Archive for GOOGLE

Does Having a Large Google Index Equate to the Certain Success of Your Website or Blog?

We are all looking to find favor with the Google Gods, right?  The article below will teach you how find your Google Index and will outline the metrics that are truly important in evaluating your success on the web.  What? Whoa, let’s back up just a step – what is Google’s index anyway?  Google’s index is all [...]

What does the Google Crawl mean to your business and how will your Business Blog help?

Describes the Google crawl,spiders and what is important for a business to know about those processes.

So, how important is our Page Rank?

What exactly is Google Page Rank? For those who don’t know, with the Google Tool Bar you can see a ’Page Rank’ between 1 and 10 for your [or any other you're visiting] website or blog . According to Google’s definition of Page Rank, “it relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast [...]

Your advantage with Search Engines is NOT technology; it’s YOU!

Business website owners and Business Bloggers beware! I see the claims almost everyday and, for the record, the latest Search Engine Advantage is NOT necessarily site technology or optimization tactics so much as it is you! Google is at the top of the technology mountain; however, they need 1) search traffic and 2) your practical knowledge in [...]

Google Alerts Tutorial

What is a Google Alert you ask?  It’s a very powerful tool that can help you become efficient in your business on many fronts!  A Google Alert is a simple mechanism that allows you to be alerted by email when blog/news articles, videos and more hit the web about subjects you are interested in.  Here are a [...]

Have you considered your own web behavior?

As a business person looking for new customers, have you considered your own web behavior? What makes your prospective customer any different than you? Folks, your clients are searching [and subscribing] for answers & information just like you do. In this day and age, we search [and we subscribe] because we can. It’s easy, pretty [...]

‘The Long Tail’ as it Relates to Search Engine Visibility

The Long Tail theory was coined by Chris Anderson in his Oct 2004 Wired Magazine article describing certain business & economic models.  Anderson, Editor Wired Magazine, later authored his best selling book on the theory. As it applies to blogging & search engine marketing [or SEM], the idea with the Long Tail is to be [...]

Interesting Reciprocal Linking thread over at RealTown.com

There’s a string over at Real Town on the home page in RealTown’s Real Estate Community titled RE: reciprocal links with other agents …. banned i about whether or not Real Estate Agents should be linking to each other. Some folks there have advocated it’s fine to do it, but if you watch Part II of the [...]

Ideas for keeping your Blog current

It’s well known that search engines favor consistent, on topic content and that blogs make publishing to the web easy, but [regardless of professional knowledge] if you’re like most of us producing the next great post is, at times, a challenge. Here are some ideas for keeping your Blog current: First off, use what you’re routinely sharing in [...]

Do you know how Google works?

Portfolio.com has written a good article and created an interactive feature to help break down Google. Have fun with it

Clearing Browser Cache

February 7, 2012
by: Chris Frerecks • BLOGGING EDUCATION, USEFUL WEB KNOWLEDGE

Creative Commons License Choices

February 2, 2012
by: Chris Frerecks • COPYRIGHT

Images, Copyright Law, Public Domain & The Creative Commons

January 31, 2012
by: Chris Frerecks • COPYRIGHT

Adding YouTube Videos To Posts / Pages

January 11, 2012
by: Chris Frerecks • YOUTUBE