SEO Entries

SEO Tips – Increase Traffic

Filed under: SEO by Chip on February 19th, 2009

Use CSS for Layout
Style Sheets help optimize your site by separating content from design elements. If you are not familiar enough with CSS, I suggest contacting a professional for the job.
Research Keywords
Optimizing your site means you need to know what people are searching for. Google has a very useful tool that will help you identify the most important [...]

Are You Happy With Your Website?

Filed under: SEO, Web Design by Chip on January 14th, 2009

This period of difficult economic times may be a good opportunity to analyze your website and the results it had over the years, in terms of new business. Yes, results. A small business website should bring you business even in today’s economic environment. Can you say the same about your website?
Recent Testimonials From [...]

SEO Is Not Internet Marketing

Filed under: Internet Marketing, SEO by Chip on December 2nd, 2008

Simply stated, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing a website in order to be found for free on Google and Yahoo for a particular search term.
Internet marketing is a comprehensive marketing campaign and usually involves paid clicks (PPC). SEO can work great as an online marketing strategy but the two are not the [...]

Search Engine Traffic

Filed under: SEO by Chip on September 24th, 2008

More than 70% of all US consumers use the Internet on a daily basis, and those consumers are relying more and more upon the Internet instead of the Yellow Pages when making buying decisions.
That’s why Google is so important – people use it to find products or services. For your small business website this [...]

Don’t Pay Monthly SEO Fee

Filed under: SEO by Chip on August 15th, 2008

I’ve been developing small business websites for 10 years now and still haven’t figured out what exactly a monthly SEO fee is for.
Most Search Engine Optimization experts (SEOs) will try and convince you that SEO doesn’t have anything to do with Web Design, is a totally different issue and you need a monthly fee in [...]

Web Design Big Mistakes

Filed under: SEO, Web Design by Chip on July 2nd, 2008

Before you decide on a web designer or web design company in the Raleigh-Durham area, check and see if any of these mistakes are obvious on their website or portfolio:
Not Optimizing for Search Engines
Ask your web designer about search engine optimization. Ask him how he plans to optimize your site. Search engine optimization (SEO) is [...]

Online Advertising – PPC

Filed under: Internet Marketing, SEO by Chip on February 29th, 2008

Small business owners from Raleigh-Durham and Triangle Area start moving their advertising budgets, from Yellow Pages and newspaper ads, online.
More than that, businesses that never had big budgets for advertising, start advertising online on Google and Yahoo for as low as $10 per day.
Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing can have a big impact on [...]

SEO Misunderstood

Filed under: SEO by Chip on December 14th, 2007

Before we get to it, first of all, we are not a SEO company. In fact we believe that SEO it’s totally misunderstood. SEO means better web design. It means to present your information properly for search engines and visitors at the same time.
The other day I ran across a local car dealer website. [...]

Google Takes Action Against SEOs

Filed under: SEO by Chip on November 10th, 2007

Recently, Google modified their search algorithm in order to obstruct the selling and exchanging of links. They penalized big sites like WRAL (CBS and FOX Raleigh local station) and even Forbes and Washington Post. As a result, their Page Rank went from 7 to 4 or 5. Therefore their selling links model is hence [...]

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