Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category

Google Not Indexing Your Site? Your Robots.txt Might Be To Blame.

A few months back we were contracted by a local organization that came to us with a very clear problem – they weren’t showing up on search engines.  Any of them.  For anything.  After a brief conversation with the developer we found out that the site had been live with a noindex command in the [...]

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On Site SEO for Real Estate, Why It's Worth Your Time

Not to toot my own horn, but I've done pretty well in doing SEO for real estate clients.  The unfortunate thing I've noticed is that so many of these sites are outdated and built on platforms whose only real purpose is to display MLS listings relatively efficiently.  What that leads to for us poor SEOs [...]

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(BLEEP)-y SEO: The (BLEEP)-y Link Request

I wanted to call this blog something else... !@$# @#%&#! Okay, I've wanted to  start a series of blogs on this forever, and someone just gave me a reason to start.  So this came into our sales email today: Dear webmaster, I am seeking out possible link partners that our visitors would be interesting in [...]

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Dear Google, I Miss The Old You...A (Potentially) Tragic End

(Note: This is a tongue in cheek take on the recent flurry of changes to Google). Things just aren't the same...   Dear Google, First off, I'm writing this as a loyal user, not as an SEO. I know we've had our ups and downs in the past (like you refusing to index a site [...]

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3 SEO tools that will help you immediately

I just plain hate reading an SEO blog where they offer tips like "check your competitors' links". Don't get me wrong, you should do that to look for prospects, but if your competitor has links in AARP magazine you have to strategize (thank you G.W. Bush for expanding our vocabulary) to get a link there [...]

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Google Search Results Description - Explaining The Rankings

Remember when you could just type in what you wanted on Google and your results were merely a combination of Adwords ads and ten links with a couple lines of description?  You know, when Google looked like this: Remember those days?  Everything was made of words and you knew that Google was just doing its [...]

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Volusion SEO - some useful search engine optimization tactics

If you heard me on a bad day at my office, you may hear me cursing Volusion's name or mumbling death threats to this online storefront.  If you've ever followed my Twitter ranting (@adamhenige) you've probably caught a couple of moments of verbalized frustration. However, I must concede that for some online businesses Volusion does [...]

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A quick train tour of Google's personalized results

All aboard for a quick train trip into Google's personalized results.  Choo Choo! This past week Mallory (heretofore referred to as "Last Week's Employee of the Week" or LWEotW) asked the question, "How many businesses out there probably don't know about personalized results and think their rankings are way different than what they actually are?" [...]

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Blogger Outreach - How To Get Links, Build Relationships and Not Get Murdered

Blogger Outreach The ability to get people to respond to e-mails, in my opinion, is an underrated talent and if you can do so without being accused of harassment or giving up an appendage (I do not suggest either), then you’ve stumbled across something. I haven’t had a restraining order filed against me yet and [...]

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16 Questions - Infinite Awesome, the Netvantage Chronicles

Our buddies over at Ontolo recently posted questions for SEOs/Linkbuilders and I felt obliged to respond.  I think I missed their deadline, but as someone who likes to keep things transparent, this was still a great exercise to lay out what we do and how we do it. Getting to Know You How long has [...]

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