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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Nonetheless, as I was identifying their needs; talking about where they are now; and what they’re goals and challenges are, one of the partners was skeptical about search engine optimization (SEO). He actually said to me, “No one searches at Google for a recruiting firm.” SEO Supports Social Media Marketing.

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How Social Media Helped Get Top Search Engine Rankings with 2 Hours

Bill Hartzer

Today, I performed a really simple test to see if Likes from social media type websites could contribute to a top search engine ranking in the search engines. So, what did I do to set up and prove my theory that social media likes contributes to search engine rankings? The results? The Experiment. The Results.

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Be Careful When Choosing an SEO for Google Panda or Penguin Recovery

Bill Hartzer

I think the title of this post, “be careful when choosing an SEO” (search engine optimization) professional really says it all. Tactics for Dealing with the Latest Google Algorithm Updates – Pubcon New Orleans 2013 from Bill Hartzer. Subject: Google Panda Recovery Services Using Top 10 Rankings By Content Marketing !

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Search Engine Optimization: Why a Blog is Important

Bill Hartzer

When talking to business owners about marketing their businesses on the internet, I often get asked about why I always recommend that their online marketing strategy, their search engine optimization efforts, include a blog. And the search engines will notice, as well. – You can publicize the RSS feed of your blog.

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Search Engine Optimization: Why We Still Need Meta Tags

Bill Hartzer

Recently, there has been a lot of debate in the search engine marketing community about some of the more simple or basic elements of search engine optimization, a web page's meta tags. The search engines did not look at the content of the entire web page. I believe that Google does index everything on the page.

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Takeaways from Google’s Updated Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

Bill Hartzer

A while back, I took a long hard look at Google’s first version of the Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. Google has now updated their Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, along with some interesting information: interesting if you read between the lines ,so to speak, in the document.

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What's The Best Discovery Engine? | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

» What’s The Best Discovery Engine? Until Bing called itself a “decision engine,&# not many people had heard that term. And I’d wager to say the same thing about “discovery engine,&# though I like that term. Social bookmarking has become a very popular way for many people to find new websites.