Your SEO Firm Is Your Partner


Many business / website owners seem to forget that the SEO firm they’ve hired or the SEO person that they’ve hired is actually a partner in their business.  If a business hires a secretary, they take the time to train that secretary to work within the company.  That secretary can talk negatively or positively about [...]

Working In The Clouds


Have you heard the phrase “cloud computing”? Here’s a great video explaining what Cloud Computing is. The concept is that instead of having programs on your hard drive, the programs are sitting on a computer somewhere else.  A good example is Google Docs.  Instead of using Microsoft Word or WordPerfect to write your letters, etc. [...]

The Hidden World of SEO


As I sit at my desk for an average of 12 hours a day – I have to wonder if my clients have any idea of what goes on behind the scenes for their seo services?  I imagine most of them think that there’s just a program that I log into, click a few buttons [...]

Internet Therapy Needed For Some Clients


So, I was on the phone today with a great web site designer that I work with and she and I were discussing some of the issues our clients were bringing up (well, actually just 2 clients) but, you know what I mean. Anyway, the issues with these 2 clients was that they were complaining [...]

Love The Internet – Hate Computers


I am an SEO webmaster and I run my own online business so as you can probably guess, I’m on the computer about 12 hours every day (yep, every day!).  My husband, friends and neighbors will attest to that! So, when I say I Hate Computes – you know that I’m coming from a place [...]

SEO and Simple Living


It seems so many companies (and people) are talking about Simple Living these days.  There’s an Allstate commercial that talks about finding the pleasures in Jenga and Meatloaf these days, which I think sums up the sentiments of today’s economy.  And I can’t help but wonder if that will remain the sentiment for at least [...]

Are You Twitter Phobic?


I’ve had multiple conversations with business owners lately about Twitter.  The general “gist” of the conversations usually revolve around them asking me what is Twitter and how can they use it?  I give them some ideas and I’m sad to say that I’m just not getting through.  Maybe I’m not explaining it well, I don’t [...]

Get Your Money’s Worth From SEO


SEO Services, like most other services, are a myriad of activities all put together to create a package. SEO (Search engine optimization) services come in all shapes and sizes.  Let’s face it, no 2 SEO firms are the same, although there are certain similarities, no 2 will ever be exactly the same.  Just like no [...]

Bing Tweets and Internet Marketing


So, today I read an article introducing BingTweets.com – it’s Bing.com’s beta version engine fusing Bing search and Twitter.  A great layout and I think it could be a great tool for anyone marketing their website on the Internet.  I wanted to find out if and how I could use it in my SEO services [...]

Best Keyword Research Techniques For Small Businesses


You’ve probably heard it a billion times, keyword research is important to search engine marketing.  If you’re going to market your website on the Internet, you need to have the right keywords in the right places on the websites. But, what if you’re marketing your own website?  What if you’re a small business owner who [...]