Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category

The world-wide web is much more than a static information source. In effect, it seems to have become a sort of e-civilization; work, leisure, and education – no activity, in its current incarnation, would be the same without it. As a result of us living so much of our lives online, however, significant amounts of [...]

In November, Google quietly introduced new indexing paramters, with the notable new update being that comments on blogs and facebook will now be searchable by google. What does this mean for you?

Increased exposure, decreased privacy – Be prepared for more people to gain access to what you’re posting
New search engine optimization strategies – Increased commenting [...]

After much anticipation, Google+ has finally unveiled official google+ business pages. We say official because prior to this announcement many businesses, eager to feed into the Google+ hype, were operating under regular google plus accounts – only to be deleted by Google! While the new business pages do lack a few features competitors offer, such [...]

Steven Lear and his team at Affiance Financial approached AdvisorWebsites.com late January to redevelop their website and transfer it to our latest Financial Network approved platform. The designer at Grossman Design Associates did a wonderful job theming our Drupal platform (see below for a thumbnail of the current website)
We have been praised a number of [...]

The following study was published by Pew Internet, and offers a pretty good idea of who is using search engines (*spoiler*: everyone!)
If you look at the bottom of the chart, you will notice something interesting.  Those with a household income of $75,000+ are the highest users of search engines among all  income levels.  It’s true [...]

Article Marketing Debate – Is the New Google Smack Down a Good Thing?
Every time, Google changes its algorithms – it causes a frenzy among those internet marketers relying heavily on the search engines.  The latest change made many marketers stock up on Maalox and Pepto Bismol, as it made them literally sick to their stomachs. [...]

For those of you financial advisors with a website, do you know of all the tricks and tips there are to make it better?
We’ve compiled the following best practices list to help you ensure you’re doing everything you can to improve your website. We’ve separated this checklist into different areas of improvement, so you’re [...]

Interested to learn what SEO tactics B2B marketers are using? A recent study by Marketing Sherpa polled 900 B2B marketers and found that most used less time consuming SEO tactics – unless they were highly effective.
As the chart below shows, meta and title tag optimization were popular and were regarded as easy to implement. On [...]

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has become one the hottest topic in all the conferences and seminars I have attended over the past 6 months. Every financial advisors I spoke to want to rank high on search engines and grow their online market share. This new generation of advisor is becoming more tech-savvy and is keen [...]

The chart below shows how effective various search engines optimization objectives tend to be for B2B and B2C companies. This study, conducted by Marketing Sherpa, shows that the increase in web traffic and brand/product awareness remain the most two successful initiatives across the board.
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