Finding the right keywords for our clients is a top priority of ours, and we do a lot of research to make sure we pick keywords that will rank well. We look at three main components when choosing keywords: competition, authority, and relevance. Let’s look at each of these components in depth. Competition has to do with the [...]
When you're on the ecommerce side of things, trying to improve your site's ranking in search engine results, it can be easy to forget the purpose search algorithms are created to serve: giving searchers useful, relevant, trustworthy results for their queries. You get caught up in SEO concerns like counting keyword occurrences, optimizing META tags and [...]
A couple of weeks ago in a post about owning your brand's SERP, we recommended creating subdomains for your site with the goal of getting more of your site's pages on a single SERP: "Because Google tries to give searchers real variety in their search results, they’re unlikely to rank more than one page from the [...]
You've got a cool website with fantastic products. You've got the lowest prices around and awesome shipping options. Of course customers are going to naturally start flocking to your site. You don't need search engine optimization (SEO), right? Not so much. Let's say that your site is the best around. As soon as someone sees it, [...]
Do you run regular searches for your brand name? How many of the top results do you own? How many belong to competitors or contain negative press about your company? Dominating your brand's search engine results page is important for brand visibility, customer accessibility and public relations. If someone has heard of your company and runs [...]
The real question every company needs to ask a potential SEO partner is, “are you any good?” The attitude should be “show me, show me, show me”. And if the SEO company cannot deliver proven results, then red flags and sirens should be going off in your mind. Proven track records don’t necessarily mean results for [...]