Archive for June 18th, 2008

Okay, folks this was quietly announced back in March as I recall, but the speed at which your website loads is NOW a factor in your quality score if you are using AdWords. Faster the loading time, the better quality score, the cheaper your bid. All linked, so when I first heard this, I realized [...]

Am hearing from some clients that the Google Earth plugin is NOT, I repeat NOT working with Firefox 3 on Windows… doesn’t work at all for all of us on Macs, but that is another issue… So if you LOVE LOVE LOVE the GE plugin, then I’d wait a few weeks for Google to get [...]

Lots of changes to help us all know more about how Google sees our site(s). Just saw the post for Google Webmaster Tools upgrading some things like Duplicate Title Tags, Meta Tags and various other goodies. Be sure to log into your account and look for Content Analysis.

One of my favorite Zen Cart mods - Google Analytics for Zen Cart is the absolute best solution for tagging all of your pages easily and rapidly. If you have an estore, be sure to go the full route and make sure the success page gets the correct tagging to send back to GA and [...]

You better believe that it does!
The goal that I have for our clients is for them to become more profitable. I basically gear their entire website to say to Google, “HEY, Look at me! I have some solutions that people are looking for!” Once they visit, then we have to say, hey look at this [...]

How often do we run into people who have spent a considerable amount of money on their website to “look good” yet can’t be found on Google? It seems practically every day. Maybe it is that people simply don’t like to write or don’t want to write any more. People seem to have forgotten why [...]

Okay folks… this one is not just big… it is BIGNORMOUS! Google will be coming out with a Wikipedia killer called KNOL - short for knowledge. This one is going to really drive Wikipedia into an early grave… Be on the lookout for KNOL coming in the next year!

This is the answer to HOW do I start with SEO! Pause this guide I put together and come back to it when you complete one of the steps.

Whoa, this is cool, this means Google is going to get a LOT smarter and find all kinds of interesting bits of websites buried behind poorly linked pages… This is not rolled out completely, but I have to imagine that it will be rolling out in a large fashion within 6 months or so… we’ll [...]

When you Google your own name… do you NOT like what you see? Do you need consulting on this? I can help. Sometimes it may be easy, and sometimes it can be hard. Really depends. I have successfully taken clients’ names and driven multiple sites to the #1 - #10 ranking in Google and Yahoo.