Hi, you’re back. That’s great. We always like it when our readers come back to see what’s going here at WebCare. Why not sign up for the RSS feed and you’ll get auto updates.There are many different services that can be added through Posterous: On Twitter – make sure you add your web address to [...]

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Ed Dale says “This is the missing link!” Go to www.posterous.com – it is a micro-blogging service. But, its best feature is that you can email in your posting! So you can take a photo with your smartphone, type in a few lines and send it to Posterous – and it is posted instantly! Auto-post [...]

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A backlink is an external link back to your site.It has two components: the URL (ie the page it is leading to the text (which should be your keyword phrase) that is “hiding’ the link itself – it is called “anchor text” It is crucial to understand “anchor text”. Here is an example of anchor [...]

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This lesson suggests creating an account with Traffic Bug. There is a 40 day trial for The Challenge: www.traffic-bug.com/TC/ Note from MLM: I have used TB before and was not stoked with the results, so cancelled my subscription (it is about US$20 per month). I’m not going to report how to use TB in this [...]

In a recent analysis of over 500 websites with a first page search results ranking and a page rank of 4 or higher some interesting and useful information came through. Here are few of things of the many I discovered. Page Content Length Google does not have a page length maximum that Googlebot will crawl. [...]

Tags: Content Length, Google, Google Serps, High Density, Keyword Density, Keyword Phrase, Meta Tag, Page Rank, Page Search, Search Engine Rank, Search Engines

About 24 months back Google implemented its Universal Search, and its impact has been felt ever since. Unfortunately for most website owners the impact has had negative results for their position on the search engine results page (SERP).

Tags: Anchor Text, Brick And Mortar, Captions, Google, Google Search, Map Section, Marketer, Online Marketers, Search Engine Results, Search Page, Searcher, Serp, Serps, Target Keywords, Universal Search

A client of mine recently introduced me to a very cool keyword research tool.  It is very cool for a few reasons: 1. It is easy to use. 2. Because it combines the data of quantity of searches (for a particular keyword ) withthe level of competition – and for your research to have any [...]

Tags: Internet Marketing, Keywords

Well, it took a bit longer than we had anticipated (about a week all up), but we did get Constanze’s web page listed in the No 1 spot on Google and the No2 spot and yep – even the No 3 spot! Here’s the listing result now: Who says SEO is difficult?? Getting ranked in [...]

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This is a test blog post to see how quickly we can get Constanze Voelkel-Hutchison‘s web page indexed on Google. The website has just gone up (24 March 2008) and is not getting any traffic at the moment, nor is it listed in Google. We are wanting to get it indexed for the phrase – [...]

This is the perennial question – which SEO ranking factors have the most impact on your search engine ranking?  Or, to put it another way, where should you focus your efforts? A great site to help you answer this question is SEOmoz.  This site brings together 37 SEO experts and asks each of them to [...]