Ripoff Directories, An Ongoing SEO Conundrum For me getting ripped off is something that I simply will not tolerate. Fortunately, aside from a few slimy individuals my life has been largely devoid of ripoff artists and con men. Recently, however, I was once again hit by what appears to be a fabulous little small time [...]
Read MoreAll of that delicious SEO info offered by Yahoo Site Explorer is gone. I received an email about upcoming changes in the inbound links from the Blekko API today...Also today, Blekko began requiring users to be logged in to receive SEO data (try searching "netvantagemarketing.com /seo" and see what happens). Is Blekko going to jump [...]
Read MoreA 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 [...]
Read MoreNot 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 The unfortunate thing I've noticed is that so many of these sites are outdated and built on platforms whose only real purpose is to display MLS listings relatively efficiently.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 [...]
Read MoreI 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 [...]
Read More(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 [...]
Read MoreYou can't pinch your pennies enough these days, or pinch them at all if you're working with a broken hand as I am...ANYHOW, I figured it was about time for another quick hitting edition of SEO On A Nickel - so all of my penny pinching fans feel free to rejoice! No lengthy diatribe, typing [...]
Read MoreI've found that a tremendous amount of material relating to web analytics tends to relate to the needs of billion dollar companies or is so rudimentary that it provides little value except to those just cutting their teeth on the topic. There is a missing middle ground here, particularly for the typical SMB, where there [...]
Read MoreLook out world, my blog has met the criteria defined by yours truly over on the Netvantage site for being Search Certified. What does this mean? Well, it means that if you blog the name of my organization (or in this instance, my blog) on any of the major search engines, I'm at the top [...]
Read MoreI may have the most fragmented thought processes of anyone I've ever encountered. Thus, I tinker with things. All the time. This is probably why I have a hobby of collecting hobbies. Anyway, this has been a useful trait for the world of SEO, as we aim to become the premiere Michigan search engine optimization [...]
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