Stumbling through the vastness of the internet, we found a neat site analysis tool. Providing 3 daily reports without registering or upgrading to Pro (1000 daily if you register for free), www.opensiteexplorer.org allows you to type in a website’s domain name, and quickly view many interesting and useful results. Information provided includes: • Page Authority – URL Score Combining All Link Metrics. • Domain Authority – Overall Score for the Root Domain. • Linking Root Domains – Root Domains with Links to this URL. • Total Links – Followed, Nofollowed, & 301 Continue Reading

Anyone even remotely familiar with the internet is aware that Google is the most used search engine online. And if you’re like the majority of internet users, you only use Google’s most basic and minimal capabilities. Here are some useful, interesting, and creative ways you can use the search engine. 1. Explicit Phrase Matching – Instead of typing high school baseball type in “high school baseball” (in quotes). This means your results will be more closely tailored toward high school baseball, instead of high school football, or professional baseball. 2. Use Word Continue Reading

I figured since we were launching our new blog using WordPress, it would be appropriate to throw a few SEO tips out there relating specifically to WordPress Blogs. AVOIDING DUPLICATE CONTENT ISSUES ON WORDPRESS BLOGS A simple, yet effective way to avoid duplicate content issues on a WordPress Blog (or I guess any blog for that matter) is to add the rel=”noindex” meta tag to any archived, categories or tags sections of your site.  This can quickly and easily be achieved by: logging into the admin of your blog navigate to:  Presentation > Theme Editor > Header add Continue Reading

Can your website rank well with a keyword-rich domain name? Sure, however it can rank JUST as well with no keyword(s) in the domain name at all. There are over 200 other less-obvious factors that impact rank, and the domain name is usually not the most significant. However, it can definitely make a difference in the eyes of web searchers, as well as Google crawlers. Let’s assume your website has been up and running for several months, and as a company President or CEO, you assume that your company could get a higher search engine rank if you were using a keyword in the domain name Continue Reading

So, now that we’ve got a blog, we figured, well let’s offer up some tips to our (non) readers (so far) and so here ya go: 1. Make Your RSS Feed Available to Everyone Your Blog’s RSS feed is one of the easiest and most effective ways to build repeat traffic. Once people are subscribed to it, they will continue receiving your communication until they decide to remove it. Every blog entry you create is a new chance to get those previous readers back to your site, so it is imperative that you keep your RSS feed in perfect working order. Every blogging platform comes with a Continue Reading

We’ve got a new blog and we think it’s pretty cool looking. So, here’s the game plan this time around. We’re actually going to supply our people with a steady flow of quality internet marketing stuff. Do we really want to educate our competitors and share our strategy, no not really … but, for the sake of blogging and it’s incredible value we’re just going to turn the other way. Afterall, we’re doing ok and so are our clients and we know how much google loves fresh content! More to come from inside trimark. Continue Reading