SEO Guidelines – Common Sense Search Engine Marketing

Melanie Prough | August 12, 2009

Believe it or not , having your website included in Google results is not part of the Bill of Rights under the constitution. There are Search Engine Marketing quality guidelines that govern which websites are included and those excluded from their results.

Uncommon SEO – Choosing a Proper Webhost

Melanie Prough | July 31, 2009

There are many factors we look at when choosing a proper web host. There are literally thousands of hosting providers in the World and there are many, many considerations to take into account. I like to take a systematic and structured approach and narrow down my field of possible hosting provider candidates before I even look at prices. I write down a list of criteria that I must place on choosing an appropriate website host and these form my requirements base.

SEO Can Either Make Or Break Your Company

Melanie Prough | July 7, 2009

One thing that you should always take into consideration about your website is search engine optimization. Marketing on the internet is a viciously competitive area. You have to be up-to-date on all your knowledge and resources to make your web site better than the rest. All the other sites are struggling to get their site on top of the search engine rankings, and if you don’t do the same then you could be left in the dust.

Software & Venue Specific SEO Services

Melanie Prough | July 1, 2009

As you run your website on a day to day basis, you gain skills that are at times very specific to your website software or niche. The needs and education for your SEO plan is no different. There are many different types of SEO specialties and specific platform or niche services which will be relevant to your website.

SEO – Guide

Melanie Prough | June 23, 2009

The short guide to beginner SEO topics and tools.

SEO for Incredible Business Results

Melanie Prough | June 7, 2009

SEO solutions and techniques are the perfect means to make a site search engine friendly. Search engines play a big role in determining the success or the failure of a website. Studies undertaken by leading research agencies have indicated that more than 90% of the people search information in the internet with the help of search engines.

SEO Tips – Choosing A Great Title for your Pages

Melanie Prough | June 1, 2009

Using Search Engine Optimization to choose a good title for your website homepage. Six Steps to a successful title for your website homepage.

SEO – Is Your Site an Island?

Melanie Prough | May 24, 2009

Many search engine optimization efforts are focused on pushing the home page of a site. This is a fundamental mistake that can result in the site missing out on a lot of traffic.

Great Domain Names – Got One?

Melanie Prough | May 19, 2009

Everyone has an opinion on this one, and honestly most are right as their are many effective schools of thought. The most important thing is to register a domain that will do what you need it to do. You accomplish this most easily by creating a marketing strategy and business model first. You must answer questions like:

  1. What type of services, or products will you be trying to convert with your website.
  2. What is your targeted area or customer base.
  3. What other

Organic SEO or Site Optimization Defined

Melanie Prough | May 12, 2009

Let us start with the Wiki definition for Organic SEO. “Organic SEO” refers to the manual type of page optimization vs. automatic submittal and page alteration. Basically it is SEO completely by someone “in person” as opposed to a submitter program, or page generator for example. Loosely it also refers to the “honor ability” of the processes and techniques used. Organic is a term used to define many search terms such as; organic links

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