Posts Tagged ‘search engine optimization’

The Reality Of SEO...In Comic Form

Caught this great comic today via Twitter (yes, I do lurk on Twitter once in a while, don't judge me) and I couldn't help but relate it to the last search conference I was at. Even moreso, as a smaller agency this isn't just about coming back from a conference and trying to hang onto [...]

About Adam Henige

Adam Henige is Managing Partner of Netvantage Marketing, an online marketing company specializing in SEO, PPC and social media. Adam heads the SEO and link building efforts for Netvantage and has been a contributing blogger for industry publications like Search Engine Journal and SEOmoz.

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URL Opener & Open Site Explorer Productivity Hacks

Okay, I'm no hacker, but sometimes it's nice to grab a shortcut or two when you spend your day doing a lot of tedious link building tasks. One thing I find myself doing often is scouring through backlinks for a long list of domains or pages in Open Site Explorer. Copying and pasting these individually [...]

About Adam Henige

Adam Henige is Managing Partner of Netvantage Marketing, an online marketing company specializing in SEO, PPC and social media. Adam heads the SEO and link building efforts for Netvantage and has been a contributing blogger for industry publications like Search Engine Journal and SEOmoz.

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Dealing With Orthopaedic Weblinks & Other Fraudulent Directories

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 [...]

About Adam Henige

Adam Henige is Managing Partner of Netvantage Marketing, an online marketing company specializing in SEO, PPC and social media. Adam heads the SEO and link building efforts for Netvantage and has been a contributing blogger for industry publications like Search Engine Journal and SEOmoz.

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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 [...]

About Adam Henige

Adam Henige is Managing Partner of Netvantage Marketing, an online marketing company specializing in SEO, PPC and social media. Adam heads the SEO and link building efforts for Netvantage and has been a contributing blogger for industry publications like Search Engine Journal and SEOmoz.

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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 [...]

About Adam Henige

Adam Henige is Managing Partner of Netvantage Marketing, an online marketing company specializing in SEO, PPC and social media. Adam heads the SEO and link building efforts for Netvantage and has been a contributing blogger for industry publications like Search Engine Journal and SEOmoz.

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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 [...]

About Adam Henige

Adam Henige is Managing Partner of Netvantage Marketing, an online marketing company specializing in SEO, PPC and social media. Adam heads the SEO and link building efforts for Netvantage and has been a contributing blogger for industry publications like Search Engine Journal and SEOmoz.

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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 [...]

About Adam Henige

Adam Henige is Managing Partner of Netvantage Marketing, an online marketing company specializing in SEO, PPC and social media. Adam heads the SEO and link building efforts for Netvantage and has been a contributing blogger for industry publications like Search Engine Journal and SEOmoz.

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SEO on a Nickel - Self assessment to save time and energy

You 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 [...]

About Adam Henige

Adam Henige is Managing Partner of Netvantage Marketing, an online marketing company specializing in SEO, PPC and social media. Adam heads the SEO and link building efforts for Netvantage and has been a contributing blogger for industry publications like Search Engine Journal and SEOmoz.

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Doing web analytics? Why not integrate that data into your CRM?

I'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 [...]

About Joe Ford

Joe Ford is a Managing Partner at Netvantage Marketing. In addition to overseeing day to day business operations of Netvantage, he directs paid search strategy for over 14 paid search clients. Ford is on the Lansing Chamber Board of Directors, and the Executive Board of the Capital Area IT Council.

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