SEO Contest, Win R10000 by 21 October 2009
It’s SEO contest time in South Africa again. This time AVG is laying down the challenge in it’s first ever SEO competition. The 1st 3 three sites ranking on the anti-virus SERPS for this keyword that link back to http://avgsecurity.co.za from within the first paragraph of the ranking article will be considered eligible to a prize.
How to Win R10 000 cash in the AVG SEO contest? Simple, on the morning of 21st October 2009 at 11am, judges will perform a search on Google.com (not logged in) for the keyword “anti-virus”. .
Prizes:
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Keywords Metadata not used by Google, Yahoo or Bing
Live from SMX East.The keywords metadata is no longer used by Google, Yahoo or Bing.
What does this mean?
Clickable Guru Book Party & Signing
For those of you attending SMX East this year Clickable will be hosting the Guru’s Guide to Better Search Engine Marketing Book Party and Signing.
Guru's Guide to Better Search Engine Marketing
Reserve your seat! Join luminaries in the online advertising industry to celebrate the launch of the “Clickable Guru’s Guide To Better Search Marketing.” Free drinks and pizza. Networking. First 100 to register receive a free signed book copy. Attendees have chance to win a Clickable iPod Nano. A fun, convenient SMX Conference excursion.
Date:
October 5th, 2009, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Location:
Clickable New York Headquarters
Address:
7 West 22nd Street (7th Floor)
New York, NY 10010
SMX East, will you be there?
I’ll be attending Search Marketing Expo East – SMX East from 5-7 October 2009. After years of following the latest search engine optimization and emarketing trends, applying what I’ve learnt through hands-on SEO experience with sites big and small in South Africa, the United Kingdom, US, India, Brazil and many others. Finally, an opportunity arises to attend THE Search Marketing Conference to top all search marketing conferences.
I am still undecided to which talks to attend after looking at the awesome agenda, 50+ sessions on SEO, PPC, social media, local & mobile search, plus the line-up of keynote speakers at SMX East 2009 is mind-blowing.
The biggest draw card of SMX East 2009 must be the awesome networking opportunities it presents. Personally, I am looking forward to sharing the SEO experiences from a South African perspective with you.
If you are attending SMX East this year I’d love to connect with you. This will be my first trip to New York City and am really looking forward to it. Let’s connect! If you are attending SMX East 2009 follow me on twitter @rafiq, simply post a comment below. Let’s put faces to the Avatars
Search Marketing Trends – SMX London 09
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Google Adwords seminar
Online marketing is setting the trend for a new wave in communications. In South Africa, there is a growing interest which is not only motivated by a global recession but also a drive toward more measurable advertising. An additional stimulus was the worldwide observation of the success of the Obama election campaign.
Addressing the lack of qualified people to lead this revolution, the AAA School of Advertising and Google South Africa have joined forces to offer the first fully comprehensive training course on AdWords. The training programme is one of two courses that the AAA is launching under the auspices of its new Digital Marketing Academy. Digital Marketing Strategy is the second option and forms part of a practical overview of the field of digital and online marketing, and its application within the marketing and communications industry.
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Wordpress SEO plugin
WordPress, straight out of the box, comes ready to embrace search engines. Its features and functions guide a search engine through the posts, pages, and categories to help the search engine crawl your site and gather the information it needs to include your site within its database.
The ‘all-in-one’ SEO plugin tweaks the Wordpress CMS even further to optimize every aspect of your blog.
Some features:
* Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
* Generates META tags automatically
* Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs
* For Wordpress 2.7 you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
* You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
* You can fine-tune everything
* Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.
You can download the plugin directly from here
7 ways SEO copy writing differs from writing offline copy?
What is the difference between normal copy writing and SEO copy writing? Many think that all that is required to write copy for the web is to pepper it full of keywords. No, writing copy for the web, is not only about keywords but there are many factors involved to benefit a website visitor and your SEO campaign.
When writing copy for the web the following should be considered: Your keyword and content strategy would have been determined at the start of your SEO campaign.
SEO plugin of the week – SearchStatus
In our first weekly review of SEO plugins we feature the Firefox tool bar extension SearchStatus.
SearchStatus allows you to check the quality of any website. Designed by Quirk for search engine marketers, this toolbar provides extensive search engine related information about a site, all conveniently displayed in one discreet and compact toolbar placed at the bottom right of your Firefox browser.
Once installed SearchStatus allows you to view a website’s Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Compete.com ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. This combined cocktail of search-related data means you can view not only the link importance of a site (according to Google), but also its traffic importance (according to Alexa and Compete), so providing a balanced view of site quality.
The SearchStatus Firefox extension appears unobtrusively at the bottom of the browser on the status bar.
Requirements: Firefox 1.0+
Size: 45.44 KB
SEO Questions – Who? What? Where? When? & Why?
Who? What? Where? When? Why? How can we try to understand how SEO will work for your website? To align an SEO campaign with your product/company requirements the first step should always be to determine those needs. An easy way to do this is by asking 5 simple questions. Who? What? Where? When? and Why?
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