Category Archives: SEO

The Importance of H1 Tags

The other day I was in a client’s office showing several members of their staff how to properly update their website and create new content. After all, content is king when it comes to the development of any website. However, a different subject cropped into the conversation when I started explaining the importance of properly [...]

Nobody Can Guarantee #1 Rankings in Google

Google plainly says that there are no SEO experts that can guarantee #1 rankings in their search engine. As with all other reputable search engine optimizers, I have never told a client that I can guarantee them top rankings in Google. So why do SEO experts continue to tout that they can guarantee something that [...]

You Can’t Force Me to Link to You

Forcing someone to link to your website is just wrong. Trusted links are hard to develop and link building is perhaps the most difficult aspect of SEO. It’s not easy, but don’t make it any harder than it already is – be courteous in your link requests.

The Game Has Changed Again – Introducing Google Instant

Yesterday, hospitals across the United States saw emergency room visits increase nearly 300%. The patients were primarily suffering from headaches, chest pains and confusion. Some victims even entered a zombie-like state and began gathering en-mass in several cities across the country. Fearing that is was an outbreak of some kind, the Centers for Disease Control [...]

Is My Website SEO Ready?

Poor coding can lead to poor results when you’re marketing your website through the search engines. There’s a few simple things you can do to make your website SEO ready. I will describe five things that will make your webpages shine and make them more visible in the search engines.

Yahoo! Advertising Powered by adCenter

Just a couple of days ago, I wrote about Bing powering Yahoo! search results. In that blog article, I talked about the potential changes that could occur to the search engine results page marketing strategy. Well, they have already begun. This afternoon, I received an email from Microsoft adCenter stating that migration of current Yahoo! [...]

Yahoo! Powered by Bing

I gave it a few days to sink in, but Yahoo! announced last week that their organic search results would now be powered by Bing – the search engine from Microsoft. Together, these two search engine giants will now control about 27.9% of the market. Google is still ranked #1 with 64.2% of the market. What does that mean for search engine optimization? Well, I’m not entirely sure yet. One of the things I now know is that we’ll have to worry about one less piece of the bigger SEO puzzle – or do we?

How to Win with SERP Marketing

You might think that after you get a website, business will just start pouring in and you’ll become an instant online success. You can dream all you want, but it just won’t happen without some type of plan in place to promote your website. One of the most popular and cost effective promotion methods is [...]