Maximizing the effectiveness of your website means that your website must draw visitors in and keep visitors on the website long enough to understand what you can offer. Your website must also ask your visitors to take specific action. If you feel that your current website is under-performing, take a closer look to see if [...]

With universal search, search engines are attempting to break down the walls that traditionally separated various vertical search properties and integrate the vast amounts of information available into one simple set of search results. Google made the move to “universal search” in an effort to improve user experience. This is an integration of vertical search [...]

SEO is the process of configuring a website so that it has a chance to show up in a search result for a particular keyword phrase. It is your way of telling search engines what you think your site is about. Each search engine has a slightly different formula for how they determine the results [...]

Long and short is that competitive space for search engine optimization is becoming further and further from a free venue. As more and more people compete for key terms, affordable SEO becomes a pay-to-play space. Sure there are things you can do to help improve search engine ranking, but the reality is that those who [...]

Google introduced a “geographic box” at the top of its search results and found that its users value this component. The engine now displays ten local search results at the top of the listings for relevant queries, provided they have a geographic modifier attached. For example, if you type “Chicago accounting” in Google, you will [...]

There are many Search Engine Optimization (SEO) consultants that will charge you an arm and a leg for their services, sometimes as much as $2,000 per month or more. They often make dubious claims that they can get you ranked on the first page of the search engines within a few months, and if not, [...]