Archive for April, 2008

Happy Earth Day

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

April 22nd is officially “Earth Day” and some even celebrate the entire week surrounding this date. This is the time of year where we are inspired to “go green” and do what we can to make this big blue marble a better place to live for ourselves and generations to come. In honor of […]

How to Spot a Bad SEO Firm

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet=YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet||{};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1208365863_0′]={”text”:”Google”,”weight”:0.25,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/company/company_name”,”shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/domain”],”category”:[”ORGANIZATION”],”metaData”:{”canonicalName”:”Google Inc.”,”domain_name”:”Google”,”domain_url”:”http://www.google.com/”,”exchange”:”NMS”,”symbol”:”GOOG”},”visible”:true,”clientMetaData”:{”disabled”:true}};Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting recently made an interesting post in his “Ramblings About SEO” blog titled “11 Ways to Recognize a Bad SEO Firm”. We liked it enough to share it with our readers as well. Here’s our summary of what he had to say, but you can also click the link […]

Are you linked to a bad neighborhood?

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

You probably already know that inbound links to your site are good, and a quality inbound link from a topic-related site can bring great quality traffic and even help your search engine rankings. What you might not have known though, is that linking out to other quality sites within your subject can also help your […]

SEO Myth #3 - If I put my keywords in my meta tags, this helps my rankings

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

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