Just read a great blog post from someone I follow regularly and actually get a lot of my market research ideas from. His name is Jonathan Ledger.

In his latest post he goes through his experience in getting ranked on Bing and I’d love to report my findings too.

1. Exact Name Domains – This is probably one of the oldest tricks out there in the search engine world. Funny enough, it still works well in some niche’s in Google, but it absolutely factors quite highly with...

For many, the biggest problem with Search Engine Optimization is that the results are not instant.

You start optimizing his site, then go to Google to see if his optimizations have the desired effect. It can take days, weeks or even month for Google to take into account those optimizations or it might never care about them.

It's even worse when you try to figure out which change you've made have the greatest effect or what changes hade effect and which not. You'll not get...

So Goog tried unsuccessfully to tamp down on the content farmers like Demand Media and eHow. They did however get rid of one nuisance in Mahalo. This post by Aaron Wall at SEO Book pretty much sums up the situation http://www.seobook.com/google-kills-ehows-competitors
The interesting part about this is that in a weird way Goog needs content on all subjects so that it can offer a full index. Even if that content is low quality it's better than nothing. To avoid the "share cropper"...

Google URL Shortener – More Advance Tool

This is a new tool from Google. Url shortener is used to shorten the long url. Why do we want to shorten the url? The basic reasons are:
1. Make the long url looks more professional and easy to remember.
2. For affiliate marketers, it is a good tool to hide the affiliate link!
There are many other url shorteners in the market, e.g. bit.ly , tinyurl.com.

But Google url shortener has gone extra miles – Give...

One of the best ways to get your website on page one or two of Google is to develop quality backlinks. What’s a backlink? It’s a link to your website that you or someone else places on another website.

Backlinks are important because the little spider bots at Google like “quality” backlinks. You don’t put backlinks up in hopes that someone will click on it (though that could happen), you put them up so Google loves your website. The more quality backlinks you have, the better your...