Historically .COM domains rank better in Google search than do other TLDs. There are a lot of theories behind this. As a drastic example, should an attorney’s .ASIA domain rank well in a city like Raleigh North Carolina? Probably not. Should a dentist use a .GOV domain?
Read more →Today on Google Plus, Google’s Pierre Far announced that a Panda algorithm update has been rolling out since early this week, and that Google expects to have the update completely in place sometime next week. I, and many others, are already calling it Panda 4.1, since it
Read more →The other day I wanted to install WordPress on a client’s site. The people who built his site tried to inform me that the blog would be better off on a subdomain than in a subfolder. My heart sank and I was speechless as I digested the
Read more →YMYL is a Your Money or Your Life Page. These are pages which could potentially impact the future happiness, health, or wealth of users. According to Google’s 2014 Quality Rater Guidelines, this is what YMYL is. While I can not post exact details of Google’s confidential rater
Read more →August 6, 2014 Google announced that security and Internet safety is a top priority for Google, including the websites that people access from Google. High quality, unique content and natural links / SEO remains the most important factors in SEO, however, HTTPS is now a factor for
Read more →In today’s world of “right now” and, wouldn’t it be nice to nice to have an A la carte option? Sure, but, I like to think of websites like vehicles, such as a racecar. There is quite a huge difference between the body person and the driver.
Read more →If you are trying to do your own SEO just by link hunting please allow me to respectfully inform you that there is probably a flaw in your SEO strategy. If you need assistance ranking in search in a high competition niche feel free to contact us.
Read more →Throughout this blog you will often see the phrases “topical authority domain” or “topically relevant domain”. What is a Topical Authority Domain? A topical authority domain is a domain, or website, that ranks very well for a particular topic due to the topically relevant content on the
Read more →This is a question I ask myself often: Should I just be catering to one niche? SEO companies and SEO freelancers seem to take on anything from apples to zebras. As time goes on and my team develops I find myself looking forward to high competition niches.
Read more →Jon Wiley, principal designer of Google search did an AMA on reddit yesterday. This means people asked him questions and he answered them. Many of the questions were based around UX (user experience) although there were some tips as to what is coming in the future of
Read more →The last couple days I have been glancing over Google’s latest quality rating guidelines. These quality guidelines are given to normal people (not SEOs) to review certain websites. What is the Google Quality Rating Guide? The rating guide is used quality reviewers. When a quality reviewer reviews
Read more →People these days want things now. We live in a now world with coffee and hot meals served to us in our vehicles in under 90 seconds after asking for them. The first thing people ask when getting SEO is “How long until I can rank on
Read more →One of the very first things that a client usually asks me is “What is the best website for SEO?” 99% of the time, my answer is WordPress. Below is why. Using WordPress isn’t going to magically make your site rank #1 for your desired key phrase,
Read more →The other day someone said to me “isn’t SEO dead?” I replied “no, it is more important than ever.” I realize there are probably already 1,000 articles titled this, but I needed something on my own site that answers the question. This article is my response to
Read more →Join any social media network and you will see two things almost immediately. Spam and SEO people (or sometimes “SEO people” spamming). I myself avoided the SEO title for many years. SEO is a four letter word to many people. Unfortunately, on some networks these people think
Read more →Are you looking for a local Cary NC SEO Company? This is why we have the solution for Cary NC businesses: Having lived in and owned businesses in Cary, we know Cary like the back of our hand. We have multiple clients in the Cary area. Want
Read more →Back in March, I put out an article Why websites that are not mobile friendly should be penalized. Google announced today that websites using “faulty redirects” will have a new warning message in Mobile Google Search. If you’re using one of those terrible mobile websites that redirects
Read more →What is Panda 4.0? The Panda update is an algorithm update which Google started rolling out in 2011. It has gone through several changes. The 4.0 designation for this update which Matt Cutts announced on Twitter tells us that it is more significant than other recent Panda
Read more →In my last business I had just over 37,000 customers. I bent over backwards a few times but I managed to keep around 36,990 of them happy (anyone who tells you they kept ALL of their customers is either lying or has been unreasonably taken advantage of).
Read more →Please note: If you’re an SEO customer of ours with a locally owned business, your website is already utilizing schema.org structured data markup. We’ve been implementing it for years as it only made sense to give the search engines as much information about your business as possible
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