Google has announced a Chrome extension that enables the ability to block sites, called Personal Blocklist. Google has admitted to using the blocking feature in their ranking algorithm. If you and thousands other block a certain site, it may raise a “Flag” to google and they could potentially use that as a ranking factor.
To use this new Google Feature you will need to download the plugin for Google Chrome here.
I wanted to give a quick shout out to the Web1 Social Media team for helping sell out Ultra Music Festival 2011. In case you didn’t know Ultra is a HUUGGEE Electronic Music Festival that takes place in Miami every year.
YSLOW! is now available for Google Chrome. YSLOW! helps webmasters identify ways to speed up there website loading time.
Today I was running reports for a few of my clients, and ran across this. I have been working with the client for roughly 2 months.
In August 2006 AOL leaked some data to the public, and within this data contains the click through rates from the search engine listings. As you can see below the #1 result for any given query gets approximately 47% of the click throughs, where as #2 gets 34% less traffic.
#1 – 47% click-through
#2 – 13% click-through
#3 – 9%click-through
#4 – 7% click-through
Being number 1 for all your keywords that bring your revenue is very important, make sure your on top of your SEO!
The internet has undoubtably become a gigantic marketplace that you can’t ignore.
Just having a website isnt enough to get your bysiness running and ready to compete, you need a way for people to find your website. Often business owners, think that if they build their website that traffic and customers will come… I’m sorry to say it but this isn’t the movie Field of Dreams.
When investing in search enging marketing there are basically two main options available to you, SEO and PPC.