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Advantages Of hiring a SEO Company
You must optimize your website to get all the benefits of high ranking SEO. SEO is done by a SEO Company maximize your presence online.
If you have started a new website and wanted to promote it, you may not be able to do it all by yourself. You first of all, do not know how to do this and next, you may not have time to do it. Here is where the needs of internet marketing come. The advantages of internet marketing have to be completely understood to make proper use of it. To reap all the great advantages, you have to understand the common methods of marketing such as placing attractive advertisements in other sites, advertising through banners, email marketing, surveys, and many other methods. There are some innovative methods also like viral marketing. You have to check with your internet marketing company to know all the methods that they adopt.
Unlike offline advertisements, the advertisements done online remain there round the clock. The most important advantage of these advertisements is that they transfer the messages from one end to the other. This transfer is easy and fast. Also this costs you very less amount and you are not going to spend any money for this transfer of messages across the world. You can get more knowledge about the company and come to know about the offers and discounts available with them. But when there are millions of companies existing online, there is less possibility that your site will be noticed by your potential customers.
You need to make online advertisements. If you do so, any periodic changes will be intimated to you through the mails. You can remain updated at any point of time and this is not possible in offline businesses. You can also get suggestions and reviews from your customers which help you to make necessary changes as per their expectations. You can remain solid in any market scenario.
Web marketing helps you to earn more and establish a successful business online. The SEO Company builds links to your website through all the available methods. They use article marketing, forum posting, blog posting, article marketing and blog commenting. All these methods help you to get good quality links. Some even do link exchange. This is not very beneficial. The reciprocal linking was quite popular days back. But now the search engines detect them and easily find them out. To escape this many web masters make link wheels. You can follow any available method but should keep away from black hat methods.
Only if you optimize your site yourself or with the help of a proper SEO that works for a reputable SEO Company you can get more traffic to your site and more earn more revenue. Once you reached the top of the search engines, many people will click on your site. The site that gets more number of clicks will be considered to be the right one for that selected keyword. That site will come ahead of others and will be able to get more traffic. Once you reach the top, you can maintain your position easily if you have good content and message in your site what readers will expect from you.
SEO will help you to get more traffic, more sales and more revenue with a professional SEO Company.
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Obama Says So Long SOPA, Killing Controversial Internet Piracy Legislation
The growing anti-SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) support that has swept through the gaming and Internet community found a very big ally today. With websites like Reddit and Wikipedia and gaming organizations like Major League Gaming prepared for a blackout on January 18th – the same day that the House Judiciary Committee hearing on HR 3261was scheduled in Washington, DC – President Barack Obama has stepped in and said he would not support the bill. SOPA has been killed, for now.
Much to the chagrin of Hollywood, the Entertainment Software Association (which has been a backer of the bill from early on), and Internet domain company GoDaddy.com (which lost many accounts as a result of its support for the bill); SOPA has been shelved. The Motion Picture Association of America, one of the bill’s largest sponsors, is expected to regroup.
California congressman Darrell Issa, who has been opposed to the bill from the beginning, praised the Internet action that has swept like a virus across the Web the past week.
“The voice of the Internet community has been heard,” said Issa. “Much more education for members of Congress about the workings of the Internet is essential if anti-piracy legislation is to be workable and achieve broad appeal.”
But there remains another similar bill, Protect IP (the Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation Act), that poses a problem for gamers and Internet users. This legislation is scheduled to go before the Senate on January 24th.
Both SOPA and Protect IP attempt to combat online piracy by preventing American search engines like Google and Yahoo from directing users to sites distributing stolen content. Both bills also would enable people and companies to sue if their copyright was infringed. Obama has come out against both bills, which killed SOPA and puts pressure on senators come January 24th. The full White House response can be read here.
“Any provision covering Internet intermediaries such as online advertising networks, payment processors, or search engines must be transparent and designed to prevent overly broad private rights of action that could encourage unjustified litigation that could discourage startup businesses and innovative firms from growing,” said The White House. “We expect and encourage all private parties, including both content creators and Internet platform providers working together, to adopt voluntary measures and best practices to reduce online piracy.”
Just like piracy itself, this debate isn’t over. Expect more bills to move forward, although the wording in future legislation is expected to be more narrowly focused in an attempt to appease the current administration. But given the current economic climate and the upcoming Presidential election, there could be a different administration entering The White House soon, changing the landscape for these types of bills.
Google Search Plus
Search, plus Your World
1/10/12 | 6:29:00 AM
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)
Google Search has always been about finding the best results for you. Sometimes that means results from the public web, but sometimes it means your personal content or things shared with you by people you care about. These wonderful people and this rich personal content is currently missing from your search experience. Search is still limited to a universe of webpages created publicly, mostly by people you’ve never met. Today, we’re changing that by bringing your world, rich with people and information, into search.
Search is pretty amazing at finding that one needle in a haystack of billions of webpages, images, videos, news and much more. But clearly, that isn’t enough. You should also be able to find your own stuff on the web, the people you know and things they’ve shared with you, as well as the people you don’t know but might want to… all from one search box.
We’re transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships. We began this transformation with Social Search, and today we’re taking another big step in this direction by introducing three new features:
- Personal Results, which enable you to find information just for you, such as Google+ photos and posts—both your own and those shared specifically with you, that only you will be able to see on your results page;
- Profiles in Search, both in autocomplete and results, which enable you to immediately find people you’re close to or might be interested in following; and,
- People and Pages, which help you find people profiles and Google+ pages related to a specific topic or area of interest, and enable you to follow them with just a few clicks. Because behind most every query is a community.
Together, these features combine to create Search plus Your World. Search is simply better with your world in it, and we’re just getting started.
Personal Results
Say you’re looking for a vacation destination. You can of course search the web, but what if you want to learn from the experiences your friends have had on their vacations? Just as in real life, your friends’ experiences are often so much more meaningful to you than impersonal content on the web. With your world in search, you can find:
- Google+ posts. You can find relevant Google+ posts from friends talking about an amazing trip they just took, whether they’ve shared privately with you or publicly. You’ll find links shared by your friends, such as activities, restaurants and other things they enjoyed on their trip.
- Photos. You can find beautiful vacation photos from your friends right in your search results page. You can also find your own private photos from Google+ and Picasa, based on captions, comments and album title.
Personal Results: a family story
As a child, my favorite fruit was Chikoo, which is exceptionally sweet and tasty. A few years back when getting a family dog, we decided to name our sweet little puppy after my favorite fruit. Over the years we have privately shared many pictures of Chikoo (our dog) with our family. To me, the query [chikoo] means two very sweet and different things, and today’s improvements give me the magical experience of finding both the Chikoos I love, right in the results page.
This is search that truly knows me, and gives me a result page that only I can see. And while I get a nice mix of personal results with results from the web, I can also click the link at the top of the results page (red arrow) for the option to search only within my world.
Profiles in Search
Every day, there are hundreds of millions of searches for people. Sometimes, it’s hard to find the person you’re looking for. Once you do find him or her, there’s no quick way for you to actually interact. Starting today, you’ll have meaningful ways to connect with people instantly, right from the search results.
Now, typing just the first few letters of your friend’s name brings up a personalized profile prediction in autocomplete. Selecting a predicted profile takes you to a results page for your friend, which includes information from their Google+ profile and relevant web results that may be related to them. And you can have this personal experience instantaneously, thanks to Google Instant. So when I search for [ben smith], I now find my dear friend Ben every time, instead of the hundreds of other Ben Smiths out there (no offense to all of them!).
In addition, you’ll find profile autocomplete predictions for various prominent people from Google+, such as high-quality authors from our authorship pilot program.
Once you select that profile, if you’re a signed-in Google+ user, you’ll also see a button to add them to your circles right on your search results page.
People and Pages
As I mentioned earlier, behind most queries are communities. Starting today, if you search for a topic like [music] or [baseball], you might see prominent people who frequently discuss this topic on Google+ appearing on the right-hand side of the results page. You can connect with them on Google+, strike up meaningful conversations and discover entire communities in a way that simply wasn’t possible before.
Unprecedented security, transparency and control
When it comes to security and privacy, we set a high bar for Search plus Your World. Since some of the information you’ll now find in search results, including Google+ posts and private photos, is already secured by SSL encryption on Google+, we have decided that the results page should also have the same level of security and privacy protection. That’s part of why we were the first major search engine to turn on search via SSL by default for signed-in users last year. This means when you’re signed in to Google, your search results—including your private content—are protected by the same high standards of encryption as your messages in Gmail.
We also want to be transparent about how our features work and give you control over how to use them. With today’s changes, we provide interface elements and control settings like those you’ll find in Google+. For example, personal results are clearly marked as Public, Limited or Only you. Additionally, people in your results are clearly marked with the Google+ circle they are in, or as suggested connections.
We’re also introducing a prominent new toggle on the upper right of the results page where you can see what your search results look like without personal content. With a single click, you can see an unpersonalized view of search results.
That means no results from your friends, no private information and no personalization of results based on your Web History. This toggle button works for an individual search session, but you can also make this the default in your Search Settings. We provide separate control in Search Settings over other contextual signals we use, including location and language.
That’s unprecedented transparency and control over personal search results.
A beautiful journey begins
Search plus Your World will become available over the next few days to people who are signed in and searching on https://www.google.com in English.
While there may be 7 billion people and 197 million square miles on Earth, a septillion stars and a trillion webpages, we spend our short, precious lives living in a particular town, with particular friends and family, orbiting a single star and relying on a tiny slice of the world’s information. Our dream is to have technology enable everyone to experience the richness of all their information and people around them.
We named our company after the mathematical number googol as an aspiration toward indexing the countless answers on webpages, but that’s only part of the picture. The other part is people, and that’s what Search plus Your World is all about.
GoDaddy’s spammy link building techniques
GoDaddy’s spammy link building techniques
by Joost de Valk on 15 December, 2011 at 17:47
Over the last few months, I’ve seen GoDaddy rise up in the rankings for a lot of hosting related terms. At first I suspected they were finally using their very strong domain in a smart way, but then I noticed they ranked for terms I know you can’t rank for without a lot of external links, no matter how strong your domain. Let me tell you how I figured out that they got those external links by embedding links in their clients websites.
Today I was sick and tired of getting beaten on some rankings I was working hard for, so I decided to dive a bit deeper and see why GoDaddy was ranking as well as they were. When I looked into the link profile for those high ranking pages, I found a lot of homepages linking to these landing pages with highly optimized anchor text. These were anchor texts like “ssl”, “bulk email”, “web hosting”, “web hosting companies” etc. Stuff like that just doesn’t happen by accident, so there had to be a reason for those. I was baffled when I found what they were doing.
Want a Website Tonight, anyone?
You see, GoDaddy offers a service called “Website Tonight”; this service allows you to quite easily create a website by offering you an editor and all sorts of widgets. Not exactly the power of WordPress, but nothing wrong with it from the users perspective. What is wrong is what I found when I created such a website: when you create such a website it has an image in the footer by default saying “Powered by Website Tonight”. It’s possible to turn this image off, but most people don’t bother as in the editor it looks rather harmless, like this:
Now, if it were just that, I don’t think I’d be all that bothered (not the border is because the image is selected). The issue is, that on the live test site I created, it looks like this:
That link wasn’t there in the preview… That’s called deceiving your customer. Note that by default, the image is black, you can switch it to white or you can switch it off, but in the editor it’ll always show. This is probably the reason why some people choose to use the white version, as they think they can’t disable it and want a version that’s less ugly on their design.
Example time
Ok it’s time I show you some real live examples of these I guess, these websites all have ugly links like that in their footer:
- http://www.motorinsurancee.com/
- http://www.universalhealthinfo.com/
- http://www.autoinsurancecoinc.com/
- http://handson3rd.com/
- http://www.onemilerunner.com/
- http://www.trophyshowroom.com/
But those links don’t work, right? Wrong.
Google has been telling us for quite a while now that footer links etc. are not that important. Well guess what, that’s not true if you have enough of them. Using SearchMetrics I ran a report for the top keywords they rank in the top 3 for. Each and every keyword in there that is not their brand name, from website hosting to webhosting to website builder, to domain name registration and more: all of those landing pages have exact match anchor text links pointing to them. All coming from these types of domains, thousands if not tens of thousands of clients who are paying for a service, are unknowingly also helping GoDaddy’s business by helping it rank.
These links are on by default. They are not editorial. It’s not the first time this happened, Hostgator has been caught adding links to their clients websites in the same way, I mention that in my WordPress hosting article. The issue is that Google rewards these kinds of practices with top rankings, which they shouldn’t.
How well this works, well by my estimate they started doing this more aggressively in September / October of this year, see how their visibility according to SearchMetrics almost doubled:
This would correlate well with the Majestic SEO‘s historic back link data:
For hosting related terms like the ones GoDaddy targets, doubling your search engine visibility like that is worth a fortune. To show you even more how blatant these links are, this is a screenshot of the top pages report in Majestic, after doing an advanced historic report, look at the anchor texts and notice that the two with a flag on the right are reported wrongly, the anchor text for the link in fact is email marketing there as well. You can click for a larger version:
Some of these sites however already show these links a the beginning of 2011. See this archive.org example and this one to see that, they even changed the link in the meanwhile… What I think happened in September / October that made me catch them was that they started doing this for more keywords.
The long and short of it
GoDaddy is playing this game a bit too aggressively in my opinion, and Google should really start discounting those links. The right way would be for GoDaddy to ask their customers whether they’re allowed to insert a link and make them choose where it points. No single customer would, by own volition, link to an email marketing page…
I am, though, disappointed in Google’s filtering of these links; there are far too many spammy links pointing at those pages that:
- have a very unnatural anchor text distribution
- they’re all in the footer of these sites
- are distributed over only a select number of IP’s.
Those 3 things combined, I can’t believe they didn’t catch that.
Disclaimer: I’m not saying anything that GoDaddy does here is illegal from a legal point of view. In my opinion it’s against search engines guidelines and they’re not transparent towards their customers, so I’d call it bad karma.
Thanks goes out to Dixon Jones of Majestic SEO and Marcus Tober of SearchMetrics for helping me figure all this out.
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Laying your Property Management Burnaby on rental is not an easy task and will require some extra caution. It will be beneficial, if you hire an expert from rental business, through Property management Dealers, who know how to make the rental business grow. These companies will help you, right from advertising of the rental property to selecting the appropriate tenants and to timely collection of monthly rental.
Be careful while selecting a dedicated Property Management Richmond company. An established Property management company will open all best possible options, flexibly and will not force the homeowner to bend down, according to their convenience. Once they understood your rental expectations, they will call you only for signing on the final settlement. Effective property management firms will always shape their rules and work style, according to their individual customer’s need.
A professional Property management company will keep on updating you with the current rentals, changing situation and tenants expectations, from time to time. Most of these honest and committed intermediates will quote you at tentative rentals, and will try their best to honor their words.
Evaluate the Property Management Delta company before handling of most prestigious and biggest asset, your home. Many times, the property owner, get frustrated with indefinite time period and rentals given by these companies. The home owner needs to determine the wisdom and experience of the dealer, before selecting any dealer as their Property Manager. This will avoid any disappointment on rentals at the final stage.
Many times, immature or part time Realtors can cheat home owner by claiming themselves to be experienced and concerned. In reality, they are just focused on their current deal. On the other, a professional Property Management Surrey company will try to look after the most effective rentals for their clients, as per their expectations. Avoid Realtors, as they have short term goal and do not have practical knowledge and experience to select an appropriate tenant.
An excellent property management agent should have credentials to document his experience or must at least himself be an owner of a rental property. This will ensure his reliability and outlook for the benefit of a Home Owner.
Selecting an experienced Property Management White Rock organization is extremely crucial. Do not ever count on the agents, who have an experience less than 10 years, as they will not be able to get any impressive rental deals. A professional liaison group will have experienced and trained staff, which will have strong expertise in managing and rental properties.
Developing, experienced and professional Property Management dealers will always appear as majestic and will fulfill their own commitments, successfully and systematically. A professional rental company will illustrate their experience and professionalism with their working. An experienced Property management company will not bother you with traditional issues, like, personal collection of mails, applications. Instead they are excellent and work in a systematic approach keeping you out or in minimal paper formalities.
The company, who is still using traditional methods of rentals by arranging meetings on phones and calling you again for bargaining, truly lacks professionalism and positive attitude. A professional and efficient Property Management Langley company will try to stay focused and reasonable for any long-term rental associations with the property owners and tenants.