3 Reasons Your SEO Isn’t Working

Perhaps you have made some efforts to improve the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) of your web site, but it isn’t working well and you still aren’t receiving much search traffic.
Here are a few potential reasons why your SEO isn’t working.
1. Outdated Methods – The effectiveness of different techniques changes from year to year, and some [...]

Top 7 Firefox Plugins and Add-Ons for SEO

Many people may not think of Firefox as an SEO tool, but in actuality, it’s a great one. It works well for SEO for many reasons. Among them are that it’s free, secure, works on Mac, Windows, and Linux with the same features and functionality and has a large developer network creating extension that are [...]

Google’s Insights for Search Program

Google’s Insight for Search program is closely related to their Google Trends product. With Insights for Search you can compare and contrast search volume patterns across specified regions (like USA or Japan), categories (such as health or sports) and time ranges (last 30 days, for example).

No matter what business you’re in – small business owner, [...]

RankPay’s Pay-Per-Rank SEO Pricing

It’s no secret that companies around the world are competing for the top places in search engine results. It’s also no secret that the reasoning behind this is that the closer you are to the top, the more traffic your site will receive and, hopefully, the more revenue your company will generate.
Since most search engines [...]

Website Info Tools – Quarkbase & Website Grader

There are lots of different tools online that provide quick data regarding websites, two sites that we use are Quarkbase and Website Grader.  Here is a quick overview of Mortgage101.com using both tools along with some interpretation of the information found by the tools.

Using Advanced Google Searches for SEO Purposes

Google supports query words that have special meaning to Google. These are known as advanced operators and modify a search in some way or tell Google to do a different type of search. Quite a few of these operators use punctuation instead of words and quite a few of them are accessible from [...]

RankChecker – Keyword Ranking Tool

We use this keyword ranking tool (Download Rank Checker) at least a couple of times a day to check keyword rankings quickly.  In addition, we use the .CSV export to show the rankings to clients and potential clients.  The rankings are tracked for the Top 200 rankings in Google, Yahoo!, and MSN.
Additional features include the [...]

WordTracker Review – Keyword Research Tool

This product review of Wordtracker is by Aaron Wall of SEOBook.com
and covers some useful keyword research techniques.

Basically, keyword research should begin with looking at your current web logs or analytics reports since basically these keywords should have some type of ranking. The logic is that you can probably rank for similar keywords.
The key [...]

Keyword Research Video – SEOMoz Whiteboard Friday

Rand at SEOMoz does a good walk-through of the Keyword Research Process and how site hierarchy should be more important than just Keyword Demand. This is a common question that we come across as we try to interpret keyword volume research and overlay it into a website.

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Implementing Keyword Research [...]

Google Webmaster Tools 404 Link Errors (Video)

Google Webmaster Tools now makes the process of tracking down the causes of “Not found” errors a piece of cake. Before, you could only watch the number of 404’s increase and decrease in Google Webmaster Tools, now you can actually use GWT to take action and turn these external links into new inbound links.  Here [...]

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