Backlink Mistakes-3 Costly Backlinking Mistakes Business Owners Make

Backlinks are one the most powerful factors influencing how high your website ranks in the search engines. A backlink is basically when another website mentions or ( links) to your website.  You can see an illustration of how backlinks work below: Understanding how important backlinks are to the ranking of your website is an important [...]

WordPress SEO: The 7 Best SEO WordPress Plugins For Small Businesses

If you’re a frequent reader of my blog you probably already know a website built with WordPress comes “out of the box” SEO friendly. However, if you’re the type of person who aspires to dominate your marketplace or niche, there are several WordPress Plugins for SEO that can help. This is a list of SEO [...]

Keyword Cannibalization-How To Avoid Keyword Cannibalization

Keyword Cannibalization often occurs in your website when you fail to create a quality SEO plan for your business. What usually happens here is a business owner starts publishing multiple web pages on their website targeting a single keyword or keyword phrase. In most cases the business owner is completely unaware this is happening. Ultimately [...]

SEO Tips-3 Things The Search Engines Can NOT See On Your Website

When optimizing your website for SEO, it’s important to make sure all of your content can be seen by the search engines. You see, what the search engines are looking for is text that’s READABLE by the human eye. Now last week I shared with you some tips on what the search engines CAN see [...]

SEO Tips- The 5 Critical Elements Search Engines Can “See” On Your Website

So as you and I go through our little mini lessons on how search engines work,  let’s talk about what the search engines can actually “see” on your web pages. As I’ve mentioned before, search engine spiders are basically automated robots (software programs). These spiders crawl billions of web pages every day, analyzing the content [...]

SEO Tips -How Search Engines Crawl Websites

If you’re doing your own SEO it would make sense for you to understand how exactly the search engines work. So today, I hope to explain in simple terms how the search engines crawl and index your web pages. First, you’ll want to think of the Internet as a road map. Imagine you’re on vacation [...]

SEO Tips-Is Your Website Dying On The Vine?

I promised yesterday that I would explain to you what it means when your website “dies on the vine” from an online marketing and SEO perspective. So let me explain… When your website is new and you’ve publish your first few pages of content, Google and the other search engines send out little automated robots [...]