SEO

Small Business Web Development & SEO | What is SEO… Part II

August 17, 2011
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This is the second post in a series about what SEO really is. Read the first post here. The purpose… to arm small business owners with an understanding of SEO, AND.. ask the right questions when looking to hire a developer or designer to build your website. In the last post, we covered what SEO [...]

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Small Business Web Development & SEO | What is SEO?

August 4, 2011
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This is the first in a 10 part series on Small Business Web Development. Read the summary post here. I originally planned on writing one post explaining what SEO was. I realized as I started that SEO can’t be explained well in a single post. At least not well enough for you to ask the [...]

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Small Business Web Development & SEO | 10 Questions to Ask before Hiring Anyone

July 26, 2011

 I was contacted a few months ago by a potential client about taking over their Web Development and Search Engine Marketing Campaign. The client had hired some friends from college to build them a website and then paid a pretty decent amount each month for what was billed as, “SEO services and CMS fees”. Over [...]

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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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PID and PCC Team Up to Provide SEO Classes

June 29, 2011
No Brainer SEO Classes at Portland Community College - Brought to you by Portland Internet Design

Portland Internet Design and Portland Community College, have teamed up to create a series of Search Engine Optimization Training classes. Whoot! Oh what fun we will have. Yea, there are a lot of classes out there. Unfortunately, most of them do not provide a solid foundation for understanding how the web works and why SEO [...]

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The Most Economical Search Engine Optimization Solution

September 29, 2009
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When we recommend that our clients rewrite or edit the content on their existing sites for better search engine optimization, we often hear complaints that their website is too difficult or too expensive to change because they have to pay their webmaster to make every little edit. And this is often the case with static [...]

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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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