+1 Social Signal And Unique PageViews – The Correlation

Social Signal

Blogging is an important tool to attract more visitors at a site. Blogs are read and spread among interested readers. Keywords and sharing, together, make the blog successful. Social networks are becoming essential part of internet marketing campaigns, because they divert traffic toward the business sites. One question that might be striking many minds is “How much traffic can be attracted through likes or tweets or +1s (the latest from Google +).

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Is Your SEO Campaign Stagnating?

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It seems like every week I’m reading (or writing) another article about how important regular content writing is to the success of any website or ecommerce solution when performing an SEO campaign and/or just keeping up their position in the SERPs. Regular timely content is also important for keeping your customers engaged and coming back to your site. On top of that, if you really care about whatever the topic of your website is, then you should have plenty blog about on a regular basis.

However, it can be easy to get trapped in the content zone. The blinders go up and you don’t see any other aspects of good SEO health. But there’s much more to ranking well over time than just writing stuff for your own site. Take a look at some of our ways to shake up your SEO rituals.

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Enhancing SEO with Your Smartphone

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Technology is everywhere and it’s only becoming more complex. It saturates every aspect of our lives. We can use it to make things better or make them more complicated. The choice is in our hands (literally). One way you can choose to use your own technology – specifically your smartphone – is to help your SEO efforts. This article will tell you a little about how you can use your smartphone to stay on top of the news stories affecting your market.

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How to Build Trust with Customers in Checkout

When a Banner Brings in a 1000 Sales

When running a business site online, you may think that your product page, landing page, or even all of the neat Flash animations you have are your greatest asset. However, you would be wrong. The greatest thing you can offer your visitors and customers is trust. When you sit back and consider the nature of the internet, it is very easy to see why this would be the case. Online, anyone can pretend to be anything they want. With a computer and internet access, criminals can portray themselves as legitimate businessmen and women, conning people out of thousands of dollars, ruining credit, and destroying lives.

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How to Enhance Your Digital Influence

Getting Started with Social Networks and Social Media

Quite often, social media is seen as just another method of communicating. Though it is, there is so much more to it. Social media can be used to promote your personal brand or your company, thus fast-tracking your results. It breaks down communication barriers and enables professional and personal interaction, collaboration and engagement. Unlike traditional media, social media enables you to promote your opinions and ideas faster and more easily to large audiences.

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The Hazards of Using Facebook

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Facebook is become the leader in the social network space, and with it there are also hazards of using Facebook that everyone should be aware of. Over the past few years, Facebook has been in the news for both good and bad reasons. The bad reasons, however, seem to be the ones that linger for months after they have occurred, with security usually at the forefront of the conversations.

Facebook has over 500 million members, and I have heard it can be as high as 750 million. With those 500+ million members it also has the responsibility of managing a massive amount of personal information, videos, photos, etc. from those members. This is a huge undertaking to say the least, but with such responsibility there is also the adverse affect of causing many issues.

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How Important is Google’s PageRank?

How Important is Google's PageRank?

One common question that I have read in forums and on websites is “how important is Google’s PageRank?”. More specifically how important is the little number associated with each page of a site in terms of traffic and ranking well in Google’s search engine.

For those that have been developing sites for many years, they may see PageRank as an important factor in search engine optimization (SEO). Others shrug it off as a number that doesn’t carry as much meaning as it once did, and don’t bother with trying to increase their PR value. While I have kept an eye on my PR number, I dont’ stress over it one way or another, and it appears Google wants it that way.

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