If you’re a business owner with a local company – by that I mean a company with a local market – Google Local Business Listings (also known as Google places, or Google maps) can get you ranked near the top of Google without as much time and
Read more →One of the first things small business owners find out about when researching SEO are blogs. One of the most common questions we get is, “should I add a blog to my site?” Blogs have gained a reputation as having the potential to boost your SEO rankings,
Read more →Google allows you to link your AdWords account with an Analytics account in order to track PPC data in Analytics. You can get some useful data out of this…it’s also fairly easy to setup, assuming you don’t have separate accounts for AdWords and Analytics…in that case it
Read more →Happy Holidays everybody! Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Poinsettia Day, Winter Solstice, Festivus, and any others I might have forgot! Have a great new year as well everyone!
Read more →If you advertise on Yahoo! or Bing PPC you’ve no doubt heard about the fact that Bing is now going to be serving both paid and organic search results on Yahoo! properties. We have a number of smaller clients taking advantage of the lower traffic numbers on
Read more →Have you added the rel=”nofollow” attribute to your WordPress tag cloud? Here’s a YouTube video from Matt Cutts talking about the need to add the attribute to tag clouds, where he explains that passing PageRank through the tag cloud links is probably not the most efficient way
Read more →Let’s take a step back for our less-experienced readers and briefly answer the question, What is SEO? SEO is a broad topic and as technology changes, it’s becoming an increasingly large field. SEO is short for Search Engine Optimization and, according to Dictionary.com, SEO is “the process
Read more →Testing sites on a staging server with clients can be a bit of a pain in WordPress. WordPress itself saves information about the domain name in the database, which makes it a pain to test a site on a staging server at http://[insert IP here] without using
Read more →Here’s a clip from a note I got from Microsoft adCenter. I think someone needs to do a little spell checking. The interesting thing is I’d bet a good chunk of people don’t even know what incontinence is…hell, I didn’t know until I saw a pharmaceutical commercial
Read more →When it comes to local SEO, if your business is not listed in Google Places, you’re lost. When anyone does a search for local terms, such as “cincinnati dry cleaners,” they’ll get a map at the very top of the page, before any of the organic search
Read more →GoDaddy has a new coupon code out for $0.99 domain name registration. Only for new domains, although if you’re looking to renew, might as well try…it might work. Applies to .com, .net, .mobi, .biz, .us, .org, .ca, .co.uk, and .in. Additional 18-cent ICANN fee applies. Use code
Read more →Resource Shelf reports on some of Bing’s new features. Bing iPhone App For you iPhone junkies, there’s an updated iPhone app available. Mobile Social Search Results Bing Mobile has a few social media powered enhancements. Bing claims that over 40% of ambiguous search queries are better answered
Read more →Looking for a cheatsheet for the contents of WordPress’ $post object? I just updated a reference I posted a while back. Get it here: WordPress $post Object Cheatsheet
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