» Tony Tran

I understand in todays marketplace the need for automation grows and grows as companies seek to cut costs across the board. Streamlining a process down to a science and eliminating as much human interaction seems to be a growing trend but does it work for marketing a website and for SEO ? Manufacturing yes, internet marketing to humans ? No. There is not a SEO software program on the planet that can successfully step into the shoes of your audience and try to anticipate what their online behavior or patterns might be at that given moment. There is something that will always require a hu...

There are no quick fixes when it come to search engine optimization. Lets get that straight right now. You have to have some patience. This is perhaps the single most important thing to remember about SEO. Its also one of the things that gets so many marketing, webmasters and business people hung up about our industry. In our fast-paced want it now society there is a tendency to expect instant results from everything even SEO efforts. The fact of the matter, however, is there are no quick fixes. SEO is a slow, steady process. No website rises to No. 1 rankings overnight. There are several rea...

Does not it seem like everyone has an answer lately to the economic crisis? Wall Street continues to climb into record highs yet companies keep laying off employees causing a ripple effect tearing through businesses worldwide which is why now is the time to shift your internet marketing focus to search engine optimization (SEO). SEO takes time to understand and build which why now is an opportune time to really take control and understand just how important it is for your business to implement an SEO strategy into its daily business routine. With so many businesses right now ratcheting ...

The purpose of tags is to easily allow readers to read blog posts of a similar nature or on the same topic. The use of tags in a blog is not meant to increase search engine ranking or provide a navigation menu (although they can serve these purposes) but to simply allow the blogger to more specifically categorize a post. After all, a blogger cannot create a separate category for every blog post that has a logical connection with another. Say, for example, you blog about a speech Barack Obama gave at your school. You already have a blog post about Barack Obamas state of the union speech that yo...

When I first stumble upon a blog, I usually read the first lines of the newest post. If the lines intrigue me or make me want to read more, I will read the rest of the post. From that point on, I can pretty much tell if the content on the blog is relevant or worthwhile to me and I only check one more thing before subscribing: the number of posts in the past few days. I have sort of psychoanalyzed myself on numerous occasions to determine what it is exactly that causes me to subscribe to a blog. A primary factor is always the frequency of posts. The truth is, I dont want to be bothered with a b...

So, you just made a blog and now you are looking for people to read it. Problem is, you are fat, uneducated, poor and friendless. Who is gonna to read your blog? Well, if you know how to use Digg correctly, one of your wee little blog posts just might end up on 10,000 computer screens all across America one day. With a little luck of course. The first thing you need to know about Digg is that it was not designed for people to market their own websites with. Digg was designed to be a social news network which allows people to share or Digg pages they have an interest in on the web. The ideal Di...

Google PageRank. The crown of every newbie blogger. Yup that is right, I said it: Google PageRank doesnt mean squat. Unless of course you are a newbie blogger. PageRank is a value from 1 to 10 that Google assigns to websites in its index. The higher the PR value, the more authority and credibility a site has. Naturally, Google is the only website with a PageRank of 10 and all of the lesser websites are given values from 0-9. Graphic by Elliance, an eMarketing firm specialising in results-driven search engine marketing, website design, and outbound eMarketing campaigns. First sourced at Search ...

After a panel on using social media as a marketing vehicle, Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra was asked by one of the listeners for an exclusive social media marketing tip. I can give you a tip but that one wont work again, Jalichandra said. With that response, Jalichandra revealed a powerful piece of Internet marketing wisdom that most bloggers dont take too seriously. Successful social media and other forms of Internet marketing campaigns need to be unique, innovative and always ahead of the curve. The same thing will never work twice.Incoming search terms for the article:inurl:blog inte...

At the end of the year, many businesses start to think about redesigning their tired old website to breathe some new life into it. You may even be in the midst of a website redesign right now. If so, the first thing is to make sure you hire a design and development company that knows how to build the infrastructure of the website in a search engine crawlerfriendly manner. Beyond that, you need to address a number of additional SEO tactics before you get too deep into your redesign. The reason you need to keep SEO front and center during this time is twofold: so that you do not lose your previo...

Getting traffic to your website is hard work and can be expensive. So it’s cost-effective to get repeat visitors not only first time visitors. Getting repeat visitors is all about giving value to your visitors. You need to give them what they ask for, what they are searching for, and then dazzle them when they get to you. That way, they will come back for more time and again. So how can you please your visitors so they return to your site? Here are my top ten suggestions. Some of these overlap with how to encourage visitors to tell others about your site, so increasing your traffic that ...