Author! Author!: Google Authorship is good for SEO
If you’ve searched for something lately on Google, you may have noticed how some search results show a small thumbnail of a person next to the meta description. This is thanks to Google Authorship....
View ArticleGOOOAAALLL! Go Beyond Rankings and Traffic with Goal Tracking
Google Analytics has proven itself to be indispensable in providing tools and reports that monitor website performance. One essential tool is Goal Tracking. Goal Tracking enables the user to measure...
View ArticleContent Remains King
As Jori mentioned last week, the recent Panda update was pretty anti-climatic, in the best way possible. While we are seeing more positive fluctuation than negative, for those seeing bigger dips than...
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Seven Deadly Sins of SEO Services – Wrath
Wrath – Rage Quitting SEO Services Before You’ve Given Them a Chance So, I have a question for you… How long does it take a webpage to get on page one of Google? Within 7 days Less than 1 Month 1-2...
View ArticleAre You Up to Speed? How Page Speed Affects SEO
I think most of us remember the days of dial-up internet access, when it could take minutes to load a webpage. Thanks to high speed internet, those days are long gone and most websites load in a matter...
View ArticleLocal Business Favored In Google Update
Listen up business owners, because Google is at it again. They have recently (and quietly) rolled out another update that continues to give the power back to the local business by giving them top...
View ArticleThe Small Business’s Secret to Page 1 : Local Listing Optimization
In my most recent post, I discussed the recent changes Google is placing on it’s search results when it comes to local business. A recent study done by Google showed numbers that could not ignore. 84%...
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Search Engines Get More Personal – How Google Works to Answer Your Questions
The other day I was in my kitchen, cooking breakfast, when I realized the eggs were a day or so past the expiration date on the box. Wanting to know if they were still edible, I typed the following...
View ArticleOptimizing Heading Tags for SEO
Heading tags describe headings and subheadings that appear in your webpage’s content. Basically, they are used to describe a page’s main topics. You can use heading tags to help outline your content...
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Google Local Listings Get Personal
It’s become increasingly apparent that Google is placing more value in the local business, as we have watched the local listings take up more and more space on Page 1. At this point, it should be a no...
View ArticleCompeting with the Locals: How to Optimize Your Online Business
As local business starts to dominate Page 1 of Google, optimizing for local search results has quickly become the new hot topic in internet marketing. While the brick and mortars may feel like they...
View ArticleUsing Expandable Menus for Content
I recently had a web developer ask if using expandable menus to “hide” text on a webpage was an acceptable practice. In this particular case, their client felt that a big block of content on the...
View ArticleGoogle Webmaster Tools Part 1: Links Still Count
I often times wonder what it would be like to work at Google. With blog after blog dedicated to its every move, it would have to be amusing to watch as people speculate if and when there were updates...
View ArticleWhat is Social Bookmarking?
When talking about SEO and search engine marketing, the term “social bookmarking” gets bandied about a lot. So what exactly is social bookmarking and how can it help your site rank better on Google?...
View ArticleGoogle Webmaster Tools Part 2: Search Queries & Internal Links
As mentioned last week, I will be going through gold mine of site information that is Google Webmaster Tools and how to use it to your advantage. Since we the “Links to Your Site” section, let’s...
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10 Low Hanging Fixes (Fruits) for a Quick Boost in Rankings
Below are some quick fixes you can make to your website that will result in an instant increase in rankings. Please bare in mind, there are additional obvious fixes that you won’t find on this list...
View ArticleImproving the Foundation of your SEO Campaign
It’s that time again! That’s right everyone; a new blog series. As an SEO professional, it is really easy to feel like you are shouting into the wind sometimes. With all the updates and modifications...
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Disavowing One Day at a Time
Disavow. After almost a year, it remains to be the hot topic in the SEO world, and continues to be the subject of many group discussions/headbangings here at SEOhaus. Jori and Brian have shared their...
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Improve Your SEO Campaign – Your Backlinks
Have a healthy backlink profile Checking the backlink profile of a client / potential client should be standard practice right now. We are no longer solely focusing on the number of backlinks that are...
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Hello, Operator: Our Favorite Google Search Operators
As Google constantly works to make searches more user-friendly, the information it uses to satisfy a search query continues to expand. From syntactic clues that include synonymy and linguistic...
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