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.

Crowdsourcing for the masses, literally!

Ok, so I must say, I never heard of the term crowdsourcing until about 5 minutes ago, but have been using the concept for a few years.  According to Sage Lewis over at ClickZ in his article, Crowdsourcing Your Search Marketing, “Crowdsourcing is the concept of taking a job one person would normally do [...]

SEO and New Rules of Marketing

I am currently reading David Meerman Scott’s book, The New Rules of Marketing and PR.  I am only on page 25 and the absolutely love the book, probably because it confirms so many of the strategies that my college roommate and past business partner tested and implemented in the early days of the Internet [...]