Brian Horn
Came across this interview from Matt Cutts circa 2007 in Las Vegas. Matt had some excellent SEO tips for small businesses and answered a few great questions. Do you run a small business? Watch this to hear some killer SEO tips that can help you in running and optimizing your e-commerce website or small business presentation. The main problem small businesses and entrepreneurs encounter is … [Read more...]
The guys over at SEOmoz wrote a post all about duplicate content. I don't agree with their position that Google can tell that duplicate content exists outside of title tags and headers. The internet is just too big. But still a good read, and always good to get another person's take on it. While it’s true that Panda didn’t change everything about SEO, I think it has been a wake-up … [Read more...]
Google+ has finally launched the ability for businesses to create pages, similar to Facebook Pages (formerly Fan Pages). Get yours now...no need to wait, right? Still not much in the way of traffic on Google+, but have seen some great SEO triggers and benefits with it. This could be important to your business's branding on Google...time will tell. Taken from my friends over at … [Read more...]
I usually share tips and strategies with you about how to increase your websites ranking in the search results. Gonna do the exact opposite today (did you ever have Opposite Day in school when you were a kid? wear your clothed inside out or backwards? maybe it was just a Alvin, Tx thang) :) Anyway...I want to tell you things Google hates that can hurt your website's ranking...so you … [Read more...]
Google launched their new social media site, Google+, to compete with Facebook. Cool enough. They also have a feature called "+1" that is similar to a "Like" in Facebook or doing a “tweet” on Twitter and it will keep track of the social value of your website. Nothing to special, right? Wrong!!! And please forgive me for sounding like my Dad when I say this, but... … [Read more...]
AWESOME post in Mashable about how Google+ posts now are now showing in their search results. Just to clarify...now is THE TIME to get in and start using Google+. Make sure to check below the article for a link to sign up for Google+ (from yours truly). Google has begun integrating Google+ into search results with public Google+ posts now appearing in Social Search. Whenever a … [Read more...]
Its been a couple weeks since I gave a hard core SEO tip, so guess its time for a good one. I want to show you an simple way to remedy a typical issue that leads lots of websites to not get the rankings that they could…that they really deserve. The issue is that most web desingers have never even heard of something called “First Link Priority”. What sucks is that websites (in … [Read more...]
Why are Trust Building Links important? Well, the more links your website has coming from external, relevant and trusted websites, the better your rankings will be. Trust, also reffers to a website’s “authority”...an intangible value that search engines (and in particular Google) give to a website. The “trust” is gauged by taking into account the history of the site, the number … [Read more...]
Its not very often I hear an SEO strategy that is SO STINKIN' SIMPLE is makes me want to smack my head for never even thinking of it. I did a 12 minute phone interview with a guy that has one of the slickest SEO tricks I've seen in a long time. He's not pitching anything at all...just giving away some stellar content. Enjoy! Leave a comment and share on Facebook! // … [Read more...]
Just saw that Dan Kennedy's blog (which I write for every Wednesday) was rated one of the best samll business marketing blogs at DIYSEO.com. See it here: http://blog.diyseo.com/2011/03/best-small-business-marketing-blogs/ Now there is a BIG lesson here that I have been preaching for a long time. Playing to people's ego's is a great way to links...vanity is one of the 7 deadly sins. … [Read more...]
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