Life After Panda and Penguin: Top-Ranking Factors

Life after Panda and Penguin algorithm updates

The year 2012 won’t soon be forgotten by the SEO industry.  This was the year Google took a solid stance against web spam and low quality SEO.  Many websites with consistent monthly revenue lost more than 90% of their organic traffic. Google has sent the clear message that if you try to game their system…

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Google is Schemaing! Schema.org HTML Markup

Click Here to View an Updated Version of This Popular Blog Google is Schemaing! Schema.org is aggregation of  html markup to help improve search results through better identification of specific information on websites. For example, it allows webmasters to specify what content on a page is about products, the images for those products, the prices for those products and more…

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5 Essential SEO Website Updates for 2012

5 Essential SEO Website Updates for 2012

It is a new year, and it is time to take a look at your website, set some goals, and make some changes and updates. Don’t wait another minute to make the simple updates to your site that will make a big difference. Here are 5 simple website improvements you can implement today. They could…

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SEO for Bing!

Google vs. Bing The search results for Google and Bing differ, but not by much. (This is easily viewed with a great little program called Bingle) In general, if you are ranking well on Google, you will also be ranking well on Bing. While the specific algorithms for each search engine are closely guarded secrets,…

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Multilingual Markup from Google

Multilingual Markup from Google

If you are trying to reach audiences of various languages, Google released a markup that especially pertains to you. As we see growth in the Spanish language here in the US, as well as the expansion of other languages throughout the world, it is imperative to make it easier for users to find and read…

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Building SEO Friendly Content

Having unique content is more important than ever now that Google has released more updates, like Panda. The days of copying content from one website to another, and not being caught are over. Google knows when you are taking someone else’s content and not only is it plagiarism, it is going to decrease your rankings.…

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Searching, Verbatim

I just started reading a book on the story of Google. In the 90’s, searching online was much more difficult than it is today. Once Google hit the stage and brought with it a much smarter search engine, it was so much easier to find what I needed. Since then Google has worked in more…

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Local Internet Marketing: Your Key to a Successful Business

Local internet marketing should be the foundation of every small company’s marketing strategy.  After all, local internet marketing is the process by which companies use the internet to increase the number of business opportunities available and try to turn those opportunities into real world profits. Realistically speaking, this means that local internet marketing is a…

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Is An 800 Number Okay For My Maps Listing?

I really like all of the work that I have been doing on the local maps clients we have here at Boostability.   We have a lot of great small businesses, and I love learning more and more about how to better optimize their listings.  At times, it can be a little daunting to solve…

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Loading Videos for your Google Maps Listing

Some of my responsibilities have changed a little here at Boostability.  The world of SEO changes constantly, which means my job does too. I like it; it keeps things interesting. I am starting to work more and more with Google Maps and getting our clients optimized in that way.  Lots of local searches are showing…

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Google+ Pages

Google+ now has business pages! For those that have joined Google+ already understand how simple it is to use, and building a business page looks to be rather simple. Now those that are not as tech savvy can have a way to promote their business in a much simpler platform than Facebook. It’s worth checking…

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SEO Has The Greatest Influence

Webmarketing123 just released a report that surveyed 500 different marketing professionals, asking what has the biggest impact in the realm of internet marketing. What had the biggest impact is not surprising, it is SEO. I have talked about the difference of Organic (SEO) and Paid (PPC) before in a previous article and it is very exciting to see…

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What Does Google Think of SEO?

There are a lot of people that seem to have negative opinions of SEO, they think that the work is considered spam and is not going to valuable for their company when it comes to their marketing budget. In the long run they look at it as a waste of resources and money, or even…

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Reconsideration Submission For Your Website

Google’s Panda update has affected more and more websites as time has gone on. A lot of you may feel that you were unfairly given a lesser rank or taken off of the search results page completely. It may be hard to believe, but Google is not perfect and they can make mistakes. What you…

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The Google+ Floodgates are Open

If you go onto Google’s Homepage right now you more than likely are going to see a blue arrow. This blue arrow will be drawn onto the homepage and if you click it, it is an invitation to join in to Google+. Anyone that is using a Google search will have a quick and easy…

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One Simple Way to Make Your Website Better

A good website starts by having good content. If a client goes to your website and cannot tell instantly what services your company provides, where you are located and how to get in contact with you, then your site could probably use a little bit of help. By the end of this article, you should…

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Does Internet Marketing Work?

I love to express praise for and support local businesses. There are many people with great ideas but with out the proper market strategies, their ideas may never come to fruition. With all of the changes in advertising, it can be a daunting task for someone who is just getting into internet marketing.  Also there…

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