Recently comScore released October’s search engine rankings for the US market. Of the 20.3 billion total core search queries that were conducted in October, a staggering 66.2% were performed on Google sites, up 0.8% from September. The others, in descending order: Yahoo! Sites 16.3% Microsoft Sites 13.6% Ask Network 2.6% AOL Inc 1.4% Moral of […]
You’ve started your own blog to showcase your knowledge and build your online brand awareness, now what? The adage of build it and they will come doesn’t apply to the online world where there are billions of websites for people to surf. By ensuring that your blog is as efficient and socially friendly as possible, you can […]
Life would be nice and easy for SEO practitioners everywhere if all the search engines used the same signals to rank your website Maybe not easy but definitely a lot simpler. The first rule of SEO: nothing is ever easy. Google is the ruler of the internet and all things search engine. We all know […]
Search Engine Optimization is the practice of increasing your website’s position in the search engine’s results pages, thereby increasing your traffic from the search engines and increasing your visibility. While the SEO language isn’t as technical as in web design or programming, some of the terms can have you scratching your head as you delve into the […]
I recently did a search engine optimization audit on a new client’s website. They had just ended their contract with their previous SEO company and were looking for a fresh perspective. As I loaded their site and began to delve into it, I noticed a few things that were probably holding them back in their […]
Unless you’re living under a rock, you should have already caught the breeze that Google has again shaken up the internet marketing community. The most recent Penguin update caused some webmasters to have mixed reactions. Others felt they were again smitten by the update, while some chose to be nonchalant about it. As always, the […]
ICANN recently introduced a slew of new generic top-level domains beyond the old standards of .com, .net, .org, and the other domain extensions to which we’ve grown accustomed. Many local businesses are wondering what effects these new gTLDs will have on their site’s ranking, should they choose to implement .museum, .love, .gallery, or one of […]
Before a new site goes live, it’s always wise to have the SEO specialist check it over to make sure the basics are covered and the site can hit the ground running. While most designers and developers are awesome at designing and creating, they’re often too busy to pay attention to the SEO side of […]