Automated social bookmarking software – for many webmasters and Internet marketers (myself included) this has been a pipe dream for a very long time. Nowadays though, some of those dreams have become a reality.

Note: From time to time you are going to see some shameless plugs for software and services on this blog. And, YES … Kev and I do get some small commissions if you click through our links and buy, or subscribe. BUT … you are not going to see any software or services that Kev and I are not actually already using ourselves. Which we both believe is the only way we can give you honest reviews or recommendations.

This post for Traffic Bug is one of these shameless plugs :-)

As an Internet marketer you will have realized by now that the key to your online success is TRAFFIC. A rubbish web site that gets lots of traffic will be more successful than the best designed site in the world that gets no traffic.

Plain and simple … TRAFFIC = SUCCESS.

A couple of years ago traffic was easy. It was mostly about “on-site optimization”, i.e. the things that you can do to the HTML code on your own page/site. Basically the process was to bang up a page, sprinkle it to death with your keywords, and the search engines of the time would give you good rankings.

Nowadays, it’s not so easy. Read the rest of this entry

It has been mentioned, often, about Google placing less emphasis on the keyword meta tag in your web page headers well now it’s official, Matt Cutts has spoken. Long ago, in days of old, the keyword meta tag was where you placed the important keywords you wanted your web page to be ranked for.  It soon became the focus for keyword spammers to place irrelevant or unnecessary keywords into a web page’s header to increase it’s rankings in the organic search results.  Now Google has  finally announced  that the keyword meta tag is history.

Google uses over two hundred signals in our web search rankings, but the keywords meta tag is not currently one of them, and I don’t believe it will be.

But, just because Google says this is so, it doesn’t mean that you should stop adding your main keywords to the meta tag when performing seo on your sites. Both Bing and Yahoo still place considerable emphasis on meta tag keywords.

And, finally, the description meta tag is just as important as it always was for engaging visitors. This description, after your page title, is the first text a visitor will read about your site before they decide to visit or not.