Do you prefer visual results over text? If you do, then you’ll love these visual search engines, which display images and website snapshots as opposed to text snippets. There’s not much to say about these search engines. You simply enter your query, press enter (or click on search), and view your results. So let’s take a look at 5 amazing visual search engine results. Watch the cube fill up as your results fall into place. You can use the arrow keys to flip the cube, shift+mouse to drag

Everyone is looking for an edge in the search engines. We got that. Seeking the advice of everyone and their brother who has tried to game Google’s system is one way to handle this “game”. It’s not the one we recommend by any means but that doesn’t stop a lot of people from trying. Probably one of the most effective ways to build a sound website foundation is to follow some of the suggestions Google offers to everyone. You might say, if everyone is doing it then we all look

These days, with all the online resources we have at our fingertips, anyone can start a blog. And it’s obvious, when you visit a lot of blogs, that anyone really can, if you know what I mean. There are bloggers and there are Super Bloggers. And then you have your Average Bloggers. Being an Average Blogger isn’t really a bad thing, unless you want to make money with your blog. The Internet marketplace is a vast collection of blogs and websites, though, and there’s just no room for

I had a call with a potential client not that long ago and we were discussing her long term SEO goals. She told me her number one goal was to get better rankings for the broad keywords they were targeting. When we spoke, the company was stuck on page 3 of Google and couldn’t seem to break free; she wanted to know what my company could do to help her get to the top of page 1. I flat out told her, “Don’t worry so much about where your site ranks. Your real long term goal should be visitor growth.” She was

Bounce rate is a number that’s used to gauge the quality of the traffic your blog or website receives. There are a number of things that can effect your bounce rate, some you can control and some you can’t, and contrary to popular opinion there’s really no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ bounce rate. But no matter what it is, you can always try to make it better. Basically, the bounce rate takes into consideration the number of people who visit your blog, how many pages they view,

Blog marketing has emerged as a great way to promote online businesses. While new concepts on blog marketing are evolving every day, there are few strategies that have been time tested and proven worthy. Here are a few clear and pragmatic concepts that will boost up your online blog marketing. Using the right blog templates that match your theme is important to create an impressive blog. Similar to the way the marketing brochure templates help in creating effective marketing collateral, website blog

If you’re someone like me who is always searching for apps on all types of devices and systems, then you’ll Quixey. It’s a search engine that lets you find apps across all platforms based on what you want to do. How does it find these apps? Well it scrapes blogs, review sites, forums, and social media to learn about new apps, find out what they do, and how people can use them. What types of apps are displayed? You’ll be able to find apps for smartphones, browsers, desktops, and the

As much as we would all like to be the Jack of All Trades, it just can’t happen. When running a business online this can be anything from blogging, to creating ad campaigns and managing SEO. Each of these tasks are completely different and continuously changing over time. Fortunately there are solutions out there for each. Just like WordPress keeps us updated on the latest changes in blogging, software can also keep us up to date on the latest changes and improvements to SEO and our web sites, while

Links are the currency of SEO and Internet marketing. The more quality one-way links has pointing towards it, the better it looks in the eyes of the search engines. Every site has a certain amount of established trust with the search engines and when one site links to another, it passes along a bit of that trust in the form of “link juice.” The more links a site has, the more link juice it has. This tells the search engines that this is a valuable and useful site (the idea being that better quality site

I remember the first ad buy I ever made. The year was 1996 and I was purchasing a 3”x2” ad in the independent newspaper the Houston Press. I had never bought an ad before and the experience was exciting knowing that my ad would be read by thousands of people who just might purchase the services of my employer, a local ISP in Houston. Now you might ask why I wasn’t buying ads for that campaign online. Well, the answer is simple. That’s not where the local customers were. Oh how times have changed.