Search is great because of its simplicity. You can find just about anything you can think of online, as long as you can articulate the thought with a keyboard. The problem is the abundance of information available. You need to narrow your search, refine it, and this is where additional search queries can come in really handy. Google can do a lot more than simply return search results based on keywords; it can also convert currency, do maths equations, find related information and find relevant information from a specific source. It can identify certain URLs and domains, and even help you to understand the size of a website.
The site: command will return results from a particular domain. This is useful if you want to search a site that does not offer a search functionality. The link: command will return links to a particular URL. While the backlink results will not be nearly as comprehensive as other backlink tools, it can give you a good general idea of a backlink profile. Putting search terms “in quotes” will mean the search engine will treat it as one search term, and discount search results which do not include it in full. You can exclude keywords from a search by using the –minus symbol. Using these commands and symbols is a great way of tailoring your searches and finding what you are looking for.
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In this episode of the Internet Marketing Podcast, Kelvin and Andy are discussing the best ways for a business to use Facebook. This includes tips, strategies and techniques based around the different ways to approach Facebook in terms of marketing and advertising. Kelvin also addresses the differences between Facebook pages and Facebook groups and how these are best suited to the particular needs of a business.
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When I first started out in linkbuilding it was a very different landscape. Generally, it was a bit easier to build links but a whole lot harder to find the data about what type of links you required.
We are now in almost a polar opposite position; we are drowning in data but struggling to turn that into strategies to generate links. The radar graph is the secret sauce in determining your link building strategy. Using Radar Graphs and MajesticSEO data you can understand how you compare to specific competitors and the market as a whole. I think this is really important as SEO is relative – it’s not about absolute values but how you compare to your competitors.
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We have some exciting news for all of our podcast listeners! Drumroll please…you can now find our podcast on Stitcher Radio. We’re really looking forward to this partnership because Stitcher allows you to download our podcast and lots of others automatically without having to worry about refreshing.
We know that someone you were wondering about getting the Internet Marketing Podcast onto to your Android phones, and this is the way to do it. If you go to Stitcher’s website, you’ll be able to download the app (for free!) for your Android phone, your iPad, and your iPod.
If you’re curious, you can have a look here for the podcast page, or you can cut to the chase and download it here.
As always, we love to get feedback so let us know what you think! So email Kelvin or leave us a comment on Stitcher or iTunes.
In this episode of the Internet Marketing Podcast, Kelvin gives you a crash course on some of the most common questions people have about using Twitter, including why Twitter should be used and by whom, who are the most comming Twitter users, what are they looking for and finally what should you be Tweeting…..
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Public Relations is about managing the flow of information between an organisation and the public. How does PR relate to SEO? Online PR has its own set of objectives, but has a lot in common with SEO. PR professionals looks to get a company or product mentioned in well-read and authoritative press, whether that’s a print publication or a news website, to help spread company messages and awareness of a brand. An authoritative website picking up a company story can be a great win for PR, increasing exposure of a brand or message, but it can also fulfil SEO objectives; gaining links from trusted and authoritative news sites can help a website rise up the search rankings.
The problem with online PR in the past is that it has tended to ignore SEO. This means that these company or product mentions are rarely accompanied by the keyword-rich hyperlinks which can help a website gain better visibility in search rankings.
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It’s good news that an increasing number of companies are doing more to take responsibility for themselves and give something back to society. We’ve been trying to do a bit more of that over the last 12 months and I thought some of you might be interested to learn a little more about some of the groups we support and the activities we’ve been up to.
SiteVisibility has a proud history of leadership in corporate responsibility having won the “BITC Small Company of the Year” award in 2007 for our CSR Strategy, and since then our CEO Jason Woodford has served on the prestigious BITC South East Leadership Board.
We are currently revising our CSR strategy to bring our objectives up to date with our current business strategy, the needs of our local community and desires of our staff. Everyone in the company is given one day per annum to participate in either company or personal volunteering or charity activities. We’ve also recently appointed an internal Sustainability Officer who’s in charge of making sure we all do our parts to reduce our usage, as well as keep us up to date on any environmental developments that might make us consider redesigning our strategy.
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When Facebook was launched I decided not to join up. It just seemed like another website to waste my time entering data into, uploading pictures and then never use. But suddenly I found that I was missing out on events, news and parties because everything was happening through Facebook and I wasn’t part of it. So I joined up, got sucked in for a while, checked it 20 times a day, changed my status, uploaded pictures etc. After a while the novelty wore off a little and now I just dip in from time to time, but it’s still a great way to stay in touch and connect with people without actually having to ‘get in touch’ with them.
Then there was Google Buzz and just as I decided to start using it, it seemed to vanish. People found Google Buzz difficult to get into because you couldn’t categorise the people you were following. It also had a big security flaw when it was launched that opened up Google Profiles to outside people so that they could look at who your contacts were and who you were chatting with most, so many people were sceptical about getting involved and it got off to a slow start. Also, with most people already using Facebook and Twitter, a lot of people thought ‘what’s the point?’ Google Buzz was around for a little over a year before Google announced that they were going to shut it down. I’m glad I didn’t waste my time.
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In this special episode of the Internet Marketing Podcast, Kelvin is joined by SiteVisibility’s Digital Insights Manager Graeme Benstead-Hume and Lee Hayhurst, Travel Weekly Group head of News and Travolution Editor to discuss International SEO.
They are discussing search trends and the opportunities and threats of exporting your search strategy model to other countries, including whether to translate your site content directly, whether you should have localised domain names, what to do if your analytics data shows that you have a lot of visitors from abroad and the importance of having native speakers who understand the local culture on your team, among many other things.
If you’re interested in this area of search, you can join us on February 7th, 2012, where Graeme is speaking at the Travel Technology Show
In this episode of the Internet Marketing Podcast, Kelvin and Andy provide tips on choosing the most suitable SEO platform tool, details to factor in when promoting one’s website and the specifications one should look out for when transiting between WordPress templates.
