The SEO 101 For Beginners
The SEO Secrets Every Business Should KnowNiagara SEO: Search engine optimization is the process of growing the quality and quantity of website traffic by increasing the visibility of a website or a web page to users of a web search engine. SEO refers to the improvement of unpaid results and excludes direct traffic and the purchase of paid placement.
Best Practices for Google: Panda vs. Penguin
Lolz cats may seem like the most important animal of the web, but Panda and Penguin can stop you right in your tracks. These two Google algorithms have cut down hundreds of websites and put them on the lowest pages of Google Search. Panda used to be the algorithm that...
Google’s Venice Update: A Push For Local SEO
You probably know about Google’s Panda and Penguin algorithm updates, but what about the Venice update? A few months ago, Google rolled out Venice, which focused largely on local search. Although it’s a bit under the radar, the Venice update is extremely important for...
Local SEO with Google+
It’s not exactly surprising that Google recently made the widely-expected announcement that it plans to convert all existing Google Places pages into Google+ Local pages. So instead of boring you with further details on this transition, I want to jump into the meat...
Choose SEO Friendly Web Design
Getting web design done by an SEO company is a very important step towards creating a website that will be a success. There are many reasons that you might want to start a website. You might want to promote a new business that you have just started. You also might...
Google’s Penguin Update Continues to Smack Small Business
Last week, a small business owner talked to me about his new marketing plan. It went something like this: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, MySpace, blog, blog outreach, YouTube videos, forum posting, SEO articles written and posted to Squidoo, every other...
Growing Your Business By Branding Through SEO
You’re surfing your favorite news portal before leaving for work. Almost subliminally, you notice an ad for a new book on financial planning. Next, you drop by a forum to chat, and someone is talking about the same book. You then quickly pop in to Amazon.com to select some reading material for a weekend trip – and there’s the title again, in the recommended list of “Weekly Picks”.
5 Small Business SEO Campaign ROI Secrets
Making search engine optimization (SEO) work in a competitive keyword space is difficult. The secret about Google is out – there’s big traffic to be found.
Marketing Company Conducts Poll on Preferred Search Engine
In 2007, Facebook launched Facebook Platform to empower developers and entrepreneurs around the world make the Web more social for users. Millions of Facebook users return to the site each day, providing unparalleled distribution potential for applications and the opportunity to build a business that is highly relevant to people’s lives.
Choose SEO Friendly Web Design
Getting web design done by an SEO company is a very important step towards creating a website that will be a success. There are many reasons that you might want to start a website. You might want to promote a new business that you have just started. You also might...
Google Reveals Plans to Put the Breaks on Negative SEO
Google is reportedly set to take steps to control unwanted, or negative SEO. The search giant is expected to unveil a new feature that will facilitate the reporting of incoming web site links that are bad. The practice, referred to as disavowing links, is anticipated to be put into practice within the next few months according to a prominent member of Google’s search quality team.
Google’s Penguin Update Continues to Smack Small Business
Last week, a small business owner talked to me about his new marketing plan. It went something like this: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, MySpace, blog, blog outreach, YouTube videos, forum posting, SEO articles written and posted to Squidoo, every other article site then promoted on StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit and every other appropriate sharing site.
3 Hard Lessons to Learn From Penguin: Be Relevant, Be Balanced, Keep it Real
Google’s most recent Penguin update has caused a storm of controversy since it began cracking down on search engine enemy No. 1: “unnatural” links. The Panda update targeted low value on-page optimization focusing on duplicate content and spammy outbound links, while...