SEO Information Posts

The Perfect Search Engine

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

TweetWhen it comes to marketing we are regularly advised to think like our customers. When it comes to online marketing we also need to think like a search engine. Google, the most important search engine, states its aim to be able to think (and therefore respond) like a searcher. So thinking like an [...]

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Google Page Rank – It’s Well Past Time to Get Over it

Friday, July 15th, 2011

TweetIf You Won’t Listen to me, Listen to Google
It’s time for a little bit of credit where credit is due here. I’ve said before that Google very rarely gives SEO advice that I think is particularly useful but when they do, they do. At the end of last month the Google Webmaster Central Blog published Beyond [...]

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15 Steps to a Search Engine Friendly Website – 12 Post SEO Guide #4

Friday, January 21st, 2011

Bad SEO practices seem to get built into almost every site that goes up on the web. This article presents a 15 point checklist to help you end up with a search engine friendly website. Part 4 of our 12 Post SEO Guide.

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NoFollow vs DoFollow Blogs and Your SEO

Monday, August 30th, 2010

TweetA recent discussion and a post shared on Bizsugar brought up the issue of increasing blog comments by creating a “DoFollow” blog.  Prompted by that discussion I’m going to address some of the issues of the rel=nofollow tag and its use in blog comments.
The original article puts forward a strong and well thought out case [...]

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Didn’t My Web Designer “SEO” my Site?

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

TweetSimple answer: No.
Your web designer didn’t “SEO” your website.  If you are asking this very reasonable question, your search engine rankings probably aren’t where you expected.  There are other possibilities but mostly you’ll be in one of these situations:
1. Your web designer is either a good or bad web designer but he is clueless about [...]

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What Every Business Needs to Know About the Web

Friday, July 16th, 2010

TweetThis morning I read a post: Most Companies Still Don’t Get SEO – Yet They Want to go Social.  It reminded me of how many businesses there are that don’t understand things you take for granted when you build some experience of working on the Internet.
It astounds me that there is anyone involved with a [...]

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