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 [...]
Don’t change your website without telling me. Even if my SEO (search engine optimization) project is “offsite SEO” – in other words, I’m concentrating on external factors, like backlinks to your site, instead of modifications to your site itself (“onsite SEO”) – I need to stay informed about what you’re doing. For example, one of [...]
I just got an email from a local business owner in the construction industry. He said: “AT&T is trying to sell me some online listing that they say will get me ranked. The guy says that the sponsored links they will have for me will help get me listed organically. Does that seem right to you? They are trying to [...]
Twice this week I’ve had someone contact me who either has built or is building a site for themselves using Wix.com’s flash-based website builder. I’ve gotta say that I don’t think this is a good idea at all. Flash and SEO are like oil and water – they just don’t mix very well. Google and [...]
I USED to think the answer was a clear and emphatic “NO” – if not a “HECK, NO!” Until I started doing SEO (search engine optimization) for clients. And making some claims as to being halfway good at it, too. Let me make one thing perfectly clear – I DO feel that anyone you hire [...]
