Tips for SEO: Six Dinner Party Mistakes To Avoid

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Sometimes a high-ranking site is as simple as not making the same mistakes as your competitors.  Here are some great tips for SEO marketing your website.

1. Showing Up Late

Being tardy to the party is never in fashion, and now, if your website is late to the game, you’ll be penalized. According to the Google Webmaster kit, page load times affect search rankings. It’s all about having the optimal experience for your sites user, and watching a spinning dial is not the best use of anyone’s time. Analytics will give you average page load time data, and Google recommends a few programs, like YSlow, that have tips for improving site performance.

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Search Goes Glam: How Styleite Is Capitalizing on SEO Tools

Media pundit Dan Abram’s latest website, Styleite (the latest vertical in his Mediaite empire) launched Monday of this week, generating buzz among sartorial and media tastemakers alike. The fashion news site is purportedly going to try and capture an arguably oversaturated online fashion market, going up against heavies like style.com and wwd,  as well as a host of blogs.

So what’s their angle? Well a big part of it is search.

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Can Twitter's New Ad Platform Pretty Please Include Geo-Tagging Features?

On  Monday, Brian Morrissey at Ad Week put out an article about Twitter’s impending advertising platform and what features from various external satellite technologies it will likely integrate into its own program. Morrissey thinks the popularity both search and trending topics will be heavily featured in the new program, and he also sees increasing value in companies who’ve found a way to flow ad-copy into twitter streams or place units on various Readers such as HootSuite or UberTwitter.

While we think these are all accurate assessments of ways Twitter can retool traditional advertising models, we hope that one thing missing from Morrissey’s musing makes it into the final rollout of the program.

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