Google Gadgets

Most people do not even know the full extent of Google tools available to assist in Internet marketing.

Right now Google is at the top of the SEO heap so as you learn about SEO and Internet marketing, you must learn about Google.

Start by looking at the very long list of Google tools, applications and more in this Wikipedia article.

Best Web Hosting For SEO

Web hosting is an important foundation of the Internet marketing arsenal. The difference between good and bad web hosting can affect the way search engines see your site and thus affect your SEO. When your site is down, so is your SEO. Here a brief review of some of the more popular and reliable web hosts today.

1. Reliable, Affordable Business Hosting from Bluehost.com.

From BlueHost:

Hosting plan includes: - 1 Free Domain (1 and 2 year plan) - Free Setup (1 and 2 year plan) - 300 Gigs of Storage Space - 3,000 Gigs of Transfer - 2500 E-Mail Accounts - SSH, Perl, MySQL, FrontPage Extension Support, Fantastico, WYSIWYG Site Builder, Free Marketing Services and more. - Unlimited domains can be hosted for no extra charge on 1 account Our technical support leads the industry and is located at our corporate headquarters here in the USA. We offer chat, email and phone support to our customers.

Bluehost was recently awarded Best New Hosting Company and Best Customer Support by the some of the leading hosting review companies.
My husband and I have had very good experiences with BlueHost. The support is excellent.

2. GoDaddy.com, the world’s #1 domain name registrar also provides web hosting. I have been used GoDaddy web hosting and website creation services and have no complaints.
GoDaddy.com Hosting Plans


3. HostDime Web Hosting starting at $8.25/month, Free Setup

From the company:

Our most popular package:
200GB Disk Space
2000 GB of Bandwidth
Host 10 Addon Domains
Cpanel w/ Fantastico
Unlimited E-mail Addresses
Unlimited MySQL Databases
24/7 Phone Support
$9.00/month
$99/year

4. iPower - The Leader in Web Hosting

iPower is one of the World's Fastest Growing Web Hosting and Domain Name Registration Companies. iPower currently hosts over 500,000 websites.

Use Google Insights For SEO Help

Google Insights is a terrific new google tool that can give you important information about what micro-trends are occurring within search terms that may be important to your business.

Check it out at Google Insights.

SEO Tip: Mine The Long Tail

One of the many counter-intuitive aspects of SEO is the concept of mining the long tail of your keywords. This not-so-obvious strategy involves paying attention to and adjusting your SEO to maximize the performance of your lesser-searched for terms.

Why on earth do you care about the little-searched terms that are associated with your main keywords?

1. Internet searchers are looking for those terms, no matter how few they may be (remember, you are in the business of Internet marketing to help those who come online for a specific purpose to accomplish their purpose!)

2. Less competition. You will face much less competition for keywords related to your main keyword that are less popular. Less competition translates into fewer advertising dollars you will have to spend to get that keyword seen by Internet searchers.

3. A little times a little adds up to a lot. By mining 50 long tail keywords you may only get one visitor per day for each keyword but that adds up to an additional 1500 visitors per month for your site! Imagine that.

As an example, I run a women's plus size site. Plus size, plus size woman and plus size clothing are very popular (and expensive) search terms. However, there are many more long tail keywords that are searched for but at a lower rate such as "cheap plus size" or "plus size belt" that can also bring visitors to my site.

As you are deciding on what keywords to target for your site, include long tail considerations as part of your SEO strategy.

SEO: Viral Marketing

Would you like to have word about your website or blog go viral? Of course you would! The best Internet marketing thrives on viral marketing. A very thoughtful viral marketing campaign can catapult your Internet marketing efforts to the next level.

This excellent article by Jennifer over at Search Engine Guide, is very helpful.

For good SEO, you do not need to resort to back-handed tricks or so-called "Black Hat" SEO. Just do your research, do your work and keep learning all the time.

SEO Tip: Solve A Problem

Did you ever think about how many problems you confront and often solve each day? Do you ever use your computer to search for answers to the problem?

If you have, then you probably have in your search history potential content that can boost your SEO.

If you had the problem and looked online for the solution, someone else probably did too.

This is largely why I started this blog. I had a lot of questions about Internet marketing and affiliate marketing, spent a lot of time researching answers, discovered that others had the same questions I did so I began to publish some of my questions and answers.

Read a good article on this topic here.

Google Base: Rank Your Product On Google

Imagine getting a primo spot for your product in Google search listings for your product. It is easy to do if you just sign up for Google Base.

Once you are signed in, you can upload one product at a time or many products using a feed. Detailed instructions are included as google help pages.

Your results will also be fed to to Google Shopping results.

One caveat for affiliate marketers: You can not use Google Base for affiliate marketing according to the Google Base TOS. Sorry.

Firefox Best For Internet Marketing

The Firefox browser has been instrumental to my success. It's many SEO savvy add-ons make it easy for the Internet marketer to do everything from make a blog post on the fly to keep an eye on competitors. If you are not already on board, check out the impressive list of useful Firefox Customizations and then consider downloading the latest version today.

MAC and Windows are both available.

I will be featuring some of the Firefox tools that are especially helpful to Internet marketers and SEO junkies in future posts.