Hot answers tagged seo
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The only thing that really makes a difference in organic SEO matters these days is quality content and links to your site (from other good sites i.e. not mass-ad sites).
I don't know what your business is going to be about but you should think about how to get generating useful content for your users, in a broader sense than only the services that you ...
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In the past 10 years I have worked with several people who claim to be experts on SEO or with companies who say the same. I always found most of the strategies are not worth paying for. You can easily find these yourself with Dr. Google.
But recently I was hired by a company who need SEO for their business model. They are earning immense lots of money with ...
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Search for websites that have a supporters page for those who donate: donate.
Submit your site to webpage galleries, app galleries and startup lists.
Submit screenshots of your site to Deviant, Flickr, etc--they also have web site gallery sections...and while the links may be no-follow, people do repost links they like. (There are submission services that ...
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Promote it as a page. It's what google is intending, so it's what they will be adding features for to facilitate it. Facebook has done well with their business pages and you can only suspect Google will follow on the same.
If you do it as yourself, you are going against the intention, I am sure that will bite you at some point.
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I agree with Joel, make it a page. Use your email to make your personal account on G+. Connect with people you know via your personal account. And then share the business page on your personal stream to encourage people to circle your startup.
Keep in mind that pages have some limits. You can't manage them from the mobile interface. You can't circle people ...
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When starting out with SEO for a new web site you need to understand the basic strategy, goals, metrics and finally tasks that will deliver you the desired results. Understanding the basics will help you decide if you should do it yourself or hire a consultant/firm to do it for you.
There are 2 main activity tracks within SEO:
SITE OPTIMIZATION. This is ...
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SEO takes a long time to build. Maybe up to 6 months before you reap the rewards. I agree with Tom that the best approach to this is creating content related to the service your are providing. Start a blog but don't write with the intention of selling. Instead write with the intention of helping others solve their problems. You will eventually build a ...
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I believe your understanding of the SEO problem you are having when trying to rank for multiple city keyword modifiers is superficial. There are two components to the SEO puzzle, optimization of the on-page elements and of the off-page elements, from which the latter has far greater weight when it comes to rankings, meaning that the relevance of the page is ...
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Generally no. Bot accounts do not interact with your posts on Facebook, meaning your page will get zero social activity and will look dead to any normal person.
It's much better to email your personal network of people asking them to help you out and like the Facebook page. This will give you a much healthier base of fans to work with and build upon.
Good ...
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In terms of SEO there is no difference at all - you can register your company in Cyprus and still have a good ranking on google.fr.
Most of the huge companies operating in France, including Google and Apple, and a lot of little ones, are registered in Ireland, the UK, or Cyprus. They obviously don't have any SEO problem.
The only difference is taxes: it's ...
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Usually sites like SO use so called CDN:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Delivery_Network
Potential usecases:
Imagine you have a single, physical computer serving as a webhost in the UK. When a visitor from the UK comes, he gets connected pretty soon. Images transfer from London to Bristol maybe and its all pretty nice and decent.
But what happens if ...
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Be careful not to price yourself too low. The majority of the competition is at the low-end and it is a very hard place to be. In my opinion, the above prices are too low, but I am also not intimately familiar with your geographic area.
When I first started my business, we tried to compete on the low-end. The reason, that's where I thought everyone ...
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I think an exact range could not be cited. It depends pretty much on your business model and how you would like to profit. Basically you could profit from high quality and respectively high budgets (low number of customers but high customer satisfaction). The other model is what you've chosen so far - volume. You'd like to get a lot of clients with small ...
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If you want to grow your business with internet leads I feel you or someone at your organization needs to get reasonably versed in the general SEO concepts.
Yes, good SEO companies are worth it. Yes, you can often do lots of these things yourself. It depends where you are in your business - if cash is a major concern and you have plenty of time then you ...
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With tools like those offered by seomoz, many of the evaluation / monitoring tasks that were hard to do have become simpler. But monitoring your competition, tweaking content, etc. still takes time (both ongoing) to get good results.
Sure, there are lots of people would will attempt to sell (as you say) snake oil solutions that promise immediate results - ...
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If you're talking about a basic site, then your best bet is likely to use Wordpress or something very similar, as it allows the customer to manage the content, and leaves you to focus on the design and layout.
A Wordpress site, in my experience (Toronto, Canada), runs about $100-$500 for a basic installation and setup (loading initial content, installing a ...
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We are solving a need yet we are not gaining users and having traction. What else are we missing.
Talking (face to face) with your users?
I see a lot of new companies with this problem and it always comes down to a combination of these two issues:
They're not actually solving a need. They think they are, but when they get out and talk to ten people ...
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It depends. You most probably won't get real fans for $5. Usually those are bot accounts.
But having 500 bot-likes can be helpful. Real people tend to "like" stuff that has some likes already.
The only risk is that when you over-do this facebook might decide to close down your account.
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I'd advise against using a software to check your ranking.
It uses your IP address, and two cases can happen :
The software will query google at a normal rate and your IP will get banned by Google. That's the worst case scenario because it's your office IP address.
The software will query google at a slowed rate, if you're tracking dozens of keywords ...
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