What’s your SEO IQ? Take the test!

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SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the art and science of getting your pages to rank higher in the search engines like Google and Bing. In reality, SEO tactics can be applied to your LinkedIn profile, to what you put in local business directory listings, to any online article writing that you do and in [...]

SEO That Hurts: 6 Out-dated Tactics That Can Harm Your Website

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I work with a lot of small business owners and solopreneurs and I hear a lot of the same questions so I thought I’d clear up some misconceptions about some of the “SEO tactics” that are often offered to them.
In fact, some of these can damage your standing with the search engines, leading to the [...]

SEO is better than Japanese

SEO training better than Japanese

In the early 90′s, after a less than illustrious post-college career in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles I hopped on a plane to Japan in search of a new job. It was financially touch-and-go for the first 6 months but I soon settled down in the Japanese countryside living in a hundred-year old inn [...]

Getting Your Website Indexed in Yahoo

Yahoo Site Index Test

As mentioned in previous post, getting your site indexed by the top 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bing) is a critical part of having your site found by searchers on the Internet. To put it simply, indexing means getting your site and all (or most) of it’s pages listed in the search engine’s [...]

Getting your Website indexed in Google

Google Site Indexing Test

Getting your site indexed by the top 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bing) is a critical part of having your site found by searchers on the Internet. Indexing means getting your site and all (or most) of it’s pages listed in the search engine’s database. Google has about 65% share of searches [...]