The Google Ten Pack is considered “prime real estate”. But what is it that those ten sites have that your site might not have? Today we’ll explore some simple changes that will help catapult your site into this section. If these simple changes don’t do the trick, give us a call and we can provide a deeper analysis for you.

In this image, you can see where the Ten Pack is located on the Google Search Results Page. If your site is not listed, it is worth the effort to make some adjustments to your Google Local account to try to get it there. (more…)

What are realistic SEO campaign expectations? I think this might just be the 64 million dollar question! So, what’s the answer? (more…)

Building the list of quality incoming links to your site is extremely important in bolstering your websites ‘weight’ and validity with the search engines. For a long time, links or resource pages were an important component of successful SEO. As an SEO specialist, I used to see countless linking requests in my inbox every single day. Now, not so much!  Today, the social media bookmarking and fast-moving viral marketing environments have sent “traditional” link development the way of the dinosaur. Or have they?  (more…)

Recently one of our designers ask me “What’s the difference between ‘AdWords’ and ‘AdSense?’” With it being so long since I had to actually articulate the differences, it took me a bit to come up with a simple answer that made sense. Basically I said that AdWords is for those looking to promote and advertise their businesses on the web, and AdSense is for website owners looking to make some money by placing some advertising on their site.

Now, being aware of how quickly things change these days (did you know that they actually say coffee is good for you? Wait, now they say it’s bad for you.), I wanted to check out the official difference from Google itself. (more…)

There’s a split-second buffer before the alarm goes off separating sleep from a warbling mob that stands ready to attack my eardrums with clubs and parade cymbals. In this brief moment, a subtle noise emits like clock radio speakers inhaling. But before the alarm can ever finish filling its lungs to capacity, and quite possibly before I’m ever awake, an arm (connected to my body) penetrates the darkness and depresses the snooze bar with the precision of a laser guided boney missile. After that daily phenomena, my mind wakes up to thoughts of websites dancing with search engine spiders as I roll out and get ready for another day. (more…)