http://www.promotionworld.com/ PromotionWorld articles keep you informed about the recent trends in search engine optimization. en-us DevStart, Inc. 2004 Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:19:41 GMT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/images/rss/promotionworld_articles.gif 130 60 http://www.promotionworld.com/articles/internet/webdesign/090703-Why-Design-Website-Mobile-Iphone-Device The article gives tips about the mobile web design. This is a very helpful and significant way of maintaining the website traffic even when the site is being surfed on the mobile phone. The article has some initial guidelines for web design of the mobile phone versions of websites. James John Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/articles/internet/webdesign/090703-Pillars-modern-website-design-in-terms-of-professional-website-designin Professional web design firms always adopt the latest trends which easily catches the visitor's attention ion at your website. Some of the latest features are: Joanna Gadel Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/se/articles/article/090702-Treating-Duplicate-Content-With-Canonical-Links Duplicate content is a serious concern with website owners. It need not be then case when someone else steals your content and places it somewhere else on the web. Kabir Bedi Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:07:48 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/se/articles/article/090702-Guaranteed-SEO-for-Top-10-Ranking This article reveals what crucial questions to ask a potential SEO service provider who guarantee first page ranking results. Joel Katona Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/marketing/article/090701-What-Your-Bounce-Rate-Is Just about everything you do with your website's structure, content and design is aimed at one thing-keeping the visitor around long enough to buy, subscribe, fill out your questionnaire or whatever it is you want them to do. Amy Armitage Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:53:39 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/se/articles/article/090701-Chasing-Bing-Truth-behind-Hype In recent weeks, we’ve noticed a surge in clients calling us to ask questions like “what’s up with Bing?” Or, “are you optimizing for Bing?” Even “are you taking advantage of Bing?” Scott Buresh Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:12:14 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/marketing/online/article/090630-Advantages-Social-Media-Marketing This article outlines the advantages of social media marketing, and why companies decide to promote their products and gain publicity through online venues. A very interesting read that gets you thinking; short and sweet, yet very informative. Michael C. Gill Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/marketing/online/article/090630-Keeping-Your-Email-List-Clean All the elements of successful email marketing depend on one factor -- having valid email addresses on your list. If you have already started building your mailing list, make sure you have valid email addresses. John Osgood Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/se/articles/article/090629-How-Lead-on-Search-Engine-Result-Pages-in-2009 The following article lists down in detail the factors that matter for the SEO to get the page rank. The article gives a valuable insight into the certain important factors for 2009. James John Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/se/articles/article/090629-Building-Ecommerce-Site-SEO-in-Mind Have you ever noticed that ecommerce sites have their own set of challenges when it comes to search engine optimization (SEO)? Learn the elements you, as an ecommerce site owner, can put into practice that will boost your tendency to get ranked highly. Karon Thackston Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/se/articles/article/090626-Effective-E-Commerce-Website-Navigation E-commerce websites rely on visitor traffic more than anything else. Only when there is huge visitor inflow, there can be high chances of a sale. Kabir Bedi Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:27:31 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/marketing/advertising/article/090626-How-Do-You-Niche-Market-Effectively Every business owner and marketer knows that marketing is necessary for a business to be able to achieve success. In order for you to grow and keep your business going despite the hard times. Katie Marcus Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/marketing/article/090625-Online-Offline-Branding-Opportunity To understand what boomers want from social networking, one needs to understand more about the mindset of this generation. Steve Campus Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:41:30 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/se/articles/article/090625-Early-Bird-Gets-Marketing-Worm Businesses that know how to adapt and change are the ones who thrive in the online jungle. Find out how online marketing has changed with the advent of social media. WowGoldPig Pig Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/marketing/promotion/article/090624-Word-of-Mouth-Marketing So how do you choose which customer testimonials to put in your color brochure? Find out the answer. Kaye Marks Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090610-Facebook-Rolling-Out-Vanity-URLs-For-User-Profiles-and-Pages-Saturday-Morning Social networking site Facebook will finally be launching vanity URLs for Facebook profiles and pages this Saturday. On June 13th at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Facebook new vanity URLs will go live, and the landrush to get Facebook.com/YourName as your own will begin. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090605-Digg-Users-Control-The-Ads-Displayed-on-Digg Social news giant Digg has announced their plan to roll out a new advertising platform, called Digg Ads, which will hopefully help them bring in more ad revenues. It will allow Digg community to control which ads are displayed on the website by either voting up or baring them. Thus the most popular ads will gravitate to the top, and those that are not well received, will be filtered out. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090603-10-of-Twitter-Users-Accounted-for-90-of-tweets A blog post at HarvardBusiness.org, entitled "New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets", reveals some really very interesting and surprising findings of how people are using the service. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090515-US-Social-Network-Ad-Spending-is-on-decline The eMarketer’s latest research predicts that US social network ad spending will fall 3% to $1.14 billion in 2009, from $1.18 billion in 2008. Fri, 15 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090513-Google-Searchology-Event Yesterday Google hosted its second Searchology event and presented some some updates and changes they have made in search. The first event, held two years ago, introduced Universal Search. This time Google showed three new products and SERP improvements: Search Options, Rich Snippets and Google Squared. Wed, 13 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090429-Rev-Up-Your-Business-With-Twitter Social Media has progressively changed our life in a way that almost everyone has some form of existence over social network websites. Despite the fact that Twitter is still quite a small networking site as compared to the social giants like Google, Facebook and MySpace, the micro-blogging tool is getting a tremendous amount of buzz these days. Individuals, celebrities (Barack Obama, Shaquille O’Neal), big corporations (Dell, Zappos), media companies (CNN), athletes and many others are all on Twitter, posting short 140 character messages to their followers. Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090414-Is-the-new-DiggBar-Good-or-Bad There have been vigorous discussions on the new DiggBar during the last few weeks. The controversial issues about the pros and cons of DiggBar derived from the concerns that the service would have a negative impact on SEO and affect the traffic to publisher’s websites. Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090708-Yahoo-Announces-Search-Update Recently, there have been plenty of discussions going on in various forums about changes at Yahoo. Finally, Yahoo has officially confirmed the update with a weather report on the Yahoo Search Blog: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090320-Best-Practices-and-Tips-for-Video-Optimization-and-Promotion Driven by the increasing availability of broadband and the shift toward digital media, video on the internet has become the hottest craze of today. As the online users apparently spend a great part of their time online watching videos, you should consider taking advantage of this trend by properly optimizing and promoting your videos in order to increase your website's traffic and brand awareness. Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090318-Join-the-PromotionWorld-LinkedIn-Group Believing that LinkedIn is the best medium to streamline the process of making expert connections, we've just launched the PromotionWorld LinkedIn Group. This group was formed in an effort to encourage online collaborations and further connect SEM professionals and novice to share ideas and online resources related to the search engine optimization industry. Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090226-13-Powerful-Tips-To-Covert-Your-First-Time-Visitors-into-RSS-Subscribers.html RSS has become almost a necessity these days. Why? The truth is that your subscribers make up a large percentage of your loyal readership. When a visitor encounters your blog, you have just a few seconds to convince them to come back again. And you know that the ideal way to do so, of course, is through subscribing to your RSS feed. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090225-Hitwise-Longer-Search-Queries-Are-Gaining-Popularity.html According to Hitwise, nowadays longer search queries are becoming more and more common on all major search engines. Although more than half of all search queries are still less than three words long, the number of queries comprising of four or more words has drastically grown over the last year. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090204FacebookTurns5YearsOld.html Happy birthday to Facebook. Five years ago today, the social networking site (thefacebook.com) was launched by Mark Zuckerberg along with his fellow Harvard classmates Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin. During the years, Facebook has become one of the most popular and trusted websites with over 150 million people around the globe who use Facebook to connect with the people in their lives. Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090126GoogleIsNumber1InternetPropertyIntheWorld.html Google is not only the most popular search engine in the world, but is now the most popular internet property, with 777.9 million unique visitors in December or 77 per cent reach of the total worldwide internet audience, according to comScore’s data. Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMT http://www.promotionworld.com/news/editors/090122GoogleTestsPreferredSitesFeature.html Google is testing a new search customization option called Google Preferred Sites, according to Google Operating System. The new feature will let you personalize the results by adding a list of sites you want to appear more often when you search. Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMT