
Occasionally, things happen online that we don’t understand…thinking something has been done when we explicitly said we didn’t want done. One of these instances has to do with the Robots.txt file, which we discussed a couple of months ago. Robo...

Ever wonder how some people marketing online get all those readers and subscribers to their blogs, e-zines, white papers or articles? Feel like you have to fight to get just a couple of people to read your posts...

Especially in a down economy like we’ve had for some time now, consumers are very cautious when shopping for products and services. They want all the information they can get before they buy so retailers who provide this information enjoy significant advantages over those who don’t. On...

To people businesses and individuals not familiar with SEO, it seems to be a pretty mysterious concept. They often wonder if it’s a one-time thing they can setup and forget about or an ongoing process that requires diligence and hard work. ...

It’s long been held that social media marketing and search engine optimization are mutually exclusive – one has nothing to do with the other. Tweets on Twitter or public messages on Facebook have up until now been the exclusive domain of those sites. Th...

A few weeks ago we reported on new guidelines emanating from the Federal Trade Commission regarding bloggers and testimonials – first, and regretfully, our reporting on the story wasn’t complete as the initial news reports we came across only addressed one part of the new rules from the FTC. (C...

Getting your site crawled by the major search engines is central component to search engine optimization – without it, there’s no way your site will be indexed and ranked and no one will find you. Se...

We’re always looking for new ways to find companies who need search engine marketing and optimization services. Twitter is one of those tools many online marketing professionals are turning to reach prospective customers. ...

Anyone intimately involved in optimizing websites for the search engines knows that the Google Webmaster Tools utility is an invaluable part of monitoring your site. It’s easy to login and see your site’s position in all of the elements Google uses to rank your site. On...

One topic that comes up often when optimizing a website for the search engines involves URLs. How should they be constructed, optimized and what do each of the pieces mean are common questions...

Small business owners starting a blog often have a whole pile of questions. How do you set up a blog? What URL should it reside at? How do you find material to write about week after week? How can I promote my blog? Who would want to read it? Is blogging really a good use of my time...

If you’re a copywriter, web designer, site developer, ad agency, printing company or online marketing company, you already know how important SEO can be to the success of your clients. ...

One of our partners, Channel Intelligence, is hosting a webinar tomorrow (Wed.) featuring new services and upcoming improvements by Google expected to help merchants with the 2009 holiday shopping season...

In some respects, manual link building is a critical part of building high search engine rankings. As we’ve said before, informative and unique content is one of the pillars in building rankings…but to really get in the top 10, you need to have other sites linking to yours. Wi...












