Month: November 2012

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Get a Free Mobile Website For One Year

This is a great way to try out the mobile web for your own website for free from DudaMobile and Google.  Just visit the link and DudaMobile creates a free mobile version website for you and hosts it for one year all for FREE! At the end of a year, if you like it, you’ll pay about $100 to $150 for each year after.

It is easy to create your own mobile website. I let the interface just create mine and then colored it and added my logo. At the end of the process code is created that I then just installed on the home page of my website that redirects my mobile viewers automatically to my new mobile friendly website.

What’s great is that I even get stats from DudaMobile showing how many visitors came to my mobile website to allow me to review if I feel it is important to keep.

I have to say that having experimented in mobile design and having had problems with sniffing out the various phone types to deliver a mobile page, that this application is really foolproof and has done quite well.

If you’ve wanted to test mobile but didn’t wanted to either get into the code, pay a premium for a special design, for now the service is free thanks to Google and DudaMobile. Just visit my site www.mccordweb.com with your smartphone to see my DudaMobile website.

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LinkedIn Business Pages Get a New Cover

Our LinkedIn Cover Image

For many businesses moving away from Facebook, LinkedIn is becoming the place to be. Not only can you have an personal executive profile at LinkedIn, but your business can have a LinkedIn page too.

Business pages just got upgraded to a new cover look and so if you have a Business Page, you’ll want to login to LinkedIn and add a large graphic as your cover shot. Here’s our page so you can see what the cover looks like.

It is important to know that the image you create for LinkedIn must be 646 pixels wide and 220 pixels tall or it won’t upload. The image can actually be larger and when loaded LinkedIn will allow you to crop it, but must meet these minimum requirements.

The finished cover look is very Twitter-ish/Facebook-ish. I took elements of our company website banner for branding purposes, but you can use just about any image you would like.

With businesses looking to be social but socially productive, LinkedIn and the activity you find there definitely warrants another look. We provide LinkedIn status updates to your personal executive page. Check with us for more information or visit our services page online.

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Google Placement and Article Marketing

This is a very interesting video done by Matt Cutts Google’s voice to my industry on the topic of article marketing. It is a must watch for all website owners.

In this video Matt Cutts specifically states that Google does not give weight to links from article marketing but specifically articles that are low quality meaning they are 200 to 275 words long and then have the wording changed by using article spinning software and syndicated out on hundreds of websites.

In other videos, Matt does say that articles created for sites in your industry that are high quality and that you have clearly worked hard on and sweated a bit over will give you link juice.

The bottom-line is that articles can still work for you for link creation but not typically in the way that many have done before and certainly not with volume “spammy” syndication.

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Google Aggressively Takes on Website Optimization as Web Spam Part II

Continued from Monday.

3. Lists of locations containing city or county names with keywords at the bottom of a web page used as a tactic for location specific placement has not been disavowed by Google as recently as the middle of October.  Google specifically addresses this tactic as keyword stuffing. Read more on this from Google.

4. Google is asking you to turn other sites in that are spamming their network or not playing by their guidelines. Here’s the reporting link: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en. Considering many SEO tactics that would not be considered black hat at the time to now be grey hat, keyword stuffing or even web spam.

What I have found so very interesting with the recent changes and updates is that Google is now actively soliciting your help in turning in offending websites. By using an online form you can bring Google’s eyes onto your competitor’s website that has been practicing newly disavowed techniques to garner better placement. Although Google does not state that they will “smack down” a site you report, I surely would not want to be in their sites, would you?