Blog Category: SEO

When a website owner first gets started with SEO they are excited at the prospect of getting their site ranked highly in the search engines.  A common question that SEO client prospects often ask is, “So when can I get to number 1 in Google?”  Unfortunately, there is no way to answer that question especially [...]

When website owners get into the SEO game they tend to have one goal in mind- to get to the top in a Google search.  While there is obviously value in ranking in the top spot in Google, rank isn’t the only way to measure the success of your efforts.  If after 6 months of [...]

When looking for information about just about anything, the first place that many people turn to is a search engine, and that search engine is most likely Google.  While it’s important to get your website listed in a prominent place on the SERP (search engine results page), ideally you want web properties that represent your [...]

It’s a known fact that approximately 60% of people searching the internet only click on links that are on the first page of a website. This being said, it is vital to the success of your business that you get as much traffic as possible. This is where choosing the right SEO comes in to [...]

How does Google see underscores vs. dashes? Matt explains. Many old school web designers have ignored the importance of dashes vs. underscores. It was nice to see Matt address it again. If Google mentions it you should assume it matters in some way or will.

From SES London 2011

Many businesses are starting to understand that their websites need to be optimized. They understand that things must be done to their actual website for them to be optimized. What they often don’t understand is that things need to be done off the website (off-site) to support the on-site optimization strategy(ies). Link building is a [...]

#1 – What is the biggest mistake you see businesses making when creating websites? Could it be not focusing on SEO before creation of the site? Long before SEO, I was Director of web development at a major web firm in New York. So for almost 16 years I’ve seen a lot of crazy things [...]

This is Google’s Matt Cutts. Have you use the site: query? Go to Google or the Google toolbar and use site:yourdomain.com (mine would be site:seoaware.com) to see what Matt is talking about.

I am adding this video because we get so many people calling asking this question. If you need to rank for various keywords give us a call FYI- this is Google’s Matt Cutts.