You’re ready to increase your online visibility and decide to hire an SEO specialist but you’ve heard all the horror stories of people wasting thousands of dollars on SEO amateurs or worse, SEO scammers. How do you find a quality SEO Specialist? Someone who knows what they’re doing and will actually produce results? Most people I know will: You narrow … Read More
WordPress versus all-inclusive website builders
Launching your business is an exciting time with lots of decision to be made. What is your name going to be? What will your brand look like? And ultimately, how will you build your website? Each decision is important because poor decisions can be costly down the road. Due to their short learning curve, and minimal upfront costs, all-inclusive website builders … Read More
Checklist of Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Website Designer
As a “seasoned” (not old, lol) website designer that specializes in SEO, I have a lot of clients who hired designers based solely on price and end up hiring me to fix their site or optimize it so they can rank. Don’t get me wrong, I make a good income optimizing sites, but I remember when I was first starting … Read More
Content Optimization – 5 Things You Should Be Doing To Increase Your Ranking
When it comes to SEO and ranking for keywords, you’ve heard the saying “content is king” and it’s true. However, unless you’re implementing a good content optimization strategy, your content may just be content and not showing up on search engines. Well, broken down, it’s making your website’s pages and blog posts more attractive to search engines. Good content optimization influences … Read More
Top Five Things You Can Do to Improve Your Website Load Time
Website load time affects your traffic, ranking (and $$). Don’t you hate it when you log onto a website and it takes (what seems like) forever to load? Website load time definitely influences my website searches. Rather than wait for the page to load, I usually just exit and go to the next option. And I’m not alone. It turns … Read More