I remember the first time I explained the importance of Google Local. It was a post-sell conversation with a catering client who had charged me with the responsibility of getting more traffic to their site. At the time, Google wasn’t serving Maps listings in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). In fact, it was a [...]
Archive for April, 2010
For a relaxing Friday post, I’m going to step away from strictly talking Internet marketing and talk about our thought process and how it relates to the decisions we make with our websites. This post takes a look at a few scenarios in which a general concensus or industry agreement is determined and how that [...]
04/13/2010
I’ve heard this question 4 times this week, and it’s only Tuesday. “How many pages do I need to make my website effective to the search engines?” I’m pushing 7 years in this industry, so I wasn’t there for the beginning. I’m not too sure where this came from, but I can only imagine that [...]
04/07/2010
OK, that’s not entirely true. But they are giving us some decent information. I wanted to share a neat little bit of info after I read ‘The value of keyword rankings‘ over at State of Search. There has been (and likely will be for a while) a debate on the need to track keyword rankings. [...]
04/02/2010
Here’s the problem. You have an idea for a website. You check the competition and you note how stiff it is. You pick one particular competitor in the field and notice that it has a ton of links. Now you are discouraged. You’ll never get that many links and compete. Might as well just give [...]
04/01/2010
So here’s the deal (I use the word “so” a lot). My site is technically down. Yeah, there’s a nav there, but I’m waiting on a cool little design that’s cooking. In the mean time, a friend sent me something kinda funny. I thought I would throw a WordPress blog up for the time being [...]
