Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advice.
When setting up a new website it is easy to get excited about the design and content of the website, while forgetting the most vital aspect – SEO.
While your website might look great, searchers are never going to find it if you don’t implement even some of the SEO basics.
To help you out I have compiled a list…
A Google user recently asked our favorite Google employee, Matt Cutts some tough questions about the Google PageRank toolbar which I though might interest all you lovers of the PageRank metric.
The question that was asked was: “I use the Google Toolbar to monitor PageRank. I read on the Internet that it gives old and quite unreliable data. Can I…
A recent study by DDB shows that 40% of a brand’s Facebook page fans “unlike” them soon after a promotional campaign ends.
The main reasons why fans unsubscribe from brand pages include:
So how can you ensure your fans stick around on your businesses Facebook page? I have outlined a few things below you must consider.
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Your website is the most important part of your online marketing efforts. Without it potential customers will find it quite difficult to know what products/services you business has to offer.
While having a website for your business is the first step, you need to ensure it is a good website also. Here’s why:
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The DMOZ Directory is the equivalent to the Holy Grail (almost) when it comes to link juice for Google SEO. For years, DMOZ has been considered the first “port of call” when starting your link building journey in any SEO campaign.
Due to its overwhelming popularity, it is almost impossible to get into DMOZ these days. So with…
Just last week Google expanded the listings in its search results, so how can you take advantage of this change? The first place to start with is your content.
If you’re unaware of this news on sitelinks there are more details here, but, essentially, organic search results will now include full-size links, display URL and a one line…
Every business owner wants Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) to work for their site. However, the field is constantly changing, and it’s hard to know what advice is still valid.
Every day a new SEO myth is born and unfortunately, not all old SEO myths die off.
To help you avoid some of the more common SEO and marketing…
We report quite regularly on updates to the Google Webmaster Tools and often forget about the great range of webmaster tools from Bing.
Bing’s Webmaster Tools recently underwent a refresh also, so I thought it was time we provided an overview of what Bing has to offer.
Account Dashboard / Home
The account dashboard provides you with an overview of…
Google’s recent Panda algorithm updates have had quite an impact in removing spammy websites from the SERP’s but there is still a long way to go before they are all gone for good. Did you know that you can play a part in ensuring these sites don’t rank well?
Although your website has high-quality content, there are, no doubt, sites…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock this past week, then you would have heard what practically everyone (and I mean everyone!) is talking about, Google+.
The search giant last week released a brand new social network and it wasn’t long before it was given the label of ‘the Facebook killer”. But will this really be the case?…