by rockymountainsea | Jun 12, 2012 | Social Media
Google is hosting a webinar on getting your business up and running with G+. Who better to hear these things from than Google themselves? The webinar is on Tues, June 26 at 1pm/EDT and will be 60 minutes long. This is a beginner level introduction so if you...
by rockymountainsea | Jun 12, 2012 | Social Media
How are you all adjusting to Google’s “Search Plus Your World” personalization? If you don’t know what that is I suggest you read our post on Google Search Personalization. This is a big deal. It’s changing search drastically, and for...
by rockymountainsea | Jun 11, 2012 | Google
Google has recently started dropping many free directories out of their index. According to an article on SEO Roundtable, a high percentage of free directories are no longer showing results in Google. Now, don’t panic yet. It is believed that, rather than...
by rockymountainsea | Jun 8, 2012 | SEO News
We all know that Yahoo’s Site Explorer was discontinued. It has now returned as Bing Link Explorer and can be used by signing up for Bing Webmaster Tools. Duane Forrester of Bing sat down with SeoMoz to walk them through the new release. Check it out below
by Ross Barefoot | Jun 7, 2012 | Upcoming Workshops
We’ve recently added some workshops on our SEO course catalog page, and now have workshops scheduled out into January of 2013. Need to Acquire SEO How-To? Make your plans to join us today! Rocky Mountain Search Engine Academy is a licensed affiliate of the...
by Ross Barefoot | Apr 26, 2012 | Google
Let’s start by understanding one thing up front: most of you reading this are not Google’s primary customer. It doesn’t matter if you spend 10 bills a month on Adwords, or subscribe to Google App services. Google’s customer is the lowly...
by Ross Barefoot | Mar 15, 2012 | Social Media
The End is Near! Special note: In the video at the bottom of the page I mention a very aggravating bug you may encounter in setting up your business timeline presence. As I find out any workarounds here, I will post updates in the comments. So you may want to...
by Ross Barefoot | Feb 22, 2012 | Search Engine Academy
It was the year after 9/11, the year that saw the invasion of Afghanistan, the prosecution of Enron executives, and, on a more positive note, the arrival of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was also the year that John Alexander and Robin Nobles, with...
by Ross Barefoot | Feb 10, 2012 | SEO Tips
Find Duplicate Tags Using Google Webmaster Tools Sometimes this is easy, sometimes not so much. The first and foremost rule of SEO is to make sure each of your unique pages has a unique title tag. That’s because the first and foremost rule of Google (or at...
by Ross Barefoot | Feb 9, 2012 | SEO Tips
My wife Tina has a favorite phrase that came out of working with horses. “You get more on the give than you do on the take.” It’s a homespun way of saying that, beyond being the right thing to do, giving will serve you better than taking. SEO is...