The first step in tackling an organic search engine optimization (SEO) project is often an SEO website audit. This audit helps lay the foundation for future search success. Properly worked, an audit can be primary reason your site jumps from page 4 to page 1 on the SERPs.
The surprising thing abo...
Benefits of an XML Sitemap Generator
The primary features of Google XML sitemap generator are the following:
They are easy to configure. As soon as you're done with all the initial configuration, they don't require any further administration. Should you want to tweak the settings then you can do so quickly by using various admini...
“SEO Is Not Spam:” Top 4 Google Whitehat Methods
Recently Google CEO, Matt Cutts felt he needed to go on the record again and state that “Google does not consider SEO to be spam.” It is perfectly legitimate to try and make sure your pages are well represented in the search engines....
How the Google Panda Update Affects Your Website
Unless you're a search engine marketer you probably haven't spent too much time worrying about how the Google algorithms changes affect your life.
If you are an online business however, you should know what the characteristics of Panda (the latest Google organic ranking updates) are and how they...
Top 7 Places To Be Listed For Local Search
It isn't hard to get your site listed and your profile built out on these websites, it's just a little tedious. That's why search engine optimization firms charge a lot to do it for you.
If you do it yourself you can save a bunch of money here and utilize their services for more strategic endeavo...
Four Ways To Get More Links for SEO
Linkbuilding is still the most valuable action you can take in order to get your site to rank highly in Google. Why?
Simply stated, links are the basic connector between sites on the web. They are the key to establishing your relationship to the rest of the internet. So obviously then, the more r...
How Online Marketing Fits Together
Things have been quiet in Search Pros Land - at least on this site. But things have been poppin' on the work front. Paid traffic is converting, organic rankings are rising, and local traffic is heading to clients' sites - but I guess you wouldn't know that from reading this feed.
So instead of thro...
The Anatomy of a Good SEO Link
Links are the #1 ranking factor for search engines. Not saying that onsite ranking factors don’t matter. It’s just that links matter more.
You can thank Google for that. Google popularized the importance of links with their original PageRank algorithm. Back in 19-whatever, a couple of students ...
Buying Links for SEO and ORM
Website marketers have been buying links since the dark ages. And there are legitimate uses for paid links. After all, Google has one of the largest network of paid (pay-per-click) links on the internet. But there is another seedier side of paid links.
It doesn’t take long until you stumble upon ...
SEO Basics: Helpful Links
It’s hard to know where to start learning search engine optimization (SEO). With so many blogs, podcasts, books, and videos, it’s hard to know where to get your sea legs in SEO?
Everything you need to know about SEO is free online. The problem is finding where to start, weighing what’s impo...