Strategic Alliances And Partnering With Compeitors
No, I haven’t gone off the deep end. There are plenty of situations where partnering with your competitors to form a strategic alliance could make perfect sense. In the SEO industry things can get pretty heated and competitive, yet I’m very friendly with several SEO company owners and we even send each other leads from …
Think Of SEO As An Exercise Program…
Sometimes I think of SEO like an exercise program. There’s a lot of exercise programs out there that promise results in 30 days and you won’t have to work hard, and similarly there’s a lot of SEO companies out there that promise results in 30 days and you won’t have to pay a lot. But in reality, …
WordPress No Follow & New Window Tips
Wordpress is a platform we utilize for the vast, vast majority of our web design projects. In fact it’s the most popular blogging platform and one of the most popular website CMS platforms available today. In this post we’re going to talk a little about two tips we have when linking to third parties on …
SEO Results Are Like The Stock Market
When it comes to SEO and the stock market, it would be really nice if everything would just go straight up. But in reality in both SEO and the stock market, even if something is trending up it’s very rarely a perfectly straight trend line. More times than not it will be very jagged, with …
June 2012 Changes To Google Places
One of the constant themes at Google in 2012 has been change. So far this year we’ve seen more large changes than any other year in recent memory, and now it seems like change is sweeping across Google Places pages for local businesses. Many people may have notice some small changes to places pages as they …
Tracking Your Company Leads With A CRM System
A customer relationship management (CRM) system is a critical part of any business, but especially for businesses who have an extended sales process. Whenever you have a new lead come in, whether the lead is a result of SEO from your website or they call you or it’s a referral, you should be entering them …
Improving Your SEO By Improving Your Sales Process
I just returned a few weeks ago from a wonderful vacation in the Caribbean. When it comes to sales people, I often think of two things: car salesmen and those people who chase you down the beach hounding you in the Caribbean and Mexico to buy their products. For me personally (and many of you) …
Is Negative SEO Becoming A Reality?
It seems like Google’s attempt to end the wild wild west of the SEO world has backfired a bit and opened up the doors to negative SEO becoming a reality. While many of the changes Google has rolled out over the last several months (including the Panda update and Penguin update among others) have really …
Improve Your Website Traffic With Google Analytics
When it comes to Google Analytics, many of us utilize it to see how many site visitors we have and where they’re coming from. In all honesty, most business owners have Google Analytics but never look at it unless we send them a report. But most websites have Analytics (including all the websites we design …
Simple SEO Group’s Rebranding And Site Redesign
For those of you who follow us closely, you’re probably thinking “didn’t they just redesign their site”? Well the answer is yes we did, back on September 21, 2011 when we rolled out a round of changes to the website and client portal areas. Those changes (although now outdated) can be found in this blog post …
The Real Danger Of Building Too Many Links
Often times the answer to a poorly ranking website is they don’t have enough incoming links. Links are the backbone of SEO — they account for about 60+% of overall rankings, and when used properly they can bring your website to page 1 of search engine results. So far in 2012 there’s been quite a …
