What Consists of an SEO Friendly Web Design? When you optimize a web design you are optimizing for the search engines, but you are also creating a web environment that is meets the needs of your visitors. Pleasing Your Visitors There is a basic list you need to implement in …
Using Social Media To Assist Your SEO
If you are new to the industry and business of marketing web sites, harnessing the power of social media optimization seems like a no brainer. For the experienced veterans in the search marketing industry, social media has created a new set of rules to follow. Today, we will take a …
Lack of SEO Knowledge Puts You at High Risk
While SEOs consider themselves to be techie, and at times almost nerdy – search engine optimization is an applied science that blends technology alongside content and keywords. Knowing this, someone who is new to optimizing web sites is at a high risk of failure and long term issues if they …
Three Elements to Successful Keyword Research
Whether you are looking to market your site through paid search or organic search, you need to have a quality list of keywords and search phrases to target. Getting that data seems easy enough provided that you either hire a professional, or rely on leading tools like Wordtracker or KeywordDiscovery. …
Optimizing for Local Search
When you are optimizing your web site you cannot forget how important it is to optimize for local searches. We understand the importance of optimizing for national clients, but you should consider how beneficial it could be to bring local traffic to your site. Optimizing for local searches is really …
Impact of Social Media and Community on Search Engine Rankings
With Web 2.0 front and center, the general use of the Internet is evolving. As users change their surfing habits, so too must search engines change the way they provide results for their users. For many years, search optimization was about core elements such as on page content, inbound links, …
Dynamic Page Optimization and Search Engine Inclusion
When you’re developing an effective online presence, you need to tap the power of search engine optimization. For dynamically driven web sites though, applying search engine optimization in a thorough manner can be difficult. What is a Dynamic Web Site? For the sake of this blog post, a dynamic web …
How To Prevent Leaking PageRank
A lot of things leak. Pipes leak. Basements leak. Sometimes even humans leak! However, there is one leak that many people might not be aware of, and it can be quite the factor in determining your blog or websites overall success. What may I be talking about here? Leaking Pagerank. …
Free SEO Analysis
Happy Forth of July! We at Single Grain hope everyone has a fun and safe forth of July. Now to to the good stuff…we are giving a Free SEO Analysis to the first 10 people who email us. Heres what the free service includes: 1 Hour of over the phone …
Using Web Analytics to Tune Your Optimization
When it comes to understanding your web site visitors, few tools are as important as a quality web analytics package. While it is important to have a basic understanding of general terms, it’s more important to use the information in these reports to help increase the productivity of your web …