Site Speed is now a ranking factor
Don’t take it from me. Matt Cutts of Google fame has revealed it on his blog – http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/site-speed/
The quickness of your page downloading has always been an important usability factor. Now Google have expanded it to mean much more.
Every time we receive an email or a phone call from a potential client we record the questions asked. From reviewing our records over the last 12 months, the number one question we received was:
“How can we make our site more Google friendly”
Any seasoned SEO campaigner will tell you that there are many variables involved and the key elements can change over time. I have put together 7 quick tips to make your site more friendly for the Google web crawlers.
Parlez Vous Francais? Do you speak French? Chances are that you don’t. The more important question that your business should be asking is whether your target market speaks French.
At JumpStart, we get to work with a wide variety of clients in many different niche markets. Through our SEO outsourcing program we handle a lot of clients for our clients. Our web design business also sources a lot of marketing clients for us. At the moment we are full to the brim with work. That’s a good complaint in today’s society but with the way Internet advertising is becoming so essential to Irish businesses it is easy to see why the work just keeps piling up.
When choosing the domain name for your business you have to take a lot of different factors into account. Choosing a domain name is often a compromise between branding and search engine optimisation. Your domain name is an extension of your brand but it is also a large ranking factor in SEO.
So you’ve spent an hour or two writing a new article with fresh content for your website or blog, now its time to publish it to the world. You’re proud of your new content and you hope that it will attract new customers to your site.
That’s only half the work done! Its time to start generating rich links with your article.
Here’s a very simple 5 step process I follow with the new articles I develop.
Whether you love or hate it, social media is here to stay and more and more businesses are using social media to advertise their services and products online.
In the last six months this type of advertising has exploded with over 80% of businesses now having a Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn account, integrated to their main website, even politicians are delivering their words of wisdom through tweets!
So your business is planning your marketing budget for 2010. Where to put all that money? What advertising medium will I gamble on this year? There certainly are plenty of options available:
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