Directories are a great resource of Backlinks, Here is a great resource of directories!

As a Calgary marketing company, I'm always looking to provide great value for my clients and great information to you. Here's another great post on directories. I have compiled a phenomenal list Of Internet directories for you.

Importance of Local Directories

Local business directories are a big factor in your company’s internet presence and online reputation. Local directories comprise of everything from Yelp!, Angie’s List and Judy’s Book to City Square, MojoPages and 100s of other location-based directories. Today, I want to talk about three reasons that you should submit your business to local business directories.  

Branding and Backlinks

Any company that has been around for any amount of time would tell you how important branding is for growth. Branding online is equally as important as traditional; local business directories means as it gives- your business one more place to advertise. Now you’re thinking “OK, that’s great, but outside of directories like Yellow Book and Angie’s List, if people don’t visit these sites how will they see my listing?” That’s where the search engines come in… Search engines want to give the searcher the most valuable information as quickly as possible, so not only will they display websites of the companies that the search engine believes relate to what you are looking for, they will also provide local listings, news, images, videos, and related directories among its results for the search term. This gives you more fishing lines in the water to hook a new customer and it is another opportunity to get your company name in front of the searcher.

New Visitors and Incoming Web Traffic

While many traditional web directories don’t provide much impact on new visitors to your website, local directories such as Angies List, SuperPages, and Yellow Book do still provide valuable referrals for your business. These business listing sites are also more often trusted than other places on the web or directories. Business listings such as these are often considered to be more trustworthy because they allow existing customers to post reviews and testimonials or they have business certifications, or other standards, that must be met before they will post the business as part of their network. In doing so, new visitors acquire more insight on whether or not they can trust a company based on other clients’ testimonies of the company and that can either persuade potential clients towards higher credited companies… or detour the searcher from businesses with unfavorable reviews.

Search Engine Authority

Lastly and most importantly, local and international directories give you citations to build authority with the search engines like Google. The manner in which Google’s SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) are displayed, the area for Google Places displays predominantly at the top. While there are other ways to optimize your Google Places listing, one of the biggest factors is through citations. Citations are mentions of your name, address, and phone numbers on other sites. There are many places where you can get citations, however local business directories are the easiest way to build multiple citations quickly.

Have a great day and a great week.
Allan Fine
Calgary marketing company
403-246-7386

The Top 100 Wordpress Plugins (and Why I love them)!

WordPress is a great CMS system, and while I'm not particularly fond of it for website design (  I have my reasons) I do love of blogging though.

As a Calgary marketing company I am always trying to help all my clients and YOU.

I feel that there is so much abundance in Calgary. There is no need to hide information, or not properly share it.

Here is a list of 100 great WordPress plug-ins, if you want the full reports and all the information. Please feel free to contact me. I would love to help you out.

Introduction 1

Allin One SEO 2

Akismet 3

Google XML Sitemap 4

Google Analytics 5

Simple Facebook Connect 6

Contact Form 7

Gravity Forms 8

BackupBuddy 9

Comment Luv 10

Traffic Getting SEQ Plugin by Jeff Johnson 11

CBnet Ping Optimizer 12

Flowplayer 13

WordPress backup 14

Digg Digg 15

Easy WP SEQ 16

Exclude Pages 17

Audio Player 18

AWeber Web Form Plugin 19

DigitaiAccess Pass (DAP) 20

Fast Secure Contact Form 21

Raw HTML 22

Amazon S3 for WordPress 23

Google Analyticator 24

Bulletproof 25

Commentluv Premium 26

HeadSpace2 SEQ 27

AddThis 28

Live Slogging 29

ClickBump SEQ 30

Digi Auto Links 31

wp-Member 32

Disqus Comment System 33

Duplicate Post 34

Easy Video Player 35

MaxBiog Press Affiliate Ninja 36

W3 Total Cache 37

lnfusionWP 38

Jetpack 39

JWplayer 40

Add To Any 41

List Rank Dashboard Widget 42

Conditional Captcha 43

Antispam Bee 44

Auto Blog Buddy 45

Auto Link Juicer 46

Auto Blogged 47

Automatic WordPress Backup 48

WP Autoresponder and Newsletter Plugin 49

Backlinks Rotator 50

Backup creator 51

WP Super Cache 52

cforms II 53

Chennai Central 54

Clean-contact form 55

Facebook  comments for WordPress 56

Date Exclusion SEO 57

Display  Buddy 58

Easy AdSense 59

Editorial  Calendar 60

Efficient  Related  Posts 61

EZPZ One Click  Backup 62

Feedburner 63

Flash video player 64

Follow Widget 65

Free Traffic Getting  SEO 66

Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps 67

XML Google  Maps 68

Hana Flash Player 69

Exploit scanner 70

Like 71

Thank Me Later 72

WP Email Capture 73

Clicky 74

Simple Social 75

SEO Smart Links 76

Sociable 77

Viper's 78

Video Quicktags 79

AdSense Manager  80

Ad Injection 81

Wptouch 82

Redirection 83

pageMash 84

Simple Social- Sharing Widgets and Icons 85

Social Media Widget 86

WP Security 87

Scan WP 88 

Smush.it Newsletter 89

TinyMCE Advanced 90

LinkWithin 91

WordPress Importer 92

SEO Friendly Images 93

Secure WordPress 94

MaxBiogPress 95

Ninja Affiliate 96

FeedWordPress 97

WP Optimize 98

WP-DBManager 99

Really Simple CAPTCHA  100

WP-Polls 101

So there you have it, once again if you want the full list and all the information please contact me I be happy to help you , have a great day.

Allan Fine

The Executive Edge

403-246-7386 

 

 

 

 

When is twitter going to add more social media site back into Posterous?

When is twitter going to add more social media site back into Posterous?

Twitter took out half the sites Posterous
Had in the Auto post setup
Thats why it was so great
When are they going to replace some they took out ?

Super back linking strategies and SEO information, that you absolutely must know!

Here is some information I came across that most companies should know themselves or hire a company who understands all this technical mumbo-jumbo as it will result in your website being ranked higher on Google. Therefore getting more leads, and therefore making more money!

This information is a little bit complicated and probably the average company owner or marketing person won't understand it, as it's pretty technical. Now I'm not saying this to seem really smart. I just find that when I talk to my clients about this. They get that kind of glazed look over their eyes and they have no idea when talking about. That's okay, if you get it great, if you don't understand it. Please contact me. I be happy to explain to you. 

Backlinks are the backbone of any great SEO program.

The easiest way to increase your sites. Google PR if the buyback links in those pages which is then passed to your webpage and increases your PR weight!

Passed PR Weight - is Google PageRank weight, passed from the backlink page to your web page. This weight is calculated based on the Google PageRank Formula. For your convenience, below we provided a simplified explanation of Google PR Formula. 

 

Take a look in the above table, you'll see that to get PR4, you need to have 625 weight. Since your page has only 511.82 weight, it will get PR3. 

Now, let's take a look at another example for you to see how important the number of outbound links is. For example, if you buy a backlink on PR6 page with only 1 outbound link, then your page will get the following PR weight: 15,625 (weight of PR6 page) / 2 (your link will become 2nd outbound link) - 15% = 6,640.62 weight. If your page is PR0, such backlink will increase your page PR to PR5 in the next  Google PR update!

 

All this means that when you purchase backlinks, you need to consider not only Google PR of the page, but also the number of outbound links on that page.
 

To make a long story short. A website along with all the other website optimization factors  ( see this post on how I explained how Google actually gets a website ranked)
http://executiveedge1.posterous.com/#!/the-secret-to-how-i-am-number-one-on-page-1-o
needs to have thousands and thousands of Backlinks.

A powerful Backlinking campaign will get you there. Imagine the sort of money you could be making if you were #1 on Google all of your websites competitive keywords! Let our backlink service help you!

Rates:

Packages range from $149-$1500 –The average site needs 3000-5000 backlinks to rank well on Google.

Contact: Please contact The Executive Edge

Website: http://executiveedge1.com/backlink.html

 

Calgary Internet Marketing

Calgary Internet Marketing

An analysis done by Webvisible and Neilsen, indicates that about 63% of potential buyers and small business owners use the internet to search for information about local businesses and about 82% of these use Google to do so. However, a mere 44% of businesses have a website of their own and mere 10% are committed towards using this as a means to boost sales. - Calgary Internet Marketing

Social media allows cheap, in fact almost free advertisement, making it easier for people to sell their idea, products or services to a wide variety of people. All it needs is a little strategic thinking. In fact internet marketing has even found acceptance in B-schools, with several B-schools offering bachelor and masters programs on online marketing. While setting up websites and putting up advertisements helps, it has its limitations. Small business owners in Calgary can no longer afford to ignore the Calgary internet marketing wave. In fact the one great thing about the internet is that it allows small business owners to compete with giants, thus providing for a level playing field.

Calgary Internet Marketing company - Despite the recession, there are several success stories of small business owners who've managed to dominate the Calgary market, thanks to Calgary internet marketing companies. These companies offer unique services that can get unexpected results including top ranking on search engines like Google, Bing, etc. Using social media sites effectively can land you with thousands of fans and followers, traffic to your website and finally crazy sales leads.

Quality articles, SEO, blogs, press releases, video submissions, are tools besides social media used by these companies to market your product. Thanks to Calgary internet marketing professionals it's easy to make yourself known to the whole of Calgary (and to the whole wide world) at a fraction of costs that you would generally spend on advertising through conventional techniques.

But it's very important to choose the Calgary internet marketing professional with care. When marketing your business, you never know when the thin line between marketing and spamming has been crossed. While intelligent marketing has its benefits, spamming may actually drive customers away from you. Instances of spamming include, sending the same twitter updates to followers multiple times, mindless blog commenting, etc.

Calgary Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing Backlinks-This is how you get to #1 on Google!

Whether you know it or not, Backlinks are one of the number one key factors for getting your website ranked high on Google.

What is a Backlink?

If you found this page you followed a link from somewhere. Maybe you saw it in a forum, saw a linkedin on another webpage. A link is just clickable text you can follow to another webpage. The full name for a link is hyperlink, but that term is not used much anymore. From the perspective of a particular article or website, links that point at the website are termed backlinks. They are called backlinks because they point back at the article/site/blog.

Just look us up on Google under the search terms “Calgary marketing” and “Calgary marketing company”, We are number one, page 1.

It amazes me how many Calgary SEO or marketing companies try to sell you a service when they haven't done it for themselves, shouldn't you want to use a company who was actually has done this already, as opposed to the other companies below us or paying for Google ad words and claim to be the best Internet marketing companies in Calgary?

Those companies are paying anywhere between $500-$2000 for Google ad words. At the executive edge, we pay zero dollars. That's a $24,000.00 a year savings.

Discover The Power of Having One Way Backlinks that got our site to page 1 of Google number one and That Will Skyrocket Your Website to Google’s 1st Page! Proven Results!”

You should know that building high quality one way backlinks to a website is an essential part of obtaining a high ranking on search engines like Google and Yahoo. These search engines count one way backlinks as popularity votes, thus giving high rankings to the sites that have been linked to the most. However, getting these high quality backlinks can be a tedious, repetitive, and time consuming process. The Executive Edge offers an easy and affordable solution designed to help you with the tedious task of link building.

What's in it for you, tons of traffic to your site and tons of free leads. How about 5-10 new leads every week on TOP of what your getting now!

The Solution!

“High quality ONE WAY backlinks from top authority sites ranging from PR2 to PR8!”

Did you know that...

Around 42% of visitors click on the #1 spot on Google search results?

Isn't that staggering? 12% click on #2 and 8.5% on #3.

This reduces in increments all the way down to only 3% clicking on #10.

The difference can be as drastic as having 2 million clicks on the #1 position and only 147,000 on the #10 position. A BIG difference. By getting to #1, you increase your traffic for that keyword 1,400%.

But even jumping from #8 to #3 can TRIPLE your traffic.

A powerful Backlinking campaign will get you there. Imagine the sort of money you could be making if you were #1 on Google all of your websites competitive keywords! Let our backlink service help you!

Rates:

Packages range from $149-$1500 –The average site needs 3000-5000 backlinks to rank well on Google.

Contact: Please contact The Executive Edge

Website: http://executiveedge1.com/backlink.html

A very cool experiment to see if I can get ranked number one page 1 of Google!- Do you want to follow me?

As you know I do a lot of Internet marketing and social media and one of my claims to fame is getting my clients ranked number one on page 1 of Google. Just Google (Calgary Marketing Company)
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In fact, I blogged about it here: http://executiveedge1.com/blog/rank-number-one-on-page-1-of-google-absolutely-guaranteed

Now recently I had a run-in with the BBB, they gave me a D+ rating-which in my opinion amounts to saying that a business is not trustworthy and a piece of crap. (You tell me, am I wrong?)

They say that they gave me this rating because I couldn't substantiate my claim.

So I'm out to prove wrong and steaming mad.

As well on LinkedIn. I also talked about being able to get my clients on page 1 of Google and some of the key factors of how that works.

Another Calgary Internet Marketing Company, said I was wrong about many of my  theories and what I was saying. I saw this guy's website ( which in my opinion was terrible) and saw that he was ranking for the key phrase Calgary Internet Marketing.

So my goal and am hoping you will follow me is to climb the Google latter for the key phrase "Calgary Internet Marketing" and with it "Calgary Internet Marketing Company"

A few days ago I started my Seo work on that phrase, driving it to my landing page
http://executiveedge1.com/calgary-internet-marketing.html 

I was number five on page 4 , as of today I am at the bottom of page 3, and probably bouncing around a bit between page 3 and page 4.

My goal is to be on top of page 1 above, that person on LinkedIn. In one or two months. I'm hoping you'll follow me as I keep on posting about this site and finally prove to those geniuses at the BBB, that I can do exactly what I say I'm going to do.

If you're like me and you see the massive value of being on the top of page 1 for your key phrases and you realize the massive amount of leads and traffic and bring you please fill free to contact me. I can do the same thing for your company.

 

Allan Fine.

http://executiveedge1.com/
403-246-7386