1&1 Review: Buyer Beware
Our Review of 1&1.com’s Web Hosting Services: Two Thumbs WAY Down If you’re reading this post you probably just watched one of 1&1‘s TV commercials. The ad makes it sound like you’ll get a professional website “designed by experts” built for you and optimized for search for a very low cost. Sounds almost too good … Continue reading
Weekly Roundup: Easy Tips to SEO your Blog
Well, we’ve survived Valentine’s Day and a meteor shower, so it’s time for some more SEO Tips. We’re ending this week with a roundup from another blogger to give you a little more flavor. Great article if you use content in your marketing strategy. Pretty basic stuff, but informative nonetheless. Enough yammering, here’s the article
How to Build a Search Engine
I’ve been taking a free course from Udacity on Python programming and how to build a search engine: CS 101: Building a Search Engine, taught by David Evans from the University of Virginia. It’s a great course, and David does an amazing job of explaining the material in easy-to-understand terms. The course entails learning Computer Science … Continue reading
Social Media as an SEO Factor
To highlight how important Social Media is in optimizing a website or blog for Search Engine Optimization, I’d like to share a quote from Bing’s Duane Forrester: “Does the rest of the world think you have a great product?” Forrester asked. “If they do, they will amplify this. If you’re not engaged socially, you’re … Continue reading
Global SEO
Author: Dan Hoff A lot of U.S. companies are looking beyond our shores to expand their customer base. Thousands of contractors are being hired daily to perform translation services for these companies and their products. But is translation, by itself, enough to effectively reach a foreign market? How do … Continue reading
Is SEO dead?
I hear this rumor at least once a month in one form or another. No, SEO is not dead, in fact, it is very alive. However, I do see SEO becoming much more difficult in the future. I believe Content Management Systems will become more and more optimized for search from the ground up, and … Continue reading
Attempted Acquisition
I was contacted by one of our competitors today. This was somewhat amusing, as I did not expect to be on their radar this early in the game. They’re interested in meeting to discuss the possibility of acquiring IgniteRank, mainly for it’s technology. Given the similarity in our services and the difference in our pricing … Continue reading
Review of IgniteRank
Thanks to Mitch over at Reviews&Ripoffs for featuring us in his latest post. We offered him an exclusive preview of our new site and he jumped on the opportunity. You can check out his review here. Below is an excerpt: I recently had the pleasure of test-driving a web-based App in it’s PreLaunch phase. … Continue reading
Why most Startups Fail
Author: Dan Hoff Most entrepreneurs fail within months, even weeks of starting their business. This happens for a number of reasons: They wear too many hats at once They don’t outsource They pay too much for outsourcing (kinda defeats the purpose, right?) They price their product too high (or too low) Their product doesn’t stand … Continue reading
SEOclearly
Author: Dan Hoff Disclosure: I am not in any way affiliated with SEOclearly or their products. This post is in no way an endorsement of SEOclearly, their products, their staff,etc. I just checked out a relatively new startup in the SEO industry, SEOclearly. SEOclearly provides an enterprise level of A/B testing on proposed changes to … Continue reading
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