My hats off Brandt Dainow for a great primer on SEO Step 1 for any business. The guy has been doing search engine marketing for over 12 years, which is a lifetime in this business.
First, why SEO over other marketing such as PPC?
Pay-per-click advertising is all very well, but it means you have to [...]
I love Flash, I really do.
But as primarily a SEO firm, we’ve been steering clients away from flash based websites for years due to the fact that Google, Yahoo!, and MSN couldn’t index their content. By content, I mean written text, images, and of course links among other website elements.
It appears the Game is [...]
April 27, 2008 – 10:55 pm
Submitting your guide service or outfitter to directory websites is a good idea for two reasons:
First, because many of these sites come up in major search engines for a variety of phrases, which can lead potential clients to your website. Second, it can help build your search engine rankings by giving you high quality, [...]
Another simple way to increase to increase your website or blog’s inbound links is by commenting on blogs related to your industry. It takes just a few minutes to gain high quality, one-way, relevant inbound links – and you might just learn something you can use while you do it! It’s important [...]
The second pillar of DIY SEO is generating inbound links, or links that point from other websites toward yours. Link baiting is an effective strategy for generating one way, high quality inbound links for your website or blog, and especially so for genres of popular interest such as fishing, sports, or news.
Wikipedia defines Link bait as “any content or feature within [...]
If you have an internet business, or some form of online home business which doesn’t currently support a blog then you are losing a lot of ground to your competitors and quietly signing the death warrant of your online money making ventures.
Blogging Is The Future Of Online Activity
Actually to be honest blogging isn’t the future [...]
Gone are the days when online forums were “geek-only” territory. Now, not only is there a deluge of forum posters for every possible subject, but even more people are finding & reading forum posts – and they may be your customers.
Building Business through Forum Posts
Knowledgeable posts and interesting discussions on forums and message boards [...]
February 25, 2008 – 12:43 pm
Before getting into the intricacies of how to rank well in the search engines, we need to first discuss what we want to target. First a quick example, our family’s commercial real estate website. We started by targeting terms like “commercial real estate” and “commercial property” along with our trade areas of [...]
February 20, 2008 – 9:54 pm
One of the three pillars of SEO strategy is of content, specifically relevant text that is search engine readable. We’re going to take a look at what is search engine friendly content, what is not, and how to find out what your site or blog looks like to search engines.
Search Engine Readable - What is it?
Search engines index your web page and everybody else’s by scanning the HTML code contained within it. [...]
November 12, 2007 – 7:28 pm
I’m often asked, what’s the secret to getting search engine traffic? Well the basic formula is this:
Strategy
+ Relevant Content
+ Inbound Links
+ “On Page” SEO
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= Search Engine Results
Don’t worry, we’re not going to get into [...]
