We answer the 11 questions from Outspoken Media’s “Link Building with the Experts – 2010 Edition” questionnaire.

Load time optimization is important not only to maximize your site’s user-friendiness, but also to optimize your web site’s search rankings. These nine tips are intended to help webmasters improve efficiency and rank better in order to get the most out of their web presence.

We pride ourselves on our branding and our heavy use of Google services here at MentorMate. For some reason Gmail does not have a built-in feature supporting HTML Signatures. After several iterations of designing workarounds, we’ve decided to share the best one we’ve come up with. Enjoy!

Many of the employees at MentorMate have Google Android phones. There are a few iPhone owners too, but they’re in the minority at MentorMate. We did a little survey and found out what Android apps everyone was using. We then consolidated the list and filtered out all the apps that wouldn’t be used by your average Google Android user. What follows is a list of truly great apps that every Google Android user should have. These apps have one more thing in common, they’re all FREE!

The following SEO diagram was designed for our SEO presentation. It does a particularly good job of giving an overview of how we get through various steps of SEO to ultimately result in more revenue. A good way to read it is to work your way backwards, starting at the conversions step. Obviously this has a focus on revenue-generating web sites, but most of its principles can be associated with any SEO effort.

9/21/09 Google officially announces that meta keywords don’t impact ranking in Google
9/17/09 Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz changes stance on paid links
7/29/09 Yahoo gives up on search, makes deal with Bing

MentorMate’s web marketing team has created a list of some commonly-found problems in web site design. These flaws are detrimental aspects to the site in terms of actual site functionality, usability, and/or search engine optimization. They are problems that are readily apparent without an extensive technical background, and ranked in order, beginning with the most severe red flag and ending with more minor inconveniences that could be improved upon.