Spectrum Communications & Consulting, LLC Blog: search engine optimization
If you want your website to be a competitive force on the Internet, you have to play by the rules -- Google's rules, that is. Below are the 4 biggest, most common and most dangerous mistakes plaguing today's websites. If you learn to recognize and avoid them, your website's SEO and user experience w...
Here's the thing about creating a successful website: There are many things you must do to make your website a success. Assuming that your idea of online success is increased site traffic and sales, these aforementioned things almost exclusively revolve around SEO. Like the pistons of a Corvette, yo...
Still in beta development, Graph Search isn't accessible to the public yet. However, in anticipation for the launch of its latest product, Facebook invites users to join a waiting list and sit tight until the world's first social search engine drops. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and CEO, call...
There are many fundamental parallels between successfully running a small business and properly executing search engine optimization. Dedication, discipline and a strong knowledge base are all required for both business and SEO success. While business owners undoubtedly have the chops when it comes...
Is your company’s website as effective at generating sales/leads as it could be? Which aspects of the website have the biggest opportunities for improvement? Pay-per-click advertising is an easy and cost-effective way to collect reliable performance information to answer these questions and generall...
How Google Finds Websites: They go by several titles. Generically, they’re referred to as spiders or crawlers or bots – specifically, Google calls them Googlebots. These are programs that scan, or crawl, the Internet searching for new and/or updated pages to add to the Google index. In fact, every s...
Entering most anything into Google Search will yield you ten organic results, which are made up of ten separate component, or parts – though when it comes to influencing the click-through patterns of potential business leads, some of these parts are more important than others. In this two-part artic...
“Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines.” – Google Far too many webmasters make pages and sites which do not actually work well for humans. That is bad search engine optimization (SEO) and will cost your company sales. Here are some SEO mistakes you might be making and how you can fi...
If you are familiar with the phrase “too much of a good thing is a bad thing”, welcome to Keyword Stuffing. While most SEO personnel and copywriters abide by the regulations set forth by search engines, some rogue writers attempt to deceive the system. They artificially enhance their page rank...
Search engines, like the stock market, are constantly changing because their algorithms are directly influenced by the people who use them. And as long as The Times Keep On A-Changin’, so will the Internet search game. For example, Google handles approximately 100 billion searches every month. Those...
