Posts about ‘search engine optimization’
Dec
Google Says a Slow Site Could Hurt Your Search Rankings. Test Your Page Speed.
Posted by: Jeremy Reither
The time it takes for your website to load used to be considered just a usability issue…a nuisance that perhaps your visitors didn’t like, but that search engines didn’t pay particular attention to. That slow loading site might have been a pain to use, but page speed wouldn’t have directly affected search engine rankings. Today, [...] (more)
I saw some reports recently (in Google’s Webmasters Tools) that help me illustrate something I’ve believed for a while now – that WordPress is simply a more search engine friendly content management system (CMS) than Joomla. If you aren’t familiar with the differences between WordPress and Joomla, just know that choosing the CMS to run your [...] (more)
I was contacted today by a guy who was nice enough to point out a broken link on this website. Very cool of him (thanks, Tim). After I sent Tim a thank you email he replied with a question about finding a good overseas (inexpensive) service provider who can help with search engine optimization (SEO), [...] (more)
We all know that Google is a major player (if not ‘the major’ player) in search engines and that a significant contributor to a website’s success is how well it is ranked in Google’s search results. While it may be challenging to get your company name or website ranked “organically” for certain terms, there are [...] (more)
As I was writing a recent blog post, poking fun at yet another poorly executed email marketing message, I started to feel a little guilty. Just a little. It’s so easy to pick on the guys who are going about it all wrong, but hey, at least they’re trying. And although there’s plenty to be [...] (more)
If you’re decidedly non-technical you may never have noticed those letters at the end of some web page URL’s (you know, .php, .asp, .html – they’re called extensions). And believe it or not, as a website user, you’re not really missing anything. As far as your website visitors are concerned those extensions actually serve no [...] (more)
Over the past few months we’ve written a little about the internet marketing daily junk mail you all get in your email spam folders – specifically the ones that promise to get your website “ranked #1 in the search engines.” By blogging about that stuff, we’re trying to set things straight and help you gain [...] (more)
Apr
What You Need to Know About Your Small Business’ Search Engine ‘Findability’
Posted by: Jeremy Reither
The internet marketing industry term for getting your website “found” on the search engines is search engine marketing (SEM). But if you’re a small business owner, you might not care so much about industry terms as you do about the bottom line. If that sounds like you, then Heather Lutze’s new new book, titled The Findability [...] (more)
How do you define “owning your internet brand?” I’ll tell you how I define it – I define it as owning* all ten top spots on Google when someone searches for your brand or company name. That’s right – all ten (10). If you’re not #1, you certainly don’t own your online brand – no question [...] (more)
Mar
Daily Junk: Generous Offers to Save You Time and Money by Automating Your Web Marketing
Posted by: Jeremy Reither
The latest offender in our Daily Junk series comes from a scammer who is proposing to let you in on a few search engine optimization “insider *secrets*” – lucky you. One way that people sometimes market their websites is by submitting them for inclusion in various related internet directories. This scammer proposes to be offering [...] (more)
