Some time ago, we brought on a client in a pretty competitive field that had a limited budget. Our proposal outlined what we could do and also noted the limitations they would have with the budget they were willing to spend. Rankings could be achieved, but growth would be slow. It wasn’t long before the [...]

You know you have got to get to grips with SEO if you want your website to get noticed. You also know a big part of that strategy will be the building of back links which means one thing – blogging.

About 300 lucky Googlers were able to be in attendance at the Google New York office for the Think Mobile with Google one-day conference, but about 2,000 others were able to attend a few of the afternoon keynote sessions yesterday by viewing the live streaming video, myself included. So, thanks to the live stream offered [...]

Every business that uses the internet wants to get found. So how do you do it? Search engine optimisation is obviously a big part of online visibility one aspect of which is building back links.

For many companies- especially small businesses- the market is local. And search engines have been refining the way they treat search queries for local information. If you search for “sushi restaurant in DC,” you’ll see some local listings. Or if you simply search for “sushi restaurant,” Google may use your geographic location to target your [...]

I originally published this for App Bistro but since I know that I have several small business readers here I thought it would be a good idea to re-publish it. I run a small business myself at Chess Media Group, and we work on developing social customer strategies for much bigger companies,

Would you like to attract massively more, high quality inquiries from prospective clients?  If you would, here are 4 quick tips to get you on track!

Many SEO practitioners as well as clients of SEO firms like-mindedly dream of watching organic search referrals climb from month-to-month and from a year-over-year perspective for that matter.  While any SEO firm can boast the ability to lift organic traffic to a site, the dream of this success is much like that of my fantasy [...]

I very rarely watch TV, and when I do it’s not to watch reality shows or similar. But this video from So You Think You Can Dance stopped and made me think (and thanks to my wife for the heads-up).

You don’t always need to be a search engine optimization specialist or link building expert to make sure your site is moving up the search engine listings. However, it pays to understand that there are a lot of nuances in the SEO world that can work against you if you are coming to the world [...]