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The Power of Facebook Engagement An analysis showing engagement and popularity of a relevant post (automotive related) that went viral. -Post made on Sept. 7, 2019 -Image sourced from Reddit -Image watermark left intact to comply with any copyright issues -Boosted for $10 twelve hours after the initial post (post went viral prior to boost) Read more about Facebook Case Study[…]
There is a set of interesting quizes being published over at SEObook.com – the one below is very telling. I personally think it is OK if a company pushes its own products but Google and other search engines built their popularity on the basis of offering free and fair search results. Many average Joes’s (and Read more about Search Engines Promoting Their Own Products[…]
I have written before about the millions of pages of spun content that has infected the web and is indexed and ranked by Google. Just yesterday I received a well written email detailing how this company will help me advertise on quality content blogs. I asked for a sample and this is the quality!
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One of the first things I learned early in my career is that when you are selling something, you will never make a sale unless you ask for the money! Just like the famous expression from Jerry Maguire, “Show me the money”. So we all agree that every website and preferably every page of a Read more about Calls to Action – How Much is Too Much?[…]
Here is an update to my previous post! Traffic has been down to 20k visits per day for the last two days but the buzz is still alive! I actually heard my fake news story on the radio (102.1 The Edge) on the way to work this morning!! It seems this story has gone viral Read more about World Wide Viral Results[…]
I put together a fake news story last week and it seems someone posted it to Reddit.com and then the fun began! I got a phone call from my host at around 8pm and he said my website might be under a DoS attack because it was receiving 100+ http requests per second!! Needless to Read more about Viral Results Can Be Fun[…]
We have all had that dream of hitting page one of the social bookmarking sites and getting so much traffic that our hosting servers explode along with our analytics! But what does it take to get the magical viral video. A few years ago I found a stop motion video posted on a relatively obscure Read more about The Magic in Viral Videos[…]
So as fast as Google can think up new ideas it seems the darker parts of the web are ready to profit from them! There is already many websites out there selling this service. Here are the promises made by one of them. All +1’s come from people with a google account that has been Read more about Gaming Google +1….already![…]
OK, so who can answer this question…what search engine shows 11 sponsored results and only 4 organic results on the first page?? ? ? The answer is GOOGLE!!! These keywords are very expensive, so less organic results equals more clicks and more money in Google’s pockets. I do realize this could just be some testing Read more about 11 Ads vs. 4 Organic Results = ?[…]