AllianceTek Inc, an IT solutions firm that provides leading edge software development and technology consulting services, announces today that it is opening a new development center in India. The company provides clients with application development, application management, legacy system migration, offshore product development, and user interface development.

The new facility, which will be ready to open its doors by the end of March, will initially house a staff of fifteen.  AllianceTek plans to have a workforce of 50 individuals in its new office by year-end.  The facility is located in Rajkot in the state of Gujarat – considered to be the second most industrialized state in the country, and the one with most advanced infrastructure.

The new office will provide key development and quality assurance support to AllianceTek’s US clients. Additionally, the new team will act as the primary managers for AllianceTek’s partner vendors in India. Working directly with the company’s US-based project managers and client services group, this additional offshore staff will help the firm continue to provide the highest level of customer satisfaction to its growing client base. AllianceTek will couple the work of its internal development team with that of its onshore and offshore alliance partners to offer optimal custom IT solution capabilities in one seamless package. 

“The expertise of AllianceTek lies in offering custom-built IT business solutions that reduce costs and improve productivity.  We help bring the strategic advantage of software outsourcing and offshore software development to the doorstep of our customers,” said Damian Petrone, VP of Business Development.

AllianceTek provides an onshore client service and project management team along with overseas developers and designers to deliver the maximum benefit to its clients.

The company understands the increasing technology demands of US businesses and delivers cost-effective business solutions.   The firm will continue to position itself as a leading business solutions provider for current and future clients.

In Praise of B2B Work

Who Says Consumer Accounts Are Better?

Maureen Hall

Last week, we attended American Business Media’s annual Creative Excellence in Business Advertising awards in New York City. Our agency was a finalist for Best Integrated Media Promotion for a campaign that’s quickly becoming one of my favorite examples of how we, as an agency, think about all aspects of our client’s business and how that can pay off for both of us.

But the truth is when we hung our shingle 22 years ago, most of our clients were business-to-business, and all we could talk about was becoming a “real” agency by landing our first business-to-consumer client. We wouldn’t have believed that B2B jobs could promise good creative opportunities and larger budgets back then. It’s another case of knowing now what we didn’t know then. That’s why I applaud Nina DiSesa, chair of McCann Erickson, who said, when she was inducted into the Creative Hall of Fame during the CEBAs, that she had done some of her best creative for B2B clients. We think she’s right: B2B campaigns can be some of your best creative opportunities

But good creative is not the only opportunity. We’ve found that working on the B2B side of the business offers several other advantages. We’re the first to get on the inside track of essential business concerns of our clients. We’re right there with them discussing how to gain broader distribution, build retailer loyalty and figure out how to develop a go-to-market strategy. Some of our best client relationships started when we helped them gain access to new channels of distribution or develop sell-in programs to launch a new product. The knowledge and insight we gained working on the B2B side of their business gave us the clear advantage when they were ready to develop the consumer campaign.

Business-to-business work is about building a brand from the inside out. The brand message that we communicate to our clients’ business constituents is often the same message that is carried through to the consumers in the marketplace. So even though we once thought that consumer advertising was sexier than B2B, we’ve corrected our wayward ways and sought out these opportunities.

We are finding that the B2B landscape is changing just as rapidly as consumer advertising is. Retailers make it increasingly hard to accomplish a comprehensive in-store brand launch these days, leaving businesses no choice but to pour resources into the Net versus creating brand ambassadors face-to-face. In a recent BtoB Magazine article, author Greg Ness points to a 21.4 percent growth in Internet spending among the top 100 B2B advertisers.

All this leads me to ponder this question; will we soon see “real” agencies kicking the wall when they win the B2C project, but not the B2B? It could happen.

Search Engines play a vital role in the success and failure of Internet Marketers and others who use the Internet for various businesses. Though a few search engines stand out above the rest, Google is by far the most popular and most sought after by about 50 % of the Internet community worldwide.

As an Online marketer it is prudent to remain in the good books of the search engines especially Google and implement the SEO Strategy Google loves and appreciates if you want to succeed in your business. Let us then identify the strategies Google dislikes or detests and avoid being penalized or blacklisted knowingly or unknowingly.

1. Avoid Keyword Stuffing:

Optimizing your content to the relevant keywords or phrases of your website is a SEO Strategy always appreciated by the search engines but do not use your keywords too often in the text to improve search engine ranking because this is considered unethical. Google frowns on this practice to obtain better search engine rank. Use your keywords judiciously.

2. Avoid Bad Neighborhoods:

Inbound links especially from theme related quality websites increase your link popularity and Improve Search Engine Ranking. The more such links the better. If on the other hand you have outbound links linking to other sites with a bad reputation, you will soon be penalized by the search engines and especially by Google. Your site will be removed from the index if detected to be linking excessively to a bad neighborhood to improve search engine ranking.

3. Avoid Link Farms:

These are pages in websites that contain a huge number of assorted links irrespective of theme or category built for the sole purpose of increasing the number of incoming links to a web site, a SEO strategy implemented by some. If there are more than one hundred links in a page, it is it is considered a link farm. Reciprocal links from these pages are of no value to you. It is better to avoid these rather than getting penalized by the major search engines. Moreover anything more than thirty links to a page will not be of much benefit to you.

4. Avoid Duplicate Content:

Search Engines love good unique content and fresh content.

Do not duplicate the same content in multiple pages. It has been observed that Google bans sites that duplicate a lot of content. Also do not violate copyright by copying content from other sites.

5. Avoid Irrelevant Meta Keywords:

Meta Keywords are what you use to inform the search engines the true Keywords that are in your content. Some webmasters use popular irrelevant keywords to trick the search engines. Do not list Keywords irrelevant to your site in your Meta Keywords. You will be found out and penalized for this unethical SEO strategy.

6. Avoid Doorway Pages:

Doorway pages are really Gateway pages optimized for a particular keyword but are gateways to a different page and content. These doorway pages have very little original content but redirect the visitor to the planned targeted website. Never trick the search engines by this strategy.

7. Avoid Hidden Text and Links:

This is done by inserting hidden texts and links that cannot be seen by the human eye but readable by the search engines. This SEO strategy is considered to be spam and your site will be penalized once discovered by the search engines.

Conclusion:

Adopting spamming techniques to Improve Search Engine Ranking might work for a short period but you are bound to be found out before long. The consequences of indulging in unethical SEO strategies and practices can be drastic and painful. Your site could even be banned, so play it straight if you want to succeed in the long term as an Internet Marketer.

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The death knell for search engine optimization (SEO) rings so often and so loud, sometimes intelligent marketers can’t hear themselves think. The latest: “SEO Deadheads” claim personalization is pushing SEOs out the door. Others cry the complexity of universal search, or any number of innovations by the search engines, now makes effective SEO impossible.

Wrong. SEO remains one of the best investments any marketer can make.

Most folks would hold firm to the reason they do SEO: drive relevant traffic to their sites. They hope this relevant traffic will result in more leads and/or more sales. Those are great reasons (and will be part of this list), but there’s a lot more to consider. A whole lot more.

Five reasons SEO rocks PPC:

10. PPC and CPC: Not Your Lenin’s CCCP: Paid Search, AKA PPC or pay-per-click search marketing, is no communist manifesto. Online marketing’s ultimate expression of capitalism may be the pay-per-click auction. It’s as close to a free market free-for-all as you can get, with one exception: marketers buy their way into the GYM (Google, Yahoo!, MSN) and Ask, as well as other major search engines.

So PPC isn’t really a free-for-all. It’s a “free-for-none.”

Companies, large and small, jump into the pay-per-click arena due to its simplicity. It’s easy to choose keywords and bid, bid, bid.

The benefits: advertisers set a monthly budget, choose the text (or creative), and choose landing pages that show up in the SERPs (search engine results pages).

The downside: the rules of paid search are so simple, playing is easy. Many, many companies are already in the game. The more companies involved in the auction, the higher the CPC (cost-per-click) and, in general, the lower the chance for a significant ROI (return on investment).

Moreover, when budget runs out for a given month, advertisers may lose their presence in the search engines.

With organic SEO, Web sites can — and do — show up 24/7/365. While SEO can’t “guarantee” any site owner high rankings in search results, you can spread your presence across a multitude of keywords. As long as sites have pages/content to support selected keywords, SEO can deliver a more consistent presence across all the major search engines.

9. High Cost of Competitive Keywords: If your traffic-driving keywords are highly competitive, “buying” a regular presence on the major search engines may be cost-prohibitive. Outsourced SEO may provide the presence you’re looking for at a fraction of the cost. If that’s an option you’d like to explore, make sure the firms you interview devise a solid strategy to get you where you want to go. Again, though, there are no guarantees in SEO. But, over time, with a diligent plan, some great things can be accomplished.

Companies must measure the success of SEO campaigns by hard metrics: growth in targeted organic search traffic; increased number of leads; or increases in sales volume, for example. Many clients and prospects, though, tend to gravitate to ranking reports to see how their presence has increased or decreased against a given set of monitored keywords.

8. Ad Blockers Tackle PPC Ads: I was reading this week, in Advertising Age, about Adblock Plus, which blocks not only pop-ups and banners, but paid search ads as well. No question; some people just want the editorial. With organic SEO, you’re there. If you think about the adoption rate of pop-up blockers (who, reading this article, doesn’t already have them installed?), then you might want to be a little concerned about the adoption rate of ad blockers now tackling paid search. Certainly, search ads are often relevant and mostly unobtrusive (in my view). However, consider the number of people who download ad blockers and enable the “block all ads” function. Something to think about.

7. Organic Clicks Rule, Naturally: No matter what study you believe — and there are many — a great deal of evidence shows that more people click on organic results than paid placements. Some studies suggest around 60 percent of searchers click on organic results. Others indicate the percentage is much higher. In any event, organic results get the majority of the clicks, which means organic gets you the best results.

6. Search Engine “Seal of Approval”? No search engine gives a seal of approval or endorses any companies that come up in organic search results. Nor do search engine endorse companies that advertise in their paid-search networks. However, when your site ranks high in search engine results, there’s a strong case for user perception of “implied endorsement.” When you advertise in paid search, many — if not most — searchers realize you’ve paid to get your Web site in the sponsored listings. With organic SEO, the user will likely believe in the ability of the search engine indexing to deliver relevant results.

There’s an unspoken consensus that if a search engine ranks your site as relevant, you must be a leader in your field.

 5. ROI: From all of the search engine optimization programs I’ve overseen (I’m guessing that the number is around 250), there have been few that have not generated a positive ROI. For those that didn’t, it was due to a failed business plan or a poor user experience on the Web site. A properly planned and executed search engine optimization campaign generates a terrific return on investment, so long as you plan for search engine optimization to be a long-term commitment and not a three-month tactical strategy.

I could share with you a case study in which one of our clients received almost $11,000,000 worth of organic traffic to their site from January to May of this year. And, I should add, they are not in a “popular” space (that is, they’re not selling consumer electronics, or something else with a high number of searches performed against it). I determined this value by looking at the increased number of clicks from organic search, year over year, and valued this by their average CPC from their Google AdWords campaign. And you can be certain that we didn’t charge anywhere near $11,000,000 during that five month time period.

4. Interactive PR: Perhaps you’ve had some bad press. Perhaps those mentions are showing up in Google when someone searches for your company name. These things can be addressed. There are search engine optimization methods that can help to push those “bad” results to the second page, and leave positive results on the first page.

A good case study in Interactive PR is Wal-Mart, in which there are Web sites such as walmartwatch.com and wakeupwalmart.com that are not exactly flattering to the company. These Web sites rank within the top ten results on Google for the search phrase “walmart.” I have witnessed steps taken by Walmart to deal with this issue, but these two Web sites still rank. Through tactics such as creating a charity website (walmart.org could be a Web site set up to speak to their charitable efforts, for example), you can almost assure yourself of having one less of these unfavorable Web sites showing up in the top ten results.

3. “Unlimited” Clicks: You don’t set a budget, as you would with PPC, and have the budget dry up by the middle of the month only to leave you hanging until the first of the next month. Once you’ve achieved rankings, the clicks just keep on coming. Too often, PPC clients must daypart their efforts or otherwise manage when they will have a presence in the search engines. What about that off chance that a good prospect was searching on a Sunday afternoon? With an organic presence, you will be there 24/7 to capture all the traffic that you can. As mentioned above, there really is no limit – other than the total number of searches being performed– to how much traffic your site could receive from organic search engine optimization efforts.

2. Production of More Quality Content: The more you focus on organic search engine optimization efforts, the more likely you are to add quality copy to your site, which is good for both SEO and the user experience. Certainly, there’s a balance to be had between having too much and too little content. You do not want the user to get lost in reading or to miss the point of converting into a lead/sale, etc. In some cases, you have to be creative. Including things like tips, reviews, forums, blogs, and other insightful information can be good for the user experience and great for search engine optimization. I’ve witnessed Web sites built with no intention of doing well in the search engines do well due to the fact that they were focused on providing great content for their visitors. These things go hand in hand.

1. Accessibility: A good search engine optimization firm will help you to make your Web site more accessible to those with disabilities (Section 508 compliance), which also makes your Web site more search engine friendly. Part of building an accessible Web site is making sure that internal linking (links within your Web site pointing from one page to another) includes your keywords within the link itself. A blind person using a screen reader to navigate your Web site will know the link saying, “email marketing services,” is pointing to the page of your site about “email marketing services.”

When you focus on what’s good for visitors (understanding that some of these people may be affected by some form of disability), you will also help your SEO efforts. Conversely, a good search engine optimization firm should be able to assist you in making your Web site Section 508 compliant by making your Web site more search engine friendly.

So, if you didn’t already believe that search engine optimization was a worthwhile investment, you now have a few more reasons for putting in the necessary time/energy/money to help your business grow through SEO.

Source: http://searchenginewatch.com

by Wayne Hagerty

The concept of using an expert SEO Consultant company to help rank your website in the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN definitely has a slight intrigue.

Having a Internet Marketing SEO Consulting service taking care or even training your staff in proper site analysis, keyword research, link building, site optimization as well as putting together an ethical strategy indeed does have a price.

Is this investment into your website or online business worth it to you?

Why would need a SEO Consulting couldn’t you learn this process yourself?

You definitely could learn the process of Internet Marketing SEO. After studying how the process works, implementing the techniques learned, understanding what strategy works best for your industry, testing, and understanding and correcting mistakes made along the way.

Staying on top of the frequent changes in the search industry and realizing that what worked today may not work tomorrow.

How would you like to avoid time consuming and even costly mistakes that slow down your online business growth?

What if you could have the Internet Marketing SEO sides of things taken care of why you concentrate and focus your time on what aspects you know best about your business?

SEO Specialist have already made the mistakes and have the know how to correct errors. They tend to understand Internet Marketing changes and how to counter them. SEO experts also have the experience in putting together as well as implementing what will work right the first time.

SEO Consulting is a type of service that tends to continue to pay for itself long after the techniques, tools, promotion, and overall search engine marketing has been put into place.

The possibility of your website receiving the benefits years after the initial investment is what makes SEO consulting a business decison that prove to be a smart one.

There are things to consider when looking for an SEO Consultant like whether there website ranks for industry terms themselves and whether or not they are employing ethical practices. Spaming may get your site banned so be sure to ask questions before you decide after all this is an investment into your business so you want to be sure that it will benefit you not damage you.

There are low cost SEO Consulting service options you may want to consider like looking for an up and comer into the Search Engine Marketing industry. These young hungry professionals are looking to make a name for themselves and may cost more than half the price of a veteran. Although there are disadvantages when choosing a new comer like experience but there talents should not be overlooked.

You invest in your business every day from your time to the decisions you make to promote your business like platforms such as: Newspapers, Television, Magazines, Radio yet some of the biggest returns on your investment may be still waiting for you on the Internet and in Search Engines.

Somewhere out in cyberspace an unknown or known associate, competitor or just plain slanderously natured individual has written a particularly damning or negative article/blog about yourself or your business and posted it on the internet.
So what happens next? The nature of the beast is that the major search engines will index and crawl all of the content on the internet regardless of whether it is good content, relevant or controversial. The next thing you know when Googling your name up comes the offending article or blog on the first page of search engine results.

Annoying is an ‘understatement’. This type of negative publicity has the potential to damage your business reputation and your ability to attract new clients. The bigger problem is that unless the negative article or entry is removed from the site it is posted on it will remain index-able and searchable by the major search engines for as long as the content exists and this could equate to a number of years.

First up, don’t panic there are a number of positive SEO remedies that you can employ to counteract the slanderous attempts of these individuals and their effect on the search engines. Unfortunately with the Internet there is limited recourse by a targeted individual or business to defend their reputation especially when articles are written by so called ‘consumer advocates’ or vigilantes doing the public a ’service’ yet able to post anything on their websites regardless of the dire effects it may have on the targeted individual involved and their business.

SEO Remedies to tackle negative internet publicity…

Step 1 - If the article or blog is genuinely slanderous and has no truth or merit, then approach the website owner posting the entry and ask for it to be removed. Legal representation and legal advice may be necessary to protect your business. A well written letter from your lawyer or a threat of legal action may be enough impetus to persuade the website owner to remove the post. However, be aware that if unsuccessful, it may encourage the author of such articles to focus more attention on you so it may be more prudent to try steps 2 to 5 first.

Step 2 - Examine the keywords within the offending article to see what is being picked up by the search engines. This will normally be your name and/or business name. This is easy to find by clicking on the ‘cached’ entry next to the search engine listing. The keywords indexed by the search engine will be highlighted on the cached page and show you exactly what the search engine is indexing and crawling from the article or blog. These keywords (name or business name or both) will be the focus of your SEO Band-Aid treatment. To push the negative listing off the first page of results on Google and Yahoo you will need to create as many new listings as possible on the Internet to be picked up by the major search engines.

Step 3 - Start with ‘free classified ad’ listings and post your new ads under the category of business services. Include your name and business name in the body of the free classified ad plus a relevant keyword title specific to your industry or business service provision. Free classified ad listings will show up on search engine results within the first week of posting them on the internet. Complete as many free classified ads as possible and post them for the longest duration possible.

Step 4 – Write some free articles on your area of business or industry expertise remembering to include an eye catching title and your name and business name in the content of the article and author bio. Post these articles on your website and on free article submission sites; the more the better. Make sure you allow your free articles to be syndicated for content to other sites. This improves the opportunities for your article being listed on several internet sites which has a domino effect, boosting your search engine rankings and the positive listings picked up by the major search engines. If this still does not remedy the problem, then proceed to Step 5.

Step 5 - Create as many free directory listings on the internet as possible under your applicable service or product category. Use the same title and keyword text as your free classified ads remembering to mention your business name and name if possible. You can manually find free directories by performing searches on Google and Yahoo or alternatively use a directory submitting tool such as ‘Submiteaze‘ which is reasonably priced.

The results from employing these SEO strategies may be instantaneous unless the offending article or post has been prevalent in the search engine listings for a number of years (2 or more). You can then expect the recovery process to take up to 6 months of concentrated SEO effort to bump this listing off the first page of results on Google and Yahoo.

If all else fails…

Employ Step 1 and, if that fails, then lets hope in the very near future that just like ’spam’, slanderous material posted on the internet becomes a reportable offence to the major search engines, government bodies and consumer watch dogs. And, that the consequences for engaging in such underhanded practices results in a site being dropped from the search engines and classified as a ‘bad neighborhood site’, plus a monetary fine of such magnitude as to deter the practice. If a site can’t be indexed or is banned by the search engines, then it effectively becomes ‘voiceless’ and the power to publicly affect an individual’s livelihood or a business’s profits, growth and sales is then vastly diminished. Noting, that a banned site would still have the opportunity to remove any offensive or slanderous material and then reapply to be indexed by the search engines.

It may be argued that the search engines are not responsible for this problem. Well as the most influential body on the internet with the most power to help, who else are we to turn to? The print and television media are unable to publicly slander an individual or business without facing retribution via legal action and a public outcry, so why should the Internet be free of the same accountability?

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