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Outsourcing your pay-per-click management (ppc management) might sound like a great idea, and in many cases – it is. Contractors, here are a few tips to better assist you with aligning your outsourced pay-per-click management expectations.
Fact: Over 70% of small business owners who outsource the pay per click management (Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, Bing AdCenter), are dissatisfied. The reason why? Lack of education and/or expectations being set at the point of sale.
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Recently I lost placement in Google for Denver SEO and ad a hunch the cause was related to my recent WordPress Themes switch. It took me the loss of rankings to really dig deep into my blog and find that the new WordPress Theme didn't include rel="nofollow" within my comments, giving me a pretty quick and significant loss in Google for Denver SEO.
I quickly added rel="nofollow" to all of my outgoing comment links and it took roughly two weeks for Google to re-index my website and preserve my prior rankings.
Is rel='nofollow' important t [ read more.. ]
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Source: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/01/gone-phishing.html
Twitter recently got hammered with Account Hijacks also known as Phishing. Here is a quick sniipit from their blog on: Avoiding Phishing Scams.
Over the past few days, Twitter has been helping folks victimized by a phishing attack. Phishing is a deceitful process by which an attempt is made to acquire sensitive information such as Twitter usernames and passwords. The bad guys masquerade as someone you trust and may send you a Direct Message (DM) with a link. This DM may say someth [ read more.. ]
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The Denver Search Engine Optimization Meet up
Location: Denver, CO
Meet up topics: Search Engine Optimization
Official Website: meetup.com/denver-seo/
Alright Denver SEOs,
It's time to break the mold and get out to meet some of your fellow Denver area Search Engine Optimizers. The Denver SEO group is hosted by President, Jim Kreinbrink.
Make sure you visit www.meetup.com/denver-seo/ for details on the next Denver SEO Meet up group. [ read more.. ]
admin | Google / SEO | 2 Comments
First - what is rel="nofollow" and how does it work?
Google first invented rel="nofollow" in 2005 as an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link targets ranking in the search engine's index.
Plain and Simple - it's used to help the linking from website, preserve it's value and offer not link influence to the website it's linking to...
What rel="nofollow" looks like in HTML
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.denverseo.me">Denver SEO Company</a>
How much of [ read more.. ]
admin | Everything Marketing, Marketing Research | 11 Comments
More so than ever, there are more and more marketing channels coming available that specifically target home improvement contractors. Here is a quick breakdown of the best and worst marketing strategies for home improvement contractors.
Worst Marketing Strategies
Contractor Referral Services (non-exclusive)
Home owners are getting smart as well as educating themselves on how ‘referral services’ really work. They are discovering that ‘getting multiple bids’ is simply a marketing tactic to have their information resold to a network of [ read more.. ]
admin | Denver SEO Jobs | No Comments
Written by: Sean Hakes | The Denver SEO
Alright - so I think I decided on the famous WordPress framework for Denver SEO Jobs.com, and things are starting to look good. Right now I am testing some back-end work and am attempting to create my own Job Board Plugin, so far it's not looking to good so I might purchase a 3rd party plugin to handle job submissions.
Does anyone have any ideas on Free Job Boards for WordPress? All I can find that seem to be decent come with a price.
Thanks! [ read more.. ]
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I just added a new blog post on how to win a FREE Unlocked Nexus One Phone by Google.
Check out the video below - it's a pretty sweet phone and is guaranteed to give the iPhone a run for it's money.
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SEMShowdown.com a Search Engine Marketing SEM Review website announced a few days ago that ReachLocal was it's pick for their 2009 SEM Showdown Award: Best Value for Mid-Size Businesses.
About ReachLocal:
ReachLocal brings order to the fragmented local Internet by connecting advertisers, publishers, and creative solutions providers together on one platform. Wherever customers are online, ReachLocal helps businesses find them with the broadest reach of local digital media, a dedicated force of local Internet Marketing Consultants, and te [ read more.. ]
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Source: Outsourcing PPC Management
Outsourcing your Pay-Per-Click Management (PPC) campaign can be very fruitful yet can create a substantial financial burden and headaches to your business IF ACCURATE EXPECTATIONS ARE NOT SET FROM THE START.
Recently I sat down with a dozen or so small business owners to discuss their concerns outsourcing PPC. The general synopsis was that the sales person set unrealistic call/lead expectations.
Local Internet Advertising companies like Yodle and ReachLocal are similar in the fact they take a undisclo [ read more.. ]
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