We Speak Fluent Google
If “Content is King” How Does a Page With No Content Manage to Rank?
July 24, 2014
by Kirby Hopper
0 Comment
You may have heard the phrase du jour in internet marketing circles: “Content is King”, and then ran across a home page that ranked well enough that you found it on Google’s first page of search results yet it didn’t have any content to speak of and wondered ho
Continue Reading →Social Signals to Boost SEO? Don’t Waste Your Time.
I’ve never really jumped on the get-social-signals-to-boost-seo bandwagon because I never really understood why Google would even use this metric to rank a site in the first place. There are just too many questions and issues: How many signals is enough to do any good consideri
Continue Reading →Why Worry About a Duplicate Content Penalty?
For some time I was concerned with my own SEO website building practices because of all the talk about duplicate content but I don’t worry so much about it any more. Matt Cutts says so. After doing some reading on this I’ve discovered that there really never was a “
Continue Reading →Keyword Research For Niche Markets Takes Persistence Using Google AdWords Keyword Tool
Knowing what keywords people are using to find what you have to offer is basic to optimizing a website to be found by those people. There are many tools available that take the guesswork out of knowing how people search and they all make the job of keyword research easier than Google
Continue Reading →SEO Pricing – How It’s Done and Why It Doesn’t Make Sense
The SEO industry has long been taking advantage of the ignorance of business owners about SEO to continue pricing SEO in ways that just don’t make sense and further reinforce the image of SEO as an illegitimate stepchild of the marketing industry. It wasn’t that long ago
Continue Reading →Why Does Getting Ranked Take So Long?
In short, because it’s all up to the very unpredictable Google spiders sent out to crawl and index web pages. You might have a website that Google crawls infrequently so it will take longer for them to get all your pages indexed. Google treats websites differently based on your
Continue Reading →Google Will Penalize Your Website If Your Target Backlinks Exceed 20%
According to studies done by Noble Samurai who studied the backlink profile of several websites targeted by a recent Google algorithm change, your “target backlinks” should not exceed 20% of your total mix of backlinks. A target backlink is one that has the keywords you
Continue Reading →Run From SEO Companies Offering Guaranteed Ranking?
Many will say to run from any company that guarantees rankings, and many of those who say that are themselves SEO companies, yet said SEO companies who are making themselves out to be taking the higher moral ground have no qualms about taking your money if they can’t produce goo
Continue Reading →How To Get Google Top Four For The Same Keyword Phrase
Making Bad Press Less Noticeable by Replacing it with Your Own Posts Sometimes dominating several of the top spots on the Google Search Engine Results Page for certain keyword phrases is not only possible but advantageous. I was looking up a local builder on Google and what came up wa
Continue Reading →Adwords (Pay-Per-Click) Targets One Keyword – SEO Targets Many
Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising has its place in a small business arsenal of marketing methods, but it needs to be used judiciously and wisely, if at all. One advantage of PPC is that you get quick results and this is the reason it’s usually a small business’s first introd
Continue Reading →Radio Spots Without SEO – You’re Helping Your Competition
How can this be? Here’s the scenario: Racing Limos starts advertising on the radio like there’s no tomorrow. They say their name over and over on the air but they only get a 5% increase in business. At the same time, another limo company sees business increase by 25%. Wh
Continue Reading →How Telemarketing Companies Spin Penguin Update to Get Sales
Just got a call from CityGrid which is a company that feeds listing information to online directories. They informed me Google doesn’t count listings without content any more because of Google’s Penguin update. Furthermore the nice lady said I would only be able to get con
Continue Reading →Search Engine Optimization In Plain English
OK, no big words this time. SEO can be boiled down to one word: relevancy. Google has come to dominate the search industry by being the best at giving searchers what they want: websites that are relevant to what they are looking for. Let’s break this down a bit further. Two more
Continue Reading →Dude, WordPress posts are like TOTALLY optimized for SEO
And what’s more, it only takes a moment to post and you will be like totally optimized. You don’t have to call your webmaster and get him to build you another page and charge you another two hundred bucks. Each WordPress post creates its own page on the internet complete w
Continue Reading →5 Reasons Your Small Company Needs a Blog
See the article by the Chamber of Commerce HERE.
Continue Reading →Gaming The System With Social
I wonder when Google is going to realize they have unleashed a monster. In the last few months they have been saying they are giving more weight to social media “likes” and “follows” and less to backlinks. Whole industries have been spawned to make social a mai
Continue Reading →What Page of Search Am I On?
This handy new SEO tool will tell you what page of Google your website is on for any keyword or keyword phrase. It’s free and you can use it as many times as you want. Enjoy! UPDATE (March 22, 2013): This website has been returning a busy signal lately so probably won’t do
Continue Reading →Yeah… we do SEO, sort of
Great article re: web designers who “do SEO” (or say they do): Yeah… we do SEO, sort of (LINK NOT WORKING? – Click on the title at the top of this post or the “Read More” at the bottom to be taken to the single post page.)
Continue Reading →New Easy-To-Use Tool To Find Out What Page Of Google Your Site Is On
You can search by any keyword you want. It’s free and you can use it as many times as you want. CLICK HERE to go to What Page of Search Am I On?
Continue Reading →Your Site Ranks Google #1? – Not Necessarily On Anyone Else’s Computer
The problem with using Google to see how well your own website ranks for search terms is that Google remembers where you have been and ranks sites higher that you have visited before – even putting them at the top when nobody else even sees it on pages 1-4. In other words, your
Continue Reading →Wordtracker Misrepresents a Study to Oversell the Importance of Long-Tail Keywords
In an email today sent from Wordtracker trying to promote their SEO tools they state that based on a 2008 report by Bill Tancer at Hitwise, that for any given topic the top 100 keywords account for just 5.7% of all website traffic – while long tail keywords account for the remaining 9
Continue Reading →Looking Like We’ve Got It Going On
The other day while driving I saw a pretty young lady in the car heading toward me waving and smiling. You might think I get that a lot but I don’t. Seriously. Well, anyway, for a fleeting moment I thought I still got it going on. Turns out it was my niece. Oh well, the feeling
Continue Reading →Top Five Reasons to Buy SEO from Kirbyworks
Lowest Price Point in the Industry – starting at $200/month in a Small Market Best Guaranty in the Industry: Google Page 1 – Or It’s Free! We Are Small Business Specialists Great Return on Investment with Search Engine Optimization No Contracts to Sign A Small Market
Continue Reading →What Kind Of Keywords Are We Talking About Here?
Keywords that are searched for the most. Those are the ones that will bring you the most business. If you have a racing themed limo company for example, it’s easy to rank well for “racing limos” but nobody is looking for racing limos. Everybody is looking for “wedding limos,” “party l
Continue Reading →How Long Does This Take?
In less than six months of off-site Search Engine Optimization you will see significant improvement in your Keyword Rankings and leads you will be getting from your website but we are not going to stop there. We will continue to SEO for more keywords to rank well because we know that
Continue Reading →Sharing is Caring
Contact Us
Kirbyworks SEO
906 N. Ledbetter St.
Kennewick, WA 99336
509-551-1060
The Tri-Cities, WA premier web design and Search Engine Optimization Company
Send Us A Message
Latest Tweets
- @Brains3 thanks for sharing my article!
- @SoniaKatiMota thanks for sharing my article Sonia!
- RT @SoniaKatiMota: I believe the Palestinian side of the story is the story that needs to be heard - @SoniaKatiMota #PeaceOnEarth… https://t.co/TqvH3423ve
- Kennewick #1 in nation for Real Minimum Wage. Highest state Min. Wage & low cost of living puts us on top.
- RT @canadizer: '#BlindTrustProject' Proves #Canadians Choose Acceptance Over Hate (VIDEO)... http://t.co/sxOAOtSHRR http://t.co/afAHWgHqK3
- Why I Miss the Draft, Anti-War Protests, and Woodstock - http://t.co/jHJUamOdQx via @Shareaholic
- Why Obama’s War Does Not Qualify as a Just War - http://t.co/5eO2kOQTLd
- N. Korea has launched a cyber attack. Now #facebookdown They are going for the jugular.
- My Letter to my Congressman Disapproving HR 758 Condemning Russia's Involvement in Ukraine - http://t.co/urTGH0Yrsf Feel free to use.
Locations
If you're in one of these locations we can probably meet in-person:
Kennewick WA, Richland WA, Pasco WA, Spokane WA, Yakima WA, Walla Walla WA, Pendleton OR, Moses Lake WA, Sunnyside WA, Ellensburg WA, Hermiston OR,
Otherwise, we can still meet online.
Kennewick WA, Richland WA, Pasco WA, Spokane WA, Yakima WA, Walla Walla WA, Pendleton OR, Moses Lake WA, Sunnyside WA, Ellensburg WA, Hermiston OR,
Otherwise, we can still meet online.
Links
Preferred Kennewick, Washington Website Designer at WebsiteDesignersList.com
Preferred firm in the Small Business Web Designers category at WebsiteDesignersList.com
Kirbyworks SEO is a top Kennewick, WA website design firm on DigitalSpinner.com!
We're featured Kennewick web designers in Washington web design section of web designers directory
Kirbyworks! So you don't have to.
This copyright text is supposed to keep you from stealing my material.