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10 Disturbing Similarities Between Dating & Raising Venture Capital

Let’s get our latest fix of SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday’s..

More search engine optimization.

The best search engine

ROFL..

lol-SERP

Gota love it!

[Thanks Rod]

Google introduces new feature to Insights

Google Insights allows you to see what people are searching for around the world. Not only has Google catered for 39 languages, Google has also introduced a forecasting feature for some queries based on an extrapolation of the historical trends and search patterns. And to help us all visualize these changes and trends, they’ve also added an animated map so we can watch how search interest changes over time in different locations.

Take a look at this video to get a better understanding..

You can click here to visit Google Insights for Search.

Matt Cutts talks to us about NoFollow link

NoFollow links have been a huge topic over the past month or two, with every SEO giving their opinion on the matter of page sculpting. SEOMoz once again got closer to the truth..

Have you noticed anything since the changes?

Google Page Speed – Improve your website performance

Having a website that loads and performs quickly is essential these days. With the huge competition on the Internet, guiding your visitors quickly to what they are looking for is critical.

Google has just released an open-source Firefox/Firebug addon called Page Speed. Page Speed can be used by website owners to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.

Page Speed performs several tests on a site’s web server configuration and front-end code. These tests are based on a set of best practices known to enhance web page performance. Webmasters who run Page Speed on their pages get a set of scores for each page, as well as helpful suggestions on how to improve its performance.

Advantages of using Page Speed:

- Make your site faster
- Keep Internet users engaged with your site
- Reduce bandwidth costs

Install | Run | Read More

The future of SEO

It’s Friday and that means that SEOmoz has released another episode of White Board Friday and this time it’s all about the future of SEO.

[Thanks Scott]

Creating Profitable Websites Course in Cape Town

The Heavy Chef Project has been going for quite some time now and they’ve decided to evolve things from just being a meet up from time to time to actually offering a full on course for those of you who are interested in learning how to make profitable websites.

The course last for 4 days and is jam packed with interesting material. I’m going to outline just day 1 for you below:

-Clarifying objectives: Looking at what the business needs to achieve out of the campaign
- Marketing and branding: The marketing pot, explained in plain English.
- Calls to action: Where is the campaign going to be profitable?
- Personas: Understanding what your customers really want
- Competitive analysis: Understand what your competitors are doing
- Digital Strategy: What are the tools available and what to use? From Twitter to Search Engine Optimisation, we taste the goods.

As you can see, that’s just one day of the course, imagine 4! The cost of the course is R9,600 incl. VAT and includes 3 full days of practical learning, course materials, meals and snacks.

What I’d like to share with you is that there’s a special, for those of you who sign up before the 24th of July, you’ll only pay R7,800!

If you’re interested in this course, you can download the brochure or contact Heavy Chef on courses@heavychef.com. I would like to ask that if you do, that you please mention that you heard about the course on iMod – I would appreciate that :)

Market Forces and SEO

Once again, SEOmoz treat us to an excellent White Board Friday, packed with juicy SEO tips..

Recap of some online marketing articles

I have seen a recent increase in people arriving at my blog via online marketing and search engine search results, so I’ve decided to do a brief recap of some of the articles I’ve published:

- Bing conversions
- Steps to become a Google Adwords certified company
- Steps to become a Google Adwords certified individual
- The new Google Adwords
- SEO vs SEM vs PPC
- Tutorial: Setting up conversion tracking with Google Adwords
- Video: Crawling and indexing
- Your PR might drop, warning!
- SEO offline to SEO online
- Tutorial: Make money online
- Adsense for mobile phones
- Earn money using Twitter
- AdGator is performing

There you go, some nice reads for those interested in either making money online or getting your website better suited for search engines.

Enjoy!

Crawling and Indexing

Another SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday..