Google Gives SEO Link Building Advice
The way the search engines operate is almost always changing. Sometimes the changes happen while we sleep and sometimes we are given a heads up way in advance so that we can prepare for the blow. Regardless building links is always going to be an integral part of building up a business online. In a recent blog post Google gives their advice on some ways to build up nice quality links pointing to your website in order to get on Google’s good side. “Directory entries are often mentioned as another way to promote young sites in the Google index. There are great, topical directories that add value to the Internet. But there are not many of them in proportion to those of lower quality. If you decide CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
SEO Services Company – Can You Trust Them?
If you are somewhat new to the SEO world and you have been given the task of finding an SEO services company to hire to help your business might leave you with some investigative work to do. There are many, many SEO companies out there claiming they are the best and if you are trying to isolate the right SEO services company to partner with there are some things you should know before you make your final decision. Don’t Base Your Entire Decision On Price This theory can go in both directions. With many things in life if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Do you really think you are going to effectively market your business and beat out your competition on CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
10 Deadly SEO Sins
SEO still seems like a very foggy effort to many website owners. I still see people in the forums and blogs that seem to be stuck in search engine optimization circa 2001 by looking for directory submission services and articles “blasts” which do nothing but flood the web pages with junk. There is such a thing as good search engine marketing and it is important to fully understand this. Let’s take a look at some of the largest SEO mistakes a website can make that will ultimately hurt their SEO efforts: SEO Sin#1 - Mass Submission: A mass submission of almost anything online is just not as effective as it once was. There is no easy way of marketing your business online. There is a tremendous amount CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Massachusetts SEO Seminar Announcement
I am excited to announce the upcoming Boston SEO training workshop by myself Nick Stamoulis. This full day Boston SEO workshop and SEO training will be held on September 29, 2010 at our Brick Marketing training office, in Boston. This Boston SEO training and Boston SEO workshop will be taught by none other than myself, Nick Stamoulis, Brick Marketing President and SEO Expert. I have decided to keep this SEO seminar to only 10 people - nice and small so everyone can learn SEO! For registration information about the upcoming SEO seminar in Boston, please visit the registration link here: http://boston-internet-marketing.eventbrite.com/ Brick Marketing has become one of the premier SEO and search engine marketing firms in the United States and the Boston CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Bing Search Engine Positioning Ideas
Websites do not typically just rank for the sake of ranking, especially if they are a new website in the search space. The Bing Webmaster blog gives some sound pieces of advice to keep your website running like a well oiled machine and keep you rankings climbing. “Check to see if your site employs a robots.txt file. If so, confirm that the directives block only what you want blocked. If one or more sets of custom directives exist for specific bots, be sure they include all necessary directives from the generic set of directives. Then be sure the file has been validated. Also, check for and review the validity of any REP commands in webpage tags and in HTTP Headers.” Sometimes a website might CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Steps to Build Your SEO
Search engine optimization is one of those things that require certain steps in a specific order to really work well. I often times see many people putting the buggy before the horse really just wasting time, energy and money by not putting the puzzle together in the right sequence. The following are a few SEO steps to consider. I mention FEW because there are so many involved but these are a few to think of: 1st SEO Step: Everything starts with your website. Your website is the foundation for everything else you do online so you want to make sure it is running at 100% efficiency. This means having a well optimized website with unique meta info and optimized well written content. You also want to CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Internal Link Building Tips to Remember
Linking building and site structure go hand in hand. You might be tempted to only spend your time on building your external link structure but it is also important to not forget about spending time doing something about your internal site structure as well. Key Areas of Your Internal Link Building Include: Footer Links: Your footer is an amazing way to really increase your internal link building. There are many ways you can approach constructing your bottom navigation and it depends on how your site is built but a bottom footer with links to your important pages is a great way to strengthen your internal link building. This is an example of our footer. You can see we have links pointing to all of our most important pages CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Future of Search Engine Marketing
What the future of search engine marketing holds nobody really knows but the signs are clear as to where things are going for anyone or any business looking to market almost anything on the web. The way people interact and communicate online is always changing and nothing stays the same for too long. We are obsessed with speed and things being quicker at all times and quality of life is about to change. How are things changing the search engine marketing landscape? 1. Local Search Engine Marketing: Local search engine marketing was once not very important, now it is crucial for survival. Whether you are a car dealership or a lemonade stand marketing yourself online is vital to bringing in new customers. Local marketing utilizing location based CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
SEO Agency: What to Look For According to Google!
When Google comes out and tells you what you should be looking out for in an SEO agency or firm it is important to listen up. Matt Cutt’s states that are certain red flags you should listen out for when searching for a search engine marketing company to help you out with your exposure. He claims there are many good SEO agencies out there but there are also some bad apples to watch out for. Here is a great video from Google’s Matt Cutts about hiring SEO agencies: Things to watch out for when interviewing SEO Agencies: Vagueness: If you are not sure what the SEO agency is planning on doing you should find a different vendor. Search engine optimization is not voodoo or magic; it is proactively CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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