Sep
27

Are Dashes and Underscores the Same?

By Sujan Patel with No Comments

There has been a lot of information floating around the Internet regarding dashes and underscores. A writer at CNET reported that he heard Matt Cutts speak at WordCamp 2001 in July and Matt said that underscores in URLs were either “now” or “soon to be” treated as word separators by Google.

However, on August 10th Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land reported the Matt Cutts was informing everyone that reports of Google treating underscores as word separators is not yet happening. Read More

Filed under: Blog SEO
Sep
26

Haste Makes Waste! SEO With End Results in Mind

By Sujan Patel with 2 Comments

Search engine optimization is great in that it can create nearly instant results across some major platforms. Imagine, you can add a page of content to your site and have it up in the rankings in literally weeks at most across Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and others…

Hold it. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Read More

Filed under: Blog SEO
Sep
24

How to Become a Delicious Power User

By Sujan Patel with No Comments

4 tips to consider if you want your articles to do well on Del.icio.us:
1.Creating lists about your niche and inform the reader as much as possible.
2.Create “How To” articles and consider making it a list. Lists to really well on Del.icio.us.
3.Discuss your success in grand terms, “How I increased my income by 47%!”
4.Funny lists and humorous articles tend to do well. Read More

Filed under: Blog Social
Sep
20

Don’t Pay for an Education in PPC

By Sujan Patel with No Comments

Pay per click advertising is a necessary evil, even for the most experienced search engine optimization professionals. From geo-targeted to advanced site targeting, paid search campaigns are becoming increasingly important to the success of marketers everywhere. Running a successful campaign is not enough. Running a successful campaign while eliminating useless keywords and pricing issues is more important now than ever.

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Filed under: Blog Pay Per Click
Sep
19

Is Facebook For Your Business?

By Sujan Patel with No Comments

Most of us know Facebook as a social network to connect with our college friends. Now that Facebook is open to everyone, how can businesses benefit?

Is Facebook is succeeding as entertainment and as rolodex for your friends, or is it serving a useful business purpose? Business users are joining it because it is the hot new platform and everyone is talking about it. So, how do you leverage it for business? Read More

Filed under: Blog Social