Those of us who have been in the SEO/web marketing industry have seen these types of sentences in Craigslist “Job posts” plenty of times: “We need you to help get us to page one of Google, but our budget is limited.” “We are willing to become partners with you if you can get us to [...]
Many have said that submitting your website or blog to directories is no longer an effective way to build links and improve your website’s search engine rankings, but this isn’t entirely the case. Yes, not only are (some) directories still good for SEO and link juice, but listing your website and local business information on [...]
Bing has experienced a 22% growth rate in August, 2009 according to reports from Nielsen.com. The search engine still has some ground to make up after falling 600 million searches short of third-place search engine Yahoo!, but if trends (Bing growing by an average of 22% and Yahoo! continuing to fall) continue, Microsoft’s search engine [...]
Many have wondered how their rankings in old Google will differ from rankings on Google Caffeine. Well, Compare Google allows you to type in your prized keyword phrases that you rank page one for currently, and see how you will rank on Google Caffeine’s new algorithm (as opposed to the “decaf” version). Go check it [...]
In Part 1 of the Top 5 Web Marketing Stories of Summer 2009, we touched on the Twitter vs Facebook battle for real-time search, as well as Facebook seeming to try to be more and more like Twitter. Here are the top three Web Marketing stories of the Summer of 2009: 3. Bing emerges as [...]
Broken links are a lot more of a common occurrence than you think, and chances are that you’ve never even considered it. How many times have you or anyone that has written for your site posted a link to a news story or blog post? Chances are that the page on your website is still active, but a [...]
It was a busy summer in the world of Internet marketing, and the dust is only beginning to settle. It seems like, just yesterday, Twitter was this new social networking phenomenon that everyone was afraid to use, Microsoft was slowly dwindling away as search engine-nobodies, and Google was on top of the world and didn’t [...]
Twitter launched a new version of their web page today, and the new design is eerily similar to that of a search engine. They announced the new design on their blog this morning, and the reason that they gave for the redesign: Helping people access Twitter in more relevant and useful ways upon first introduction [...]
During our Google Local webinar last week, and interesting topic came up: law firms with multiple attorneys creating individual Google Local Business Listings for each attorney. After doing some additional research it’s probably not the best idea. From what we’ve found, some law firms may be getting “penalized” by Google local for having multiple profiles [...]
I would like to take the time to urge everyone to regularly check out the Google Webmaster blog where Matt Cutts and others at Google share SEO and webmaster tips that range from beginner to advanced. The blog is well organized and very informative. Matt just posted his video responses to last month’s Q&A. They [...]
