Far too often companies ignore key elements of search strategy and only focus on a single piece of the puzzle. Ignoring research can leave you missing out on valuable keywords and with unclear expectations. You can’t move up in the search engines without passing another site so understanding where you are and who is above you is vital. Once you know where you are it’s important to...
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BING is Microsoft’s recently rebranded search engine. They changed things up in an attempt to compete with, or at least slow down, the increasing dominance of Google. The jury is still out as if it will gain any market share, but it still pulls enough traffic that it is important that your site is well represented. One of the main focuses of BING is comparison shopping. Bing is focusing a...
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Google has just recently updated the local business search reporting interface. Some of the new reporting features are pretty great and show you a lot more about how customers interact with your local search listing. The new reporting dashboard shows statistics about your business listing, like how many users saw your business as a local search result, zip codes where driving directions requests...
read moreKnowing which sites use NoFollow and which links on a page are NoFollow is very important when it comes to SEO and Link Building. Need a quick and easy way to identify NoFollow links on webpages? Simply drag this link to your bookmark bar. Whenever you are on a website, simply click the Show NoFollow bookmark and it will highlight ALL NoFollow links on that page in red. Show NoFollow It’s...
read moreThis is pretty impressive! VIDEO OF GOOGLE’S DATA CENTER What would we do if terrorists attacked Google??!?! Oh...
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People often ask “How can my website be #1 in Google?”. The truth is if your website isn’t the number one resource for that keyword it likely isn’t going to be #1 in Google. It’s no shock that people naturally look for the easy way out and in the process waste a lot of time, money and bandwidth looking for SEO secrets. When it comes down to it there are only 3...
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