Review of Caphyon Advanced Web Ranking & Advanced Link Manager Software

It is impossible for a website to succeed without a high level of visibility within search engines. For example, if you run an apartment leasing company or property management company you will want your site to be the first page to appear when a user types a query related to rental properties or apartments for [...]

Image SEO: Optimizing Picture File Names

I have been generating a lot of recent traffic through google images, flickr, etc. I’ve always been a believer in the ability for image search to compliment organic traffic. Here are a few tips that will help you capture some additional traffic through image optimization as well:
Basic SEO image techniques
The absolute most basic way to [...]

43 Local Blog Directories - Get Your Blog Listed

With the recent influx of recent clients interested in local SEO, I’ve been writing a few posts on local search engine optimization. This one follows suit with a slight twist. This post focuses on link building opportunities for local blogs - after all blogs need local love too!
Specific Regions
Washington Post - DC-area blogs
CityPages.com - Minnesota
Minnesota.com
Newsbobber.com [...]

Do It Yourself (DIY) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Advice

Many entrepreneurs and small business owners have a “Do-It-Yourself’ mindset. After all it’s that same mindset that encouraged many owners to go into business for themselves in the first place, and there are plenty of examples of business owners who have success marketing themselves online.
With that in mind, depending on the size of your business, [...]

SEO Basics - Internal & External Link Building

Today wraps up our 4 part series of SEO basics and we’ll be focusing on link building - both external and internal (view our Title Tag basics, Meta Description basics and Hx tag basics).
Inbound linking to your page or website helps a lot in terms of SEO, firstly because every link is a reference and [...]

SEO Basics - H1 Tags

Today is part 3 of our SEO basics and we’ll be focusing on the Hx tags today (view our Title Tag basics and Meta Description basics).
<H1> tag is the first and most important heading in the content of a page. It tells what the content is going to be about, so search engines value it [...]

SEO Basics - Meta Description

So, continuing on with part 2 our SEO basics (view our Title Tag basics) we’ll be focusing on the Meta Description.
The Meta description is very important as it describes what the page is about. It also gives you a chance to increase the CTR of searchers by  convincing searchers to come to your page!
An effective [...]

SEO Basics - Title Tags

The next few posts are going to be short and sweet and focused on the basic elements of SEO - starting with the Title Tag.
The title is the most important SEO element as it is the first and best clue about the page for search engine crawlers and also it is the first thing which [...]

Local SEO - Choosing the Right Category in Google’s Local Listings

According to last year’s Local Search Ranking Factors survey, one of the most important things you can do with your Google local listing is choose the right category(ies).
This also happens to be one of the more difficult things related to setting up your Google local listing. Luck for us, Mike Blumenthal, has just released a [...]

How To Create a Natural Backlink Profile When Link Building

One of the most important things when building links is gaining them ‘naturally’. If you’re an SEO or site owner buying links or building them manually through directories, blog posting, etc. it is becoming more and more important to make it look like you’re gaining them naturally.
Why? Google, Yahoo and Bing are all becoming increasingly [...]

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