People can’t get enough of a good thing.  And when it’s something they can’t have, that makes it even better, and therefore harder to let go.  The insatiable appetite of people for passing information around on the net, combined with infinite number of routes through which that information can be access has created a lock [...]

Let’s just be blunt.  As a business owners, it sucks when you have to admit to anyone (especially yourself) that you’re not performing as good as you could be, should be, or want to be.  When you have to own up to the problem, it’s hard to do because that means that something must be [...]

Predictive SEO isn’t a new concept but it’s one of those tricks that seems to fall to the wayside in our minds when we’re busy with other things.  If you haven’t considered the concept of it, don’t feel left out.  Most of us forget the technique is there most of the time. So for those [...]

I recently had a reader ask me in the comments if I thought that Meta Tags were still relevant when optimizing a site.  I considered a direct reply but figured a post stating my opinion on this would be a bit more helpful to others with the same query.  This reader also referred to me [...]

I recently had a discussion with an extremely frustrated business associate. He had been working with a firm that handles SEO for several weeks. Per his request, that firm had been managing all the back-end behind-the-scenes work for his site pages: cleaning up his site code, adjusting meta and title content, link building, analyzing his [...]

There are uncountable approaches to SEO that are market dependant and rely more on your own tactical map than any specific dictionary definition of how to go about marketing.  If you’ve been involved in marketing for any length of time now, then you know that variations in approach can mean the difference between success in [...]

It’s getting more and more difficult to position your website in the right spot on search engines like Google.  Seems like the harder you try, the farther behind you can get.  With the ever-growing number of competitive sites and the speed at which info travels the globe, SEO has become a fierce battle against search [...]

If you read and subscribe to a lot of SEO and SEM blogs, you’ve probably noticed that everyone and their brother puts up “Top 7″ posts.  I’m not sure why 7 is the magic number.  It may have something to do specifically with SEO and online marketing, or perhaps it’s a subconscious play on lucky [...]

A smart entrepreneur needs to know what is going around them.  When you manage a business, a portion of your time should be regularly spent reviewing industry publication, newspaper editorials relevant to your market to keep tabs on the industry, engaging customers for feedback and on global finance.  However when a large chunk of your [...]

As simple as we try to keep things, we can’t help but get overly technical.  We’re always searching for better, faster, more advanced ways to tackle the simple jobs we do.  We like to think that advanced always means better.  Sometimes, when it comes to SEO, we’re just getting caught up in the muck and [...]