Stop For One Moment Today
First of all happy Friday- the weekend is almost here. We’re all busy–especially at the end of the week trying to wrap up all our projects, return all our phone calls, respond to all our emails–and as we talked about in yesterday’s blog post being a small business owner or employee at a small business …
Local SEO vs National SEO
There’s two main types of SEO out there– local SEO and national SEO–and depending on the geographical area you serve you’re going to want to make sure you choose the right type of SEO. Most SEO companies focus only on national website SEO. This is helpful for companies that offer their products/services over the internet …
Results After 1 Year Of SEO
We’ve had some clients with us for a long time, and one of our clients just hit their 1 year anniversary with us, so I want to share their results after 1 year of SEO. This client (whose website we are not going to reveal for privacy reasons) is in the financial services industry and …
Are You A Tired Small Business Owner?
Owning a small business isn’t an easy task. There are days that I would much rather be in charge of a large, publicly owned company where my own money, life, and well being aren’t on the line every single day. But there’s a gratification that also comes from owning a small business– at the end …
Google’s 13th Birthday
Today marks the 13th birthday of search engine giant Google. Back on September 27, 1998, when websites were basically all text based, search engine giant Google saw a need for indexing websites and creating a database of all the websites out there on the web. 13 years later they have transformed into one of the …
Why Use WordPress?
Wordpress is a buzzing topic for web designers, and more and more websites are being powered today by WordPress. But why use WordPress for your website? Wordpress is by far the most popular content management system (CMS) on the internet today. Simple SEO Group utilizes WordPress on the back end to power our website and …
10 DIY Projects You Shouldn’t Take On As A Small Business Owner
Since our previous post about ma and pa business owners doing their own web design and ending up with absolutely awful websites ended up being so popular, I thought I would take some time to put together a post dedicated to 10 DIY projects that you should NEVER take on by yourself and also include …
Facebook F8 Announcements And Changes
Facebook got started around 2004, introduced photos in 2005, added the news feed in 2006, added a real time stream in 2008, the like button in 2009, and has continued to make changes in 2010 and 2011. In 2004, Facebook had a mere 10 million users. Today there are nearly 800 million users and growing …
The Importance Of A Professional Website
Okay–so there’s A LOT of ma and pa type small businesses out there that setup their own website–more power to you. I have to applaud the motivation and dedication that these business owners have. But here’s the problem–99.999% of these websites end up looking absolutely terrible! I can think of at least a dozen examples …
Simple SEO Group Website Redesign
We’re extremely excited to roll out the all new Simple SEO Group website! This new website layout and theme combines a crisp, clean look with an extremely high level of usability and function. A special thanks to Aric Smith, our web design manager, for overseeing this project and getting things up and running. It’s been …
How Many People Click On Google Ads?
Have you ever wondered just how many people click on Google ads? Google themselves have admitted in the past that less than 25% of their users will ever click on a pay-per-click ad on their platform. The reality is the vast majority of users are clicking on organic search results. How Many People Click On …
Small Business SEO and Why You Should Start TODAY!
It’s important to get started with your small business SEO campaign TODAY! Why you may ask? Two main reasons: Competition and Seasonality Competition is the number one factor in SEO and determines how much time and money it will take to rank for a keyword. Every single day that your small business decides to skip …
Where Does Your Website Traffic Come From?
Do you know where your company’s website traffic is coming from, and more importantly do you know where your conversions are coming from? Small business owners often trust their web design firm to setup everything they need to have a good website. But good web design isn’t just designing a site, it’s giving the site …
How To Avoid Insane Online Lawsuits
There are some absolutely insane lawsuits out there in the internet. I read a few months ago of a small at home business that is being sued for $10 million. There’s a lot of ways to get yourself in a lot of trouble on the internet, and as a disclaimer before you read this post, …
How Long Does SEO Take?
The number one question in the world of small business SEO is How Long Does SEO Take? There’s no straight answer for that, but let’s take a quick look at two scenarios to help answer the question of how long does SEO take: How Long Does SEO Take? Scenario 1: You are a small business …
SEO Friendly Website Design
If I only had a nickel for every time I saw a website that was designed with no thought given to SEO…I probably wouldn’t be working for an SEO company right now and would be retired on a private island in the Caribbean. No seriously I’m not even kidding. SEO Friendly Website Design If you’re …
How To Use Social Media & Facebook For Marketing
There’s already thousands of articles on the internet explaining how to use Facebook for marketing purposes, but I really feel most of them do a terrible job explaining how to actually market on sites like Facebook. They leave vague comments like “Engage your audience” or “Start communicating with users” but no one is bold enough …
What Is The Main Difference Between SEO and PPC
SEO and PPC are two words thrown around all the time in the online marketing world, but there are very distinct differences between SEO and PPC, and in our opinion there’s one option that is more profitable for the majority of small businesses. Let’s first examine what SEO and PPC actually are then compare the …
