SEO

Has your website been delisted?

There is nothing worse than having your website delisted by the search engines. This happens on a regular basis. Once your website has been banned, it can take a while before it’s re-indexed after you’ve fixed the problem(s) with your website.

There are many reasons why your website can be delisted. Below are just a few of the more popular ones.

Website Hits vs Page Views

This is NOT a true picture of the traffic pattern to your website. There are some web designers and SEO companies that will show you only the hits on your website. They use this tactic to make sure that what they did for you looks GREAT. They fail to show you the true picture of what your website is doing, by showing you the page views and the return and new visitors. Continue reading

White Hat vs Black Hat SEO

When it comes to setting up SEO for your website there are several techniques, some are good and some are not so good. Google, Bing and Yahoo have all laid out guidelines for the SEO companies to follow. The companies that adhere to the search engine guidelines are called White Hats, where as the companies that try to manipulate the guidelines and apply questionable techniques are called Black Hats 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

Link Link where’s the Link?

When you go to a website and you see a word or groups of words underlined or changes colors when you roll your mouse over it, you take it for granted that this means there is more information for you to read. Yes, that is the case, however; there is more to that link than just more information. That link plays a very important role in search engine optimization. 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

What is Rich Content?

I’m sure you’ve heard this lot - “you must have good rich content for your website” Continue reading

A Bear. A Stick. In The Woods.

Today is my turn to write an article for the blog. I'm going to talk about a bear, a stick, in the woods. You ask me - what in the world does that have to do with internet marketing, social media or web development, right? I'll try to keep this fairly short, so I don't lose your attention! Continue reading

Links: To Buy or Not To Buy…

Having links that point back to your website will increase your PageRanking and influence the position of your website in Google’s search results. Continue reading

The Big Picture

Are you using Social Media to market your business? If you are, that’s great! Let me ask this next question, are you looking at the big picture or just in the moment? Continue reading