Category Archives: SEO

My Name Is URL

One aspect of your website that can go a long way to improving your SEO rank is URL structure.  What’s a URL?  A URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, is essentially the address to your website.  For example, protocol 80′s URL … Continue reading

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Canonicalization and Google +1

Canonicalization…why am I using such a large word? Well I suppose it’s because it is the only large word I know that sounds intelligent. All of my other large words just sound made up. Come to think of it, canonicalization … Continue reading

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Content is King, Keyword Stuffing is for Jokers

Have you ever come across a blog or website that seems to repeat the same words over and over?  For example, if you’re trying to find a great Italian restaurant to visit during your next trip to Pittsburgh you might … Continue reading

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Google +1 and Your Social Strategy

Last Wednesday Google officially announced a new foray into social media with Google +1.  Google +1 is very similar to the Facebook Like button.  It allows you to publicly give a search result (an soon, specific pages you visit) your … Continue reading

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3 Ways Realtors Can Spread The Word For New Properties Online

If you didn’t catch my last two posts on rural realtors’ use of the web for marketing, please check them out: 3 Web Development Needs Of Rural Real Estate Agents Mobile Web Marketing Tactics That Realtors Should Use Once a … Continue reading

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Google Hates Your Content Farm And Will Punish You

Last night, our friends at Google announced a fairly large algorithm change for the better.  From now on they are going to negatively rank websites that are content farms, have no quality content for users, and are all around terrible … Continue reading

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Be More Recognized In Google By Being Active On Twitter, Flickr, Quora

We have long been supporters of small businesses being active on twitter and the other social networks as a way to learn and share the great content that they develop.  While Google’s newest Social Search isn’t completely new, they have … Continue reading

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What Small Businesses Can Learn From J.C. Penney’s SEO Mistakes

Happy Valentine’s Day dear reader!  I love you very much for being here to read this.  I hope your day is filled with chocolate and special people!  If you shopped for a Valentine’s present for someone you love a few … Continue reading

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Being #1 In Google May Mean You’re #1 in Bing

I read an interesting article on Search Engine Land today that may impact some of our clients’ rankings in Bing.  According to the article, Bing has been mining Google search results to enhance their own search results. What the heck … Continue reading

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Benefits of a Content Management System

How are you updating your website? Do you have to call on your developer every time you have a photo or text change? Are you skilled enough to change those things on your own using Dreamweaver or Visual Studio? Or … Continue reading

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