Search Engine Optimization

Web Designers and Small Business SEO – The Truth

July 6, 2011
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I recently posted a social media blurb about how most designers and developers out there don’t use SEO basics when building sites. I got a response from one company saying, “We do SEO!”… Fine, I said… let’s see what SEO they’ve done for their own site. This is a great way to find out if [...]

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Website Positioning | Putting All the SEO Pieces Together

September 26, 2009
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This post is the sixth and final post in a multi-part series about website positioning. Putting it all together Keyword Market Research: Define your market and find out what words and phrases people are using to search for your business on the web. Search Engine Optimization: Place the keywords found in our market research strategically [...]

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Website Positioning | Blogging and Page Rank

September 20, 2009
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This is the fifth post in a multi-part series about website positioning. Improving your page rank There are many ways to effectively market a website. Some cost nothing but time and attention. Blogging is one of the most effective ways to market your site and can be done for free. The more you write on [...]

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Website Positioning | SEO Fuel

September 15, 2009
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This is the fourth post in a multi-part series about website positioning. SEO is the engine If you think of your website as a car then SEO is the engine. It is finely tuned, complex, and requires that all parts be in good working order for the best performance. A website without SEO is a [...]

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Website Positioning | Search Engine Optimization

September 8, 2009
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This is the third post in a multi-part series about website positioning. Why Search Engine Optimization works Google is the number-one search engine in the world. More than 60% of all online search happens through Google. In one month Google processes more than 30 billion searches worldwide. Google decides which websites to display when someone [...]

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Website Positioning | Niche Keywords

September 5, 2009
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This is the second post in a multi-part series about website positioning. Finding your market niche Good keyword market research is about finding keywords that have a high number of daily searches and a low number of other websites using the same keywords. These are considered niche market keywords and represent the best opportunity for [...]

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Website Positioning | Keywords

September 1, 2009
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This is the first in a multi-part post series about website positioning. Keywords: how we look for stuff on the web It doesn’t matter if you already have a website or you’re looking to build your first site. It all starts with keywords. This is how your customers find you on the web. When a [...]

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