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Every business owner’s dream is to have consistent business growth. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done. In fact, 20% of small businesses fail in their first year and only 30% of businesses make it past the 10-year mark. Therefore, SEO is a key component of inbound sales...

Remember how the starving newspapers began to try to revitalize their dying businesses by offering SEO services? Well, we ran a poll asking our readers if newspapers should sell SEO services. The results are not that surprising. Most SEOs don’t want the newspapers to get...

A Cre8asite Forum thread started by Kim, named It’s the SEO that counts, not user centered design talks about a recent article at C|Net named Is search ruining the Web? Read the article and take a look at the thread for some very good opinion. You and I spend our days...

In parts one and two of this series, we learned what bots are and why crawl budgets are important. In the third and final segment, we’ll review common coding, mobile and localization issues bots may encounter on their journey to let the search engines know what’s important on...

Whenever the automated tracking “SEO Weather” tools go off, I get tons of people telling me there was an update. They tell me this not based on them noticing any ranking changes, traffic changes or changes to the search results but based on the tools going off. Well,...

We have all seen Web design companies that say something to the effect of, “We are too busy designing sites for our clients, to make our site professional looking.” Personally, I understand that, but I think its unprofessional to have a site that doesn’t...

Last night, I was tipped off by Matt Schexnayder of Sparefoot of a new local pack test where Google is showing when the query matches content on the local businesses website. It is called “website mentions” and just like Google will highlight the content in the...

Dan Leibson has published his 2017 local SEO ranking factors study the other day. Dan said “the data suggests that Google, while attempting to shift to more engagement-based and locally relevant factors for its Local algorithm, is still susceptible to the traditional...

Mastering search engine optimization is no easy feat, but this new (and free!) resource can help get you there. Created as a companion to Search Engine Land’s Periodic Table of SEO Success, this guide will walk you through the various elements that go into search engine...

One of the common issues faced when designed a database-driven content management system is how to structure URLs in a friendly manner. Unfortunately, this is often the time when “Jack SEO” the search engine optimization expert clashes with “Joe Sitback,”...