SEO 101: Everything You Need to Know About SEO (But Were Afraid to Ask) When you've been writing about SEO as long as I have you sometimes feel that you've run out of things to say. We forget that there is always someone new just learning about SEO and hasn't had the chance to read every article ever written on the topic. Not many people have that kind of time on their hands. In light of that, I wanted to spend some time going back to the basics of SEO. I recently was invited to speak to a group of beauty bloggers being hosted by L'Oreal in New York City. The trick with going back to the basics is deciding what gets included and what doesn't. Every site has to start somewhere. But the point is, you have to start somewhere. There are four basic benefits of SEO that are the foundation of the online success that it brings. Four basic benefits of SEO Before you can get your pages to rank for your targeted keyword phrases, you need to be sure that the search engines can first find them, and second decipher them. Rankings This is what we all want SEO for, right?
SEO | Build A Successful Site In 12 Months The following is from a post from Webmaster World. I think it’s a great article and a good read for anyone starting up a website. I know this system works 100% of the time with Google to attain rankings across a wide range of keywords. The following will build a successful site in one years time via Google alone. 1. Long before the domain name is settled on, start putting together notes to build at least a one hundred page site. 2. Easily brandable. Learn the lesson of Goto.com becomes Overture.com and why they did it. 3. The simpler the better. Stay away from heavy things like Flash, Document Object Model (DOM), Java, and JavaScript. Arrange the site in a logical manner with directory names hitting the top keywords you wish to hit. Don’t clutter and don’t spam your site with frivolous links. Speed isn’t everything, it’s almost the only thing. Those few seconds may vary for someone living in a country other than your native one. 4. The smaller the better. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
How Search Engines Work - The Beginners Guide to SEO Search engines have two major functions: crawling and building an index, and providing search users with a ranked list of the websites they've determined are the most relevant. Imagine the World Wide Web as a network of stops in a big city subway system. Each stop is a unique document (usually a web page, but sometimes a PDF, JPG, or other file). The search engines need a way to “crawl” the entire city and find all the stops along the way, so they use the best path available—links. Crawling and IndexingCrawling and indexing the billions of documents, pages, files, news, videos, and media on the World Wide Web. The link structure of the web serves to bind all of the pages together. Links allow the search engines' automated robots, called "crawlers" or "spiders," to reach the many billions of interconnected documents on the web. These monstrous storage facilities hold thousands of machines processing large quantities of information very quickly. Search engines are answer machines.
How To Add 2.75 IQ Points Per Hour of Training 2.5K Flares2.5K Flares × The Wall Street Journal just publicized a scientifically proven technique you can use to increase your IQ. I have been recomending dual N-back exercises The Bulletproof® Executive coaching program. I not only recommend it to my clients, but I have also been using myself (since 2009) and I have had excellent results boosting my IQ at least 18 points (I took standardized IQ tests before and after). From an efficiency perspective, that’s incredible. N-back exercise is simple – a grid of 9 squares is presented on screen like this: Every few seconds one of the 8 squares of the grid (center one isn’t used) lights up with a colored box and a letter is spoken aloud. Here’s a graph of my N level for my first 20 sessions (total of just 6.5 hours of training): See how long I was stuck at N = 4? The best part about N-back training is that it’s permanent. I’ve used a Zeo to track my sleep patterns after N-back training to see what my brain was up to the following night. 1. 2.
Conferences Section » Conferences Unilever Recognized for Transformational Open Innovation The Digital Journal reported that Unilever was presented with the Open Innovation Partner of Choice Award during the 8th Annual Open Innovation Conference held in Philadelphia, PA, April 7-9. Unilever was placed into nomination and subsequently selected through a process that elicited the response of peers and innovation leaders from a cross-section Comments Off • Read this story » More Articles Current State of Open Innovation The Innovation Excellence website reported on the recent Open Innovation forum in Baltimore, saying that it showed that OI is in a healthy state. Comments Off • Read this story » Open Innovation in Electronic Health Records The EHRIntelligence website reported that the Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance will be hosting a session at the 2014 Healthcare Information and Management Society Annual Conference and Exhibition on Sunday, February 23, 2014, in Orlando, Florida.
New book - Launch: How to Quickly Propel Your Business Beyond the Competition Do you dream of achieving extraordinary growth and receiving far-reaching recognition? In order to accomplish this vision, you're going to need fuel--nuclear fuel to thrust you away from the pull of gravity and primary fuel to keep you moving every day. The fuel you need comes from content. Not just any content, but the content your customers will crave and share. But content by itself won't solve your problems. Sound easy? I wrote Launch to show you how to mix these ingredients to achieve stellar success! Here's what you'll find in the book: A blueprint for attracting people and opportunities to your business—without any selling or active marketing! Click here to read the first chapter of the book for FREE! Get the book:
Wissam Dandan - Daytona Beach SEO and Internet Marketing Consultant "Design your own success." ─ revolutions My notion of success has changed many times over the years. My Korean immigrant parents’ formula for success was: Go to Harvard + be a doctor + marry a doctor who went to Harvard + nice house and car. In my teens and early 20’s, my idea of success was influenced by popular culture and rappers: Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous + phat crib + Mercedes Benz + designer clothes + ice! When I started my own company, my idea of success shifted to the Silicon Valley version of the great American Dream: Invent a product in a garage + go public + make millions + cover of Time. I tried out all these versions of success like a teenager trying on rental prom tuxedos, but none of them really fit or made me happy. How can you apply an idea of success without considering the true values and dreams of the person who will bring it to life? It seems crazy but we do it all the time. When I was starting my career, no one ever told me that I could make up my own version of success.
Hey, entrepreneurs, we’re living in a bubble No, not that kind of bubble. The bubble we’re living in is actually much more dangerous than the classic tech bubbles that inevitably come and go, because this particular bubble may well prevent American entrepreneurs from playing a leading role in shaping the future. A classic tech bubble inflates expectations of what’s possible — and ultimately dashes the hopes of many investors and entrepreneurs. But it also leaves new technologies and a handful of great companies in its wake. Hence the t-shirt that one of my investors pointed me to: “Please God Just One More Bubble.” The bubble I’m worried about is much more dangerous precisely because it constrains our thinking about what’s possible. Arguably, the defining economic event of the 20th century was the rise of the American middle class. Today, most American entrepreneurs continue to be focused on building businesses that are fundamentally about serving the American middle class (daily deal entrepreneurs, you know who you are). We can.
New Theory Explains What Makes a Video Go Viral More than 10 million people have watched a YouTube video of an iPhone being pulverized in a blender. It's actually a commercial for Blendtec — a company most viewers had probably never heard of. But with the viral clip, Blendtec let social networking spread its name and message rather than paying for a mass advertising campaign. And it worked like a charm. "Viral-produced movies" are the new holy grail of advertising, but they're tough to pull off. Only the best among them can overcome the slight annoyance people feel when they realize a video they enjoyed was actually an ad — and yet compel them to share it with friends anyway. So what defines a great ad — one that a viewer will choose to Tweet or post to Facebook? Coker has come up with a recipe for success called the branded viral movie predictor algorithm. First, the themes of a video must be congruent with people's pre-existing knowledge of the brand it is advertising. © TechMediaNetwork.com.
» On the Future of Books: A Discussion with Seth Godin Post written by Leo Babauta. The industry of publishing ideas has been undergoing a revolution for more than a decade, and where it’s headed is still an open question. As a writer, I’m excited by the possibilities. But lots of writers (and publishers) find it all a bit scary. Today I share a conversation I had with best-selling author, blogger and publisher Seth Godin on the future of books, publishing and blogging. It was fascinating. Amazon has become the world’s top bookseller, without a physical location. And that’s just the start. Where is it all going? It was an amazing interview! Download the interview (24.9 MB mp3 file). Some of the topics discussed:
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