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There is a new website with thousands of medical videos at American Health Journal. Everyone is saying video is where the Internet is going, but how do you optimize a video website? The first question that comes up is, do you use YouTube or a video hosting service? With some testing I have done, YouTube certainly outranks any video hosting service on Google, obviously. But do you run YouTube videos  [ Read More ]

How much is first page Google is a very popular question. You might be surprised on the difference between the #1 and #2 spot. There is no way to give exact numbers because of all the variables involved, but you can come pretty close. The first set of data you need is to know how many people are going to click on your website on first page Google. This sample  [ Read More ]

Want targeted traffic from Twitter? How about an extra 100 or even 1,000 targeted, unique visitors from Twitter every single day? If that sounds good then keep reading. I am sure you have been wondering how you can take advantage of all these social media sites. How do you drive people to your website via Twitter, Facebook or YouTube? For now we will concentrate on Twitter because it is much  [ Read More ]

Reaching #1 on Google can be difficult, but when you have a solid game plan with proven results, it makes the road to #1 so much easier.  One of the key components of this process is content marketing.  Content marketing is the action of taking content (an article or blog post) and submitting it around the Internet to build backlinks. That sounds pretty easy, right? It can be if the  [ Read More ]

Using social media sites like Twitter is still a mystery to some businesses. The overall objective today, is to keep the content flowing because search engines respond to fresh and unique content.  For many companies, the goal is simply to keep their business’s name in front of consumers.  To accomplish this, you should ideally promote your company’s content on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and your blog simultaneously, in order to stay  [ Read More ]

If you haven’t heard, Google recently changed their algorithm to combat content farms. That means websites with a lot of duplicate content got pushed down in Google’s rankings. Google doesn’t like when a website is created and most of the content is copied from other websites. They want the website that published the original content to appear higher in the rankings. Lets take a look at HowToGetRidOfStuff.com, which is 100%  [ Read More ]

What exactly is a mini-site? A mini-site will target a very specific keyword. So for example, if you are selling flowers, you can build New-York-Flowers.com, Miami-Flowers.com and so on. This will allow you to target that specific market much easier. Yes, it will take time to build the domain authority, but it’s much easier to reach the top of Google with very specific and highly optimized domains. What is an  [ Read More ]

Social media has been growing daily for year now. It has changed the landscape of how businesses communicate with their customers and how they market themselves online. Social Media has grown tremendously compared to 2009 when it comes to user generated content, business, personal communication, celebrity gossip and more. Since 2010 is coming to a close, lets take a look at how Social Media has done over the past year.  [ Read More ]

Could meta tags be making a comeback? Google is experimenting with two new meta tags to help it identify the original sources of online content. The tags are called syndication-source and original source. This is an interesting way to tease apart content sources, since tags are easily abused. They went away with the power of meta tags years ago, so we will see how they can combat spam. Since the  [ Read More ]

Mashable recently posted a great article on the future of social search and SEO. The article is below or you can read it on their site. At SEO Pledge, we have been noticing constant changes in SEO and social media for years now. The goal to be successful in SEO and social media is to increase your social media presence by building followers on Twitter, friends on Facebook, subscribers and  [ Read More ]