How Hacking Hurts Your SEO Efforts
When Your Site Is Down, Your Rankings Are Down Too The first page of the search engine results is prime real estate. And every webmaster is trying to get their website to the top. But just when you think you finally landed a slice of that coveted real estate, you find your s...
Are Bounce Rates Affecting Your Site’s Search Engine Rankings?
Questions Concerning Bounce Rates Still Loom The effects that bounce rates have regarding your websites rankings have long been a topic of discussion. There’s been plenty of speculation about how they’ll affect sites, if at all. The CEO of Moz, Rand Fishkin, and Google’s sea...
Working With A Technical SEO Specialist
Technical SEO's and Their Value As far as the majority is concerned, technical SEO is viewed as simply applying traditional practices to a website. However, the most effective practitioners are using innovative methods that can help shape the future of the industry. There ha...
What Comes First? SEO Strategy or Marketing Budget?
How Much Do I Spend or What Do I Need? It may not be the “chicken or the egg” conundrum (I have documented proof it’s the chicken!) but in the wide world of web marketing, the question of “What comes first, the budget or the strategy?” is about as brain twisting as it gets....
Hiring the Right SEO Company: A Checklist
How To Find A Trustworthy, Reputable SEO Company To Handle Your Marketing Needs There are countless SEO companies in every major city and every smaller town – some know what they're doing while others not so much. How can you know which SEO firm to trust? How can you feel co...
How Much Does SEO Cost?
Pricing Out A Successful Organic SEO Campaign Search Engine Optimization – more commonly referred to as SEO – is a widely used online marketing strategy aimed at bolstering brand awareness, generating targeted traffic and increasing the visibility of a company’s...
Google: No Meta Keywords!
Is The Meta Keyword Tag Useful Anymore? I can’t count the number of times I’ve been asked by one of my SEO clients to add a list of keywords to their website so they “show up in Google” and I need to explain that it just isn’t that simple. Yes, there was a time when [&hellip...
What Is The Google Sandbox?
Is There A Google Sanctioned Probationary Period For New Websites? One of the more common questions I am asked is the timeframe involved for properly ranking a website. Unfortunately there is no simple answer to this question. There are simply too many factors involved to pr...