What's a 301 redirect? That's usually what non-webmasters will respond with when asked. A 301 is a very useful tool to make sure the links that you are getting from your website end up at the right URL address. Search engines that index the domain and pages on your website or blog have a distinct way of doing so. To a search engine, yoursite.com and www.yoursite.com are two different links. This is crucial ...

Marketers love SEO. It's all about getting the highest organic rankings, obsessing over content, link building and robot.txt drivel. Paid search on the other hand is oftenthought of as a meager revenue interest controlled by paid search departments. If you fall in this school of thought, you could be missing opportunities to integrate your marketing campaign and bring in qualified leads. So you can continue ...

If your registered a domain name in 1997 or later, you were probably aware that only 22 character were available for a .com, .net or .org domain. The use of long domains was not available and it made for some creative ways to come up with a memorable domain name. Fast forward to 2012 and the online world is a completely different place. You can now up to 63 characters in a domain name and hundreds of new ex ...

Having a website is so great that nearly everyone has one. Domain names are cheap and hosting can be free so it makes perfect sense to get one. There is one catch to putting up a website for the world to see. Without search engines indexing it, it might not get the attention that it deserves. You can build a website or have one built for you, but you need to learn how to get a website indexed to reach the p ...

With all of the bad news about traffic loss and Penguin updates, there is some good news that has recently been published about .co domain names. Over 10 years ago .co was first brought to life as a domain out of Columbia. In the era of .com websites, the .co was overshadowed and despite many registration discounts the domain was deemed a failure. The shift in search engine placements due to the Penguin upd ...

Remember when having a .com name was cutting-edge? That's so 1997. It has taken over 7 years of development to put together a new domain naming system that will be launched in early 2013. If you're an Internet marketer or business owner, you have probably been disappointed before when you went to register a .com name and found out it was already taken. We are now living in a day and time where the ICANN reg ...

What do people search for anyway? The real truth is only Google, Yahoo and Bing know the actual data. We have compiled a list of 15 free keyword tools to help find what people are searching for online so you can get more traffic for your website or blog. There are plenty of keywords related to your niche or industry that you might not know. There are millions of searches performed online each day. This list ...

What is an Ezine? It is an electronic newsletter or magazine that is published on a serial basis. How is it pronounced? Most people say "e zeen" and if you want to get a good laugh ask 10 people how to pronounce it and you'll get some funny pronunciations. Regardless of what you call it, an ezine is a great resource to find useful information. If you can think of any topic, there is probably an ezine writte ...

Have you ever heard of buying and selling domain names? This activity happens everyday and you can get the deal of the century if you know where to buy. Domain names are Internet real estate and increase in value depending on search engine volume. You can buy existing and aged domains to setup a website for your business or to use as an Internet marketer. There are several ways that you can purchase a domai ...

Writing daily blog posts is a great way to achieve Internet fame. This new found fame can also start making you money if you use the right Internet marketing tools. It's all about the words on the page in the beginning and quality content is important. An equally important aspect of operating your blog is controlling the density of each keyword. The density, or number of times that a word or phrase is used, ...