If you want to get consumers to find your business today, a web presence is critical, but how do you make sure you get the best out of that new site you built? Here are some tips that may help you out. First of all, make sure that people can find the site. You can …
This May Google launched the “Conversational Search” function which is currently available on the newest version of Chrome. This new search function allows you to talk to Google and create a conversation. When you are using Chrome go to the home screen on Google, you will notice a microphone next to the search bar. Click …
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Managing Social Media networks can be difficult – especially for SEO specialists who are responsible for keeping track of 10+ sites per client. Thankfully, there are free programs and services available online that help to aggregate log-in usernames and passwords from several sites, so webmasters can manage postings across several social media outlets within one …
Matt Cutts announced on his blog that Google rolled out their new Penguin update yesterday, May 22, 2013. This update (Penguin 2.0) is an updated algorithm that focuses on web spam and will affect about 2.3% of English-US searches. Penguin 2.0 also rolled out for other languages but the effects will vary based on how much …
Updating fresh and original content to your business’ website is an essential step in the SEO process; you want to make sure you regularly update your blog, news section, service area pages, etc. Not only do you need fresh content, but the content you’re writing has to be well-written. Google has once again changed its …
It’s often very easy to ignore all those spam comments that get left on your blog or forum, and If you’re not staying on top of it, a few weeks of inaction can result in hundreds of spam comments. Although most of them are harmless, and for the most part visitors to your page won’t …
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Having a good domain name for your businesses website is the ground work for your websites and businesses online success. When it comes to picking a domain for your website here are the 5 characteristic that should be considered: 1. Keep it short & sweet. Users like short and to the point domain names. There …
Earlier today around 8am Yahoo’s CEO, Melissa Mayer announced that Yahoo has acquired Tumblr. The deal is for approximately 1.1 billion dollars. Interestingly, Yahoo plans to allow Tumblr to continue to operate as its own entity with its own current CEO. Tumblr will be able to take advantage of Yahoo’s personalization technology and search engine structure. The deal is expected …
As noted in our post from last week, there are many changes that are currently in the developmental stages and will be carried out this summer by Google that will effect SEO. To those that practice white hat SEO, this could be great news, but those that are guilty of black hat and link spamming …
The SEO guru at Google, Matt Cutts, answered some questions today about what the future of SEO looks like and some of the changes you can expect to see over the summer. By the end of the summer, Google will be rewarding sites that follow good, white hat SEO tactics, while penalizing black hats, link …
While a strong Google Places listing can be a great way to rank your business for local searches on the search engine results pages (SERPS), what happens if you want to be found in other locations as well? Google is pretty strict about listings that are unverifiable and even if you set up an actual …
One of my clients really wanted a Google Maps widget on their website to show customers where they are located. This is also helpful for brick and mortar stores because it makes it easy for to find driving directions. The widget is a plug in called Google Maps Widget and it creates a nice light …
It was August of 2010 that Yahoo officially moved onto the Bing platform for SERPs and it seems like the honeymoon may be over. The Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo is looking to move out of their deal with Bing. Unfortunately for Yahoo they seem to be tied into their current deal till 2015. The Wall Street Journal …
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Good SEO specialists understand that quality results can take time, but convincing customers that they’ll need to wait it out can be difficult – especially when clients have little to no experience with back-end SEO practices. Taking some time to clue in your customer base about SEO basics can go a long way in helping …
This question may have an easy answer, no; but let’s go over some of the benefits of using social media sites to advertise your business and connect with your audience. After we discuss the benefits, we will go over some of the things you are missing out when you only use social media sites. The …
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Recently Google has removed the “More Results Near…” option in the Google local search result in an effort to improve the search experience. Google still lists local listings organically in search results but no longer with the option to find more business listings near by. When the link was still an option it could be …
Once you have built a new version of your website in Word Press, there are a few things that need to be taken care of to ensure that your SEO is not negatively affected, and the following Word Press Plugins do just that. Simple 301 redirects The first issue should be addressed before the …
Snapchat is a relatively new and extremely popular mobile app, one which is used primarily by those of the younger generation and has unfortunately received its fair share of negative reactions and opinions. However, recent analytics would suggest that as time has passed since its introduction, the app has been considered and utilized by a …
As SEO professionals our goal continues to be to get your business found as often and quickly as possible when a prospective customer sits down and does a search. A part of that goal is to try to get your business listed as close as possible to the top of the search engine results pages. …
