I work with a lot of small business. That being said the majority of business owners I deal with are fairly new to the game of having a website, and have not a clue as to where to start. Most also feel that a website, once live, will drive an exorbinant amount of traffic with absolutely no work or future investment… well sorry folks… that just isn’t the case!Read More »3 Things Small Business Owners Need to Remember
Bing recently announced a new configuration item in the Bing Webmaster tools focused to allow Webmasters to “disavow” incoming links. In a post from Duane Forrester he stated “Over the past few months we’ve being hearing from the industry that webmasters wanted more control and the ability to tell us they didn’t trust a link pointed at their content. While this is not a new conversation, our latest redesign work has enabled us to take action on this topic. “Read More »Bing moving to support Webmasters over Google
comScore announced its latest search share report tracking the overall searches performed on the major search engines (Bing, Google, Yahoo, Ask, Aol). And to no surprise Google still leads with 66.7% of the share. But does this mean your search engine optimization strategy should neglect the others? We think not my dear Watson.Read More »Don’t forget the 15.4% Google, Bing, and Yahoo Search Share Reports out
So you have gotten to the first page of Google for your focused keywords. You managed to escape being mauled by the Panda and Penguin updates. You are happy, right? Most often not so much. You thought that being number 1 on the search results page would increase your traffic, and therefore your sales, and simply put they aren’t!Read More »Being First on Google Drives Revenue Doesn’t It?
There is a struggle when dealing with most small business, specifically in Pottstown PA. Many owners still believe that print ads (in newspapers, diner placemats, and billboards) are the best place to spend their advertising budget. Well the statistics are in, and basically everyone else is doing it.Read More »If you aren’t using Internet Ads, you are missing the boat!
Many of my clients tell me “I don’t have time to write blogs” and “My pages are more important than my blog” or “I don’t want to write blogs, just SEO my pages”. And frankly, we can do that. We can take a stale site, that doesn’t get updated, and work on title’s, on page copy, and tagging with no problem. But I promise that a Blog is one of the best tools out there to increase your ranking!Read More »Your Blog is likely the BEST SEO Tool you have!
Google recently announced that they will change their Search Engine Results Page (SERP) yet again this week with what they are branding as “Knowledge Graph”. On their Inside Search page they stated that they are “rolling this feature out to google.com users over the next few days.” But the real question isn’t when it is coming, but why is it coming. I have a few thoughts (as always).Read More »Google Launches “Knowledge Graph”, but why?
Bing recently published a blog post about the wonderful Google Panda and Penguin updates. They obviously love making fun of these things as evident by the quick poem by Senior Product Manager Duane ForresterRead More »Bing attacks Google’s Panda and Penguin Updates
So as we have already mentioned in Google “Penguin” update shouldn’t be worrying, it should make you listen to your SEO Experts! 7 things you can do if you were if you were nailed by the Penguin (the most obvious was that it is likely that you were trying to scam some good ranking out of some “black-hat” methods, or weren’t listening to your all knowledgeable SEO expert to begin with). But we thought we would help you out even more by giving you 10 more simple things you can do to help recover from the Penguin update.Read More »Fix your Site after the Penguin Update – 10 simple things you can do!
With the recent “Penguin” Google update (summarized well by Search Engine Watch) many websites saw their content and ranking completely changed. This however shouldn’t be a shock for most people, it is because in most cases they didn’t listen to their SEO experts (or their SEO experts were scamming them to start).Read More »Google “Penguin” update shouldn’t be worrying, it should make you listen to your SEO Experts!