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The Truth Behind Being Number One

March 16, 2017/in SEO /by admin

Everyone wants to be number one. There is something special and envious about holding the number one position. This elusive number one position brings with it cachet, power, status, and value. Interesting how so much importance and intensity is tied to being number one. So is this why so many of you want to be number one on the Google search engine result page? Have you been receiving emails from other “marketing” companies that promise a fast and easy rise to the top, securing that elusive number one position?

Perhaps you’ve been doing some Googling yourself and you’ve learned that the number one position in Google search engine results brings with it many deep riches, rewards, and goodies to your company. Well, if you believe this, then we’ve got some great deals for you on bridges in Brooklyn and snow in Canada.

Yes, that’s right, don’t believe everything you read. Even when this content comes wrapped in a smart-looking website that uses an authoritative tone and has lots of big statements to back up its claims of that number one position. Read more

Paid Search and Organic Search – The Scoop

March 2, 2017/in SEO /by admin

We get asked a lot about search engine results. How can your company improve it’s search engine results? Should our company run paid search? Is there a way to get ahead and always stay on the top of the results page? What is the secret to winning the Google first page?

These are all excellent questions and they are ones that show you’re thinking about your online presence and understand how critical it is. In fact, these are questions we frequently ask ourselves.

We ask ourselves these questions because like you, we’re constantly thinking about how we can improve our digital presence. Perhaps a tweak of our SEO, a change in website pages, different keywords, etc – will make the difference? Ultimately, like you we always want to be at the top of the search engine results. Read more

How Well Do You Know Your SEO?

February 16, 2017/in SEO /by admin

If you’re a regular reader of this blog then you know that we strongly believe that good quality content must be your top website priority for SEO. You can have the best strategy, the smartest marketing whiz kids, the flashiest videos, the coolest widgets and the hippest mobile app – but if your content is terrible, the rest simply doesn’t matter. (Oh and if you’re not a regular reader, you’re missing out plain and simple.)

You want people to visit your website, to link to your website, to refer to your website, to syndicate your content, and to respect your website as a voice of authority. This comes when you have excellent content. When you have the content, the rest really does come easily.

SEO. Search Engine Optimization. See what we did there – we just jumped from talking about good quality content to tossing out the biggest and most debated aspect of digital marketing. SEO does not come without controversy and hype. But we’re here to say that SEO is critical to your website success.

The two work together: with good content you can have good SEO and with good SEO it’s easier to write good content. Read more

Good Relationships for Good Link Building

February 9, 2017/in SEO /by admin

We are all fighting for the same small bit of space on the Internet. We’re doing our best to stand out from the noise and fakery that seems to be taking over these days. Legitimate content can easily be confused with the fake stuff and overlooked far too easily.

This all comes down to the power of links. Link building must be a vital aspect of your SEO strategy. If this is the first you’ve heard of link building and links, well, we want you to hunker down and start reading our blog from page one – you’ve got a lot of learning to do…

Quick Link Building Refresher

For those of you familiar with link building, this won’t come as news to you but for those of you who have been too busy with your fantasy football pool, to read the latest on links – you won’t want to skip this section. Read more

Content Syndication and SEO Value

February 1, 2017/in SEO /by admin

Content syndication…. hmm, you heard the young interns in your office talking about this the other day but really had no idea so you walked away. Well, don’t despair, we’re here to help you understand content syndication and how it can help you improve your search engine optimization (SEO) – and of course help you fit in with the cool kids in the office.

Content Syndication: What is it?

Because you have learned how to develop high quality content, you are now at a point where you can share this content on other websites. This sharing of your content is referred to as content syndication. Your article, white paper snippet or blog post is used verbatim on another website. This is all there is to it. But to be useful and to help your SEO goals, you need to get down to the nitty-gritty of content syndication.

Content Syndication: Should you do it?

Like all aspects of website design and strategies, you should only do something if it makes sense and aligns with your goals. You know the old saying about “just because everyone else jumped off the bridge didn’t make it a good idea” – well the same applies to content syndication.

Content syndication makes sense when you’ve got good quality content that is working and generating the results you want. Now that it’s working from your website, it’s time to think about reaching out to other people and audiences. These are the people who might not visit your website regularly or those people in that hard-to-reach demographic. Syndicating your content on the websites that these people visit, can give you the awareness and audience-reach you’re looking for. Read more