Tag Archives: onsite optimization

With Google’s recent switch to displaying localized, rather than general, search results to users, the amount of people who see your site during searches has dramatically decreased. Localized search results make it increasingly challenging to drive traffic to your website. One possible way to overcome Google’s geographic restrictions is to get inlinks from different areas of the country. For instance, a New York City based artist may seek inlinks from a blogger in L.A. to drive traffic from the West Coast. Here are some tips on how to drive traffic to your website today.

If you are like most webmasters, this article will only be the 100th article that you have read on SEO this year. Let’s face it; we are all concerned about getting better rankings in the search engines – most of us are only really concerned with better rankings in Google, to be honest, since Google has a firm hold on 80% of all search engine traffic at this time. While Bing seems promising, to date it has only taken market share from Yahoo, instead of from Google.

With more and more business owners looking for new ways to generate revenue in our difficult economy, many of them are paying more attention to online marketing techniques that they simply didn’t have the time or the inclination to learn about before. Although SEO has been a standard practice for some time, many business owners are just beginning to ask, “What is SEO and what can it do for my business?”

As SEO becomes more of a hot topic on the web, there are many discussions about how to do it and whether website owners should do it themselves or hire an expert. Here are some questions you should ask yourself before taking on an SEO project: