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><channel><title>BackLeft &#187; Google</title> <atom:link href="http://www.backleft.com/tag/google/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.backleft.com</link> <description>Agency Expertise for businesses that rely on the internet</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:05:16 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Happy Veteran&#8217;s Day.</title><link>http://www.backleft.com/2009/11/11/happy-veterans-day/</link> <comments>http://www.backleft.com/2009/11/11/happy-veterans-day/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:13:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Google]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Interactive Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[veterans day]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.itsallabouttheconversation.com/?p=536</guid> <description><![CDATA[Like all of you, I have family members and friends who have served or are currently serving in the Armed Forces in some capacity.  Thank you to all of you and your families for your willingness and desire to make this huge sacrifice.  Come home safely! Google seems to agree&#8230;]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like all of you, I have family members and friends who have served or are currently serving in the Armed Forces in some capacity.  Thank you to all of you and your families for your willingness and desire to make this huge sacrifice.  Come home safely!</p><p>Google seems to agree&#8230;</p><p
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class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-537" style="border: 0pt none;" title="Google veteran's day image" src="http://www.backleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Screen-shot-2009-11-11-at-10.04.06-AM.png" alt="Google veteran's day image" width="327" height="141" /></a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.backleft.com/2009/11/11/happy-veterans-day/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Six simple web marketing things you better be doing.</title><link>http://www.backleft.com/2009/06/24/six-simple-marketing-things-you-better-be-doing/</link> <comments>http://www.backleft.com/2009/06/24/six-simple-marketing-things-you-better-be-doing/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:17:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Content Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Google]]></category> <category><![CDATA[low hanging fruit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[meta description]]></category> <category><![CDATA[subject matter expert]]></category> <category><![CDATA[title tags]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web marketing]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.freshcurrent.com/?p=217</guid> <description><![CDATA[Here are 6 of the most simple things you should do to market your product or service on the internet.  It&#8217;s amazing how many people I come across that don&#8217;t do these.  These aren&#8217;t the hard to do and don&#8217;t take a big commitment like blogging, twitter, pay per click or even the full blown [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a
rel="attachment wp-att-222" href="http://blog.freshcurrent.com/2009/06/24/six-simple-marketing-things-you-better-be-doing/picture-7/"><img
class="alignright size-full wp-image-222" style="margin: 5px;" title="Website Statistics" src="http://www.backleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Picture-71.png" alt="Website Statistics" width="192" height="116" /></a>Here are 6 of the most simple things you should do to market your product or service on the internet.  It&#8217;s amazing how many people I come across that don&#8217;t do these.  These aren&#8217;t the hard to do and don&#8217;t take a big commitment like blogging, twitter, pay per click or even the full blown search engine optimization campaigns.  I&#8217;d call these the low hanging fruit to get you started.</p><ol><li><strong>Email Signature.</strong> Always, always make sure that your signature has your name, company name, address, phone number, email address and maybe fax number and tag line. Many times I get emails from people with no signature information.  It makes it hard to call them back right away and then I need to ask for their phone number.   Also, when I save their email address to my address book, if they have footer info, it will automatically save that to my address book too.  As a bonus, if anyone prints or forwards your email, your info is right there.</li><li><strong>Footer info on your website.</strong> Always make sure that every page of your website has your same signature information in the footer.  Since you can optimize every page for search engines, this helps you optimize the page and identifies you right away for people who don&#8217;t hit your home page first.  Also helps when users print your pages or forward your links.</li><li><strong>Title tags.</strong> Use appropriate and different title tags on all of the pages in your website.   This should be very simple to do and will be the most effective thing you can do to optimize your website.  Title tags are arguably the most important location for your keywords.</li><li><strong>The rest of your content.</strong> Take a couple hours and re-write the rest of your content and meta description on each page (or pick your 10 most popular pages).  If your site isn&#8217;t too big, it shouldn&#8217;t take long.  Focus each page on your keywords, but be sure not to overuse them.  Write casually and conversationally.</li><li><strong>Links to your website.</strong> Be the subject matter expert.  Surf around, find other blogs that discuss things you have knowledge about and share that knowledge in the form of replies.  Be sure to include your URL in your signature (see number 1).  Also, ask your friends and anyone you know with a website to see i they&#8217;d link to you and link to them also.  I&#8217;d stay away from the &#8220;free link exchanges&#8221; as they can tend to reduce the credibility of your site.</li><li><strong>Submit yourself.</strong> Lastly, go to <a
href="http://www.google.com/addurl/" target="_blank">google.com/addurl</a> and add your url to Google yourself.  It only takes a minute.  But only do it once&#8230;</li></ol><p>These are all pretty easy things to do and you shouldn&#8217;t need to spend any money to do it &#8211; just a bit of time.  But it&#8217;s time that could be very well worth it.   Let me know if you have any ideas, questions or thoughts on this.</p><p>Here&#8217;s another <a
href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/07/02/seo-tips-for-bloggers/" target="_blank">good list here</a> from ProBlogger.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.backleft.com/2009/06/24/six-simple-marketing-things-you-better-be-doing/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Google is bigger than they say they are</title><link>http://www.backleft.com/2009/05/23/google-is-bigger-than-they-say-they-are/</link> <comments>http://www.backleft.com/2009/05/23/google-is-bigger-than-they-say-they-are/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 06:32:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Google]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Media Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Viral Video]]></category> <category><![CDATA[monetization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[online communities]]></category> <category><![CDATA[video]]></category> <category><![CDATA[youtube]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.freshcurrent.com/?p=123</guid> <description><![CDATA[A short while ago I mentioned that I found on Google&#8217;s site that they&#8217;re adding 10 hours of video per minute.  While impressive numbers, it&#8217;s actually mich higher, about twice as high&#8230;  According to Mashable, YouTube is getting 20 hours of video uploaded per minute!   There are 1440 minutes in a day, and that means [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A short while ago I mentioned that I found on Google&#8217;s site that they&#8217;re <a
href="http://blog.freshcurrent.com/2009/04/25/viral-videos/" target="_self">adding 10 hours of video per minute</a>.  While impressive numbers, it&#8217;s actually mich higher, about twice as high&#8230;  According to <a
href="http://mashable.com/2009/05/20/youtube-video-uploads/" target="_blank">Mashable</a>, YouTube is getting 20 hours of video uploaded per minute!   There are 1440 minutes in a day, and that means that there are <strong>28,800</strong> hours of video uploaded per day!!  It makes me wonder how many people they hire just to install hardware.</p><p>How long can they lose so much money?  $470,000,000 this year alone.</p><p>I agree that You Tube is one of the strongest online communities, if not THE strongest, but somehow, they&#8217;ll need to figure out the monetization problems.  No business can run with losses that continue for too long.</p><p>That said, taking advantage of You Tube&#8217;s channels for all of your company video is a pretty good way to broadcast yourself.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.backleft.com/2009/05/23/google-is-bigger-than-they-say-they-are/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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