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5 Methods for Optimizating your Facebook page

Method 1 - Respect Your Audience
We’ve covered the power of individuality on the Web. While it is true the Web offers exceptional degrees of anonymity and collective activity, at the end of the day every user has his/her own judgments to make, and will make those judgments known via clicks and comments. There are websites solely devoted to expounding on peoples’ bad experiences, such as the popular Not Always Right. Rest assured that if you stick to sales pitches and infomercials, your work will be forgotten or derided quite quickly.

Method 2 - Identify and Use Your Keywords
Keyword usage requires research. It isn’t a matter of simply plugging in all the buzzwords in every awkward conversation - this is a good way to get sites to blacklist or penalize you in their rankings. Take the time to really examine what key roles your business works toward, and then research the keyword usage of related activities. Pick out those keywords that seem most relevant, and then work them into your site as naturally as you can.

Method 3 - Remember Reciprocity
The interesting thing about your Facebook page is that your company website doesn’t host it - Facebook does. This puts your content in two distinct places on the Web, potentially doubling the coverage you can receive during Web searches. Take advantage of that by remembering to provide links from each site to the other. Your company homepage should be linked from your Facebook profile, and vice-versa. This will improve traffic to each site by bringing in visitors from the sister sites, and takes less than a minute to implement.

Method 4 - Harness Multiple Media
Given the social nature of Facebook, it’s an appropriate page to include ‘related’ content to your venture that isn’t strictly relevant in the normal sense. Consider a site focused on pet care and related products. Rather than tying in a sales video, post the latest adorable kitten video from one of the many cat websites on the Internet. Tag it with keywords related to your focus by all means, but the key here is to give people additional reasons to visit your site and help drive your numbers.

Method 5 - Learn From the Best
A writer once commented that every good story has already been written - what remains is for the good writer to borrow judiciously. If there is one thing the Internet is good for, it is copious amounts of free information. Take a look at popular Facebook sites and take notes on what they’re doing. You do not exist in a bubble, but rather a network of ideas and interactions. Consider adopting different approaches that others are making work, or putting your spin on them for even more success. Creativity drives much of the Web, so feel free to experiment. ” ~ Enzo Cesario, Sitepro News

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Personalized Search… for Everyone!

“Today we’re helping people get better search results by extending Personalized Search to signed-out users worldwide, and in more than forty languages. Now when you search using Google, we will be able to better provide you with the most relevant results possible. For example, since I always search for [recipes] and often click on results from epicurious.com, Google might rank epicurious.com higher on the results page the next time I look for recipes. Other times, when I’m looking for news about Cornell University’s sports teams, I search for [big red]. Because I frequently click on www.cornellbigred.com, Google might show me this result first, instead of the Big Red soda company or others.

Previously, we only offered Personalized Search for signed-in users, and only when they had Web History enabled on their Google Accounts. What we’re doing today is expanding Personalized Search so that we can provide it to signed-out users as well. This addition enables us to customize search results for you based upon 180 days of search activity linked to an anonymous cookie in your browser. It’s completely separate from your Google Account and Web History (which are only available to signed-in users). You’ll know when we customize results because a “View customizations” link will appear on the top right of the search results page. Clicking the link will let you see how we’ve customized your results and also let you turn off this type of customization.” ~ Source: Googleblog.Blogspot.com

To watch a video on Google Personal Search, click here!

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ebasedEVOLUTION & The IWLA

For almost five years, ebasedEVOLUTION has been working with the IWLA (International Warehouse & Logistics Association) and several of their members to improve their visibility and value in search engines. This year, the IWLA’s 119th Annual Convention was held at the beautiful Hotel del Coronado, just outside of San Diego.

This year’s theme was “Surviving & Prospering, Translating Hard Choices into Profits.” The convention assembles the best minds and the best practices in the industry. Program speakers come from operations and executive management backgrounds, and provided valuable insight regarding how companies translate hard choices into profits.

This year, Project Manager Korey Kashmer and SEO Analyst Joe Restivo represented ebasedEVOLUTION at the event. While there, they atteneded the annual golf outting at Steel Creek Canyon, where they shot par and were very happy about it. Additionally, several of our clients attended, including Jere Van Puffelen of Prism Team Services, a California third party logisitics company, Andre Vanegas with Camelot 3PL, a WMS company, and Ayal Latz with a2b Fulfillment, a direct response fulfillment company.

Check out our Facebook page to see additional picture of ebasedEVOLUTION, a full service internet marketing firm, at the trade-show and golf outting!