Site Navigation
One of the most powerful things you can do to make your site rank is how links are distributed ***within your site!*** While most of the SEO advice on the internet is talking about "on-page" factors, sitemaps and link building, etc., (and these are important…) the site navigation that you build your site with and then use to focus attention from customers and the search engines is one of the most important SEO steps you can take.
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Keywords and Keyword Research
Keywords are the terms and phrases that your customers type into a search engine in order to find your product or service.
One of the most important things you can do to get free traffic online is to populate your site with the terms that your customers are using to find you.
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Site Directory Naming Convention
Often a new site's naming convention is dictated by the software engine or database that powers the back end. While that may be convenient for your programmer, it is not good site building practice for SEO and your users.
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So, what is your thought on this? Let me know!
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We often get called by customers to "fix" their websites traffic problems. Over the years of dealing with this I've developed a methodology that I'm going to share over the next few posts, hopefully going into enough detail to offer a thorough path to follow, for building a killer ranking website.
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One of the key steps we offer in our Local Listing package is the creation and/or optimization of your business listing in a number of local directories. This is a key step because it helps to:
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2009 has seen a tremendous pace of change online;
• Broadcast media starts to really show the strain that it's time to "adapt or die" – many newspaper, radio and TV stations have changed hands or sadly, closed.
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A marketing issue in the SEO business is about whether it's a best practice for a search engine optimization company to SEO their own site. The issue is deflected by some of SEO providers who (I think) have not taken the time to optimize their own site. They claim that they are too busy working for their clients and a good SEO doesn't need to do that.
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Anyone else have feelings about this?
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We concentrate on SEO for Vancouver local business and our search engine optimization strategy follows a process that we've proven over the years. It's a conservative and achievable process; we look for the low hanging "keyword phrase fruit" that we can most easily get good rankings for.
Lately the best terms are local, geo-targeted terms. What are the advantages of this strategy? Why wouldn't you just want to target the highest traffic terms?
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How To Choose Which Internet Marketing Tactic To Use
How do you get traffic to your site? Does the process of promoting your small business website seem very complicated? How do you decide between all the "must do" first steps to get more customers from your website? Keep reading and I'll outline some easy ways to choose what to do, when to do it, what the opportunities and costs are.
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If you think of anything I left out of this post, please feel free to put that on the comment.
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Websites need content and lots of it. Even more and more. One thing I notice, over and over again, is that 99% of the websites I see do not have enough content. More content with proper internal links, can raise your ranking more than any single other action that you do.
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