Restaurants are generally still pretty oblivious to the opportunities that exist for them on the internet. Local companies often don’t connect the global reach of the internet to their little spot on the planet, but large opportunities still exist to connect their little world to their customers that use the …
How To Get The Most From Your Title Tags
Got Great Title Tags? Odds are, your pages probably have some optimized title tags. Sometimes these are automatically created by WordPress, or were generated by the website designer without any SEO implications in mind. Other times, someone read a Beginner’s Guide to SEO, threw some stuff on there, and off …
10 Great Link Building Tips for New Sites
Getting traffic for a new website can be difficult if you go about it the wrong way. Link building for a newly launched website differs strongly from websites in the mid to late stages of growth, as there are certain quality signals and processes to undergo that tell the search …
6 Tips for Scaling your SEO Efforts
If you’re in a competitive space, the battle for top rankings is fought in a battle with other, similar business models. The difference between ranking one and two can sometimes be a result of length in the space, but in a long-term effort to secure top rankings, wins come to …
24 Actionable Productivity Tips
What the internet did for all of us is help us solve problems at a hyper-speed that we had previously never thought possible. As the internet advances into a mature stage, new applications and shortcuts make these initial improvements seem turtle-slow in comparison. Every day, new and exciting developments emerge …
5 Books Every SEO Should Read
Search Engine Optimization, and internet marketing in general, is a strange beast. Due to the hyper-connectivity of its infrastructure, it is evolving quicker than print can catch up. Because of this, accurate paper books on the subject are few and far between, and as such, there are few paperbacks SEO’s …
How Social Media Will Replace Search
Remember back before Google? Back when we had Infoseek and AltaVista and all those other early search engines? Remember back when keyword stuffing on a page actually worked, to the horror of literate people everywhere? Then Google came along, with its reliance on links and anchor text and other elements, …
21 Steps to Fail Miserably in Social Media
Start a blog, and then abandon it. Better yet, post vigorously for a few months, then pause for a few months, then write a post that apologizes for not writing in a while…and then let that last post represent you for a couple more years. Keep people guessing by having …
How to Build a SEO Friendly Website
One of the most critical errors businesses make is ignoring SEO in the initial web design process. Many of these errors can be covered up or improved slightly, but large gaffes in design can cause long term traffic loss and a quick path to an unsuccessful business. Sometimes web designers …