I just found out that sometimes, despite our best efforts, we still find ourselves lagging behind our competitors in the SEO game for certain keywords or phrases. So, why am I behind competition for certain keywords or phrases? Let’s dive into the dark secrets that could be holding you back from outranking your competition. Inexperienced …
Many of our international customers are annoyed by the high fees they have to pay when they pay invoices from us with a bank transfer. This is because our bank is Lloyd’s Bank in London, and this means it will be handled via the SWIFT system or SEPA that banks use internationally. Naturally, this entails not …
Short answer: it helps you get higher in the search results lists of the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Baidu and others. In other words, you become visible where people search. With correct use of title and description tags on your website you will then get clicks from people searching on the net for your …
The clients have all the right to be skeptical about Internet marketing and SEO’s companies, because we are operating within a business area that is full of Cowboys, scammers, and wannabees. I always ask my self what differs our company from our competitors? It’s not our billing prices, or services or even our experiences in …
I had a conversation with a possible client recently about Google analytics, and when I suggested to him to use statcounter instead of Google analytics, he asked me to explain further. So, I explained to him that we don’t use Google Analytics. Instead, we use Statcounter because it gives us usable and actionable data. Google …
When I go through the statistics from Statcounter showing what people has searched for when they came to our sites, I usually notice when there is a broad search term that is at the same time very precise in it’s wording. I just saw one like that today when I noticed a search on Baidu …
I got another spam mail from a company trying to sell their SEO services by spamming people. I get these pretty frequently. So, I am going to quickly explain to this particular company and everyone like them a simple fact: You company probably suck at SEO if you have to resort to spamming to sell …
The Guardian writes a very interesting article about how doctors google their patients. This shows very clearly that keeping a good reputation in the search results is crucial for any business in 2014. What people find about you in search, is a deciding factor if they will contact you or not. From the article: Googling …
This question came up in one of the Google+ Communities where I am active, so I thought it would be a good idea to share my advice here on the blog as well. The question was originally asked by Lindshay Hopkins in the SEO+ – Search Engine Optimization / Website Design Community on Google+ From what …
After Penguin 2.0 was introduced in May 2013, the social networks plays a much bigger role in getting you that high ranking page in the search results. The background supporting my claim, is that when Penguin 2.0 was rolled out, we had some serious drops in the placements for several of our clients sites, and …
I have been using a plugin for WordPress called Pay With A Like for a while now on one of my personal websites. So far, the results have been stunning. Never before have I seen such an enormous amount of likes on that site’s pages. And, best of all is that the more likes I …
Working on close to 4000 search phrases in a broad array of areas, I obviously get nervous when Google rolls out a new update of it’s search algorithm. This update dubbed Penguin 2.0 is no exception. So far it has not been many days since it became active, but I can already see placements repositioning …
