Internet Marketing For All

Yes, Google is going to combine its search results. This means that we will get one she-bang of all the news, web sites, videos and all the rest on one page.  Check out the news from CNN here.

This is one interesting news. What will this mean? How will our rankings be affected? Will your current position on the search results be maintained or will it be pushed down? Or will this mean more eyeballs since now all the people searching are now all on one page? Already, we are seeing some changes at the Gmail site and the various Google Advertising modules recently when they started separating the accounts.

Came across this interesting video from youtube about how to make your wordpress blog Google “friendly” :

Makes sense?

2 Tips For Wordpress Blog SEO in the video mentioned :

1. Always put your post in one single category only. If more than one category is assigned, Google might be confused. Set up “themeing” for each section.

2. Always use “More” for each post. This is to prevent duplicate content.

3. Always block posts that appear under other sections using robots.txt file. You want Google to find your post under the main categories only.

Great news, our beloved DMOZ directory is back up.

Start submitting your sites!

If you do not know what DMOZ or Open Directory Project is :

This is like the “holy grail” of directories. Getting listed here is a BIG deal as most of the major search engines trust the websites listed here. Google search engine is known for giving more weight to websites that are listed here. This is number one must-submit directories. They have human editors that go through the sites submitted and only approved those good legitimate sites. And hence it is notorious that it takes weeks or months to get your site added.