Importance of Company Branding Within Your SEO

When looking at your overall SEO strategy, it is becoming ever more important to incorporate both SEO and branding into the mix. The problem is that they do not seem to quite fit together. On one hand, SEO deals with the placement of important keywords and phrases. On the other side, branding deals with company company brand […]

Strategic Use of Images in Search Engine Optimization

When assessing page structure and layout, there is a subtle, yet strategic way to use images in an SEO-friendly manner (beyond ALT tags) that improves your search rank while allowing you to integrate the necessary marketing message(s). Confused? Let’s look at an example: Suppose you operate a travel site and you want to optimize a given page for […]

Google now discounts all reciprocal links

For a long time, reciprocal links have remained at the forefront of most inbound linking strategies. This is going to have to change. Google now discounts all reciprocal links. The algorithm has been altered to identify the exchange of links by two parties for the purpose of increasing their number of inbound links. The concept of reciprocal […]