Local Ranking Tips-Business Directory Listings-Local Search Results

This is great info for local search on Google Places!  Don’t forget Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics too!

How to  Optimize Your Google Places Listing We recommend following these steps to create a highly optimized Google Places listing. These suggestions may seem fairly technical, but they present an effective way to set up [...]

Integrated Marketing: Why Search Needs a Large Seat at the Table – Search Engine Watch #SEW

Since 1995, I’ve been doing SEO as part of an integrated Internet marketing business, not sure why everyone else in the SEO industry feels like other marketing channels were verboden.  I think because the “industry” commoditized SEO and tried to over specialize Search Engine Marketing to benefit themselves and maybe not the customer.  SEO [...]

What should my Google SERPs look like?

I know many of you search Google on your own brand name to see how your company ranks on Google.  It seems you can never get the ranking you want.  For your brand name you better be ranking #1.  I just search on my brand “Coach Parker” and was very please with the Google [...]

SEO Quick Results

Ok, so I am working on a client’s web site / WordPress blog from Pittsburgh.  Its been about 3 weeks and already the web site / WP Blog is in the top 10 natural search engine results in Google, Bing and Yahoo for its main search phrase. Not too shabby.  I am pretty happy [...]

Search Engine Optimization Tip Webmaster Tools

Another very simple SEO search engine optimization step missed by small to medium sized businesses is submitting your site and xml site map feed to the search engine’s webmaster tools.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmasters/

If the search engines don’t know your web site exists then its like having a retail shop in Timbuktu.  Yahoo, Bing [...]

SEO Tip – Local First

There are a ton of small to medium sized businesses that are missing a free marketing opportunity for their local listing with Google Places, Yahoo Local Listings, Bing Business Portal and Merchant Circle.  Yes, your business might already be listed since many pull information from the state business records, but most do not have [...]

Client WordPress site Google indexed in 1 day

Ok, so I am very surprised.  I just had one of my client’s WordPress.com websites that I added domain with mapping to yesterday is now 53 out of 3 million for their top keyword phrase.  Yep, I’ve hardly done a thing to the website except add about 35 draft pages and blog posts.  I [...]

Better Google Search Ranking thru Quality

A friend of mine posted a good link to the Official Google Webmaster Blog on Building High Quality Sites. The blog article talks about how the latest Google algorithm change has hurt many websites search engine rankings on Google.  To be honest, I’ve been through a ton of these search engine algorithm changes since [...]

B2B SEO Marketing 101

Internet search engines including Google love information in text or word format.  So the more descriptive words & phrases a website has to offer the search engines via the number of website pages, the better the Company’s website will be found by prospective customers or leads.  In the Digital Internet world, the number of [...]

Made it on Google Searches Related to

I guess I have hit the big time, my youth football blog, CoachParker.org is coming up on Google searches for other searches related to coaching youth football.  Pretty Cool.