SEO is in an interesting place in 2020… Google really likes their algorithm… Even though COVID-19 has caused some fluctuations in what people are searching, people are still searching the internet with commercial intent… …and the companies that get in front of these searchers can get a lot of new customers. I discuss more in …
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Just because you CAN do something, doesn’t mean you SHOULD do something. This is true for many parts of life — your business and internet marketing and search engine optimization included! Don’t assume that SEO is going to be something that will make you more money than it costs you once you start ranking well …
Here is an interesting article about one of Google’s patents that deals with determining the quality of a site for ranking in the Organic results. It talks about Paid Search as well. Here’s an outline of how they interpret it: I’m not sure if that makes any sense to you, but it sure is a …
I just re-watched this old video of mine talking about undying or core search engine optimization concepts or principles: I have grown in my SEO abilities a great amount in the last 6 months, but all of these have held true and appear to be holding true for a long time to come! If you …
Is my 6 month old “Undying SEO Principles” still valid? Read More »
Many people have lots of complex questions regarding Mobile Friendly Web Design for Search Engine Optimization to make sure Google doesn’t penalize their site. Just as important, they want to make sure their visitors on mobile devices don’t get turned off by the design. Using WordPress for SEO definitely helps make mobile web design easier. …
Have you had a sudden drop in your SEO Organic traffic from Google? Watch this video if you would like to know a bit about what is happening: I’ve brought back sites from being on Google’s hit list with my penalty recovery processes. Contact me if this has happened to you and you would like …
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Here’s a pretty good article over at Quicksprout about creating “visually appealing content” Below I’ve clipped their massive infographic and added my own comments: Some really good ideas on there. Despite many people thinking otherwise, you don’t need a ton of text content to get Google and your market’s attention. I LOVE using videos …
Randfish brings up something interesting about the search trend for “SEO” here. Source for Google Searches chart below. As long as there are people searching on the search engines, SEO will exist as a technical discipline. <— Please read that again! It does look like Google has lost total search volume, so am I concerned? …
Decent article that includes Search Engine Optimization considerations: http://www.quicksprout.com/2015/01/05/10-marketing-predictions-you-should-prepare-for-in-2015/ They tend to get SEO very wrong on Quicksprout. This one wasn’t too bad. Here are my notes: “Guest Post Links won’t be as effective” so old school already “SEO will become harder” Yes, for low adaptability Easier, for high adaptability “Old School link building will …
Interesting Quicksprout Article that leads me to continues to show that people/businesses that focus exclusively on content marketing, don’t really understand SEO. There is a lot of non-SEO talk in there and I don’t feel fully qualified to dismantle his opinions there. However, I know from personal experience that he is very wrong as a …
SEO is definitely not for every business. Are there other, more profitable, avenues that you can take? Each one has its own advantages and disadvantages that can change significantly. Watch the video to learn more 🙂
In order to see how awesome quick and simple videos can be to make, check out this video: That video took me 10 minutes to make…and it was the 1st time I used the software! I’m certain that next time it will take about 5 minutes. 5 minutes to create a valuable piece of online …
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I spend very little time looking at the major public blog posts out there because there’s so little to learn from them. Basically, 99.9% of the time they are a huge waste of time. Here’s an interesting article on the future of link building. So many silly ideas in there. I’m glad he’s challenging the …
