Linkbuilding

  • Linkbuilding vs. Content Marketing

    Linkbuilding vs. Content Marketing

    Google uses hundreds of different factors to determine which page to show to your customers when they search for the goods and services you’re offering. Some of the factors are easily quantified — is your content too brief? is your website responsive? do you have grammatical errors in your text? do you have complete contact…

  • Trying out Spyfu

    Trying out Spyfu

    Spyfu has been around for years, but they’ve changed a lot. This is a tool that estimates the level of domination any website has over specific keywords. Keywords are search terms, the things people type into the search engine box to find you. If you offer medical spa services, your top keywords might be things…

  • Trying Out SEOlytics

    Trying Out SEOlytics

    I have to admit that I tried out SEOlytics because of the cute lizard that popped up in an ad while I was doing research on something else entirely. This was of course why they included a cute lizard in their ad. But the tool is not cute — it’s a pretty serious suite of…

  • Getting Backlinks Updated

    Getting Backlinks Updated

    High quality backlinks — links to your website from other websites — continue to be important for SEO, and longstanding links can also send traffic. Those links are valuable. However, they only work as long as the URL works. When you make changes at your website that change the web address of your page, you…

  • Strategies for On-Line Marketing

    Strategies for On-Line Marketing

    Some of our clients have separate public relations, content marketing, and linkbuilding efforts, sometimes spearheaded by different people. But some companies need to choose among the options, and the overlap among the three can make that difficult. Public relations focuses on developing relationships with reporters and gaining opportunities for press coverage. Content marketing focuses on…

  • Multiple Offices and Google Verification

    Multiple Offices and Google Verification

    Verifying your business’s location with Google through Google Local+, also known as Google Places, has a number of benefits: You can take control of the map listing that shows up when a potential customer clicks to find out more about your business. You can change information as needed if you move or change your business…