One of the biggest influencing factors in how high a site ranks in Google is the number and quality of other sites that link to them – what we call “backlinks”. (Because they’re links back to one particular site, from another site.) If you want your site to rank higher than your competitor’s site, it’s [...]
If you’ve had a website for any length of time at all, you’ve probably gotten scary-sounding emails warning you that your site doesn’t rank in the search engines. I got one just this morning: We like your site, but we noticed that you are missing out on key web traffic due to where you show [...]
So it’s critically important that YOUR site show up on the first page (at least if you’re using your website as a prospecting or marketing tool.) Quite a few SEO (search engine optimization) companies promise “guaranteed page 1 rankings”, which seems like a [phrase style="53.png"] but be sure to ask LOTS of questions before [...]
Making your site more visible in the search engines – getting it to rank high on the first page of the results for a given keyword (search term) – is a goal of most of the website owners I talk to. That’s because 90% of searchers never go past the 1st page of the search [...]
This comment left me speechless. Twice. (And that doesn’t happen often.) A local business owner told me yesterday that he didn’t WANT his website to be #1 on Google’s search engine results page (SERP). I was speechless for a few seconds… I’d never heard anyone say THAT before. I couldn’t imagine why he wouldn’t want [...]
