You may or may not have noticed some small, light-blue buttons with a "+1" inside them showing up next to your Google search results lately. Welcome to +1, a new social feature Google has slowly been rolling since an announcement on March 30. If you don't have any idea what I'm talking about, you can opt-in [...]
The good name of your brand is your most important asset. Imagine this: A potential customer has decided he probably wants to buy his product from your site (Aardvark Imports). He goes to Google to run a search for your site (either to get the link or to run a last minute check), and the second [...]
Estimates for marketing expenditures for 2010 are in, and it looks like companies spent about $20 billion on PPC (that's pay-per-click advertising, those results that show up on the top of your SERPs) this past year, and only about $2 billion on SEO (that is, on making sure their sites show up in organic search results). [...]
We can't stress often enough how important fresh, unique content is to eCommerce SEO. Search engines do not like stale, duplicate content. Google's algorithm in particular is sensitive to how recently content has been posted as well as whether or not that content can be found in several places across the web. For this reason, it's [...]
Yes, you should optimize your tweets, but don't neglect to optimize your profile either. A Twitter profile page can provide a good hub for your brand and also help you to capture the top results for your brand's particular SERP. Choose a good, straightforward handle and account name. In Twitter's case, these two are not always [...]
Here at Marketplace Earth, we go beyond simple text SEO. We offer web video creation services, plus viral video assist services that include video search engine optimization. So even if you've already created your own video and don't need our help on that end, we can make sure that your video gets seen. In order to [...]
While working on writing up today's blog post on SEO, I've been running various Google searches. I've also been watching breaking news on today's Google press conference. All week speculations have been rampant about what Google would be announcing at today's event. The series of instantly responsive, color-changing logos they've used this week on the site [...]
A couple of weeks ago in a post about owning your brand's SERP, we recommended creating subdomains for your site with the goal of getting more of your site's pages on a single SERP: "Because Google tries to give searchers real variety in their search results, they’re unlikely to rank more than one page from the [...]
Do you run regular searches for your brand name? How many of the top results do you own? How many belong to competitors or contain negative press about your company? Dominating your brand's search engine results page is important for brand visibility, customer accessibility and public relations. If someone has heard of your company and runs [...]
If you've interacted with Marketplace Earth before or probably any SEO firm, you are probably sure to hear the words "unique content" over and over again. And pending on the size of your site, this can pose a real problem for you. So, in this post, we want to dig into exactly what constitutes as unique [...]