by Timothy Martell on September 3, 2012
So you’ve been searching for that hilarious photo your buddy put up on Facebook last week, or you can’t seem to find that one picture from his cookout last year but you know it’s there. Not to worry thanks to Bing we now have the ability to search for photos shared by your Facebook friends. For a while now Bing has been integrating Facebook into their search engine results page. They also recently added the ability to tag friends in search results. [click to continue…]
by Timothy Martell on June 18, 2012
If you’re looking for good SEO advice Facebook probably wouldn’t be the first place you might go. However, the people over at Facebook are trying to change that. Along side an online marketing agency called Distilled, Facebook just launched a new video that will show users how to optimize their Facebook pages. This is the first video Facebook has done regarding advice for users on optimizing their pages for search, but it is definitely an important part of social media marketing. [click to continue…]
by Timothy Martell on August 8, 2010
In my last article we discussed keyword generation. It is only natural then that we should next talk about the pages upon which your keywords should be targeted…
When it comes to SEO, it is important to keep in mind that search engines don’t actually rank websites. Search engines rank individual web pages, thus, in order to be successful with search engine optimization, every page of your site must be optimized for the SERP (Search Engine Results Page). Most important is relevant content, but there are many other structural factors that you can optimize to ensure that you rank well in the SERP. [click to continue…]
by Timothy Martell on August 7, 2010
“Name a food shaped like an “O”! Name something that would happen if you turned into an elephant! It’s almost Happy Hour; what’s your favorite cocktail? In 1984, and for the first time in 32 years, Arnold Palmer failed to make the cut. What was it for?”
No it’s not an episode of family feud! These are actual posts from some very successful Facebook fan pages! Can you guess what kind of business they were for? The answer is, there is NO answer. Your fan page is your hangout, the bar you visit when you punch out. It’s the replacement for the networking of old. In a nutshell, its your Cheers. Remember the TV Show Cheers? “Where everybody knows your name!” That’s what your fan page design should be all about.
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by Timothy Martell on July 30, 2010
Search engine optimization is the process of setting up a website so that it ranks well for specific keywords with in the SERP (Search Engine Results Page) of the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc). Unlike search engine marketing (SEM), also called PPC (pay-per-click) which requires that you pay for every click sent to your website from a search engine, traffic that is sent via SEO is free. [click to continue…]