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It is not really a close-kept secret but it is relatively new and is quite powerful as I am finding with my tests. It is the power of image alt tags.
With Google image search being used at a growing rate you can really drive substantial amounts of traffic to your website by utilizing your alt image tags. Make sure they are descriptive but also that they use high-traffic keywords. For image heavy niches they can drive tons of quality traffic as I am finding out with my fashion blog, last month I recieved 12k visits from Google images and my adsense has tripled for that site. It seems three of my images are on the first page of Google’s image search for some very popular terms and those are driving the nice boost in traffic and conversions.
Another great thing that I am noticing so far is that the increase in traffic has not triggered ’smart pricing’ because the quality of traffic from these image searches are high. So start going through your websites and find all the older images you have that are missing alt tags and add them in. The traffic boost will be well-worth your time.
Crusing through DigtalPoint forums I found another SEO fraudster coning folks with an old style scam with a fresh new twist. the guaranteed results or your money back swindle.
In this version (as seen below) you pay in increments as this hard-working SEO moves your rankings up the ladder at Google.com - the only problem is that there is next to no competition for the keywords so my dead grandmother could guarantee these steady climb of these keywords.
In order to prove our worth and establish some credibility, we have created a performance-based payment schedule:
- $99 down payment
- $100 due once your site reaches Google top 20
- Remaining $100 due once your site reaches Google top 10
When called out by IC_IC, in this post:
With all due respect the phrase you are trying to rank for below has a competition of 5 in quotes.
Move In Free Realty: “move in free Houston”
as a matter of fact so does this one:
O.C. PC Guy: “tech consulting Orange County”
You could probably take number one spot in either of those with a handful of links.
Do you have any better examples?
He gets quite angry and has a reply similar to the last scammer (could they be studying the same ebook; how to scam using SEO)?
“Analyze the competition of my clients’ keywords all you want - they chose the keywords that they wanted to rank in the top ten…not me. Bottom line: our company delivered a Google top 10 ranking as promised. ”
The absolute best part of this guy is the URL he runs his SEO from, drum-roll please…..www.centralvalleygiftcards.com!
Not to say Ask.com is anything like a pimple but we are talking relative size here. The question is, can a search engine that is 1/17th the size of the industry leader run a profitable business model? The answer is, YES!
Forbes is reporting that Jim Safka, head of Ask.com announced his company will acquire Lexico, the owner of sites including Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. The deal has an estimated acquisition value of over $100 million dollars.
Back in March Ask laid off just under 10% of it’s workforce and decided to focus on women above 30 and web searchers looking for answers to questions about health, fitness and entertainment because it appears this niche made up a majority of their user base. With only a shrinking 4% share of searches Ask seems to be holding on by a thread. There has even been speculation that they would soon be dropping its own search algorithm in favor of licensing Google’s search technology.
Safka denies this claim and say that the new Lexico acquisition is to take advantage of current Ask.com users that tend use full-sentence questions three times as often as users of other search engines. So for now it looks like Ask.com will keep up the fight and just try not to go head on with Google but instead to attempt some innovative side-steps in hope of capturing a bit more market share and perhaps some more loyal customers.
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