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SEO jobs in house or outsource?

  • January 23rd, 2010
  • Posted in SEO
  • By admin

Some companies are still not 100% sure if to have the SEO outsourced to the specialist SEO Company, or to hire SEO staff directly, and have them work onsite. The constant barrage from the SPAM email offers from mostly Far East SEO companies and their low pricing and the high contract rates of the local [ READ MORE ]

Google out of China

Internet giant Google says it may end operations in China after hackers targeted Chinese human rights activists’ e-mail accounts. Should Google leave China? The company did not accuse the Chinese government directly but said it was no longer willing to censor its Chinese search engine – google.cn. Google launched google.cn in 2006, agreeing to some censorship of [ READ MORE ]

Still the Best Twitter Tutorial

Still got family and friends ask you what Twitter is? Send them the video and ask them to start the tweets! [ READ MORE ]

Is Google The King? China says Otherwise.

T.R. Harrington, Director of Strategic Direction & Product Development of Darwin Marketing, Shanghai spoke about search behavior and internet marketing in China. Unlike most markets around the world, Google is NOT king in China. Baidu has 68% of the search traffic with revenue growth up to $234 million USD. What makes Baidu unique is [ READ MORE ]

Buying into SEO: The What, How and Who

Buying into SEO is a difficult process. Without at least a basic understanding of SEO, it’s really tough to tell the difference between someone who knows their stuff and someone who talks a great game without backing it up with results. Many companies looking for SEO help — even those with a decent understanding of SEO [ READ MORE ]

Why Reputable SEO Firms Don’t Promise Guaranteed Search Engine Rankings

  • December 14th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO
  • By admin

I thought it’s really worth the time to talk about “ethical SEO” and address any unethical SEO marketing strategies that promise “guarantee” of search engine rankings. Ethical SEO firms would never promise to guarantee your search engine rankings. PERIOD! Rather they focus on good content, site design and “white hat” SEO practice to help improve [ READ MORE ]

Does your website have the credibility to attract users?

Website design is important to the success of any business because 46% of Internet users depend on the design of a website to judge the credibility of the company that website represents, according to a Stanford University study on website credibility. In other words, when it comes to your organization’s presence online, people judge the book [ READ MORE ]

The Master SEO and SEM Glossary

advertising network: A service where ads are bought centrally through one company, and displayed on multiple Web sites that contract with that company for a share of revenue generated by ads served on their site. algorithm: The technology that a search engine uses to deliver results to a query. Search engines utilize several algorithms in tandem [ READ MORE ]

How To Share your iPhone’s Internet with a PC or Laptop

At a Starbucks coffee shop, airport or train station with no access to free internet? No problem, if you have an iphone with any unlimited data plan. Now you can have “satellite internet” connection anywhere and everywhere you bring your laptop to with the help of a jailbroken iPhone. First access Cydia ->Search->download PdaNet Then create an ad hoc [ READ MORE ]

Is Google Search Case Sensative? Case Study on Capitalized vs Lower Case

Is Google Search Case Sensitive? NO Does Google treat CAPITALIZED and lower case Search Queries Differently? NO Something  interesting I want to talk about today, and I would like to update my research from last year’s. The gap seems getting much wider now. Basically, through searching, I found that Google was treating queries differently depending on whether or [ READ MORE ]