How do I get my Website on the First Page of Google?

You might be surprised by how simple the answer to this question is. You get to the top of Google search results by having the best, most relevant content on the web. There aren’t really any tricks or shortcuts. There’s just the hard work of building a near-perfect site around the keywords your visitors will […]

How Long Does it Take to Get to the Front Page of Google?

This might be the most natural question to ask when starting out on your search engine optimization campaign with your local SEO company. But the question is practically worthless without context. Even if you’re at the top of the results for a chosen keyword, it doesn’t mean that that’s the keyword your potential customers are […]

How Will Blogging Help My Business?

Blogging fills several roles for both established and emerging businesses. It provides an opportunity to take control of your marketing strategy by giving your business a voice with consumers. If they find that voice compelling, then blogging is a means of developing followers who may become a source of sales. Blogging helps you to show […]

Let Your SEO Talk to Your Social Media

There was a good article just posted at Search Engine Land that focuses on one of the most common traps that people fall into when they’re chasing after search engine optimization. Many businesses obsess over search engine results for a pre-determined set of keywords and forget that their exposure through other media and other marketing […]

Geofeedia and Place-Specific Social Media Marketing

The recent influx of funding for Geofeedia is big news for the future of social media marketing. The Chicago-based company allows its customers to monitor social media activity based on location, and it has just received 3.5 million dollars in venture funding, which it plans to use to double its staff over the course of […]

All on its own, what’s a Website Worth to your Business?

A business column published on Tuesday at USA Today counsels business owners to make sure that they have up-to-date websites. It drives the point home with several anecdotes about entrepreneurs who failed to attach sufficient importance to the online portion of their business, and who lost leads as a result.   Obviously, the author is […]

NoFollow Backlinks

I’ve come to realize that the SEO community is divided on the matter of nofollow backlinks, with some people defending their merits and others insisting that they are useless for site rankings (and therefore useless overall).   To me, it seems like a no-brainer that the first group is correct and that nofollow backlinks are […]

Is Organic Social Media Dead?

There were two separate but related stories about social media in the news the other day. An article in The Guardian indicates that many businesses and entrepreneurs are lamenting what is perceived as the death of organic social media marketing. Evidently, Facebook and Twitter are adjusting their algorithms in a way that makes it increasingly […]

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