Keywords for Mobile Search

Tweet Google recently revealed that 1:7 searches are being performed on mobile phones, and that number is supposed to keep going up. More and more people are searching on the go, especially if they are searching for local information.

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Before You Worry About More Traffic

Tweet You build a website with the goal of it getting seen, right? There is very little use on the internet for a site that sees little to no traffic. However, so many web site designers are more interested in the traffic numbers than what those numbers are actually saying. Before you start counting up [...]

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Search Operator Basics for SEO

Tweet Imagine if there was a way to tell Google exactly what you were looking for, in Google’s own language. You could do specific searches and find what you’re looking for, instead of Google’s best guess at what you’re looking for.

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Dear Google: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

Tweet It’s a good time to be Google. They are the closest anyone’s been to ruling the world since the Romans, and they don’t show any signs of slowing down.

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Why the Wrong Page is Ranking First in the Search Results (and How You Can Fix It)

Tweet You’ve used every ethical SEO tactic you know, put in hours of work, and what felt like forever, your page is finally ranking for one of your top keyword choices. Hurray!

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SEO Ethics

Tweet With almost everything in life, there is a right way and a wrong way to accomplish your search engine goals. Easier isn’t always better, and using techniques that are meant to mislead search engines (and site users) are always wrong.

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My Site Needs Content, but What Should I Write About?

Tweet You’re working with a web design company, trying to add content for SEO purposes, or to better explain what your business does. Your designer explains how important quality content is, and tells you how many pages you’ll need to get the best results.

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Using Q&A Sites for SEO

Tweet Question and answer websites, where users can ask questions that are then answered by other users, are extremely popular ways to get information, opinions and advice from other internet users around the world. They can also be excellent for SEO purposes.

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Using Google Adwords: Keyword Tool

Tweet If your going to use SEO on your website, you need to know what keywords are, and how to use them. And then, you need to know where to find them. Sure, you could spend hours thinking up every possible combination of keywords possible for your chosen topic, and then research them all individually, [...]

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Making the Most of Your Crawl Budget

Tweet Search engines don’t index every page of your site every time they crawl through your pages, unless you have a very small site. The size of your crawl budget is determined by the quality of your site. For Google, PageRank has the most significant effect, followed by the amount of organic search traffic.

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