Running a business is a long chain of choices that if done right will keep the business healthy and thriving, and if done wrong will crush your business in the end. Many of these choises are very difficult to make – simply because they are not very nice and they affect peoples lives in a …
Our second site (www.devenia.com) is then moved from Joomla to WordPress. The transition went pretty well and you are now seeing the result. The main point of moving everything from Joomla to WordPress is the fact that Google really loves WordPress for some reason. I have actually not quite figured out why they love WP …
When I deal with client cases, I often end up doing a lot of explanation about things that seems to me like being pretty obvious. But, during the years, I have come to realize that there is a growing gap between what I as a seo expert think is pretty obvious, and what the person …
Update 24th of August 2013: Read at the bottom of the post how this went. After going through all technical aspects of this site, I have come to the conclusion that there is not much more we can do with WordPress to speed up the loading times of the site. So, it’s time to look for other …
There are a number of plugins that can be used in WordPress to automate the process of spreading a new post via social media and directly via mail. The problem I have faced with this, is that the more plugins you activate, the bigger is the chance that one or several plugins are conflicting with …
Social media does have some SEO benefits, and the role social media plays in enhancing SEO may grow in the future. We’ll see what Google decides to do with that. But, there’s no doubt that right now, social media can be used to add more long-term customers for your business. Today, we’ll talk about Facebook, …
“Content is king” the saying goes. Well, it sort of is, but internet marketing is so complicated these days that it takes much more than just content to generate a ton of sales for your site. At the small business level (a few employees or so), content sometimes gets overlooked because these companies don’t have …
These days, SEO is becoming an incredibly complex profession. You can get away with simply having back linking done, which is still the crux of any SEO strategy. But, SEO is growing more and more beyond that. To really be successful on a long-term basis, you should also have high quality content your audience enjoys, …
Years ago, when search engine optimization was in its infancy as a profession, you could build a bunch of back-links, get those keywords in the right spot on the page, and you had a pretty easy time getting to the top of the search engine rankings. But, staying near the top of the search engine …
If you follow search engine optimization at all, you’ve probably heard about Google’s increasing focus on social media signals and how they can affect SEO in a positive way. Is social media necessary to ranking highly on Google? Not at this point, but it will be interesting to see if that becomes the case in …
You probably already figured this, but Google isn’t going away anytime soon. Sure, they’ll probably eventually fall away sometime, but who knows when that will be? At this point, the most likely thing to stop this company from growing further is Congress…what if Google appears to be operating as a monopoly? Other than potentially becoming …
While the importance of back-links, as Google sees it, has diminished somewhat in recent years, there’s no doubt back-links are still the most critical aspect of any SEO strategy. Why? Google needs some method of determining which sites are more important than others. To help make this computation, it looks at the back-links from other …
