I am continually frustrated by how much misinformation there is out there regarding SEO. In many cases, the information is blatantly wrong and in other cases it is just being misapplied. Most business owners and executives are not savy SEO experts. They all know that this “SEO thing” is important to their business so most [...]

According to new research from comScore, on the State of Local Business Search, search on mobile phones is growing. The study found that 22% of U.S. mobile phone users searched on their phone in January 2011. That’s an 8% increase from the 16% who reported searching via mobile in January 2010. Not only are more [...]

Here are my top 6 reasons I may hate your website: Slow Load Times – If your site takes more than 4 seconds to load, then chances are I’m not waiting around. Google hates slow page load times too and is starting to incorporate it into their ranking algorithm. Splash / Intro pages – These [...]

Just last week Google released it’s annual “Benchmarking” Report that consists of key metrics generated from websites. That’s data from hundreds of thousands of websites if you’re keeping score.  So with so much data the metrics are pretty statistically significant and really give an accurate picture of what’s going on with websites. The fun for [...]

You do the math. Average time on a website can be around 2 minutes. Average time to read a page of text could eat up a lot of that time. In many cases people “skim” and miss most of your story – Not good. All that text that you have carefully crafted WASTED! Bye-Bye to [...]

There are essentially three conversations taking place online today.  All three of these conversations should be addressed as part of your digital marketing strategy. The conversations are: SEARCH – Consumers SEARCH online. SURF – Consumers SURF online. SOCIAL – Consumers SOCIALize online. SEARCH represents a Consumer to Business Conversation. SEARCH is the #1 resource consumers [...]

Good, clean web design is one of the most important factors for site usability.  Every design aspect of your website should be understandable and clear to the visitor. Our attention spans are extremely sort when we’re searching  and  a good design doesn’t require visitors to think too much about navigating a site. Here are a [...]

With a new web design, you can improve your search engine rankings drastically or you can lose all of it. The biggest risk is losing the value of your inbound links which usually point to specific pages. To make sure this doesn’t happen, be sure to include an effective SEO (Search Engine Optimization) design plan [...]

We’re spending a lot more time these days digging deeper into web analytics with clients.  Visitors and Pageviews are great to look at, but the real effort should be focused on conversions. A “conversion” is a user-defined event. It can be anything you want it to be. Some common conversion events are: Contact form submission [...]

If you’re not running some sort of web analytics package on your website, then this should be the first thing you do in 2010. One of the huge advantages of the internet over traditional media is that you can measure everything…if you have an analytics program. Google Analytics is a FREE program gives the average [...]