What Good Are 1,000,000 Visitors If They Don’t Like Your Content?
I have written before (and here) that I believe that if you have a site that is over optimized for search engines chances are that your human visitors could find it hard to read, use and understand. I ask my customers what good is having all of the traffic in the world if they just […]
SEO For Images On Your Site
More and more search engines are giving pictures (and now video) in their results pages. Does that mean that their spiders are now able to “view” and index these files. I imagine that it is probably getting better, but they sill mostly rely on what you tell them that the image is about. There are […]
Be Careful Of Who You Hire For SEO
I have written many times about good ways to help your site get found by the search engines. This post is about the bad ones. I usually get my share of “Blog Spam”. That is, people or bots who post comments on my blog that usually have nothing to do with the content. These folks […]
More Good SEO Advice
On the Search Engine Watch site Mark Jackson of the ClickZ Network has posted an article called “Avoiding Cookie Cutter SEO”. He speaks about how no two web sites are created equal and how template SEO is just bad business. Search engines are looking for unique sites to show to their searchers and generally what […]
Can Small Businesses Really Afford SEO?
There is a very interesting discussion going on in a post on the search engine land site by Stoney deGeyter called Can Small Businesses Really Afford SEO? I’m thinking that small business can’t afford not use SEO for their sites. It’s the only thing that really levels the playing field with the big boys. Even […]
SEO, Where To Start?
The question that I seem to get most often is “How do you get a site found on Google?” I believe that Google likes it better if they discover your site through their own efforts rather than having you submit to them. This is my own opinion, but I have seen cases where a brand […]
Why Do We Need A Website?
Today I’m meeting with a potential new customer. This is a group of people who are divided on whether they need a site or not. A couple of them are pushing hard to have one and they have asked me to speak to them today. Rather than giving them the hard sell and telling them […]
SEO Help For Beginners
When I am writing about designing sites and promoting them I often talk about optimizing a site or a page for the search engines so that they will find your site and will send you visitors. After all, there is good traffic and bad traffic, but having more visitors come to our site to do […]
Content Paralysis
I had a friend who I met a while back at a PAPEN meeting contact me recently. Her daughter is a real estate agent and she was trying to put together a website for her business. She had paid someone to design her site over a year ago and still has nothing up. The designer […]
How Not To Do SEO
It seems that everyone is getting into the SEO business these days. I do a good bit or research on the subject and try to give simple advice that can be used by most any webmaster to improve their search engine standings. The information that I provide you I believe to be accurate current and […]
