There has been a lot of talk about whether or not keyword and description meta tags are even worth doing anymore. Here’s my opinion – YES!
Here are the actual facts:
Is It Still Worth Using Keyword and Description Meta Tags?
Track Keyword Positions with BLVD Status
BLVD Status is a great free traffic analytics utility allowing for a number of great features, tracking search referrals and keyword positions being one of them. In short, it allows you to:
Read more »Getting SEO Value from Follow-up Posts
Writing follow-up posts is a great blogging tactic that allows to:
- Better target your audience needs: the fist post discussion shows the blogger what appeals to the readers;
- Research various angles of the topic in more detail.
Additionally, the tactic provides some essential SEO benefit:
Read more »Where You Start For Making Money Online
Anyone who has followed me for the last 6 years knows one of the core principals of ShoeMoney Media Group INC. is to find a service that is needed and fill that void.
Right now with tons of people out of jobs due to the economy and with the making money online niche being the new “cool thing” to do; tons of people ARE filling that void by selling informational products on the real *secrets* of making money online.
CrystalOccasion.com - Free Shirt Friday
Today my post is courtesy of CrystalOccasion.com. They sent me some nice crystal glasses with what other than the ShoeMoney logo. Crystal Occasion has a pretty wide selection of gifts and glasses - and obviously they can customize just about anything. Thanks to Crystal Occasion, I was able to pour myself a refreshing beverage - hehe. It’s Friday and it’s the ShoeMoney office - what else do you expect?
Read more »Ann Smarty Named Director of Media for Search & Social
I’m very happy to announce today that Search & Social Media, LLC, the parent company of Search Engine Journal, has hired Ann Smarty as our Director of Media for the Search & Social Media Network. As the ful time Director of Media for Search & Social, Ann’s top priorities include :
Read more »Get A New Longtail Search Experience with FeedMil
Feedmil is a new search engine that has quite a few notable features to share. Promoted as a “long tail” feed search engine, Feedmil is a multi-feature search engine you may find useful for:
- additional information search;
- keyword and niche research.
Feedmil has a fairly large (and I’d say high-quality) database os various feeds including news, blogs, microblogs, social media feeds, podcasts, etc.
Read more »Find Cheap Gas Prices Online for Memorial Day Weekend
Memorial Day weekend usually marks the beginning of the summer vacation months, warm weather, remembrance, outlet store sales and of course, travel. Many Americans will be hopping in their cars this weekend and beginning the summertime tradition of family vacations to visit friends, beaches and other spots … while also trying to make sure that they spend their money wisely.
Ambiently Discovery Engine : Find More Related Information
Ambiently is a “discovery engine” (as they prefer to be called) because as opposed to “search engine” that searches based on the keyword you specify, Ambiently discovers more pages based on the URL you are viewing.
Read more »Yahoo Targets Social Media Acquisitions : But Who?
Yahoo is about to start making some aggressive moves again in the social networking arena according to a piece in Reuters today which quotes Yahoo Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh who told Reuters “I can guarantee you there will be some acquisitions, and we will do some stuff in house.”
Read more »Google & Newspapers: Google to Stay on ‘Their’ Side of the Content Line
According to an interview with the Financial Times, Google (NYSE:GOOG) has been considering buying a newspaper or using the charitable arm of the search giant to support new businesses that seek not-for-profit status, but now CEO Eric Schmidt says they are “unlikely to pursue either option.”
StatsJunky Looks Pretty Sweet
Every serious affiliate marketer doing substantial profit margins always have 1 major thing in common and that is a central “Dashboard” of all of their earnings among all the networks. Most marketers have several accounts, some even with the same company. And most of the affiliates doing 6-7 figures a month are 1 man shops.
So you can either build your own dashboard which shows you all of your earnings or you can purchase software to do it for you.
The guys at StatsJunky pinged me to checkout their product and I gotta say it looks pretty sweet.
Google Gives More Suggestions to Search Inputs, Sponsored Links Included
Google is gradually rolling out some enhancements to its search auto-suggest features with the hope of giving users faster way of finding information using Google search. While the first three enhancements are pretty useful, some not so good reactions might results from the fourth enhancement.Here are the enhancements to Google Suggest:
Read more »Yahoo Buzz Gets a Facelift, Goes to India Too
Yahoo is making it easier for Buzz users and followers to submit, vote and comment their friends and the whole Yahoo Buzz community’s activities as the site is now sporting a new look. It’s not really a huge site facelift but one that now prominently features contributions from the Yahoo Buzz communities.If you’re a frequent Yahoo Buzz visitors and an active member of the community, you’d immediately noticed the difference.
Read more »Featured FireFox Extension: Add-ons Suggestion Tool
The great choice of addons is what makes me a huge fan of FireFox. It took me quite a bit of time to learn the ways to search and use the addons effectively: you can’t have them all as that will make your browser too slow, yet you always need to keep an eye on new (probably better) ones.
Read more »Yahoo Releases Placemaker Geo-Tagging Service for Unstructured Data
Yahoo has just released Placemaker, a geo-enrichment tool for the web contents geared for developers. Yahoo’s official description of Placemaker service:
… a freely available geoparsing Web service. It helps developers make their applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content – feeds, web pages, news, status updates – and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup.
