Web Design Produces 353% Traffic Increase in Two Months

Posted in: Website Design | December 16, 2011
SEO Design Chart

Many of my website design prospects frequently ask me “what they can expect” when we discuss converting their static website into a dynamic WordPress website.  I answer them honestly by saying it depends on a lot of variables because no two projects are exactly alike.  While this answer is not a concrete one, it is the best one I can give because I don’t yet know the variables.  What I can tell them is that there are great examples of success when the process goes right. Does SEO Really Matter in Website Design? Yes, yes it does.  My project plan doesn’t allow for website Read more

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The Girlfriend’s Guide to Blogging

Posted in: Blog Management | November 22, 2011
The Girlfriend's Guide to Blogging

This week I received an email  from a longtime girlfriend who is interested in launching a blog.  I was actually surprised by this, because Mary (name has been changed to protect the innocent) has a fulltime job already and it is not marketing related.   She had an idea for a blog and wanted advice on how to get a blog started. My girlfriend is not alone.  I receive dozens of emails each week from people wanting blogs and websites created for their “idea” and I can tell at least 75% have no clue what to do or where to start.  The classic signs of this state of confusion are the Read more

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Stand Back! The Geeks Are Coming

Posted in: Website Design | November 8, 2011
Web Design Geek

Last night I met with a business partner named Scott.  Scott is an engineer and his engineering brain loves SEO.  I’ve been teaching SEO 101 while we build Scott’s website.  Last night as we moved from SEO 101 to SEO 201, Scott couldn’t understand why I didn’t do this with every client.  The truth be told, 99% of my clients don’t care.  They pay me to make sure their website and SEO are taken care of and they don’t want to worry about it. We All Make Mistakes Very few clients have Scott’s thirst for knowledge.  They don’t understand it, or care, or have the time to Read more

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I Owe Bing a Big Fat Apology

Posted in: Search Engine Optimization | August 14, 2011
Sorry Bing

Bing I owe you an apology. As of this weekend, I’ve realized I owe you one big fat public apology. For years I’ve dismissed Microsoft and I was a loyal fan of Google. This weekend you made me see a new you. A new, improved and pretty cool Bing. On Saturday morning I was drinking my coffee, surfing the web, and reading blog posts. Yes I am an SEO (aka nerd) and this is what we do on a Saturday morning. As I explored the web I happen to run across a blog post on Bing’s Webmaster Center blog. I’ll be honest, I don’t even know how I got there but I did and I was happy I did. I started Read more

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With Good SEO Google Has a Memory Like an Elephant

Posted in: Search Engine Optimization | August 4, 2011
Google-TN

I’ve always said short-term memory is like lake front property. There is only so much lake front property to go around and you have to allocate it to the most important things within your life. Now that I’m forty, my lake front property – aka my short-term memory – seems to erode faster with each passing day. Google is far from forty and has a memory like an elephant. Good SEO only makes this elephant stronger. My SEO Efforts Will Outlive Me This concept has been overly apparent to me this last year. As I left my prior life and launched my own company I knew I could easily Read more

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Ten Steps to Quality Link Building and Strong Organic SEO

Posted in: Search Engine Optimization | August 24, 2010

Whenever I create a new website for a client, I always tell them the website is only the core foundation of strong SEO. Strong SEO requires a solid, well planned, and long-term link building campaign. Interestingly enough, as I prepare for a live Q&A sessions for my friends over at JuJuQ on the subject, I found myself an email to a client nagging him about building inbound links for a brand new website we launched last Wednesday. Inbound links are a huge part of SEO and since I’m an organic SEO girl, I cannot help but talk about creating inbound links. Read more

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Blekko vs. Google: I’m Now in Love With BOTH

Posted in: Search Results | July 31, 2010
Google vs. Blekko

This morning Blekko invited me to beta their new search engine. I was absolutely thrilled when the DM invite appeared in my Twitter inbox. I am an SEO consultant, so for me this was like Christmas morning. I so hoped the excitement would not lessen once I accepted the invitation and unwrapped my new gift. Unlike Christmas morning, where I savor the unwrapping of presents, I ripped into my Blekko access as fast as I could. I was not only impressed, I really loved the experience. I quickly started making slashtags for some of my favorite things and I started searching topics that I’m Read more

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Google’s Search Results Skews Your Self Image?

Posted in: Search Results | March 30, 2010

What is your view of your current website traffic and Internet marketing campaigns? Are you receiving as much traffic as you’d like or are you scoring as high on your top keywords as you had originally hoped? No, this isn’t my sales pitch; there is a point to these questions. If you’re the average small business owner, you know enough about organic search engine optimization to make you dangerous. You know a little about SEO (search engine optimization) and you periodically check your keyword rankings to make sure you are still sitting on page one. Did you know these results are Read more

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CNN Polls Website Visitors On Their Search Engine

Posted in: Search Engine Marketing | December 17, 2009

I have been visiting CNN's website for years.  Rarely do I pay much attention to their polls, but today their poll catch my eye.  The poll questions was "Which search engine do you use?" and the answer was Google.  No surprise there for many of us, although I was surprised by how low Bing really was on the usage chart. As of this posting, 198,584 people voted and their results are fairly close to what we see on other websites and analyst reports. Website Usage Results Search Engine      Percentage        Votes Google                    85%                 Read more

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State of the Index Presentation is a Great Read

Posted in: Search Engine Optimization | November 18, 2009

At last week's PubCon conference in Las Vegas, Matt Cutts gave a presentation on Google and recent Google advancements.  This is a good read for website developers, in-house webmasters, and SEO consultants.  From Social Search to Pagetest to Google Web Toolkit, Matt gives a number of good takeaways. State of the Index Read more

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