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 [...]

Should you hire an SEO expert in your organization? Call us biased, but we know you can’t do great, results-driven SEO with one or two people working on it in your company.  Even if you hire the number of people and buy the right software it takes to do the work right, you’re likely to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We often get asked about directories and directory listings.  Directories are essentially huge online phone books.  They are important for search for several reasons.  First, they allow your content to be found in places that are highly searched.  Second, correctly done, directory listings create a valuable link back to your website.  What is a valuable [...]

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 [...]

No surprise, Google is changing its algorithm again to give users better results. This is just another change that impacts SEO and is one of the reasons that it is important to hire a trusted partner in your search efforts. Even as an SEO Company with hundreds of clients, it is difficult to stay [...]

We work with alot of companies in all different industries. Regardless of the size of the company, small, startup, or large organization we often hear that “SEO is managed internally”  In 15 years of technology marketing, I have yet to find an organization that has done even a so so job on SEO. Why? Typically, [...]