Does any of this this sound familiar? I just launched a new website yesterday and my website doesn’t show up when you search on Google! What the heck did my web developer do (or not do)? My site has been online for 2 weeks and I still can’t find it in a search. Is this… [Read More]
Why small business owners can’t afford to ignore Social Media any longer
Many small business owners perceive social media as simply a marketing option; just another marketing tool, like PPC or list building that they may choose to use or not use when promoting their business. Unfortunately, this is no longer true. Small business owners simply cannot afford to ignore social media any longer. Changes to search… [Read More]
Finding and Fixing Broken Links on Your Website
Are your web site visitors clicking on a link and ending up with a dreaded page not found error? Broken links can be a source of frustration for your website visitors and can actually impact your SEO efforts. Sites with a lot of broken links may be considered old and no longer maintained and this… [Read More]
Adding an XML Sitemap to your Website
XML sitemaps are a great tool to help ensure that your entire website gets crawled and indexed by search engines. An XML sitemap is hidden from your website visitors and is different than the sitemap that you provide for website visitors. A visitor sitemap is typically an orderly index of all your pages and is… [Read More]
3 Tips to Optimize Your WordPress Images For the Search Engines.
Properly optimized blog images can help your overall Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts and can generate traffic from image-based search engines like Google images. If you are ready to ramp up your SEO efforts here are some quick tips on optimizing your images. Use your keywords in your file name. Name your image files using… [Read More]
Search Engine Optimization for your WordPress Blog
You have a WordPress blog and you have even been posting blog posts regularly, but you don’t seem to be generating a whole lot of new traffic. What search engine optimization efforts, can you undertake to have your blog achieve better Search Engine results and start generating more traffic? You need to optimize each blog… [Read More]
8 Quick SEO Tips You Can Use to Fuel Your Website
A website without SEO is like a car without gas. You could have the most amazing car but without fuel it will just sit in your garage collecting dust. The same goes for your website, your awesome website will be no use to you if you don’t get any traffic – and for traffic you… [Read More]
Has Your Site Traffic Been Squashed by a Google Penguin?
On April 24th, 2012 Google introduced a new search algorithm (nicked named Penguin) that seems to specifically target over-optimization and link spam. Sites that were ranking high and generating lots of traffic, due to having lots of backlinks to their site, were suddenly not performing near as well. In fact, some sites lost 50% or… [Read More]
Improve Search Engine Rankings by Tweaking Your Title Tags
Title tags are one of the most important elements of your web page’s SEO. Title tags are the words you see at the top of the browser window and they are the words that are clickable on a search engine result page (SERP). This means that the title you chose can directly influence your click-throughs… [Read More]
How to Create Search Engine (SE) Friendly URL’s in WordPress
The default permalink setting for WordPress creates ugly URLs for your pages and posts. Not only are these default URLs ugly but they are not very search engine friendly. They do nothing to help improve your search engine ranking. URLs from the default setting look something like this: http://www.your-domain-name.com/?p=123 What we want is something… [Read More]
