Generally, when you increase the amount of links to a website it helps search engine optimization. Your rankings will go up, your page rank and likely your traffic. Of course, the important point is, how you get those links. In this video, Matt Cutt’s addresses the question, Should you Link Domains together for SEO? Some…
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Mobile SEO Basics, What You Need to Know
When designing a mobile experience for your site, it can sometimes be confusing on how exactly to start. Three main options for configuring your site include responsive design, dynamic serving or mobile URLs. Responsive Design A responsive design displays the same content on every platform, but is able to detect different devices and changes the…
Googlebot Cannot Access your Site, Does it Hurt SEO?
When a website crashes it can be a nightmare. All webmasters strive for 100% up time, but at some point it is very likely that the website will be down or inaccessible by Googlebot. We have had some downtime on Ignite Visibility. Mostly due to a cruddy server that Godaddy had us on. Boy was…
Voice Search SEO, How Voice Search is Changing SEO
Voice search SEO is here! You can now search by talking on smart phones and even some desktop computers. This new form of search is changing search engine optimization in more ways than one. How Voice Search is Changing SEO In this video Matt Cutts comments on the following ways voice search is changing SEO….
Webmaster Tools Changes Navigation, Adds Search Appearance Pop-Up and Changes Settings Menu
Whenever Google makes changes to Webmaster Tools the search engine optimization community freaks out. Why? Well SEO professionals are particular and very detail oriented. While that is the case, I think these new changes will be fairly well accepted. Google has basically rearranged a few things and added a couple enhanced visualizations. Let’s take a…
Do Stock Photos Hurt your SEO?
Some people over think SEO. But I understand why. All search engine optimization is basically composed of made up rules by algorithm engineers. So it is something that is not really intuitive. You have to learn about it and over time you can make a better guess at what things matter for rankings and what…
Interactive Day San Diego, SEO, Mobile, Customer Type and UX #IDSD
On Friday June 21, 2013 I attended Interactive Day San Diego. Overall it was a great event. I saw some old friends, met a lot of new people, shared some ideas and even learned a thing or two. In this blog post I want to cover a couple things that should be noted. But before…
Knowledge Graph Carousel for Local Search
Do you know what the knowledge graph is? It is that information that you see on the right hand side of search results in some cases. Here is an example of the normal knowledge graph, not the local. We will talk about the local in a moment… Kelly Slater Example Knowledge Graph The normal knowledge…
#1 Ranking in Google for Social Media Company
We are an Internet marketing company, so we get excited when we get a #1 ranking in Google that we have worked for so tirelessly. We are happy to say that we talk the talk, but also walk the walk. Today we are ranked #1 for social media company (this particular keyword is only ranked…
Common SEO Misconceptions Video
In SEO there are many common misconceptions. In this video, Matt Cutt’s addresses these three. (1) SEOs confuse algorithm updates with data refreshes. (2) Panda & Penguin algorithms are not about making Google more money. Instead, they are about improving user experience. (3) SEOs spend too much time on linking. Instead, they should focus on…