by rockymountainsea | Aug 9, 2012 | Social Media
Have you ever noticed that blog posts often get more Tweets than shares on all the other major social networks combined? Here’s a screenshot example from a post on Search Engine Journal to illustrate my point. The number of Tweets for this article more than...
by rockymountainsea | Aug 6, 2012 | Google
The Click Through Rates for PPC Ads are increasing while organic results are receiving less and less of the attention from searchers. For those of you who thought nobody clicked on Google’s ads, this infographic is a fantastic illustration of Google’s war...
by rockymountainsea | Aug 3, 2012 | Google
In case you all haven’t noticed yet, Google just updated their toolbar page rank. The update just happened yesterday August 2, 2012 as far as I’m aware of. Page rank is obviously a very misleading metric and can be a distraction from the important aspects...
by Ross Barefoot | Aug 2, 2012 | SEO Tips
.htaccess, 301 Redirects and the Subtleties of Syntax By now who doesn’t know that duplicate content is a bad thing for SEO? And although the universe of people who have heard of the famous “www resolve” issue is a smaller group, it’s still undoubtedly the vast...
by rockymountainsea | Jul 30, 2012 | Google
Google released an update to their Panda Algorithm just a few days ago (Here’s the official Tweet announcing the update) . According to Google this update will impact about 1% of sites which is pretty significant. Panda was developed to decrease the rankings of...
by rockymountainsea | Jul 24, 2012 | SEO Tools
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EDT The data Google Analytics (GA) gives us is a pleasure, but dealing with multiple GA client accounts is a major pain. If you’ve struggled with understanding how best to set up and keep track of different GA...
by rockymountainsea | Jul 17, 2012 | Social Media
There has been a lot of speculation as of late, regarding social signals (Links from social networking sites) and their authority with the search engines. We know now that Google does take social links into account, and many SEO’s have predicted that the future...
by Ross Barefoot | Jun 29, 2012 | Local Search Optimization
The early 21st century has been marked by controversy, hand-wringing, celebration, and angst about globalization: the general process of countries and cultures mixing with, and crowding in on, each other. We have been told that the world is getting smaller due to...
by rockymountainsea | Jun 21, 2012 | SEO News
What is IPv6? Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google explains.
by rockymountainsea | Jun 12, 2012 | Social Media
Facebook has just rolled out a new feature called promoted posts. Looks like they’re feeling the pressure to perform (Revenue Speaking) in the aftermath of their recent nightmare IPO. Promoted posts are exactly what they sound like. You post an update and simply...