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Four Key Considerations When Choosing An SEO Company

So you're looking for a great SEO company to rank your website among the best in your category or industry? Choosing the right company can make all the difference between getting thousands of hits or millions of hits. It's important, therefore, that proper care be exercised when evaluating competing offerings.

Here are four key considerations when choosing the best SEO company for your business.

1. Check the page ranking of the SEO company's website. If the SEO company can't even rank its own website highly, why should you believe that the company can rank your site highly? A good SEO company should have a page rank of at least 4. We like to use a Firefox add-on called Search Status, which gives us a nice little view of every page rank right in our browser.

Search Status Screen shot

 

2. Avoid companies that are just "submission engines". A good SEO company will do a lot more than simply submit your website, even if properly categorized, to the various search engines. That is something that you can do yourself, for free.

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These South Florida SEO Strategies Will Keep You Competitive

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Because competition is the name of the game for the search engines, you need to do everything possible to engage and entice your website visitors. You need to pay attention to what your competition is doing right, as well as what they are doing wrong.  You can learn from your competition's success and put some of their ideas to work in your internet marketing campaign.  

You only have a small window of opportunity to grab your visitor's attention, make them feel positive about your company and create a customer.  That's a pretty tall order for the first 5 seconds of your initial meeting.  This is what we need to accomplish if you not only want to gain a new customer, but also give them a reason to tell their friends about what they have found on your website.

If you can implement these three key strategies in your search of that coveted page one search engine ranking, you will remain competitive, even if their SEO budget is much larger than yours.

Never Boring

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What SEO changes can you expect from Google over the Summer of 2013?

Keeping with our theme of the Future of SEO, Google's Matt Cutts has provided us another informative update of what we can expect to see from Google's WebSpam team over the next few months. Much of this will have a direct impact on webmasters and the search engine optimization community. In a seven-minute "Webmaster Help" video, Cutts explains what their team has planned for the coming months, and what it all means for webmasters. It involves the Penguin update, the Panda update, advertorials, hacked sites, link spam, and a lot more.

My favorite line in the whole video is at about 4:20 when he states, "If you've been hanging out on a lot black hat forums and trading different types of spamming package tips and that sort of stuff then it might be a more eventful summer for you." :) It looks like the summer is going to be a bumpy ride regardless as I do not recall Google releasing information like this prior to an update. Maybe I am wrong but it seems like there are some BIG changes coming and we will be hearing much more about it in the near future. Of course Google still stands by their consistent recommendations for ranking well:

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2 Easy Steps to Make your Miami Website your Perfect Employee

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If your Miami based website was a member of your team what would it look like? Would it be someone who would get fired for sleeping on the job and always missing deadlines? Or is it your number one sales rep who is fast, effective and always has a smile on its face?  Just like any other member of  your staff,  reviewing and refocusing your website is crucial.  Here are two easy ways to review your website so that it can perform at its best.

1. Watch your Links and Toolbars

First, make sure all of the links and webpages are working properly. Go through each link, menu bar and anything else clickable and check that it goes to the right place. Nothing makes audiences grumpier than finding a link to something they want to learn about only to discover that it doesn’t go anywhere.  

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The Future of SEO

Human beings are innately social creatures.  We feel better when we eat together, laugh together, and converse together.  When we have a problem, need advice, or want a recommendation, historically, we’ve always turned to people in our social circle— friends, coworkers, family— for the solution.  The internet has, of course, changed the way our social species socializes.  Now, when faced with a question whose answer is not immediately known, it’s not uncommon to hear someone respond with, “Google it,” or, “Ask the internet,” as if the web is our human pal in the next room.  But that’s not so far off from the truth.  When we want to find a good restaurant nearby, figure out how to install a low-flow showerhead, or find the most tactful method of breaking a heart, we turn to our new best friend: the int ernet.  Or, more specifically, a search engine.  But our friend the search engine is changing, and it’s mostly because we, as a species, are pretty much staying the same.

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