How do I get my website to start ranking better for certain keywords in search engines? 

I see all this talk about head and long tail keywords and don’t quite understand it.

What I do know and see is that my competitors are ranking on the first page for multiple keywords, and I want to achieve the same.

The question and statements are quite common amongst website owners desperately wanting their websites to be highly visible and ranking in search engines for highly competitive keywords.

I’m sure you long for the same success as relates to your website, if not more.

Surely, if you have been around search engine optimization (SEO) or other search marketing methods, such as pay-per-click advertising (PPC), then you understand the importance of keywords and their impact on your search engine rankings and placement at surface level.

Indeed, keywords are important in regards to search engine rankings.  However, you don’t want to spin your wheels on highly competitive and expensive keywords to never convert.

Today’s post will help you further understand the importance of a certain kind of keyword, and how this keyword type can help you increase you conversion while possibly saving you money at the same time.

Is your website capitalizing on type-in traffic?

There are many options available to website owners looking to increase organic search traffic or website traffic in general.

From pay-per-click advertising to paid ads to search engine optimization to guest blogging to link building to minisites, the average website owner or person looking to increase website traffic does not know where to begin.

Each of the previously mentioned options attain their respective pros and cons.

Each option should be seriously considered and heavily researched when making a final decision about how to effectively increase website traffic.

However, I want to share with you the hidden value and potential in owning exact match domain names.

More importantly, I want to discuss a hidden secret that most fail to realize or have not a clue in the world that it even exists for exact match domain names: Type-in traffic.

By the end of this post, I hope to shed light on an opportunity that your website or business can and should take advantage of to increase overall website traffic.

Looking for good link building strategies, aye?

We have the answer for getting your website the greatest and most valuable search engine ranking ever most search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) claim:

Here’s a link, there’s a link, and every where’s a link.

Much like “extra, extra, read all about it” do some SEM/SEO firms push link building strategies as the end all be all.

Link building has its respective place within both SEM and SEO, and must be used in moderation with other white-hat SEM techniques.

Today, I’ll discuss a variety of link building strategies, both good and bad.

My hope is that your website does not find itself classified as using bad link building strategies that sounds too good to be true.

By the time you finish reading this article, you’ll be about to discern and identify sound link building opportunities that  increase search engine ranking, and politely declining the bad link scheme model.

Let’s get started.

As I mentioned in our recent post, 5 Practical SEO Tips to Increase Traffic, it is imperative for your business to start search engine optimization (SEO) on a firm foundation.

There are many on-page and off-page facets of SEO to focus upon.

When engaging with customers, I can’t stress the importance of having a solid and intimate understanding of practical SEO.

Know the difference between good and sound SEO principles versus bad and detrimental SEO principles.  And yes there can be a fine line between the two SEO types.

Take a moment and step back when SEO gets blurry or confusing as to what is right or wrong.  Stop, collect yourself and diligently seek honest information when this occurs.

Spike Lee said it best, “Do the right thing!”  Do the honest and for sure thing that is right (white-hat SEO), even if it will take you a longer time to see results.  

The price of .com domains have skyrocketed and so have the number of domain leasing opportunities.

Much like physical real estate, domain names, especially .com domains, have become quite expensive and will likely see an exponential increase in years to come.

From small start-ups to mom-and-pop shops to national chains to global conglomerates, the one commonality all can agree to is the need for having a premium domain name as a means to generating greater customer growth and revenue for their business.

With more and more businesses being started by entrepreneurs or those involuntarily forced too, the need for a short, memorable and search-friendly .com domain name is in great demand while those mentioned attributes of a .com domain name are in short supply.

Many short, memorable and search-friendly .com domain names are account for and have been for quite some time.

Business owners starting out in business or looking to take their start-up to the next level will pay more than a pretty penny to secure ownership in such domain names.

Knowing that a premium .com domain name may be out of your grasp or price range, leasing a domain name instead of buying it is becoming a less expensive, popular and simple way of starting or taking an online business to the next level.

Practical search engine optimization (SEO) tips that drive bottom line results are hard to come by these days depending upon:

• who you ask
• what topics you’re in search of
• how you go about implementing and executing tips

From off-site optimization tips, such as effective link building strategies and social signals, to on-page optimization tips, such as keyword focus and proper meta and page tag usage, there are countless search engine optimization techniques and strategies to focus on. 

Most website owners want to know how increase organic search traffic.

Often times, they base their search engine optimization techniques and strategies on what will bring the biggest bang for the buck in the shortest amount of time.

Yes, I know this is a broad stroke of the brush.

In today’s post, I hope to provide you with our top 5 practical SEO tips that are proven to help your website to generate greater customer growth and revenue.

There are many more, but focusing on these 5 practical SEO tips will surely help you get a firm foundation to dive deeper in implementing and executing more search engine optimization techniques.

Let’s get started!

Today’s post is about search engine optimization’s new future: Google Authorship.

If you have heard or read about this new search engine ranking vehicle, read up.

A few years ago, Google introduced an unusual approach for authors to boost search engine rankings, known as Google Authorship.

Using this tactic, you convince Google that you are the author of your posts and by doing so you can stop piracy.

You actually register your words through Google Authorship, so that nobody else would be able to steal and publish your work as their own.

You have to set up your Authorship profile using your optimized Google+ account and when your website appears in the search results, it displays your photo next to search result as shown below.

You might already have seen some results displayed by Google that show a photo of the author along with the link.

These search results definitely have more appeal than other plain-looking results owned by authors with no identity whatsoever.

Using Google Authorship is quite easy and straight forward.