blog

SEO articles

Search Engine Optimization aims to help search engines and users better understand your website’s content, rank it accordingly, and drive traffic to it. SEO encompasses many processes, including technical fixes, user experience considerations, and content. Learn more about SEO by exploring our resources, or check out our SEO & content services and one-on-one digital marketing training.

Turning Web Design Upside-down

Think of a website like a storefront. No one loves analogies more than I do. I’ve even used analogies to explain analogies. But sometimes they can be dangerous. If an analogy provides a mental model that mostly fits, it can blind a person to important truths. A website is like a storefront, and it is

Read More »

How Reviews Flow Around the Web

Click on the image for a big version, suitable for framing. My colleague Kris wrote a fine post a couple of weeks ago on the importance of online reviews for local business, and how to get them. Following that post, we did a little research to figure out how reviews get passed around between major

Read More »

What Percentage of Search Is Local?

I’ve had a hard time finding a good answer to this question: what percentage of searches on web search engines such as Google and Bing are local? I’ve heard wildly different statistics, possibly due to the fact that “local” is a difficult concept to define. Is a search for an area code a local search?

Read More »

Seeing What a Search Engine Sees

Make sure you can be found: seeing site content and navigation from the point of view of a search engine. I’ve mentioned a few times on this blog how compelling content and links from other sites are the most important factors if you want to show up in search engines. That’s true, but they matter little

Read More »