Online Traction

One of the key factors affecting where your site ranks in the leading search engines is the number of quality in-bound links to your site.
Like most other factors that affect search engine ranking this has been widely abused and misused by website owners (and SEO professionals) with many sites buying, exchanging and otherwise obtaining links […]

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Don’t misinterpret the title as suggesting that there exist search engines for cults and radical groups. Though that may be true, Pandia.com has a great article on the alternative search engines. The essential idea is that although Google, Yahoo and MSN command over 90% of search engine searches there is a significant wedge of […]

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This is the first in a series of articles on strategies and tactics to attract pre-qualified traffic to your website. The advice is a mix of how to attract the right traffic, how to convert this traffic into a steady stream of customers and how to out-maneuver your competitors.
Some of the steps will yield fast […]

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Search engines are smarter than you think.
This is good if you, like most folks, are looking for something on the web. It is also why search engines such as Google are so popular (and why the verb ‘google’ is listed in the Oxford American English dictionary). Its not so good if your business has not […]

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