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bflicker from Los Angeles, CA asks: “If we were to syndicate my written content (entire articles) to multiple domains then would we be able to use the imminent cross-domain link rel=”canonical” tag to confirm which site we would like to index for a given piece of content?”

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Hanny Hindi, an SEO/SEM expert from Clickable, spoke to the DPG about the fundamentals of search engine optimization. In addition to covering SEO basics like keywords, page rank, and relevance, Hindi also spoke about how traditional book publicity can be translated to “demand creation” online, which allows publishers to tap into communities that might be interested in their books.

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Hanny Hindi, an SEO/SEM expert from Clickable, spoke to the DPG about the fundamentals of search engine optimization. In addition to covering SEO basics like keywords, page rank, and relevance, Hindi also spoke about how traditional book publicity can be translated to “demand creation” online, which allows publishers to tap into communities that might be interested in their books.

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http://thriveamerica.com/ | Dee Doanes Part 1

Jigsaw Business Communications is a boutique agency specializing in meeting the ever expanding need for 21st Century business communications, including Internet and Web 2.0 marketing, public speaking for executives, book writing and marketing, copywriting, corporate communications workshops, multi-media production and project management.

The firms CEO, Dee Doanes, has more than 15 years experience meeting the corporate communications needs of firms medium and large, in sectors ranging from technology to government contracting, arts and entertainment, hospitality and tourism, city planning, international law, commercial and residential real estate and manufacturing, to name just a few. The former co-chair of the Writing in the Schools Program for Georgia Writers, Ms. Doanes has also been featured on Thrive America (www.thriveamerica.com) and Your Business Channel (www.yourbusinesschannel.com).

She founded Jigsaw Business Communications on the premise that great businesses need great communication. Passionate about her work, Dee believes that all businesses can communicate in a lively, creative and engaging manner. Most importantly, she emphasizes, great business communication increases your customer base, improves employee productivity, streamlines customer service and impacts your bottom line. Dee also enjoys collecting wine, gourmet cooking, mountain biking, martial arts and world travel.

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Those that are publishing a website will need to drive a great deal of traffic to the site in order for it to be a successful site. While there are many concepts people have come up with to boost traffic, the traditional method of link building never goes out of style. That is why it is necessary to boost your links on the web.

This does bring up questions as to what is the best way to boost the presence of one’s links on the internet. Without a doubt, it is obvious that the best way is to buy links. This is the quickest means in which one can boost the amount of links present on the internet. Some may not believe that purchasing links is the best way to go, but it most certainly is for a number of reasons.

One of the biggest reasons that people prefer to buy links is because it takes very little effort and time on their part. You can trust that the link building company is going to place your new links of blogs, directories, and sites in a very short amount of time.

When you go about the link building yourself, you have to place the links yourself as well. If you attempt to do this, you will quickly find that it is going to take you more time than it is worth. Instead of putting up with such problems, people will go about buying links instead as the money spent is worth the effort and time saved. Why would you ever go through hours upon hours of work just to save a few dollars?

In addition, when you purchase your links as a part of a link building strategy, you will have the one-way links that you want which do not require any reciprocation on your end. These one-way links are the way to go since they are much better for the search engines than the links that are considered to be reciprocal.

Of course, it is suggested to buy links from those services which have a solid reputation in the SEO industry. You do not want a company that will place links on undesirable locations and will not help search engine rankings. Stay with those services that deliver reliable results and you will be happy with the results. Also, it is helpful to note that the better services are not always the ones that are the most expensive. Often, you can acquire excellent deals on link building packages if you look hard enough.

You will also need patience when you are looking to buy links. Remember too that when the links are placed on different sites, they will not be registered with the search engines immediately. It will most likely be a few weeks or it could be less if you are lucky.

As you can easily see, buying links is not all that complicated. It is an easy process that can give you the quick results you want and need. This is by buying links is so popular.

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If you’re working on your search engine optimization (SEO), what do you need to know about referrers and backlinks.

When examining your website, it is useful to know that a referrer is the website that is the source of a link, or perhaps several links, to your site. Every link on the referrer’s homepage is called a backlink, which means that you might look up this data and discover more backlinks to your site than referrers. For instance, one referrer site might have five backlinks.

Now think about site visitors. Your site statistics will show referrers, and that is the place a visitor was when they clicked a link to get through to your site. In Google Analytics, you’ll see referrer statistics, and that means you can see the location from which the visitor reach your site (the location is the “referrer”).

So, there are two definitions. One version is that a referrer site is a site with a link to your site. The second version is that a referrer site is a site with a link that a visitor to your site clicked on.

An SEO (search engine optimization) company will probably want to report the first kind of referrer to its clients: Any site with a backlink should be counted in SEO reporting. This is because no one needs to click on a link in order for that link to have value. In fact, an excellent SEO company should work hard to make sure those referrers exist in adequate numbers.

Backlinks help to generate authority. When someone links to you, search engines interpret that to means your site has something of value to say, is worth linking to, and therefore is worth finding in search engine results. Its kind of like when I write an article about, say, clowns, and use a footnote to reference the American Journal of Clown Laughology. By using that footnote, Im saying that the American Journal of Clown Laughology is important to the subject matter. It has authority. Therefore, backlinks have a powerful impact on your search engine ranking, and are vital in that quest for page one!

People tend to assume that Google provides easy access to referrer data. It doesn’t. Using link:nameofwebsite.com in Google gives you only a small percentage of your total number of backlinks, although Google Webmaster Tools does a better job of this. I prefer to use Yahoo to find this information, and based on Yahoo’s data, I can estimate (or guesstimate) my Google data. In Yahoo, type link:http://www.nameofwebsite.com. From here you can filter the data for the whole site, for homepage only, and exclude or include internal (from you to you) links. SEO companies sometimes spare their clients this effort by including that information in their reporting.

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You know youve done it. Youre part of the YouTube generation and youve not only watched videos but uploaded them as well. Once you did that though you realized the quality of your video just sucked. You tried a variety of things and still arent happy with the quality.

So heres the skinny on what you need to do to get your videos to be all they can be on YourTube without massive headaches, expensive hardware and Hollywood-sized editing budgets. The following are the major points to take into account prior to uploading your videos.

Resolution ” Lets face it, YouTube is now HD Ready like the latest LCD and Plasma televisions. So that means you need to adapt to their system in order to get them to play nice. Their native resolution? Its 720p, a 1280×720 pixels of resolution. Its HD quality, so youll need a video source that can handle it if you want HD quality videos. When you save that video for YouTube make sure you do that in 1280×720 and YouTubes compressor will love you for it and reward you with some better quality and give you the luxury of having a watch in HD link on your videos.

Bitrate ” Without getting into the technical mumbo jumbo, this is how much information each second of your video is. The more information means the better quality generally. So when youre making your video, editing or converting youll want to get this to somewhere around 6 Megabits-per-second and 8 Megabits-per-second. This will give you a large file size that should fit into the YouTube limits (1GB) and still give you ample quality after the YouTube compression process. This is a good way to make sure your video will retain some semblance of what it looked like when you made it.

There are several other factors that you should think about here as well. The Codec, software that encodes your video to a particular format, for YouTube that is .mov or .mp4 so make sure you have it in that. If you dont youre going to need a piece of video editing software like Quicktime Pro, Premier, or some other software on the market with multiple file format compatibility. Audio should be set in 44.1KHz Stereo MP3 or AAC format on your video and finally get your framerate at 30fps or higher to make sure theres not a lot of jitter and jumps.

Now that youve got that all set, save your file and upload to YouTube. Having set many of your settings at or better than YouTube you are making it a touch easier for them to compress. So wait until its done and voila! You have got yourself a good looking YouTube Video.

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Many people believe that it’s difficult to achieve a top position on the Internet. Well, considering that most people search on Google for information, all we need is to learn some effective SEO strategies, in order to increase Google traffic.

It’s vital to set goals for your website. Whether you’re willing to build a personal website or to promote products and services, what matters is to have some precise targets in your mind. Did you know that this is one of the first things considered by a company that wants to gain visibility on the Internet?

The online environment offers countless possibilities and opportunities for any type of business. Therefore, it must be identified the ultimate goal of the web strategy- exactly what is wanted from the company website: increased profits, a marketing platform, improvement of competitiveness, etc.

Who are those people who need your products?

As I mentioned before, it’s important to offer more than products and services. You must be able to persuade people to purchase the company’s services by providing information and support. Be realistic and honest. If the audience won’t be satisfied by your services, then there will be no loyal customers.

Do you know who your competitors are?

It’s much better to opt for a niche that is less represented in the online environment, because this way, you have more changes to increase Google traffic, gaining exposure. Analyze and try to bring something new on the market.

What would you want as a visitor?

Evaluate the effectiveness of each sale and analyze the customers’ reaction. Don’t forget that feedback has a vital role for the success of your business. Ask for the opinion of your clients, because this will give you the possibility to find out what their needs are.

Use your imagination!

You must always be one step ahead of the competition! Your virtual image will not only help you to attract more clients, but it will ensure their loyalty. Prove that your products and services are different from those provided by competitors. Impress your clients! The first impression matters more than anything else!

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