On most days, we love what we do. We help companies improve their online image and rank higher on search engines. In general, higher rank means higher inquiries and more sales. It all seems so easy that any one can do it. Unfortunately, SEO is becoming increasingly hard. SEO is not unlike many [...]

Search’s Wild Wild West period is coming to a close. It was Samuel Colt’s peacemaker that tamed the original Wild West. It’s Google’s new algorithms that are taming the wild and pioneering days of SEO. They’ve forced many a black- hat SEO company to head for the hills. Why, an SEO consultancy with the [...]

SEO, or search engine optimization is a relatively new business, which means there are a lot of folks jumping into the game when they have no experience, or credentials to really offer a competent service.  Add on to this fact that we still have record unemployment and you have a recipe for disaster.  An SEO [...]

When will “best” web design sites get the message that a site without SEO is akin to having a well-designed car with no engine, or a plane with no wings?
Webneel.com just posted what they call 25 beautiful website design examples for your inspiration. But only four out of the 25 “beautiful websites” had enough [...]

Doing business at the speed of thought means you need to stay up with changes. A few short years ago you could hire a website design and development agency that came up with revolutionary designs, knew how to build pages with good content and made sure that the site was easy to navigate.
But there’s much [...]

Contrary to popular opinion, TV and radio advertising are not dead. But buying radio or TV without a really good SEO effort to go with is a good way to waste money while helping your competition. Consider this scenario.
ABC solar company moves into an area and starts advertising like crazy on the radio. They say [...]

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization is easy right?  Sure, just change some meta data, sprinkle a few key words here and there and presto, instant results on page one of Google.  Five years ago, you could get away with this type of effort and do well on any of the major search engines.  Given that [...]

Having an SEO strategy is important, however, it’s equally as important to deploy the SEO strategy across your entire company. After all you always accomplish more if multiple people are working toward the same goal. Remember that educating people is important, the more people within your company that understand SEO, it’s benefits and your goals [...]

One of the first things most people will do when researching a company is visit their website, this means that today web design and development is a very important marketing tool. When developing a website you want to keep in mind why you need a website and what your goals are once your site is [...]

BlackBerry, once considered by many as the standard in durability and survivability in the mobile phone market place. Internally, we code named it the AK-47 of phones. You could drop it, kick it and abuse the heck out of it and it just worked. But, BlackBerry, like the AK-47 hasn’t kept up [...]

If you are smart, you are looking at your Google Analytics at least on a weekly basis. Recently, Google has added a new feature called “Google In-Page Analytics”  The “In-Page” analytics gives users a visual depiction of their website and where traffic is being driven.  For those of us that are more visual, this is [...]

I often get asked if it is important to put your website in local languages and second what that does for optimization.  First lets tackle the question of internationalization of your site. Today, most marketing departments, even those with large multi-nationals are running with 1 and 2 people to handle everything, campaigns, branding, social media [...]