The Google penalty is perhaps the bogeyman of every single webmaster out there. In one fell swoop, a Google penalty can basically wipe your website out of existence, at least where the search engine result pages or SERPs are concerned. Dealing with it is such as a pain in the neck, and it’s something you must do before you lose all your web traffic. You have to identify what caused it, and take the appropriate measures to correct whatever went wrong.
To diagnose the problem and fix it, here are three steps you need to take as soon as you can.
So you’ve finally decided to move on from your e-commerce business and you’re looking to sell it for the right price. The question is, do you have any idea what your online business is worth? For all you know, your e-commerce business is worth a million dollars or more. So, is your e-commerce business worth that much? Here are some factors that will indicate if you have a million-dollar e-commerce business.
We now live in a world where Google casts a long shadow just about everywhere. Just a few years ago, Google entered the world of social media networking via Google Plus, which has since become one of the top social media platforms. The thing is, a lot of entrepreneurs still haven’t realised how being on Google Plus is good for business. As a matter of fact, many people still believe that compared to Facebook and Twitter, the two other social media giants, Google Plus isn’t as popular, and therefore not a good place to do business.
There was a time when the cell phone, the Internet and all those things that pervade our lives nowadays seemed like novelties. As recently as a little over a decade ago, not everyone had them. Now everyone has them—even kids—and everyone who has them are practically doing everything using these tools of the hi-tech era. If you heavily depend on modern technology to keep in touch with friends and family, apply for a job, do your banking, shop for stuff, keep yourself entertained and even pick up gossip about your favourite celebrities, then you are leading an e-ife.
If you’re wondering how long your tweets, Facebook posts and Google Plus headlines should be, Kevan Lee has created for Social Media Today a list of the ideal length of everything online.
Your landing page is an integral part of the whole online business marketing process, as it’s where users from all over the Internet land from an external website. Its purpose is to show whatever you have to offer to the user, who will then decide whether to take you up on your offer or not and become a lead. Simply put, a landing page is designed to generate leads. If it’s not doing that, then something must be wrong. Here are some reasons your landing is not generating leads the way you expect it to.
The residents of Europe who are worried some of their information on public record and published online might ruin their reputation now have the right to request the removal of that information from search results, and Google is bracing for countless such requests from 28 countries in Europe.
The Bing’s library of facts has just gotten bigger with the expansion of its Snapshot feature, which now allows users to get quick access to information about drugs and food.
Few things are as annoying as opening a website and waiting forever for it to completely load. For the owner of that website, the slow load websites could only mean one thing: missed business opportunities. You see, most Internet users these days are, to be honest, quite an impatient lot and are always in a hurry. If they have to wait more than a few seconds for a website to load, it’s almost a certainty that they will just forget about your site and move on to another that doesn’t make them wait that long.