Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category

Bing | The search engine thats making some noise. But… whassup?

Ok we know its been a while since my last post - (c’mon I have a company to run ;O) ) so we wont dwell on it. Let’s move on…
As we all know, Bing.com is the new (or relatively new) search engine. They’re making big pushes marketing wise and have ads popping up a little [...]

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Twitter Hacked and what’s this… Paid Tweets?

If you’re not already aware - Twitter was hacked. And has eluded to Paid Tweets. The horror. You think? I’m thinking wow - Strategic E-Marketing at play here - ok not the hack - I’m referring to the paid tweets.
As per E-Consultancy “Twitter has a really bad weekend”, they’ll outline the full series of events.
Y’know - [...]

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Back to Basics - What is E-Marketing?

I’ve decided to go back to basics and describe E-Marketing for the masses. I’ve been shocked and appalled by the number of people who have come to associate spam and E-Marketing.
It’s happened in quite a few instances now that when asked what LinguaCounsel is and how it can help them… if I use a definition [...]

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Paid SEM reinforces Organic, Not Organic SEM reinforces Paid.

 
With e-marketers trying more and more ways to reinforce their online marketing efforts, I’ve stumbled across many who don’t understand the method in which to gain real value from their “organic” search engine optimization and their PPC efforts.
I often see e-marketers failing to connect the proverbial dots of their multi-faceted SEM campaigns which cause a [...]

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Black Hat SEO or Acceptable Practice…

Black Hat refers to the nasty methods in which people use to manipulate systems, application or people. Now Google has set a series of guidelines to ensure people do not try and stray into Black Hat methods of SEO.
Naturally we seem to assume that if Google can be manipulated, there must be many who get away [...]

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Remember to always keep your domain up to date…

Remember the registrar… where you bought and registered your domain. Mental note… keep it up to date or your site may meet a very annoying fate.
Recently, I apparently failed to react to a “Renew your domain now” email as it ended up in my SPAM box. Oops. The result was an expired domain. This domain… ( you can [...]

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Why should you care about your Sales and Marketing efforts going Multilingual?

This is a great topic for discussion and everyone seems to have a different perspective on the subject. I’ve seen so many people simply miss the point about why they should care about rendering their press releases, websites, applications and sales / marketing strategies multilingual.
What it comes down to is effectively and efficiently using [...]

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Multilingual Websites and their Multilingual SEO.

Through my involvement in the language industry and my background as a web developer, I am often asked about the proper ways in which to translate a website.
Yes, there are endless CAT (Computer Assisted Translation) tools on the market to help manage the process. Enabling translators to translate the content of a webpage without even worrying [...]

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SEO | Is it a money pit?

Sitting in a somewhat bleak conference room across from a CEO of a respectable Language Service Provider… I get the once-over and the eyebrow raise gesture as he exhales a sound similar to that of someone pondering a calculus problem.
“So you tell me SEO isn’t a money pit?” says the CEO, “You say you can [...]

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