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Here’s a video of Matt Cutt’s, who is Google developer’s spokeman. He addresses a question I’ve heard many times before. He’s not being totally honest though. In his normal fashion he’s giving an answer to a question in a way that addresses the question, but gives advice that most beneficial to Google, not the web site owner. Here’s the video, after the jump we’ll have the info he didn’t give and shine a little light on som things to better help web site owners instead of Google.

What’s missing from his answer? As usual with Matt, it’s a straightforward answer: Continue reading “Great Content or Lots of Links?” »

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Well this is an easy question. Not only can I answer it easily and quickly but I can point you to a few tools that can help you measure the page rank of any web site you view in your browser.

Google’s Page Rank is a number form 0-9 that Google places on every page in it’s index (or database if you prefer). The higher the number the more important Google thinks your web site is. In addition to 1 – 9, there is the additional ranking of n/a that means the page is not in Google’s index, either because it has come across it yet, Google thinks it’s not important enough to include or it has been banned.  Here’s how Google explains it:

Continue reading “What is Google’s PageRank and Why is it Important?” »

One of our web sites,  the Florida Fishing Blog,  has made it to #1 on Google for the key phrase “Florida Fishing Blog“.  Not a lot of people search for this term but it is the targeted niche key phrase for this web site and not much effort has been placed into the search engine marketing for this website either. This target was chosen as part of a grander plan campaign focus on Florida Fishing and even grander, Florida.

Obviously the Florida Fishing Blog is related to the phrase  Florida fishing and thus related to the search term Florida.  Now when ever I need another related link to a clients web site that is in some way related to Florida (almost all of them are).  It’s nice to have an ever expanding stable of web sites that are all related to a phrase and or word that are ready to be used at any moment.

Another search engine success!

Some times when your hard work pays off, it’s good to lean back and admire what you’ve done for a moment.  This post is one of those moments.  We’ve made learning how search engines work and how to best use the info we gather, a priority for over a decade.  For the last eight years, we’ve had some great successes with the search engines.  Since most traffic to a web site comes from a search engine and the overwhelming majority of that traffic comes from the first page of search results, you can see how this greatly benefits our clients.

There are two points to consider when viewing this list.

First, it was compiled on 07-05-2010 and the search engines change their rankings all the time.  We keep on top of this but lack of resources by certain clients may cause them to fall in the rankings.  Of course some client are putting more resources into their search engine marketing efforts thus their ranking will improve.  Once you learn how to get a web site ranked well, it’s just  a matter of putting the right amount of resources into it for the keyphrase you want to rank well.

Secondly, there are numerous web sites that are doing even better than these but larger clients often request a non disclosure agreement.  there are several reasons for this.  Like if they are a web design company or an seo company.  Sometimes they are in a completed unrelated industry, they just don’t want their competition to read their web designers blog and learn their custom strategy.  I can’t say I blame them.

Here’s a short list of some of our most recent search engines successes:

Continue reading “Web Sites on the First Page of Google” »

The rumors are that Google’s “no follow” crusade is back firing for them. If you believe the rumors, Google is having trouble finding content. Google has always been about incoming links, a little less for the last year or so, but for competitive key phrases, it’s obvious that the sites with the most inbound links will have a better chance of ranking higher for their desired key phrases, no matter what the folks at Google say. Here’s Matt Cutts Google’s spokesman on the subject of do follow links and no follow links:

Our take on why no follow links are more valuable than Matt says and more insight after the jump…
Continue reading “Google’s Do Follow Blessing” »

We’ve had another search engine success with a new web site. This is a new web site, targeting a fairly competitive keyphrase: Florida Data Services.  It has done so with some success and again just minimal effort.  It’s true “Florida Data Service” isn’t the most searched for keyphrase out there, but it highly targets the market this web site is seeking to capture.  Withing 5 weeks this site shot straight to #2 on Google.  Yahoo, Go.com, AltaVista, AllTheWeb.com seem to be madly in love with the web site, as it’s #1 on these search engines for several key phrases.  This is usually an indicator that it will be #1 on Google for at least some of these secondary key phrases in the near future.

This site has had no more than our Basic SEO Package.  That worked out this time because we were able to find a niche without a lot of competition.  For more more popular key phrases, some variation of our Advanced SEO Package is usually needed.  But consistently, we’ve proved that if your willing to put the resources into it, we can get you the top spot on Google for just about any search phrase you’d like.