I often read articles about what it takes to be successful at SEO. Content, Links, and Social are all the usual suspects. But the one thing that is constantly overlooked is a sound technical understanding. And I think this is where many SEOs are lacking, and to me the one benchmark that often shines […]
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I love my job. I have the best possible job for who I am. I like to help people. Case in point, I was returning phone calls and one of my return calls was a young lady from class on Wednesday. I could tell from class she had a rudimentary SEO knowledge, you know, knows
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There is a new disease emerging in the web design world. It affects web designers, who through the power of WordPress, makes them look like programmers. It’s called Plug-initus, or the over use of plug-ins on a website. Fortunately there is a cure. First let me say we love WordPress and are one of the most knowledgable
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There has always been a lot of talk about whether site structure is a ranking factor, and if so, how do you properly set up the structure of a site in order to send the right signals to the search engine? Well, if you are familiar with the term silo it will play in to this.
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In class on Wednesday night, I started asking my students how they handled social media. Its always interesting to me to hear what people perceive they should be doing. Those of you that know me personally know when I teach about SEO in Houston, I often talk about not putting up hanging cats, old lady
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Although web designer and web developer are often used interchangeable, they couldn’t be more different than an apple and a banana. Sure, both involved setting up a website but that is where the similarities stop. Web Designers are more artistic and graphical, where web developers are the programmers that make the web work. Initially everyone who
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So we met a web designer that says image size doesn’t matter anymore in terms of SEO. Interesting thought. Well let’s look at that idea some and then we can see what the reality of that statement might be. When we are talking about SEO let’s keep in mind the majority of our focus is on
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I attended an internet conference this last week and the question came up Is SEO dead? Now every few year Google comes out with a new penalty named after some zoo animal and everyone starts howling SEO is dead. And not that there have been any new animals added to the Google Zoo lately, but
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I’m sitting at my desk answering emails, starting to write a press release for a client and here comes a Linkedin update, CRO vs. SEO. So my first thought was CRO? So I clicked on it and sure enough the first comment was “great another acronym.” So it wasn’t just me that had a WTH
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Facebook visibility is becoming quite the problem for small business and their ability to reach their community. And I get asked this question more and more in either class, or in our support box. So this question came from my long time class attendee and client who is part of a reggae band here in
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