Choosing the Right Keywords
About five years ago when Giantseed Creative was started, I described the company more as a web developer than a web designer. There were some of the pages on the site that were written with the keyword or phrase “web developer.” One problem – when people were searching for a company like Giantseed Creative in […]
Don’t Blog for the Search Engines Sake
You’ve heard me mention before about the great benefits that blogging can have on your search engine ranking. When you are writing your blogs, don’t write them for the search engines, write them for your readers. Remember the famous line from Field of Dreams, “if you build it, he will come.” That line is often […]
White Hat SEO Techniques
A few weeks ago I wrote about a few common Black Hat SEO techniques. I want to now follow up with a couple of White Hat SEO techniques that you can start using today. The first thing you want to do is make sure that you have in place both your content and its structure. […]
Google Places
For many users it is their first exposure to your online presence. It is packed with useful information such as you phone number, address, map, web address, and reviews. No, it isn’t your website or even your Facebook page. It’s your Google Places page. Claim Your Page When you go to your Google Places page, […]
Black Hat Website Marketing
Every few months I’ll have a client ask me about a ‘sure fire’ SEO activity that they heard about. There are two in particular that I’ve heard of several times—keyword stuffing and resubmitting your site to search engines repeatedly. A few clients have asked me whether or not it’s a good idea to place a […]
Dealing With Bad Reviews
It’s been said that if someone is happy with your business, they will tell their 3 best friends. But if they are unhappy, they will tell the next 10 people they see. Today, that conversation is likely to take place on Facebook or Twitter, where those 10 people they may tell, can quickly become 100 […]
You Don’t Have To Sell Online To Be Online
In the past few months, I’ve meet with a few clients who have said, “I don’t know what I would do with a website. I don’t want to sell my product online.” Truth be told, that very well may be true. Perhaps your product is rather expensive and you worry about scaring customers away, or […]
