Tag: SEO

There’s no mistake about the meteoric growth of online social pin board site Pinterest < http://pinterest.com/> and how it’s impacting the way social networks share what they love. The advertising site Athenna notes in January 2012, “Pinterest is currently one of the fastest growing websites, with Hitwise reporting that it was the 60th most visited [...]

I would like to preface this article with the fact that I think search engine optimization (SEO) is important. Every website should at least perform some level of SEO, be it guest posting on blogs (like I currently am), keyword research and implementation, or like-building with related sites. The problem that I am beginning to [...]

When a lot of people involved with internet marketing think about meta title and meta description tags, they immediately think: ‘stick in the keyphrases and you’re golden’. In reality though, this is far from the truth. Google doesn’t really care about meta title and description tags. Sure Google looks at them and lets you tell [...]

You may have spent a small fortune on a snazzy website which looks breath taking and works incredibly well. However, if your website designer knows very little about SEO then the chances of your fantastic new website being seen by a large audience, and more importantly attracting new business, is very slim.  Even the best [...]

Accept this as a given truth: SEO and web design work best when conceived together, with the strategies to reach the goal of one supporting those of the other. Designing for SEO should be at the forefront of every web developer’s mind. It may seem unfortunate from the perspective of a business owner who wants [...]

When it comes to optimising your site you’ve got two choices either spend a lot of your time or spend a lot of your cash and for many small business owners they chose to go for the first option. The mistake most business make when trying to optimise their own site is getting bogged down [...]

If there is one cheap way to advertise or promote your business, it has to be search engine optimization or SEO. What is the idea involved in SEO? Well, let me give you a concrete example for you to understand it more clearly. For instance, if you have a business that is far from urban [...]

We’re going mobile mental. We’re a society of people becoming accustomed to having what we want when we want it. Smartphones play right into this desire to have everything available at your fingertips and the advent of the iPhone and its predecessors have put email, calendars and the Internet as a whole conveniently at our [...]

You may have noticed the recent inclusion of a Google +1 button on many websites and blogs. This is a new development from Google as it tries to compete in the social network space with the likes of Facebook. +1 is Google’s first attempt to make inroads into Facebook, but can it work for you? [...]

In this day and age we often watch SEO take a starring role in the online world. There is no denying that search engines are the biggest (potential) source of traffic to your site and you would be a fool not to embrace this, but what are some alternative ways of generating traffic? I’m going [...]

User bulletin boards, forums and chat rooms existed long before Facebook was invented, but Facebook was the first social networking platform to enable legitimate business branding, interaction and marketing to users. As business use expanded, businesses have been vacillating between creating a Facebook page or a Facebook group—two different animals in the same zoo. Each [...]

Taking over the SEO for a new site is exciting, it’s the start of the campaign and you’re just imagining all the things you can do with that site and the great places you can go hunting for links. Before you know it you’ll have top positions for all your key terms and you’ll be [...]

Google Sitemaps enables Webmasters to Directly Alert Google to Changes and Additions on a Website and that’s just one of 7 reasons. Telling search engines about new pages or new websites use to be what the submission process was all about. But major search engines stopped using that process a long time ago. Google has [...]

You completed a web site for your business about three months ago, but you are still not seeing very many people visiting your web site. You do a little research and find that your web site is buried about ten pages deep on all of the major search engines. It seems that you have created [...]