Google My Business as Local SEO Strategy
Google itself is advising businesses to use Google My Business as a way to improve their local rankings on their search engine results page (SERP). Google My Business offers any business a free listing on...
What are the Best Keywords for Your Local Search Engine Optimization?
Choosing the right keywords is the first and most important step in local search engine optimization for your business website. You don’t needs hundreds or even dozens of keywords. Generally there will be 3-5 keywords...
Google Webmaster Tools Allows You to Track 8 Key Metrics on Your Website
Google Webmaster Tools gives you valuable measurements on the SEO health of your website. It shows what is working well and provides tools that will uncover the sources of a problem. If you are not...
Google Declares War on SEO
Back in the “olden days”… like ten years ago, SEO was a much defined and almost mechanical process. You did your keyword research and picked your phrases. In 2003, you would select a very narrow...
Faster Better Smarter Keywords That Really Attract Visitors
When people search on the web, they often qualify their general keywords to improve their search results. If people search for a home loan, they may search for ”best home loans”, “quick home loans” or...
The Kona Coffee Method of Attracting Customers
I just returned from a terrific vacation from the Big Island of Hawaii. It is here in the Kona area, downwind of a continuously erupting volcano that Kona coffee is grown. The growing conditions are...
SEO Blogging: Use Blog postings to Create a SEO Internal Link Structure
SEO Blogging is a blogging technique where you link to other pages of your website using keyword anchor text in internal links. An internal link is a link that points to another page within the...
How to Create SEO Content that Search Engines Love
Gone are the days where a small business can afford to have an unchanging 5 page website. Google has been shifting its algorithm to favor websites that continually put up new and fresh SEO content....
7 Common SEO Mistakes That Happen During a Website Redesign
Is it time to freshen up the look and feel of your website? Is your old site look like it was made a decade ago? Unfortunately many website redesigns happen without thinking of the SEO...
WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast: Setup Guide
I had been a strong proponent of the All-in-one-SEO-Pack plugin, but I have been using the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin over the past week as I set-up a new site and I am very impressed...