it needs and wants,” and behold, the Internet was born. The Internet was born over the course of many months instead of seven days, but it remains a most miraculous source of information, with it being easy to search and navigate and giving millions opportunities to learn things that they may otherwise never know. The Internet, however, was not always so easy to use, and before search engines made everything really easy to find there was another method of finding information on the web. This method involved the use of something called web directories, which still exist in force today.
While there were several directories back in these good old days, there were two that stood out and became the largest and most used directories of the Internet at the time: the Yahoo Directory and the Open Directory Project. Yahoo shortly afterward released a “search engine” service, but it was another face of the same service: this “search engine” (and other engines of this time) only searched through the directory for results, so any website that had not yet been manually added to the directory didn’t exist as far as the engine was concerned
For several years directories enjoyed the status of the “go to guys” of the web. This was not to last, sadly, as some forward thinkers saw the potential limits of directories and how these would become more apparent as the Internet grew exponentially over the years. These forward thinkers happened to work at a small company called Google, and they developed what would become the most widely used search engine on the planet. Other search engines appeared following Google’s lead, and it seemed that directories would soon become a thing of the past. Directories have managed to hang on, however.
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November 12th, 2009 by Matthew Loop
If you want the best search engine optimization results you have to start with the best possible SEO keywords and use them well. How you go about selecting your keywords is every bit as important as how you choose to use them. Whether you use them in your website’s content or you use them in your article submissions, your keywords are the heart of your search engine optimization results.
A high quality keyword selection will be well suited to the topic, narrow enough to be specific, and common enough to be typed into a search engine via the average user. The more accurate you can get your keywords, the more accurate your search engine optimization efforts will be.
Be aware of the commonality of words and how they are used in order to determine how to best use them to operate under the best search engine optimization rules. For instance, if you were to create keywords around U. S. Based used cars, you would avoid using the words used autos, as not many people would automatically refer to used cars as used autos in the United States.
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October 17th, 2009 by Jim Clary
I wanted to write about this event because it is going to be AWESOME!
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October 17th, 2009 by Doc Schmyz
Everyone who has a website wants more needs more traffic. The problem is not all traffic is created equal. A lot of webmasters get so lost in the search for more traffic they lose the focus on if that traffic has any real value.
Different websites have different goals. One may be to build a brand, another may be to sell a product while yet another may be to build a list from leads. No matter what the goal, tracking should be done to see whether the traffic generated from various sources is actually helping to achieve that goal.
In some cases, it is easy to see the difference between various traffic sources. For example, it is usually much cheaper to buy Pay Per Click (PPC) ads for a content network than for a search network. On a content network, ads appear on related web sites while on a search network they appear as the result of a user keying in specific search terms.
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