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Category: Search Engine Optimization

March update

Hi Everyone, It’s spring, which means it’s already been a full quarter since the year started! As always there is a lot of new digital marketing information to catch up on and hopefully implement into your strategy as we enter the next three months. If you follow me on social media (Facebook / Twitter / […]

Internet Marketing 101 presentation

A few times each year I have the pleasure of speaking on the fascinating world of Internet Marketing. Recently, I was invited to speak again at a group of young professionals, many of whom work in the non-profit area. The audience was attentive and asked great questions! (I’ll mention a few below). I promised them […]

Google’s new algorithm, Hummingbird.

Google recently announced a big update to their search engine ranking algorithm. Unlike the hundreds of small updates of the past, this is being touted as a brand new algorithm called “Hummingbird“. We haven’t seen such a big change to how Google works since 2001. While the new version still tries to show search results […]

Welcome Montana Public Radio Listeners

I’m proud to have become a sponsor of Montana Public Radio this year. Each day, I spend a little time catching up on the local and national news, plus enjoy many of their other programs. Besides giving back to Public Radio, I’m also offering a discount on my Website SEO Audit package. For a limited […]

Google launches Disavow Links Tool, but should you care?

A few days ago at Pubcon, Matt Cutts of Google announced the “new and improved Disavow Link tool”. (A good write-up of the Google announcement at PubCon by Lisa Barone). So what is this tool? Bascically it’s a way to tell Google which links pointing at your site are low quality junk that you don’t […]

Movies without Shaq in them

How did some guy in Montana rank for Movies without Shaq in them? That’s called SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Can I help you rank for something? So this is really a little experiment. Someone just created a spoof of Google, that is poking fun at the NFL Replacement Refs. So if you visit http://replacementgoogle.com/ and you enter […]

A great post on Link Building

In all my years of doing SEO, I’ve seen link building articles come and go. And while this one may someday be dated as well, I’m very impressed with the ideas here. Most of them are the kind that will stand the test of time. I’m often telling my clients how important link building is […]

Using Video can give you an edge both with customers and search engines

An article I saw today (http://mashable.com/2011/06/02/web-video-business/) talks about how creating and publishing a video can really help promote your business. It makes a lot of great points. It’s so true that if you have a well tagged youtube video, it can also show up on the first page of Google search results now that Google […]