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How Do I Get My Business To The First Page of Google?

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How do I get my business to Page One of Google

It’s easy to leave your website be when you’re logging countless hours simply trying to keep your business afloat. However, in this day and age, a few keyword-friendly pages aren’t going to keep the traffic moving to your site. Blogs don’t need to be updated all day, every day, but you need to make sure that you’re able to keep the content on your website fresh, new and exciting every so often. Major search engines, including Google, Yahoo! and Bing, all use complex algorithms to determine where a site will rank organically. Part of that algorithm is the engagement that Continue reading →

Has Google Penguin 3.0 Update Impacted Your Search Results?

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Google Pengquin - SEO

To understand what the Google Penguin 3.0 update is, and what it’s intended to destroy, we must first understand its purpose. The original Google Penguin update was launched by Google in April 2012 and was intended to target and catch websites that were deemed to be “spamming search results.” Specifically, the update was geared to find websites that were either buying links or gathering them through link networks to increase a website’s Google ranking. Google Penguin 3.0 is an algorithm update, the fifth of its kind. It’s a mathematically automated cycling system with rules, guidelines, principles and restrictions. It’s not Continue reading →

FRESH Website Content is a Must!

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Google Wants Fresh Content

The brownies that you made last night taste so sweet in the morning!　But brownies fresh out of the oven are even more heavenly! The same goes for website content. When you created the content and posted it on your website, the search engines salivated.　Google just loves fresh content.　Now you have a beautiful webpage that ranks highly.　Then, while you turn your attention elsewhere, your competition writes fresh content and your website rankings fall. After a couple of weeks, the content Google once loved begins to taste stale.   What is the solution? Certainly remaking a website every month is not feasible.　But Continue reading →

Own Your Google Rankings and Local Search

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The marketing industry is a tough one when it comes to traditional media methods. For years, large businesses have turned to online advertising as an affordable and trackable way to get their brand in front of customers. In the last five years, the biggest small businesses have taken the same route as advertising becomes less of a burden on the wallet. One of the great things that we’ve always loved about our clients is that their sites are successful. While we can’t help much when it comes to customer service (though most of the businesses we deal with do provide Continue reading →

The Trifecta of Internet Marketing

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What you need to know about SEO

There are lots of pages out there that focus on specific channels to help with one element of internet marketing or another. The problem that most small businesses will find with these service providers is that their services are astronomical, even out of budget range. For the business that needs a boost, there’s a need to make sure that you’ve got three basics covered in terms of growing your online presence. Web Design No matter how much of a presence you have on social media, local listings, and other resources, you need to have some sort of culmination. Your website Continue reading →

Local Business and Local Search is Everything

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Local Search is Everything to a Business. It’s not a secret that people use their mobile phones to do all kinds of surfing. But when we separate the difference between those that use a mobile device for everyday browsing and those that use them for finding local businesses, the numbers are staggering. If you were to look at your Google Analytics (and you have a good SEO plan in place), you’ll probably find that about 20-25% of your visitors overall are mobile. However, for many local businesses, it becomes clear that nearly 90% of your users could be looking for Continue reading →

10 Simple Ways to get Noticed on Google

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Google+ has 400 million registered users, and over 100 million active ones, according to the company’s official announcements. (And 70% of the users are male. Odd.) So now we wonder: where are all these people? If you’ve checked your Google+ account recently, you may have noticed that it’s awkwardly silent. Maybe it’s because it’s still a new service, and people are trying to find their way around. Or maybe everybody is hiding in Communities or Hangouts, and you need a super-secret password to get in. Or maybe it’s because it has so many male users, and men don’t talk that Continue reading →

The Rules of Marketing On Google

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How Do I Get My Business To Page 1 of GOOGLE?

We love developing sites that really show off what a client can do. But Google’s search algorithm is almost that of human thought. “Never judge a book by its cover” are words that the search engine powerhouse almost lives by. We work with sliders, backgrounds, and colors to be appealing to the human eye. But when it comes to web design, and how we piece together websites, the work goes so much deeper than that. Google LOVES – Connecting To Your Community A lot of the businesses that we work with are local businesses, which has made us specialists when Continue reading →

How to Rank for Local Search

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While local search on major search engines has the power to make or break a business’ online efforts, it doesn’t have the same ranking factors as your usual website rankings. It’s easy for your ranking to change based upon several different elements that are often dependent on the user that is doing the searching. 1. Proximity on Local Search The biggest determining factor in your Google local search ranking is going to be your location in relation to the approximate location of the user. If you’re on the other side of town and your competition is right next door, you’ll Continue reading →

Brand your Business! Give Your Logo a Holiday

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Brand Your Business! Don’t Be Afraid To Change With The Seasons There was a time when a company’s logo was a sacred thing, never to be altered or played around with – and certainly not several times a year. Yet as tablets and Smartphones continue to change the paradigm of how people interact with businesses, those old rules of familiarity aren’t quite as cut and dry. If Google has taught us anything, it’s that a company’s logo – no matter how iconic – can be manipulated without necessarily detracting from the brand. The search engine giant now employs an entire Continue reading →

Using Google Analytics to Your Advantage

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For the average small business, a marketing budget is something that most only dream about. That being said, where there exists an opportunity to get a free marketing tool, there exists a chance to keep up with the bigger players in your industry. Google Analytics services like Omniture and Coremetrics can often come at a price that starts at a whopping $10,000 per year. It’s for that reason that Google Analytics has become a powerhouse, especially among smaller businesses. But the key to unlocking the full power of Google Analytics comes with knowing how to use it. Most businesses that Continue reading →

The Little Search Engines That Could

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The words, “I want to rank on Google for…” are some that we hear all too often. In the end, we certainly agree that showing up on Google for keywords that are specific to your business’ niche should be at the top of your priority list. But we feel the need to express how important it is to target all search engines whenever possible, and the latest ratings for comScore only help to drive our point home. Google has commanded well over 60% of the search share market for some time. However, for the first time in more than a Continue reading →

Why Blogging Matters – Google Likes Fresh Website Content!

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It’s easy to leave your website be when you’re logging countless hours simply trying to keep your business afloat. However, in this day and age, a few keyword-friendly pages aren’t going to keep the traffic moving to your site. Blogs don’t need to be updated all day, every day, but you need to make sure that you’re able to keep the content on your website fresh, new and exciting every so often. Major search engines, including Google, Yahoo! and Bing, all use complex algorithms to determine where a site will rank organically. Part of that algorithm is the engagement that Continue reading →