Website Design, SEO

Some tips from Matt Cutts about using Wordpress and ranking higher in Google

Matt Cutts from the Web Spam team at Google showcases the good and the bad of WordPress as seen through the eyes of Google, including basics on how Google search works and how you can boost your blog’s results in Google searches.

Dominate Google for competitive keywords using internet marketing tactics such as SEO, affiliate marketing and social networking.

It’s been a slow year so far on this blog and I appologize.  I’ve been busy, been sick  and have had a hard time getting out of the holiday/winter lulls. I know it’s February now but January seemed to just drag on and on.  Anyway, since it’s been slow I thought I’d recycle some content [...]

3 Ways Photographers Can Boost Business in A Bad Economy

The world is facing economic hardships. The economy however hasn’t come to a complete halt though. People are still looking for photographers and photographers are trying even harder to increase business now that times are a little bit tougher.
(The things I list in this post aren’t solely for photographers btw, they’re for anyone who has a business.)
This [...]

SEO Wordpress Theme

SEO Wordpress theme video where I reveal Brian Clark reveals some aspects of the theme I’m using here and why it’s great for SEO.  I go over the main aspects of why this theme is SEO friendly.
You can read more in dept at my post titled “Best Wordpress SEO Theme“.
If you want you can purchase [...]

Best Wordpress SEO Theme

Are you looking for the best wordpress theme for SEO out of the box?  Since you’re looking for a (SEO) search engine optimized wordpress theme I’d thought I’d give a rave review of what I think is not only the best wordpress theme ever designed, but one that is SEO friendly and highly customizable.
I’m talking [...]

FREE Top Ranking On Google – Are You Local?

So Google Local and Google Maps have been around for awhile but there are still business owners who aren’t taking advantage of the power these tools bring.  Basically Google Local allows businesses to receive a free business listing under keywords people would use to search for local businesses.  So if you have a business and [...]

How to update the Sitelinks in your Google listing

Did you know you can update your sitelinks that Google displays when someone searches for your brand or domain name?  Sitelinks are the extra links that appear under a main listing in search results to help searchers navigate a site without having to first go to the homepage.  They look like this:

You can edit these [...]

Major SEO change at Google… They’re OK with dynamic URLs… kinda

So I found out about this over at SE Roundtable where the headline caught my attention.  It seems a little misleading “Major Google SEO Change: Google Prefers You Don’t Use URL Rewrites”
You should still use URL Rewrites if you’re either dealing with a smaller site like say a blog or an ecommerce site where it [...]

How I Got Over 200,000 Backlinks For Under $300?

Is it possible to get over 200,000 backlinks for under $300? Or what about generating $8,000 in revenue from a $275 total investment? Or how about building a website with over 68,000 pages for $275?
Well I’m here to say that it is totally possible because I did just that. And I’m revealing [...]

Flash and SEO – Google Improves Flash Indexing

Google has improved it’s ability to spider and index Adobe Flash SWF files. It can index textual content as well as external links embedded in a Flash site.
Although I believe they’ve had the ability to spider flash files for awhile they have officially come out and announced it and also described more about what [...]

Generate Qualified Real Estate Leads with A Professionally Designed And Optimized Website

With a professionally designed website you can generate leads 24 hours a day, even in your sleep.
It’s no wonder more and more agents are turning to the web to generate qualified leads. Because of the current market slump agents are spending less money on newspaper classified ads. Agents [...]

Is Google Updating Faster Then Ever?

The normal title I use for this site is “web design and SEO” which I’ve been using for quite some time now. I decided to change the title to “website design and internet marketing” earlier today… about 8 hours ago. Previous to that my title was “web design and SEO” but now [...]

Do It Yourself SEO. On Page Website Optimization for Higher Search Rankings

If you are the Do It Yourself type you’ll be interested in what Top 5 On Page factors affect your search engine rankings.
On Page optimization includes anything directly in your html that you can change to boost your search engine rankings.
The Top 5 On Page SEO Factors
Title Tag
Your title tags are super important and the [...]

Directory Submission – Directory Submitter

Ahh the good ol’ directory submission services out there. Charging a hundred dollars to submit your link to 100, 200, 250, 300, 350 of the top directory sites around. Directories can be a good way to get your site some one way backlinks but having another company do it can be costly [...]

Social Poster – Post to Multiple Social Bookmarking Sites at Once

Social bookmarking is big in SEO and if you aren’t spamming the social bookmark sites with your links then your missing out! Haha! But seriously SEO’s are using social bookmarking to secretly bookmark their own sites along with real sites of course. This gives you a little more exposure and might even [...]

Real Estate Keyword Research – Find Your Competitors

If you have a real estate website and want to find your online competitors all you have to do is research google and yahoo to find who is listed under the keywords or phrases that are related to your site. If you own a California real estate office you would start with major keywords such [...]

Search Engine Optimization for Real Estate

Just wanted to let you know I will be posting some informative posts on real estate seo (search engine optimization) that will help you with your real estate website. I have some information planned that will hopefully help you understand more about optimizing your real estate website soon. Learn more by visiting the real [...]