We Do Search Engine Optimization.

Matt Cutts of Google provides some updates for upcoming algorithm changes that all SEO’s should know about.

Unsurprisingly most of the changes involve changes to the way links are counted, scored and sorted.

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Normally I don’t like to be negative or call out any services for bad practices, and try to give other search engine marketing firms the benefit of the doubt. When companies present misinformation and but I will list some warning signs of unsavory businesses.

Performing Search Engine Submissions
Submitting your website to search engines stopped being necessary in the year 2000. Any firm that promises to submit your site to 10,000 search engines is not only being untruthful – they will also be adding you to hundreds of mailing lists which will spam the life out of your inbox.
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Asok Lost his soul trying to improve his Google search engine ranking. He found that keyword research & placement along with inbound links are the foundation of search engine placement. The missing ingredient:

Ritual sacrifice, presumably of an intern.
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What are Reviews and why are they important?

Online reviews are an assessment of your business, whether from a customer, another outside resource, or even yourself.

Reviews are such an important part of your business and can literally make or break you.

A recent survey from the online department at Gallup stated that 82% of all consumers purchase after they’ve gone online and researched what other people are saying about that particular product or business.
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How to gain an audience, avoid other people from usurping your ideas, and avoid duplicate content filters.

Using content marketing to seed articles, graphs, PDF documents, research, charts, images, infographics, videos and quotes to other websites is an excellent way to increase awareness of your website. You will be inserting your brand into a natural source of information and can reach users at a critical point in their decision making process.

When seeding your content the key is to get links back to your site from half a dozen sites. Without this quantity your efforts could be lost.
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This 50% discount is the largest I have ever seen, and likely the only time it will be offered. Take advantage of this deal and get your site into the busines.com directory today.

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SEO’s face a future of nearly insurmountable competition from huge established websites, and a decreased reliance on backlinks.

Search engine optimization professionals enjoy competitive advantages for ranking in the search engine results pages due to years of hands on experience, but experience, grit and force of will cannot always match giant budgets when corporations throw their hats into the SEO arena. Read the rest of this entry »

Most of the basics of SEO are fairly well known by a lot of internet marketers. It is nice to have a visualization of the systems behind search engine optimization and the tactics used to get better rankings.

We have an infographic presenting solutions and explanations to common SEO questions. This is a graphical display of the search engine optimization process that appeals to visual learners and can be used as a quick reference guide.
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Many people like to predict the end of search engine optimization and online marketing as we know it. SEO will change and evolve as the web becomes more advanced and desktop oriented but it will not disappear.

As Mark Twain would say, the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Here is a quote from a popular web forum:

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