• Blogging, wordpress Posted Thursday, March 18, 2010 By ERIK KULLENBERG No Comments

    One of the best enhancements we can make to a business website is an active blog.  A separate and distinct “sub site” that allows you and your team to rapidly publish your expertise to the web.  We have found the best results separating the blog from the main website, which contains more static content.  Of course the two sites are linked together, so as your blog content drives traffic, your main website (and your conversion rate) benefits.  The more active and dynamic nature of the blog will encourage user interaction, sharing and return visits.  The fact that you can have it separate (but connected) from your “static” website means you can rapidly deploy a blog, without having to completely overhaul your current website.

    So why blog??  Content!  Establishing your expertise will drive more traffic and business to your website.  Content is the fuel for your online marketing efforts, both with your potential customers and the search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.  It just happens that the same thing which elevates your ranking with human website visitors, also elevates your search rankings.  If you don’t need to market your business and reach out to your customers, you can stop reading here. Read more…

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  • On-Page SEO Posted Saturday, March 14, 2009 By ERIK KULLENBERG No Comments

    Some people lose sleep over the domain name of their website.  Not for branding, ease of use or rememberability (my new word), but for the keywords they think need to be stuffed into their “name”.

    The secondary SEO value of domain name keywords aside, these people will sweat the keyword rich name of their website, then completely ignore some very basic formatting rules for the domain name, directory structure, file naming, etc…

    Take a look at the following examples:

    1. TheVeryBestWidgets
    2. the-very-best-widgets
    3. the_very_best_widgets

    While the human reader can process and understand all three examples, it surprises many “experienced” web professionals that only #2 is seen as multiple words to a search engine.

    The real truth is clever SEO motivated domain names simply aren’t very effective.  You’re much better off naming your site after the primary branding message, slogan or company name.  Far more important is the On-Page SEO you could gain by properly formatting everything else on your website.

    I have seen it reported that Google will start judging underscores as word separators, but I-would-recommend-using-dashes.  Use them in file names, directory names and when appropriate in the ultra-important page titles.

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  • On-Page SEO Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 By ERIK KULLENBERG No Comments

    Does your home page title bar have “home” in it?  If so, you might want to consider revamping the page titles on your website. There are many small, incremental improvements you can make on and off your pages, but your page titles are probably the most important for many reasons: Read more…

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  • Off-Page SEO Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 By ERIK KULLENBERG No Comments

    google-click-hereSearch Engine Optimization has become the new buzz term amongst Internet marketing types.  Most people with a website have learned what “SEO” means.  However, most don’t know there are different flavors of SEO.

    On-Page SEO involves keywords and key-phrases, plus page/title/heading formatting on your website pages.  After you’re finished making the logo look just right, you hopefully create content that would motivate someone to visit your website more than once.  Once you’ve mastered the On-Page SEO battle, it’s very possible that you still won’t be noticed by the search engines.  Read more…

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