Google Changes – Affecting Your Websites


Vanessa Fox from SearchEngineLand reports that “Google made between 350 and 550 changes in its organic search algorithims in 2009″.   So, whatever Google’s rules were on January 1, 2009 for ranking websites, they were quite different December 31, 2009!
What’s a site owner or SEO webmaster to do?
Well, stick with the basics for one and of [...]

SEO 2010 – Get Ready For New Methodologies


Okey dokey, has everyone swallowed the latest Google news and algorithmic changes?  Are you ready to embrace the new way of thinking about your SEO campaigns?  If not, well, don’t wait too long.  Before you know it, you’ll be left behind and other SEO firms will be way ahead of you in marketing their websites.
According [...]

Changes at Google and the Impact on SEO


If you haven’t yet heard what the latest Google changes are, let me give you a brief synopsis…
Google announced and began implementing several new factors in their list of ranking factors…
1) Real Time Search
2) Personalized Search Results
3) Page Speed
4) Easier search on mobile units
So, what do these mean?
1) Real Time Search
Basically, when [...]

Going Local Is Bigger Than You Think


So very often I hear comments like, “But my business is local, why should I market on the Internet?”
These comments obviously come from someone who still hasn’t figured out how to use the Internet.  What I mean is there still are people out there who don’t use the Internet daily.  Yep, it’s true.  If these [...]

Are You Capturing Your Audiences’ Intentions?


So, I’m reading this new book I just received, The Art of SEO and right at the beginning it’s got a very nice layout of how search engine users (our customers / your customers) think.  So, it gave me the idea for this article.  You can say this article was inspired by the book.
When you, [...]

The Biggest Obstacle in SEO Is…


Can you guess?
Could it be on page optimization?
Or perhaps researching the keywords?
Or maybe it’s restructuring the architecture of the website?
Wrong!
The biggest obstacle in the SEO (search engine optimization) process is the website owner. Yep, you heard me right.  For the most part, website owners will argue with their SEO firm every step of the way!
Why?  [...]

Using SEO To Help You Create Your Business


SEO (search engine optimization) has become much more than just altering meta tags.  (Remember those days?!) SEO services has grown to become an integral part of business development.  Let me show you how.
Let’s say you’re a divorce attorney.  You build a site talking about who you are and your services for divorce, child custody, adoption, [...]

Today’s SEO Reading List


Every day I read as many articles, posts, etc . about Internet marketing and SEO services and anything related to this crazy Search Engine Marketing industry I’m in.  And if you work in this industry I don’t have to tell you why it’s daily but if you don’t, let me enlighten you.
LITERALLY – every single [...]

Increase Your Trust Rating


The SEO services provided by Eckweb Designs, Inc. mainly deals with small businesses.  If there’s one thing that we’ve learned in the 10 years of SEO services that we’ve been providing is that small business owners are usually very “opinionated” about what they want.  In other words, we can give them all our expert advice [...]

Why Social Media Marketing Is So Important


As usual, it’s almost 11 PM and I can’t sleep so I’m catching up with some reading.  And of course, I’m reading about Internet marketing, seo services, cool new gadgets and some other geeky kind of things that I like!!
Just finished a great article – http://www.seobook.com/the-100-ranking-variables-google-uses-and-why-you-shouldnt-care – written by Peter Da Vanzo.  I was reading [...]