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SERP – what is it?

You see “SERP” in a lot of blog articles, but what does it mean? Searching for things in Google, Yahoo, Bing or any other search engine, the results that you get back are called “Search Engine Results Page” or “SERP”. Continue reading

The Successful Roadmap

There are so many key elements that need to be implemented when developing a website in order to be found in the search engines. It amazes me that there are still so many website designers that will leave this one out or forget to do it when they build a website. This element is a very important feature that all search engines use. Without it your website may never be found. Continue reading

Why Duplicate Content Could Hurt You

Where did you or your webmaster come up with the content for your website? This is a very important factor to look at when developing a website that will be listed with Google, Bing and Yahoo. When the search engines send out their spiders and find that you’re content is the exact same as another website that was there before yours -- you may have a bit of a problem. The same is true if you own several websites and just copy and paste the content into each of the websites. Continue reading

Have You Found Your “Purple Cow”?

I was sitting here, wondering if you have asked yourself, just what does our new look have to do with website development, SEO or SMO. Let me explain to you how we came up with our new look for the website. It all started a while back when we viewed Seth Godin’s video about “finding your purple cow”. Deb and I put our thinking caps on and threw out all sorts of ideas. For some reason food kept coming into the picture. Maybe that’s because I love to cook and Deb loves to eat. Continue reading

I Know I Need To Do It….where do I begin?

Do you need a website?  Have you been told by your business associates and your friends, the only way you can increase your business is to build a website.  Great! 

Now you say to yourself, this should be fairly easy to do, right?  I just call around, get a few prices and find the cheapest price – because I will only have a few pages and it will never change.  All I’ll need to do is put in what I do, how to contact me and presto!  I have a website.  That was easy. If this is what you are thinking of as far as what a website is –  that is utter “Hog Wash”.

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