A great social media infographic from Desk.com Makes you wonder the real future of search, and if you are talking SEO with me now you get why I tell you “You have to use Social Media, and build your network (or pay someone to do it!)”Read More »An interesting Social Media Infographic!
“I blame you for a poor SEO strategy”. I never thought I would hear those words in my career (a lack of planning on my side), but it made me think after a client told me this the other day. And in retrospect some of the blame could be placed on my shoulders. So fellow white-hat SEOers this article is for you!Read More »What is an SEO Strategy, and why did mine fail?
Shopify? What is that many newbies to the ecommerce world ask me. The answer… the best thing since sliced bread! Well more accurately the easiest to use, easiest to setup, and easiest to manage ecommerce platform for their small business!Read More »Why is Shopify great for Small Business ECommerce?
Recently Google’s Matt Cutts announced what has been labeled as an EMD (exact match domain) update. This adds to the list of Google updates this year, but also brought a lot of questions regarding the benefit of having multiple domain names (for the lay person www.something.com) pointing to a single set of web content… well lets catch you up on that!Read More »Should I use Multiple Domains for my website?
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!