Search Engine Optimization

We are asked many times how to optimize a web page for a keyword, and its more difficult to explain without seeing the optimiaztion in action.  So I’m writing this post to explain how to optimize a web page for a keyword in a visual format. First you have to decide what that keyword will be, [...]

Don’t Data Dump on Me In 2002 the term “Google it” was recognized as the “most useful word of the year” and in 2006 had become so popular that it was added to the dictionary as a verb.  The internet had exploded with information and the search engine had gained popularity at such a level [...]

For years companies big and small have tried to outwit the search engines in order to gain a better results on search engines.  Trends change and searches get smarter, so focus on a steady and foundational strategy.  From attempts at content relevant key words and metadata, blogging, plugins, paid adword campaigns, the fight for better [...]

The new Google analytics email reports are a little more difficult to set up than the old analytics system, but pretty straight forward if you know what you’re doing. Here is a step by step tutorial on how to set up your weekly or monthly email reports. First, visit your Google Analytics dashboard and click the Email [...]

Social Media,talking specifically about Twitter for this blog, came on the scene. And what it did was to give the people a voice

I have been trying for some time to figure out how to change or even stop the Google Analytics weekly emailer in the new Google Analytics system to no avail.  Well, today I finally found some info on it from Google…back from November!  It shows how to do it by simply clicking the “Standard Reporting [...]

So last week in Step by Step SEO Part 7, we set up webmaster tools, reviewed a WebCEO report and set up a WordPress blog on our own domain.  This week we are setting up a few plugins, categories and tags in our WordPress blog. First, lets find those important plugins to install.  If you [...]

This week in Step by Step SEO part 7, we will be looking at reports, making some suggested updates, creating another Google Adwords ad and setting up a WordPress Blog.  If you haven’t been following along, you might want to start back at Step by Step SEO Part 1. First this week, we went in [...]

So this week in Step by Step SEO part 6, we will be taking about backlinks. Over the past few weeks, we have been running reports and optimizing our pages with findings.  This is called on-page SEO.  Now we are going to take the optimized pages and start optimizing them by linking to the from [...]

If your just joining, run back to Step By Step SEO Part 1 and get caught up.  Were getting a little advanced in this post, so if your not a web developer, you might not get the full effect. Today we are going to dive into redirection, and not just any redirection, 301 redirection.  Redirection [...]