Top 7 Things we Did to Recover from a Panda Penguin Update

Top 7 Things we Did to Recover from a Panda Penguin Update

As you all may know by now the latest Panda Penguin update from Google happened about a couple of months ago. But I was to busy with my head in the sand working on other things to notice. But after seeing significant drops in traffic in November and December I pulled my head out an looked around and noticed this decline right after Penguin 3.0 hit. So I decided to do some research and find…

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Why we are Using Pinterest as a Social Media Strategy in 2015

Why we are Using Pinterest as a Social Media Strategy in 2015

Is Pinterest a Valid Social Media Strategy to Use? Well we have every other “major” business social profile setup that we can think of. But we are trying to build links into our site that are natural and come from authoritative sites. One way to do this is to use social media profiles that allow a link back to our web pages. Pinterest does that. So we decided to see if we can use this…

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In SEO A Picture is Not Worth a Thousand Words

In SEO A Picture is Not Worth a Thousand Words

I wanted to write this article for a long time because we do a lot of work with photos and the selling of real products. So a good photo is not only necessary but is paramount and so much so that we often have multiple views. So for me this article came easy and is a perfect segue into making sure your listings on assisted selling sites sell and convert well. Also with building an…

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3 Website Traffic Providers that Kill your Website Ranking

3 Website Traffic Providers that Kill your Website Ranking

I have found that there are many types of website traffic providers out there that many people want to use when they first start-up a website. They are excited to get large amounts of traffic to their sites and quickly to improve their website ranking. In the world of Online Business or any business where you are trying to make an income traffic is the number one thing you need. But some sacrifice shortcuts to…

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Are you Stealing Content to Get More Traffic?

Are you Stealing Content to Get More Traffic?

Are You Stealing Traffic… Traffic needs to come from somewhere so if you are not generating your own out of thin air then you are “stealing” it from someone else. Well stealing maybe a harsh word. But the truth is the traffic you are getting is traffic that your competition is not. But luckily I subscribe to the theory that there is enough to go around for everyone. If we all help each other then…

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One Great Reason to Have an Email Signature

One Great Reason to Have an Email Signature

Email is one way we communicate with one another. And there is a lot of email that we read on a daily basis. I think that on a normal day I go through about 100 – 200 emails. Sorting and looking at each one of them to make sure they are important or spam. So email is a big part of our lives and it is an effective way to communicate. So you should take advantage…

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Get a Fast Alexa Ranking with These Quick Tips

Get a Fast Alexa Ranking with These Quick Tips

So we just started putting together the Online Business Reef and we are looking at our Alexa rank. We are not concerned about it from the standpoint that we need to have a rank to feel that our site is successful. We are trying to get it as a measure of our website traffic testing experiment and to get a measuring stick against other sites. So we are not ranked right now and we want…

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If your Traffic is Low use these Article Sites to Get More

If your Traffic is Low use these Article Sites to Get More

So these are another type of top article sites used to generate traffic or visitors to your site. You write articles and submit them to the various sites recommended below that others can use on their website. They then are obligated to leave you authorship link and hopefully people will read and like your article and visit your site for more. So these are our top sites for getting great content and/or writing to get…

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Experiment to Discover if One Page Themes or Full Page Themes Hurt SEO

Experiment to Discover if One Page Themes or Full Page Themes Hurt SEO

We will be doing an experiment to discover if One Page Themes or Full Page Themes hurt SEO and if normal themes are better. Do One Page Themes Help or Hurt or SEO? For this experiment we will be using our current Full Page image them called Full-Width by STK on this site and our parent site 4mmmm4.com, to do this we will be adding our current statistics, then we will change the theme of…

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