97% of Americans look for local goods and services online so there is basically no type of business who can’t benefit from having a website and making sure it can be found by the right people. Appearing in organic search results on sites like Google, Bing and Yahoo costs nothing in itself and if you …
What Google Really Want From Unique Content
It’s not just duplicate content that will affect where you rank it seems but Matt Cutts of Google’s Webspam team also wants to see you bring additional value. Based on interviews with him on the matter if you have the same content as another site just written differently Google will try to catch this and …
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12 Steps to SEO Peace of Mind for Small Businesses
These 12 steps are based on Google’s advice to small business owners with websites they may not have time to invest in with SEO research but who want to make sure they don’t get penalized and make sure they do benefit from organic SEO. 301 permanent redirects Use 301 permanent redirects to avoid pages appearing …
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What You Need to Know About Pagerank
Google Pagerank is a simple scale from 0 to 10 (as well as n/a for very new pages) as it is an important factor in where your site appears in Google’s results a lot of effort is put into improving it by online marketing professionals. Google Pagerank gets a lot of focus because of the …
The right way of doing SEO for your small business
As a small business finding time to do your SEO internally is one of the biggest barriers you will come across, unfortunately to do it well you need to work at it, this means setting aside time each day, either that or outsourcing it. SEO is partly about trial and error, once you have it …
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