Is first page placement possible for small companies?

Posted on February 23, 2016

When you enter a search term into google, yahoo, or bing, what is it that determines which links you end up clicking? Of course you'll look for the most relevant pages, and the snippets and titles do

Penguin — What Does It Mean For Your Website’s SEO?

Posted on May 23, 2012

For the last year or so, the Internet has been a-twitter (no pun intended) about Google's Panda update and how it smacked down content mills and other low-quality sites. Well, you could be forgiven

The Only Two Routes to First Page Placement

Posted on May 9, 2012

You own a website? You want to nail that sacred first page placement on Google's SERPs? There are a lot of people who will describe lots of ways to achieve that goal, but the reality is that there

First Page Placement, or Social Success? How About Both?

Posted on March 7, 2012

Every organic SEO company in the world has the same basic goal: to get their clients one or more first page placements on Google and possibly a few of the secondary search engines as well. But as the

PPC Management: Scaling the Ladder Three Rungs At A Time

Posted on February 28, 2012

PPC management, for the uninitiated, is a service offered by many SEO companies, and it's the quickest way to achieve a first page placement. PPC management, somewhat tautologically, involves the

Will ‘Search Plus Your World’ Change Organic SEO That Much?

Posted on January 17, 2012

Many of you who are into organic SEO may be unimpressed by Google's latest unveiling, entitled "Search Plus Your World". If you don't know what I'm talking about, SPYW affects anyone who is

Is First Page Placement Really The Be-All and End-All Of SEO?

Posted on December 27, 2011

When you start talking to experts in organic SEO, one of the first things they tell you is that if you quit the SEO game before you attain first page placement for at least a few of your choicest

Maybe Those Bums Are On To Something: Article Writing and Distribution Works!

Posted on November 8, 2011

If you're not familiar with the concept of Bum Marketing, it works something like this: you have no website, no money, and no nothing except a computer, an Internet connection, and a basic

Internal Linking And the Power of Organized Blog Posting

Posted on September 12, 2011

Let's assume that you have a website, and you've also got a list of keywords that you're trying to get your website to rank for. You may or may not realize this, but it's much easier to get each page

Is Mobile Website Design A Thing Of The Past?

Posted on September 5, 2011

Imagine that it's a decade ago. In early 2001, the Verizon Kyocera 6035 powered by the Palm OS was released to the public -- the first smartphone ever to have limited web surfing capability. But that