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Website Design vs SEO… which comes first?

In the recent past I have gotten into a few debates on the topic of which aspect of a website should proceed the other. Many believe that if you don’t design the site well, users won’t use it at all. Others believe that you MUST determine your SEO strategy first before even looking at a website’s design. This is really as the “Chicken or Egg” debate. My answer, raise cows not chickens!Read More »Website Design vs SEO… which comes first?

The SEO benefits of Cross Posting your blog

I have been helping quite a few small business owners int he Pottstown PA are recently, and most (not suprisingly) believe that creating a Blog section of their website “Takes too  much time”. Well that might have been true in the past when after creating a blog, you have to go to Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc and repost the url and the caption to really drive traffic into your site (hence getting the extra cred needed to effect your SEO via Social Meida). However, now it is possible to integrate some auto cross posting tools into your Word Press site.Read More »The SEO benefits of Cross Posting your blog

Whats next for Small Business SEO?

Many of us are familiar by now (if you are reading my blogs) on the basics of SEO (content, link structure, etc) and the services that you can leverage to make your site more “search engine friendly”. But the question is, “What’s Next?” We have Google cracking down on black hat SEO, and Bing being accused with copying Google’s PageRank (interestingly enough, if you search Google for “Search” the first result is Bing!). So what could be next? Below you will find a 5 search engines that I feel deserve some street cred and love!Read More »Whats next for Small Business SEO?

Google slaps Overstock.com… have they gone to far?

Today Google took another bold step against a well positioned online sales company. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal.

“Google Inc. is penalizing Overstock.com Inc. in its search results after the retailer ran afoul of Google policies that prohibit companies from artificially boosting their ranking in the Internet giant’s search engine”

This happened, in my opinion, due to Overstock.com’s great understanding of Search Engine Optimization, as well as Google’s algorithms.Read More »Google slaps Overstock.com… have they gone to far?

Videos are highly ignored content by most Small Business Web Site owners!

In 200 7 Google announced that they were implementing their Video facet. With this announcement, and the future merge of YouTube with Google the ability for people to share, upload, and create video content went through the roof.

Now most small business owners find that creating interesting, informative, and attractive videos are easy, and very impactful to the people they focus. This is 100% true, however many don’t even know what they are missing.Read More »Videos are highly ignored content by most Small Business Web Site owners!