by John C. Monahan | May 9, 2012 | SEO
Keyword research is a crucial component of doing SEO work. You’ve got to narrow down and find the best keyword phrases to target before you really dig in to doing any other SEO work. SEOMoz’s Keyword Difficulty tool is great for determining the difficulty...
by John C. Monahan | May 4, 2012 | Content, Google's Algorithm, SEO
So Google rolled out a new algorithm change on April 24th called “Penguin”. It was geared towards providing better search results (always their goal) but more specifically to punish spam sites that over-optimize and do things like keyword stuff content...
by John C. Monahan | Mar 29, 2012 | SEO, Strategy
Here it is, are you ready for it? 1. Publish great content. 2. Repeat step 1. This is obviously tongue-in-cheek, but you could do much worse. Sure, you can do a lot more but if you don’t know SEO, don’t have the time to research it, or the money to pay an...
by John C. Monahan | Mar 21, 2012 | Linkbuilding, SEO
This is the 3rd post in a 3-part series. Here are all the posts: SEO Strategy Part 1 – Site Structure And On-Page Elements SEO Strategy Part 2 – Content Is King SEO Strategy Part 3 – Backlinks and Linkbuilding —————- Backlinks are simply...
by John C. Monahan | Mar 16, 2012 | Content, SEO, Strategy
I’ve written before about what search engine optimization (SEO) is in a nutshell. That was just the 10,000 foot view – in this post we’ll get a little more specific. This is the 2nd post in a 3-part series. Here are all the posts: SEO Strategy Part 1 – Site Structure...
by John C. Monahan | Mar 14, 2012 | Content, Linkbuilding, SEO, Site Structure, Strategy
I’ve written before about what search engine optimization (SEO) is in a nutshell. That was just the 10,000 foot view – in this post we’ll get a little more specific. There are lots of elements of SEO and even this post is really only scratching the...