Be Number One On Google!!!

Internet has allowed many businesses to reach a wider audience through websites and web pages; to gain more clients and progress with sales and notability; however, it's not just having a website that brings the people to your site.  Oh NO!  You have to utilize three simple little letters: SEO. You may have asked yourself: what does it means? Why is it so important? Well the answer is simple. You just don't click on what you don't see!

How many times have you been searching for something and haven't even gone past page 1 in the search results? I know that many times when I'm online if I don't see what I'm looking for in the first 5 results, I alter my search until I find what I'm looking for. There are millions of sites and results that I don't even pay attention to simply because they're not on the top of the list. There's just something about being on the top of the mountain that gets people to notice you. 

Enough Danyol!!! What does SEO stand for? It simply means: Search Engine Optimization. It's the art of making your Internet presence more prominent and noticeable without paid promotion when using search engines such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing.

Online businesses are learning more and more how important it is to have high SEO rankings; so much so that entrepreneurs and other marketing executives are sharpening their skills and going back to the classroom to learn how to effectively use SEO's to help their business be the best. 

OPTIHIT took some statistics to show just how a websites success is directly related to SEO rank: 

Can you imagine a 500% return on your investment SIMPLY because you increased you SEO?! 

Logically the next question is: 

"How in the heck do I effectively increase MY Search Engine Optimization?"

Here are a few things you can do: 

1- Use interesting content. Titles and content that is engaging and interesting keep people coming back to your site. If your site is boring and uninteresting chances are you'll be on the bottom of the searching totem pole.

2- Know your audience.  If you have a site that caters to a specific audience make sure you are giving them content they would enjoy and search for on a regular basis. Always keep them coming back for more.

3-Utilize social media sharing.  Most people share good information when they find it.  If you want to ensure your content gets spread, allow your site visitors the option to share. 

4-Research other results. Contact the owners of websites and pages you search for to get some tidbits on how you can improve your rankings. The Internet is a huge community with plenty of people looking to help out other site owners. 

For more information on SEO rankings and how to increase them check out the following links: 

BitRebels.com 

TechRepublic.com

Remembering The Past: 9/11

12 years ago this country was hit by a wave of terrorism that not only changed our economics and our military standards but the lives of millions of people. People who lost friends, husbands, wives and other loved ones.

I remember the day that the twin towers in New York City were hit.  I was on the school bus headed to school during my sophomore year at Hollywood High School.  Other students on phones and ear phones listening to little portable radios getting as much information as they could.  We sat talking among ourselves not all too sure of what had happened and what it all meant. We arrived at school and it was like the entire student body and faculty was in a state of mourning. People crying, sobbing, motionless in shock. I walked into my first period class to find what was normally my chemistry class had been turned into a news room.  The television hooked up and we sat and watched the terror unfold while replaying certain moments over and over again.  People who's families were in NYC just sat in tears while those with no direct ties to NYC just sat and talked and played games in the ignorance of the moment.

I sat there, looking around me and contemplating. I knew people in NYC, none of which had died (thank God), but I knew that my friends who were there probably had those who they had lost. It was in the moment when it hit me: Life doesn't happen independent of one another. In some way we are all connected. We are all affected by those events on September 11, 2001. Here we are 12 years later and still not over the tragedies of that day. People still mourn, the economy still in a terrible state and those who don't recognize how this affects them simply go on as if today is just another day.

I take this time (and this blog) to remember and memorialize those who lost their life on Sept 11, 2001. Your lives meant something to someone and your loss have stained the memory of this country. I pray that in years to come we never have to repeat that day.

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Can Facebook Make You Money?

It's becoming harder and harder to be an analog girl in digital world or a manual dude in a techno school.  Social media is becoming the number one way to promote business, brands products AND make you some extra money.   Internet was the birth of the freelance reporter/critic that we now know as a Blogger.  They update us on various entertainment news, political issues and often times gives us "Dear Abby" advice on things happening in our lives.

Well how many people actually rely on bloggers?  How are bloggers becoming more and more important?  Will bloggers be the ultimate news feed? Researchers have looked into how social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter affect bloggers and how they are using social media to get their work to the masses.  According to Blog Skinny the following percentages show how much bloggers rely on social media while also showing how blogs across the net are seen as reliable and important sources of information:

There will always be an ongoing rival between bloggers and journalists and which is the "real" writer. However I have seen blogs that are well written and give more information than most editorial articles from major print magazines or newspapers.  Not to mention the ability to be creative and lively that normal publications don't always offer. More and more bloggers are finding ways to use social media and their writing abilities to make money.  Allowing them to actually make their talented hobby a legitimate job. With the economy being what it is EVERYONE needs something to help them out.  With booming social media and a savvy knowledge of networking and marketing you can become a blogger and get paid to write about what you love!!! 

What do you think about blogging?  Do you read blogs for your entertainment, political and social news?  If so leave a comment and tell us what you think!!

For more information on blogging check out these links: 

JeffBullas.com

SocialMediaToday.com

VelocityDigital.com

MagnetSocialMedia.com

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