Probably the most common request I get in the SEO field is: “Can you check my website for errors and problems?”. People often seem to be paranoid that there may be some feature of their websites causing the ranking to suffer, or that some secret piece of code is hurting their ranking ability. Usually this [...]
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Dear Website Developer: Please Read This
This is something I wish every web developer would read. It’s a simple document from Google that lists best SEO practices for onsite optimization. Nothing fancy, just some basic pointers for meta data, alt tags, heading tags, robot.txt, file structure, and alot more.
If you build websites or know someone that does, please share [...]
Search Engine Marketing Questions & Answers
Ever had a search engine marketing or optimization question that you wish you could find a specific answer to? Google is usually a great help in this area, but sometimes you want to put skin on an answer and have a real person answer it.
That is the reason I’ve started the Searching Solutions Q & [...]
How to Break Up With a Search Engine Robot
People in the search marketing industry are so obsessed with search engines. All they can seem to talk about is how to please the search engines, get on their good sides, and kiss up to Matt Cutts in some way shape or form. But so many people never talk about the different reasons you might [...]
Competitive Website Research Analysis | 10 Free Tools
This post is a Re-Mix of a post I wrote in 2006, Formerly called: “How to Scope Out a Competitor’s Website and Learn From It.”
It’s always fun and interesting to check out what your competitors are up to. When you type in a search for your keywords, who comes up? Are your competitors [...]
Professional Website Review Service (SEO Audits)
I’m proud to announce the addition of a new product here at Searching Solutions. Professional website reviews!
Those of you that know me, know that I’ve been offering real estate website reviews through the Real Estate Tomato for about a month now. I’ve had such great feedback from these reviews that I’ve decided to expand this [...]
Is Your Website Eating Itself Through Keyword Cannibalization?
Keyword cannibalization is an important topic with any website. It typically becomes a problem when over zealous website owners and designers decide they want to choose 1 primary search term that they want to rank for.
Definition of Keyword Cannibalization:
“The act of placing the same keywords or phrases on multiple pages of a website in titles [...]