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Backlinking, backlinking, backlinking – it seems to be the only part of SEO anyone ever talks about these days! Let’s get our noses out of everyone else’s sites and back into ours. On-page optimization is often overlooked and neglected, but your on-page SEO builds the foundation for all of your off-page optimization efforts. We’re going [...]
Companies like Google, Yelp, UrbanSpoon, CitySearch and many others have made it easy and convenient for customers to share their thoughts with the world. And they’re not just talking about what they had for breakfast. They’re telling the world what they think of Your Business. Smart companies are using these online reviews to attract and [...]
What is a Backlink? What’s all this hoopla over backlinks? Every SEO forum and blog you stop by is constantly touting the power and necessity of backlinks so they must be a pretty big deal! So what exactly is a backlink? Simply put, a backlink is a link on another website (external) that leads to [...]
Ranking well with the search engines is something all businesses try to be cognizant of. It is the reason why SEO material is created for the main pages of a website as well as in all of the rest of the content which is added later on. The idea is to make sure that no [...]
While many bloggers and the media are calling Google’s search results out lately, most of the focus has been on the somewhat low-quality pages that show up for informational long-tail searches. My concern for Google’s search results is different, however. As I touched upon in the last newsletter, I’m tired of Google (and Bing) returning [...]
Getting your website to rank high in Google searches is a daunting task to say the least. There are hundreds of different factors that will determine how well your site ranks. In this article I will go over the most important factors in SEO (search engine optimization) to help you reach the number one spot! [...]
Online traffic has greatly increased in just the last five years, and it is expected to continue in growth. One of the main reasons for this is because broadband, and other high-speed Internet services have become much more affordable, as well as available in more areas. On any given day, there are hundreds of millions [...]
If you’re still chasing Google around trying to beat out their algorithm let me give you a little tip going into 2011, STOP! Instead, here is a suggestion from Matt Cutts that he gave during his keynote address at Pubcon this year, “Don’t look at us where we are today, but look at the direction [...]
We all think we know the answer to this question, or at least we have all had a best guess at it. We decided that we would do a bit of digging around and provide for certain the top ten most visited websites (in order) of 2010. Through a variety of sources we landed at [...]
Punch Above your Weight Online – Localised search results have recently experienced a major overhaul within the Google SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) which has resulted in a fantastic opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses. Local search results were previously relegated to a small map, which would appear within the first page of results, but [...]
