MadeLoud.com is an indie music site that started back in 2005. The site has been a great resource for many unsigned artists to gain exposure over the years. Unfortunately, it was hit by Google’s Panda Update, drastically reducing its organic search traffic for many months. Panda was released by Google on February 23rd, 2011 in […]
Have you witnessed a dip in organic traffic to your site? It’s possible that you are being penalized for violating Google Webmaster Guidelines. It’s important to keep in mind, Google doesn’t care whether you hired a sketchy SEO firm or tried to game Google yourself -– if your site is hit with a penalty, you’re the […]
While these SEO tips are certainly effective for all types of websites, I wrote these with the small business owner in mind. These can all be incorporated in your current marketing initiatives. They cover a very broad spectrum of online marketing elements — Analytics, Accessibility, Indexation, On-Site, Off-Site, Content, Link-Building, Keywords, Markup, as well […]
There are many reasons why a company or small business would want to start a blog – brand reinforcement, customer engagement, positioning yourself as a thought leader in the industry. All of that is excellent, and are actually points I push on clients. But today I’d like to talk about the SEO (search engine optimization) […]
What are Links? Many small business owners have been introduced to the idea of building links or “backlinks” for the purpose of increasing search traffic. For those of you that aren’t aware, links are part of SEO (search engine optimization) or what determines where your web pages will rank in Google’s search results. When I […]
What are Page Titles? Page Titles or “Title Tags” are those large hyperlinks that appear in the search results after you search something in Google, or other search engine. They are used to describe the content of each page. Page Titles are one of the main SEO (search engine optimization) ranking factors Google uses to […]
I’m going to preface this by saying this is an article of the basic SEO (search engine optimization) variety. I don’t really mention advanced SEO tactics, so if you’re above the Beginner SEO level, then you probably won’t learn anything new here… although sometimes articles like this are a nice refresher. I’d like to talk […]
A lot has been said about Social Media for businesses in the past couple of years. Most business owners agree that Social Media Marketing can increase brand visibility, promote user trust/confidence, and even generate more leads. But what about SEO (search engine optimization)? Can these social media networks actually help with your website’s SEO? […]
