Fresh off of a nice, but brief talk with the Eastern Monmouth Area Chamber of Commerce, where I really had to streamline a longer SEO talk into just the basics, it got me thinking about some very basic stuff small business owners can keep in mind to help with their SEO in 2020. I am [...]
With content becoming more and more important as a ranking factor, even though it has always been king, there are many great tools out there to help SEO's to research semantic search topics. For example, if y0u want to rank for a certain phrase, what other content topics should be covered in what you write? [...]
With each year and update, Google gets better and smarter at understanding searcher intent and providing the best answers to their queries. Title tags have always been an important part of small business SEO. They are sometimes approached formulaically, trying to get in that main keyword and maybe the key geographic target. But now with [...]
Since I got involved in the SEO industry nearly 14 years ago, "Content is King" has been one of the major themes. With algorithm updates over the years, Google has gotten better at algorithmically rewarding and penalizing good and bad content, by looking at different ranking factors. These factors include speed and links pointed at [...]
With all of the craziness of November, we never got out the You Can Be Found Anywhere last month. Here it is from West Point, where I joined some friends to attend the Army football game and lots of other interesting and exciting fanfare and history. Army provides a very unique experience if you ever [...]
The latest You Can Be Found Anywhere installment comes from Lambeau Field in Green Bay Wisconsin, as we begin the next NFL season. Lambeau Field is the perfect example of being an iconic representation of an industry. In this instance, it is the NFL and football. For you and your business, you can strive to [...]
In the past year or so I have taken on more e-commerce clients to help in what are often very tough markets. Usually, in the e-commerce space, you are taking on not only Amazon but other brand behemoths that will always have stronger domains than your small business site. There is an answer to getting [...]
“Content is King” in the world of SEO. Though there are hundreds of other factors that have a say in your ranking possibilities, content is the one you have the most control over. Small businesses trying to compete against the big guys often have to find their niche in search with more specific searches, as [...]
2018 and 2019 have been years where sites are getting hit hard because of old content. Blog posts or content that ranked for years suddenly plummeted with recent Google updates, and it was time to freshen content and update it. First, the health, medical, and financial sites got hit and then it worked its way [...]
With the rise of semantic search in recent years, which is basically Google's AI getting better at figuring out what good content is, rather than just searching for how often a specific keyword or phrase shows up on a page, the world of keyword research has changed significantly. We no longer focus on a keyword [...]
