Real Estate Professionals here in Utah are increasingly having to become more and more creative with their marketing tactics in order to keep the business “flowing”. Some real estate professionals in Utah are using SEO and are benefiting from it. Many others are still clueless. There are however many who were once benefiting from their [...]

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Hear what Google has to say about using flash in your websites. Straight from the Google Webmaster blog itself. Important information to know.

Try to use Flash only where it is needed. Many rich media sites such as Google’s YouTube use Flash for rich media but rely on HTML for content and navigation. You can too, [...]

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Frank Watson from Search Engine Watch wrote a great article that contains some brief and simple definitions for some of the important terms for Tracking and Analytics. All are very important. Here are some that I wanted to point out:
Page Views: The number of pages viewed is the basis of analytics and site traffic. At [...]

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You may have heard that meta descriptions have little to no impact on where a page ranks on Google these days. And everything you heard about that is indeed true. No longer are the days where a keyword stuffed meta description gives a page a higher ranking than the other. And thank goodness for this. [...]

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In his white board Friday, Rand from SEOmoz.org simply explains how search engines work in a nutshell. Rand has terrific videos and if you don’t watch them already for SEO information then I highly suggest you do. Enjoy this video on ‘How Search Engines Work’:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3646040757261169718

As you can tell, it’s absolutely fantastic and amazing to comprehend [...]

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What are search engine friendly URL’s and why should your website have them? A search engine friendly URL is one that is easily readable by search engines and is no more than 2 dynamic parameters in length. An example of a not so search engine friendly URL, here is an example of one from the [...]

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A part of SEO that you do not hear about too often is the size of a webpage. I am talking about literal filesize of each individual page that  a Search Engine will crawl. This is important because Search Engines crawl your webpage and cache the information onto their servers. So you can imagine if [...]

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The searcher just keeps on getting smarter and smarter. Yes, just like search engines like Google continue to evolve and get smarter so do the people who use them. One of the areas to highlight is the percentage of searchers that are clicking on organic results in comparison to paid results. Rand Fishkin wrote [...]

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I would create my own “beginner’s guide to SEO” but I must say that I do not enjoy reinventing the wheel, especially when the wheel has been perfected. Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz.org has created a fantastic Beginner’s guide to SEO and it’s free to download and read. I highly recommend it to all webmasters for [...]

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Another one of my blogs (my most popular one) Chasesagum.com where I write about open source tools for businesses has some very intriguing truths to tell through web analytics. From January 3 through February 2 of this year, my statistics show me that Google is responsible for 98% of all traffic from search engines. Wow! [...]

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