Local SEO Experts - BlinkSEO.com http://blinkseo.com Expert SEO consultants Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:32:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en Local SEO can attract new customers http://blinkseo.com/local-seo-can-attract-new-customers-18.htm http://blinkseo.com/local-seo-can-attract-new-customers-18.htm#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:58:06 +0000 blinkseo.com http://blinkseo.com/local-seo-can-attract-new-customers-18.htm In 2007 approximately 70% of U.S. internet users searched for local content. Local context applies to more than 20% of all queries with users looking for local businesses, news, and information on traditional engines intended for searching the web.

If you need help with Local SEO contact BlinkSEO.com the local SEO experts.

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  • Customers can find you on search engines
  • Rank higher on search engines and directories
  • Optimize your website for local searches
  • Increase sales or exposure by reaching targeted customers
  • Increase your business network
  • Utilize the power of the internet to grow your business
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  • Local SEO will become a crucial strategy for every business
  • New Mobile SEO concepts will appear
  • Video will become a huge way to improve SEO
  • Large companies will focus on Local SEO/SEM
  • Automated SEO solutions will grow
    • ]]>     http://blinkseo.com/2008-seo-predictions-20.htm/feed     Viral marketing strategies http://blinkseo.com/viral-marketing-strategies-19.htm http://blinkseo.com/viral-marketing-strategies-19.htm#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:03:20 +0000 blinkseo.com http://blinkseo.com/viral-marketing-strategies-19.htm Viral marketing is a compounding function. A marketer does something and a consumer tells five or ten people.  If the cycle repeats itself, then they tell five or ten people.  It repeats and grows and grows like a wild fire spreading through dry brush. The marketer does not have to actually do anything else. (Though they can help by making it easier for the word to spread, but in the classic examples, the marketer is out of the loop.)Seth Godin

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    Alexa is continually crawling all publicly available web sites to create a series of snapshots of the Web. We use the data we collect to create features and services:

    • Site Information: Traffic rankings, pictures of sites, links pointing to sites and more
    • Related Links: Sites that are similar to the one you are currently viewing

    Alexa has been crawling the Web since early 1996, and we have continually increased the amount of information that we gather. We are currently gathering approximately 1.6 Terabytes (1600 gigabytes) of Web content per day. After each snapshot of the Web, which takes approximately two months to complete, Alexa has gathered 4.5 Billion pages from over 16 million sites.

    Our web traffic ranking is listed below.

    ]]>     http://blinkseo.com/what-is-alexa-15.htm/feed     What is Page Rank? http://blinkseo.com/what-is-seo-5.htm http://blinkseo.com/what-is-seo-5.htm#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:51:41 +0000 blinkseo.com http://blinkseo.com/%category_title%/%blog_title% Page RankPageRank is one of more than 100 factors Google uses in the ranking of your website and your resulting position on their search engine. You get PageRank (PR) by having backward links from other website pages that have a higher PR than your site. The PR of your site is updated about once of month when Google updates their database of web pages.

    In your pursuit for a high PR, keep in mind that numerous relevant keyword anchor texted backlinks will get you a higher SERP than just raw high PR. As relevant keyword anchor texted backlinks increase, so will PR.

    Your aim shouldn’t be just for high PR, but for proper backlinks that will bring with them a higher PR.

    How is Page Rank Calculated?
    The following will give you an idea of how many inbound links and what PR those inbound links need to be, for you to obtain the desired PageRank for your pages. The following pagerank algorithm equation is the relationship between two pages A and B, with the below example page A receiving an inbound link from page B.
    PR-A = (0.15) + (0.85 x PR-B / TOL-B)

    PR-A is the PageRank of Page A, PR-B is the PageRank of Page B, and TOL-B is the Total Outbound Links of Page B.

    For example, if you get a inbound link from a page that has a PR of 6 and on that page there is a total of 6 outbound links (counting the one to your page), a PR of 1 will be added to your page: 0.15 + (0.85 x 6/6) = 1. If that one inbound link adds a PR of 1 to your page, and you wanted a PR of 5 it would take 5 similar inbound links.

    When you are looking for inbound links, just divide the PR of the page by its outbound links and this will give you a general idea of the PR a inbound link from that page would give you.

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