Welcome to the New Single Grain Blog
By Ross Hudgens with No Comments

Single Grain is very excited about the redesign of our website and with it comes a new attitude, purpose, and excitement about the future. We are extremely excited about the current outlook for Single Grain, and we are especially excited about what that means for internet marketing, the clients we work with, and the people that read our blog.
After a slight lull in our blogging efforts in 2009, the Single Grain blog has a new purpose and dedicated staff devoted to giving you the best content and information in the internet marketing space. While the voice and long-term makeup of the blog have yet to be established, you can be certain that we will do our best to bring you all the entertainment and learning our brain matter can conjure up.
SEO Loves Content
By Sujan Patel with No Comments

Every SEO, when doing an initial evaluation, loves when he or she comes across great content. Sometimes, websites have other minor errors that prevent them from getting ranked well in the engines, but generally, one of the main things they lack is great, relevant content.
Content isn’t as simple as writing stuff on the page. Content means creating excellent, relevant writing that shows keyword relevancy to the engines, increases usability to its users, and offers “link bait”, content worthy enough to draw links from people that visit the website. Read More
Choosing a Quality Link Builder
By Sujan Patel with 3 Comments
So you’ve got a quality website, a good monetization strategy and superb, constantly updated content. Google sees you, but they don’t see you as nearly relevant enough to rank as high as you’d like in the rankings. Quite simply, Google is telling you that you need to link build.
If you’re like many business owners, you don’t have the time to do research on how to link build, or manually do it yourself. You don’t have a SEO in-house, and even if you do, he’s too busy to spend the sufficient time needed to get your URL air-dropped all over the internet. Read More
301 Redirects
By Sujan Patel with 5 Comments
A 301 redirect is used when you need to tell the search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN etc) that your website or web-page has moved permanently. This allows the engines to update their indexes with the new information. Assuming you don’t deactivate the old domain (if you are doing a domain change) then theoretically Google will pass all your backlink and PR info to the new URL once the 301 redirect has been established and recognized. This should help maintain the integrity of whatever value and rank the old domain had established. Read More
50 More iPhone 3.0 Beta Giveaway
By Sujan Patel with 13 Comments
UPDATE: If your software is expired you are going to have to downgrade back to 2.2:
On March 25th, 2009 10:00AM PST Will start of the 2nd iPhone 3.0 Beta giveaway. Single Grain has 50 more licenses to give away and it will be on a first come first serve basis. Last time we had this giveaway we ran out of licenses in 6 hours. Read More



