How to manually check your rankings on the search engines

Posted by on Nov 28, 2012 in Blog | 1 comment

One common mis-perception in checking rankings is that you can just go to Google, or Bing/Yahoo and search for a keyword and count your position on the rankings page (SERP 1). This is UNTRUE!  All the search engines keep track of sites that you have visited before from previous search results by means of a set of cookies that they track.  This way, if you visit a site frequently, they figure that you really like that site, and want it to come up higher.  Likewise, the results will vary if you conduct a search  google or bing while logged...

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Five Simple Steps for Better Search Engine Rankings

Posted by on Sep 24, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

One of the most important aspects to ensure your site reaches its potential is to keep your site engaging and active.

Gone are the days of "Build it, and they will come!" There is even more incentive to keep your website dynamic as all the major search engines keep tabs on sites activity to ensure that the more active sites rank higher in their search results.

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September Google Search Engine Update

Posted by on Sep 18, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

Google once again updated its search engine algorithm a few days ago, September 14, 2012. While this update was released with little fanfare, the SEO community immediately took notice. Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Search Engine team tweeted Just fyi, we rolled out a small algo change this week that improves the diversity of search results in terms of different domains returned. This new change was suppose to limit the number of listings for a single domain in the SERPs. For those of you that have not seen it,...

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The SEO implications of Bing and Yahoo search engines merger

Posted by on Sep 3, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

THE ‘BING’ BANG THEORY THE DEAL:                                       July 2009 saw the coming together of two internet giants: Yahoo! And Microsoft in a bid to create a strong Number 2 search entity to compete with Google. This 10 year deal calls for Microsoft to provide back-end technology to power search on Yahoo. Yahoo! while maintaining its interface will now feature “Powered by BingTM” branding. THE ‘BING’ BANG: Has Bing made a ripple in the Search Engine world following this...

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