New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Visits Canrock Ventures | SEO Pledge

SEO Pledge is in the Canrock Ventures investment portfolio, an early stage technology fund. Andrew Cuomo is the current New York State Attorney General and is running for New York Governor in 2010. Cuomo toured Canrock Ventures on Long Island to discuss his NY Works Agenda and unveil the members of his Downstate Business Advisory Council. [caption id="attachment_1108" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="Andrew Cuomo Visits SEO Pledge | Canrock Ventures"] [/caption] “New York has what it takes to be the economic capital of the country – from innovative entrepreneurs to a competitive workforce," Cuomo said. "It’s time ...

SEO Changing With Social Search

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 friends on YouTube and most importantly, keep that fresh content flowing. Without a continuous flow of content it will be very difficult to have success with social media. The main reason why ...

Google – New Meta Tags To ID Original Source For Content

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 amount of new content that is published each day and social media presence in search engine results is only going to increase, search engines need to find a way to ...

LinkedIn Best Practices

LinkedIn is a professional, business networking site that is too easily lumped into the social networking service. Even though many of the same modes of operation are employed, the focus is on professionals, professional dialog, professional opportunities and companies. Below is a list of LinkedIn best practices, created by professionals who are trying to maximize their professional opportunities. I hope it is also helpful for you. Get LinkedIn If you are working, you need to be LinkedIn. If you are not working, you really need to be LinkedIn. If you are a college student, you need to be LinkedIn. Even President Obama is ...

How to Hard-Wire Website to Google

When it comes to online search, Google will deliver the majority of your quality organic traffic. For webmasters and online marketers, virtually hard-wiring your site to Google is a must. As a full-time online brand builder, I have learned a lot over the past 10 years of working on the Internet. This is not exactly rocket science territory here. Google is the biggest entity on the web, especially if you go the free organic traffic route. There are tons of ways to market online which don't involve Google at all, but for the purposes of this piece, I will be discussing ...

What are Multi-Level Backlinks?

Multi-level backlinks might be a term you have not heard of yet. This is a unique way we have been building backlinks for about a year now. To start, lets look at the image below and understand what a backlink is. A backlink is a link pointing back to your website. For example, on your YouTube account you put a link to your website, that is a backlink. The more websites that have a link pointing towards your site means a lot to search engines. You can think of it as a popularity contest. [caption id="attachment_350" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Backlink Image"][/caption] Now that ...

Are Comment Backlinks Worth The Time?

[caption id="attachment_370" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="seo pledge comment backlinks"][/caption] Comment backlinks are backlinks usually created on blogs, but of course they can be created on any site that allows comments. One would have to search the Internet for their topic, find a blog with relevant content to their site and then write a comment and place a link back to their website. Does this really work? This type of backlink building does work, if you are willing to spend the time to find quality blogs with relevant content, plus put the extra effort into writing a decent comment so it will get approved. There ...