I’m a little tapped out of blogging inspiration right now so I’m going to direct you to an SEO blog I really like. John McElborough doesn’t post a whole lot but every single post of his contains a good idea or a useful piece of information. His posts are brief and clear. I just really … [Read more…]
When I tell clients to create videos for SEO winnings galore, they must not believe me, think getting a video recorded is going to be a big undertaking or believe that they don’t have anything to film. All three assumptions are dead wrong. Every business has something to film. Maybe you wouldn’t think a business … [Read more…]
A crazy percentage of searches these days are performed on mobile phones. Many site owners haven’t considered what that can mean for their businesses. Mobile search results are different First, the results aren’t always the same as the results searchers get on their desktops. You may be ranking on desktops and invisible on mobile phones. … [Read more…]
There are many ways to buy a domain name but here’s how I always do it, because I like things to be easy. Step One: Open a word doc and come up with some ideas. You want a domain name that is Short Memorable Descriptive What I mean by descriptive is, would your domain name … [Read more…]
Today I’m going to talk about an example of counterproductive client behavior, or CCB. Most people don’t know CCB is the leading cause of client frustration, missed goals and premature business closure in America. Today’s example is a subset of CCB called afraid-to-look-bad-itis. This business owner would rather potential customers not see his website at … [Read more…]
Today we’ll take a break from our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a special message about how to learn SEO. Always, and I mean always, go to the networking event after an SEO event. Yesterday I got to go to Birmingham’s Local University. The actual talks on organic SEO were a little basic, since … [Read more…]
The rule of long tail traffic is that the majority of the search traffic to your posts will be from keywords you didn’t optimize for. Something like a quarter of Google search queries have never been queried before. Looking at your referring keywords, you’ll see the keyword you targeted with the post. But then you’ll … [Read more…]
I recently found A Greater Town via Eightfold Logic Linker. A Greater Town lets business owners create postings associated with their geographical areas. Here’s an example of a posting I created. It took me about two seconds to register and create that. And the link to my site in the post is followed! All these … [Read more…]
Google can’t rank what it hasn’t indexed. Newbie webmasters will sometimes take for granted that Google can and will access their entire sites. But that’s not always the case. Lots of things can get in the way of a full crawl, including duplicate content, unfriendly navigation and too many parameters in URLs. So the first … [Read more…]
Alright, so last time we got together I was sending e-mails to bloggers who I thought could use my product, offering them free product and telling them how I think they could use the product and link to it. How am I doing, you ask? Well, the perfect blogger I told you about, today I … [Read more…]