05-Nov-2009
Unique Sites to Submit Your Site
Category : Tips & Tricks
26-Oct-2009
Diigo, a research and collaborative research tool as well as a knowledge-sharing community and social content site, is one of the best tools that we have used to manage our SEO marketing efforts and our writers. Large keyword lists were once managed in Excel, which meant that for sites of, say, one million pages, managing content and keywords for each page was impossible.
Instead of simply bookmarking a web page that you want to share with others, or refer to later, Diigo allows you to highlight specific sections or text on a web page, similarly to how you use a yellow highlighter to highlight key passages and text on paper documents.
With this ability, you can use Diigo to set up groups and post notes on each page. This means that you can post a note on a page for your SEO team, indicating the keyword that you want them to use for that page, and then share that page with them. You can also post notes on pages that contain topics that you want your writers to write about, or you can have an editor highlight errors in content and notify them to fix the errors.
Diigo provides you with numerous possibilities for managing your SEO efforts. It has tremendously improved our workflow.
The following are a couple of ideas for using Diigo.
Set Up an SEO Group
1. Post notes on your pages containing the keywords that you want your SEO team to use when marketing that page .
2. You can post notes on other sites that your group will see; therefore, if you see a good article somewhere online, post a note on it and indicate to your writers to create a similar article or use he article during their research.
Set Up a Content Group
1. For many content pages, you will notice that you can create another article related to the current article’s content. Wikipedia does this with their links to related pages, something that your site should also offer. Diigo allows you to make a note to create a new article and have the current article link to the new article.
2. Hire an editor to highlight your writers’ errors.
Set Up a Design/Site Maintenance Group
1. Use Diigo to inform your designers or programmers of any changes that you want made, or of any errors on the site.
Offsite Writers Group
1. If you come across a forum/blog/answer site with a topic related to your market, use Diigo to make a quick note on that site that informs your writer that he or she should create a post on the site.
These are just a couple ideas on how you can use Diigo to improve your SEO productivity. I hope that you have found these hints to be useful, and if you have other good ideas, please share them in the comments below.
14-Oct-2009
Microsoft has released a tool that allows you to enter your keyword that you are using in your SEO or PPC to see if the keyword is a keyword customers use when in the buying stage. We have put our best and worst keywords through the test and each time the Microsoft Commercial Intention Tool was very accurate. I would suggest checking all your keywords prior to sending your keyword list over to your SEO team or doing PPC.
http://adlab.microsoft.com/Online-Commercial-Intention/Default.aspx
13-Sep-2009
Dominate Your Market
Category : Tips & Tricks
The goal of competing in a niche market is obvious—to outsell their rivals by winning over a large portion of the specific target market—but achieving this goal can be a challenge. One of the best ways to dominate your market is to be sure that you have the largest Web site in your market.
Having a good understanding of what your competitors are doing and the extent of their online presence can help. Check out the Web sites of your competition to see what they are doing and to ensure that you have as many pages as they do. To help you determine the size of your competitors’ Web sites, go to yahoo.com and doing a search such as site:www.domainname.com. This search returns the number of pages indexed on Yahoo! and is a close estimate of the number of pages that a site contains.
This tactic of being the largest site works as long as your site’s inner linking is working properly. If you are the undisputed authority or leader in your market, larger Web sites will be more prone to link to your site, further increasing the potential traffic to your site. An added bonus to a larger site is that you need fewer inlinks from other sites in your market to get your pages ranked highly on search engines.
Your goal is to create a higher number of pages of quality content. If you do not have many products and have added as many as you can to your site, then you can increase the size of your site by starting a blog and posting unique content. Your blog can offer regular updates on products in your market, product reviews, and other topics of interest relevant to your niche. If you need new blog content, try Google Wonder Wheel to generate ideas for new topics.




