SEO Tips You Can Learn from Arrested Development

Published on May 24, 2013

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It’s the final countdown. We are two days away from the return of the much-loved and gone-too-soon series, Arrested Development. Of course, this means that many of us at Boostability, myself included, have been binge watching the first three seasons so the running jokes are fresh in our minds. I was surprised to find that, [...]

Using Google Analytics: A Starter Guide

Published on May 21, 2013

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Your website is important to you, and naturally, you want it to succeed. The whole purpose of operating a website is for it to reach its full potential or to achieve a goal–whether that be monetary, informational, cathartic, or maybe just a popularity contest. Regardless of your site’s focus, what better way to measure its [...]

A Pirate’s Quick Guide to Search Engine Indexing

Published on April 16, 2013

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Remember how fun treasure hunts were as a kid? Remember how fun finding the stuff you need on the Internet is? (The answer to both those questions is YES!, in case you were wondering). A good website is the treasure of the online community, whether the gain is in information, products, or entertainment for the [...]

How to Be Visible on Google

Published on April 11, 2013

Footprints

Let’s face it: you, like everyone else in the world of business and marketing, want your site to become more important in the eyes of the all-mighty Google. There isn’t a magic formula that reveals exactly what search engines are looking for, but in the case of Google, there are plenty of tools you can [...]

Raising Your Subpages to the SERP Spotlight

Published on April 3, 2013

Putting your site in the spotlight

When you type your keyword into a search engine and Google displays your site’s homepage in the top results, it’s a good moment. You’ve successfully mastered the techniques for pleasing Google’s crawling robots, and your site now shows up as one of the chosen. But then comes that moment when you feel betrayed: Google only [...]

The Best of Google’s April Fools Pranks

Published on April 1, 2013

April Fools Day

William Shakespeare once said, “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” I have to agree with the Bard because, every year on April 1st, I feel like a giddy kid on Christmas morning as I hunt down every April Fools prank that the Internet has to offer. And it’s not surprising that Google [...]

Alt Attributes: Every Picture Needs One

Published on March 26, 2013

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Pictures are one of the easiest ways to improve the look of your website, convince people to stay on your pages, and provide information to visitors visually. Pictures are a great benefit for any site, but they have one major disadvantage . . . Google can’t see them! Luckily, the brilliant people who invented the [...]

Thinking Organically: Link Optimization in a Post-Penguin World

Published on March 19, 2013

SEO Watering Can & Flower

Links are currency; links are like gold. Links are votes; links are like suggestions. Links are electricity. Links are soldiers. These are just a few of the sentiments expressed when you dive into the search results for link optimization. Few topics fascinate the search-engine-inclined more, and few topics inspire the same breadth of debate and [...]

SEO 101: Top Ten PageRank Factors

Published on March 13, 2013

Google PageRank

Yes, it is true; Google is one of the most amazing innovations since . . . well, chocolate. But what makes Google the number-one search engine in the world? Google relies directly on millions of websites linking to other websites in order to create what is known as Google PageRank. So in essence, consumers, individual [...]

4 Reasons Why Your Site Needs SEO

Published on March 6, 2013

SEO Repair

“What is SEO, and why does my site need it?” This is a question I hear on a daily basis and one I myself asked a few years ago. Before I worked here at Boostability and learned about search engine optimization or SEO, I did the marketing for a few local businesses. Online marketing was [...]