State of Search: Small Businesses Need to Know Now!
State of Search The biggest and brightest minds in the world of digital marketing convened in Deep Ellum, Texas...
Move over PageRank, it’s time for RankBrain: Google’s new AI
Google has been quietly, for the past few months, interpreting about 15% of its search results a day through its...
Search Engine Ranking Factors for On-Page SEO: in Plain English
The lovely folks at Moz.com recently released their 2015 ranking factors report that surveys search marketers. Although these reports...
Beware of Mobilegeddon! The Terms and Advice that Local Businesses Need to Know
As a local business, you might have heard through the grapevine that Google is up to something. The whispers...
Digital Marketing Proves Successful for Local Dentist
In this day and age, most small businesses and service providers have found success using digital marketing as the...
Moving your Business? Don’t forget to pack the Local SEO!
So you’ve had a very good year, and you’ve made enough money to grow your business. The space that...
Matt Cutts: Why Every Business Owner Online Should Know Who He Is
If you own a business that gets referrals from search engines, most notably Google, then you should get to...
Small Business SEO Ranking Factors for 2014
Searchmetrics has released their Ranking Factors Study for 2014 based on the calculations they did with their own data...
SEO Problems: Be Your Own Detective!
So your website traffic has significantly gone down, and you are at a loss for ideas. You are busy...
The Local Business Guide to Barnacle SEO: Hitch Your Wagon to a Star
Many small local businesses are being inundated by advice to build links, write content, and become more sociable online....
Fetch, Google, Fetch – Good Boy! (Google’s Fetch and Render Tool)
On Tuesday, May 27th, 2014, Google released a new tool in its webmaster tools arsenal. This new “fetch and...
6 MORE Essential SEO Terms Every Business Owner Should Know
With the everchanging landscape of SEO the past couple of years, business owners must now know more than the...
Beware of the Disavow Link Tool Experts
Google’s Penguin algorithm has been in place for nearly two years and in that time, we have witnessed numerous...
Don’t Spend Your Time Worrying about Google Search Results
As a small business owner, you probably get 100 emails a week from SEO specialists telling you that your...
SEO in 2014: Semantics, Semantics, Semantics
se·man·tic səˈmantik adjective 1. relating to meaning in language or logic. What is Semantic SEO… The high-level concept of semantic...
Small Businesses, Google Has a Hummingbird, and It’s Kind of a Big Deal!
In case you didn’t know, Google has turned 15 years old this past week. They celebrated in the garage...
How to Use Google’s Keyword Planner like Keyword Tool
Google has decided to retire its free Keyword Tool and they have replaced it with their new Keyword Planner....
2013 Local Search Ranking Factors are in – What it Means to Small Businesses.
Moz recently released their 2013 Local Search Ranking factors where they surveyed a panel of SEO professionals on their...
SEO Ranking Factors 2013 Report – Small Business Perspective
Matt Peters presented his report on the 2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors at MozCon yesterday. This report consists of...
Google’s Local Search Carousel: What It Means for Your Small Business
Google announced on June 18th that they are starting to implement an interactive “carousel” for local search results to...
Take Your Small Business SEO Offline
While the bulk of search engine optimizing is done online, not all of your marketing efforts need to originate...