Posted by Mary Gammel on August 30, 2010 under Organic SEO | 
When I talk with potential clients there is often confusion on what services I provide. One day two different people asked me how many keywords they get with my Organic SEO Evaluation. I told them that I would optimize each page of their website individually for several keyword phrases and that they would get multiple combinations of keywords on every page that will maximize their exposure in organic search engine results pages (SERPs) for their target markets. There is no magic number of keywords that they buy with organic SEO. Read more of this article »
Posted by Mary Gammel on June 22, 2010 under Organic SEO |
People come up to me often and tell me they’ve registered 10 additional domain names for their business, expecting their web site traffic to increase when they point these new URLs at their web site. However, they’re disappointed when the traffic doesn’t increase. That’s because there’s more to the domain name game than that.
This article provides some tips on choosing domain name URLs. Read more of this article »
Posted by Mary Gammel on May 2, 2010 under Organic SEO |
Google is now including page speed in it’s search engine ranking calculations. This was officially announced on April 9th, 2010 in their blog article: Using site speed in web search ranking. Slow web sites turn away visitors and chew up internet bandwidth. So, Google is now including this new Organic SEO Metric in an effort to get people to clean up and streamline their web sites. Google states that currently fewer than 1% of search queries are affected by the site speed signal and if you haven’t seen much change to your site rankings, then this site speed change possibly did not impact your site.
Benefits of Speeding up Your Web Site
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Posted by Mary Gammel on March 19, 2010 under Organic SEO |
This FAQ covers some of the basics about how to register domain names for a website.
Our related article has more information on choosing the right domain names for your business.
Are domains and website hosting the same thing?
No, domain names are registered names for a website. Hosting is a location where the website code resides. Domain names are permanent as long as you keep your registration up. Hosting for a website may change over time as business needs change, but the domain name remains the same.
Should I register my domain names myself?
Always register your domain name yourself. It’s often easier to have the website designer or hosting company do it for you. But Read more of this article »
Posted by Mary Gammel on October 7, 2009 under Local Search, Organic SEO |
What is local search?
Local search often refers to a way to submit your business information to the search engines to target your specific geographic area. Local Search has been available in the major search engines for a while now. Other websites such as chambers of commerce provide local search capabilities as well. Read more of this article »
