Recently Google and Bing have confirmed their positions on the use of Twitter and Facebook to impact rankings.  It’s long been suspected by SEO’s that social sites like Twitter and Facebook did have an impact and SEO value but there’s been no real confirmation… until now. Both Google and Bing note that if an article [...]

How many times have you gone looking for good search engine optimization advice to find inflammatory nonsense declaring the end of SEO as a viable means of attracting traffic? Usually this is in response to some change that Google or Yahoo! or another major search engine makes that will supposedly end the SEO game for [...]

Keeping your visitors happy is crucial to keeping them in the dales funnel, and part of keeping them happy is making sure that your website loads as fast as it possibly can. A fast site speed ensures that fewer people will click away due to frustrated boredom.  A faster loading website can help reduce the [...]

Underestimating the value of your keyword research or cutting corners to get it done is like slashing your tires before a race. There seems to be quite a lot of confusion out there about what makes keyword research worthwhile, and what kind of market research needs to be done to establish a good list of [...]

All too common today are obvious attempts to create buzz on the internet that went over like a fart in church. The problem with a lot of these attempts is that they were simply too obtuse, dry, weird, and overall not innovative or informative enough to grab the attention of the masses. These failed Linkbait [...]

The internet makes it easier than ever before to reach out to a global audience with advertising and other forms of promotion to get your business recognized as an industry leader. If your business is primarily online, then you have the ability to do business with customers from all over the globe. Smaller businesses, however, [...]

Sometimes we just need a solid kick to the head to jar us back into play when we start to waiver.  Without gilding the lily or polishing up the front end, here’s a list of 5 SEO tips for you to chew on while you’re plugging away at yet another project. SEO Tip #1  Steal [...]

One of the more interesting pieces of buzz that is coming down the line is the talk about page previews that are taking place within the SERP’s of Google.  Google appears to be doing a trial run with UK users where a mouse over of the title on a search result will reveal a preview [...]

If we lived in a perfect world, we would all be able to do things well enough and with uniform quality.  All things not created equal, we understand that in every market and every walk of life there are some people that just naturally ooze out of the mold.  These are the people that don’t [...]

For a large number of small business owners there continues to be a lot of confusion about how they should go about setting up a brand new site; particularly in how they should go about doing it in a way that brings in some measure of traffic and worthwhile purchases. Many new sites tend to [...]