Local Organic Search Ranking

Why Your Website Should Be A Blog

2011-01-17T01:26:00.001-05:00

Almost every small business has a website, you've got options on what format your website can come in. A business website's SOLE PURPOSE IN LIFE is to perform in Google searches, that's it's only function. It does you no good to have a pretty website if it's buried deep in the back of Google.

Your potential customers are not looking for YOUR business, they don't know, nor do they care who you are. People shop for almost everything in Google, that's your storefront. People type in what they want, then refine that search with the geographical area they're willing to go to get it.

You should select, in advance of ordering a website what keywords are likely to generate the most phone calls, inquires or leads and create your website's central theme around those keywords.

Emphasis on keyWORDS... it's the words or text on your site that's going to determine where and how high up in rank your website's going to show up in a Google search.

A blog will beat the crap out of a static conventional HTML website when it comes to ranking in Google.

Here's several things a blog can do that a website cannot:

Any one can update a blog, if you can write an email you can update your business blog, you don't need to pay a webmaster for each update to your company blog.
Blogs are by very definition news delivery systems, blogs broadcast in ways a static website can not. Each blog post is broadcast via RSS Feed and there are hundreds of RSS feed directories and aggregation services that are in essence news collating and distribution portals.
RSS feed pinging, there are blog Pinging services that announce or broadcast to dozens if not hundreds of the RSS feed portals described above.
Your business website should be changed frequently weather it needs it or not: Google favors fresh content, you want to rank high in Google? Change up your website often, a blog is specifically designed to "broadcast fresh content", Google knows this and is why Blogs beat static websites in a ranking horse race

RSS Feeds And Why They Make You Money

OK, so we established a blog "has" an RSS feed, having one is better than not having one but you don't have to just let it "sit there", you can PROMOTE an RSS feed.

So what happens when you put your companies message "out there" in an RSS feed? What is an RSS feed anyway and why would anyone want to look at one?

There are thousands of website's and blogs on every topic under the sun, many are hand written, more than a few are news aggregation sites that pull content from RSS feeds based on keywords.

With RSS feeds you have the opportunity to have your content republished on dozens if not hundreds of other sites, all with YOUR message and more importantly YOUR link on their domain.

The more websites that carry your company website url on them the better your company website's chances of ranking higher and higher in Google.

The number of OTHER websites, other domains that have YOUR link are known as Backlinks

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Google Places Ranking
fees vary with how competitive the keyword you’re wanting to compete in.
We can hit any target… some targets are harder to hit than others.

Google Places ranking starting from $2400 annually to $12000 annually.

Full portfolio displaying current rankings of existing clients, a proven track record, don’t take our word for any of this… call each one of our customers and ask them. Phone numbers and contact emails available on request.

Managed Company Facebook Pages $500 Month and up

Ghost write content for the supporting blogs we create, get each of them to rank in Google and create content for your company Facebook page and get the company Facebook Page we create and manage for your company to rank in Google:

$1000 upfront: between $500 month and $1000 month for retainer fee and content creation/management. Fee’s vary depending on the competitiveness of your target market. We can hit any target, some targets are harder to hit than others.

Typical Fee is $15000 annually ideally for criminal lawyers, divorce attorneys that want to dominate the local search pages for the geographical area they practice law in.

National SEO Rankings: fees vary depending on competitiveness of the selected keyword phrase. Fees range from $1,000 per month to $10,000 per month (depending on the strength of the competition)
Local Google Advertising Strategist David Bruce Jr of Frederick Web Promotions

240 397-9804

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Google Places/ Google Maps Now Mixed With Organic Search Results

2010-11-01T12:20:00.004-04:00

The End of Organic Search Ranking?
Perhaps.

Google just changed the entire game, until last week you could rank #1 in the organic or main body of search results and NOT in the 7 pack of Google map results (the maps or Google local business listings now known as Google Places) and you could still expect to get a decent amount of traffic/ exposure etc

No more... Google Places are now integrated into the first page of local search results, effectively crowding out the organic search listings. If Google returns 7 local business listings for Google Places, and loads 2 or 3 sponsored listings above the Google Places ones, there is only room \left for 3 organic listings!

For the past year having more reviews on "citation" websites such as Yelp.com, Insiderpages.com, and other yellowpages clones seemed to have little or no effect on improving Google Places ranking.

According to Blumenthals blog, more reviews is now likely to help.

Cheating on reviews has been pervasive, Google it seems, has given business owners enough rope to hang themselves. If you open a gmail account, leave yourself a bogus review, and open another gmail account from the same computer... did you really think Google wouldn't know both reviews were from you?

A quick check of some of my local SEO clients and I can breath a sigh of relief:

From Regional Search Engine Marketing in Maryland

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Fees For Search Engine Marketing and Social Media Optimization:

Social Media Optimization: 8 hours of one on one consultation, create social media profiles with SEO ranking specifically in mind. First Hour is exploratory, we may or may not choose to represent you, we will discover if we can realistically do something for your product or service in this first hour. Fee $100.00 per hour or $700 come into our shop in Frederick Md or we can do remote log in where we can both move the mouse and I can answer questions over the phone live

Google Places or Google Local Business Listing ranking

Many small businesses come to us with excellent ranking in the organic listings (sometimes called the natural search results or the main body of search results) but they are NOT ranking in the 3 pack of Google Maps. Google Maps is often the ONLY search results displayed on a smart phone. Increasingly people will start using their smart phone instead of a laptop, you need your company to rank in the top 3 or you will be virtually invisible. Fee for top 3 ranking in Google Places and one listing in the top ten Google organic listings $2000 annually

Keyword selection: one on one consultation to select effective keywords $100.00 per hour Typically our clients have a long list of keywords they’d like to be found under, we counsel you should pick no more than 3 keyword phrases, sell one thing and sell it well. You only have X amount of Google authority available to you at one time, attempting to spread a finite quantity of Google Juice over many keywords is counter productive in our experience. Every 6 weeks add 3 more keyword phrases to target, do NOT attempt all of them at once.

Managed Company Facebook Pages

Ghost write content for the supporting blogs we create, get each of them to rank in Google and create content for your company Facebook page and get the company Facebook Page we create and manage for your company to rank in Google:

$1000 to $3000 upfront: between $500 month and $1000 month for retainer fee and content creation/management. Fee’s vary depending on the competitiveness of your target market. We can hit any target, some targets are harder to hit than others. Typical Fee is $15000 annually ideally for criminal lawyers, divorce attorneys that want to dominate the local search pages for the geographical area they practice law in.

National Rankings: fees vary depending on competitiveness of the selected keyword phrase. Fees range from $14,000 annually $2000 up front, $1000 month to as much as $25,000

David Bruce Jr
785 Wembly Dr
Frederick Md 21701

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davidbrucejr@frederickwebpromotions.com
Local Google Advertising Consultant

Worldwide Ranking Examples, if I were you I'd want to see what I'd be paying for, talk is cheap, put up or shut up:

Google Search Results for "local Google Advertising Consultant"
#1 Worldwide out of About 64,000,000 competing sites
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=local+google+advertising+consultant

Google Results for "regional search engine ranking"
#1, #7 and #8 out of About 21,200,000 results
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=regional+search+engine+ranking

Why Sponsored Pay Per Click Isn't Making You Money

2010-09-11T20:33:00.003-04:00

A Brief History Of SEO Copywriting

2010-07-21T10:13:00.002-04:00

SEO naturally came about with the birth of the internet, but its early days were less than impressive. Budding internet marketers pounced on newly discovered methods for search engine ranking manipulation and churned out garbage articles loaded with meaningless content and outlandish strings of invisible keywords. Luckily, search engine algorithm designers picked up on these tricks and refined their programs to ignore this nonsense, also known as "keyword stuffing", and SEO copywriting was born out of necessity. By using a combination of quality content sprinkled with ranking keywords, this method gave SEO writing more credibility.

Today, both people and search engine algorithms have developed a keen distaste for junk copy and excessive keyword use. As a result, in order to not only rank but grab and hold the attention of quality potential customers, SEO copy must be more and more content focused. Keywords will always be important, but a skilled SEO writer uses only one or two unique and natural-sounding search terms per page, knowing how to integrate and space these terms smoothly into the text. This integration can be tricky, so good writers have developed some techniques to make it easier for the more awkward keyword phrases. These may include enclosing the search term in quotes to make it seem like a technical term, defining it at the opening of the article to use further on, and using examples or comparing two different terms throughout the article in order to increase usage without sounding ridiculous.

And a skilled SEO writer delivers the best possible results-money in your pocket. Not only will they maneuver your site to the first page of search engine results, they'll attract quality paying customers who stick around and generate revenue for your business. This is achieved by writing researched, educational copy that is also readable and interesting to the average internet surfer. If you can grab and hold a customer's attention with copy that garners respect and adds to the trust and authority of your domain, you will likely have a sale on your hands. Even better, an excellent article will inspire readers to link to it, bookmark it, tweet and tell their friends about it, generating more and more sales over time.

So how does a writer achieve excellence in SEO copy? There are many ways to increase the "value" of an article in a reader's eyes:
1. Organization
2. Detail
3. Thorough research
4. A birds-eye view
5. Specific calls to action
6. Focus on benefits, not features
7. Usability
8. Understanding reader perspective
9. Readability across different age levels and education levels
10. Who, what, where, when, why and how
11. Always put the reader before the search engine
12. Keep asking after each paragraph: "Does the reader care?"
13. Back up information with real-world examples that anyone can relate to
14. Avoid repetition and redundancy
15. Remove unnecessary words and phrases
16. Use bullets, numbering, italics, and headings-and use them wisely
17. Avoid clichés and make sure industry jargon is well-defined
18. Vary sentence length
19. Avoid the passive tense
20. Maintain a tone that is conversational and engaging yet professional and technical at the same time

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Google Places Ranking

Google Maps Ranking Improved $200 month -$2400.00 annually (one time $2000, a $400 savings) guaranteed top 3 Google Places Ranking and 1 top 10 organic listing for your main keyword phrase

Organic search rankings can be achieved if you target everything about your web pages title, the article title, the paragraph headings with the keyword phrase you'd like to show up in the search results for.

Here's another SEO trick: Company Facebook Pages (not personal Facebook profiles) also show up prominently in Google searches. The holy grail of organic search ranking is to have your website occupy the #1 slot in the organic results and your company Facebook page occupy the #1 slot on for the same Google search results page.

Does Your Company Have a Company Facebook Page Yet?

2010-01-06T00:56:00.005-05:00

Got Company Facebook Fan Page Yet?

Everyone knows what Facebook is.
Your grandparents even have a Facebook page, chances are your customers have a Facebook page...well the customers YOU want do.
In terms of demographics, if a prospective customer has a Facebook page you know something about them, at a bare minimum you know they probably have a good job, probably are college educated, probably have a credit card
Do you really want to sell to people that do NOT have a credit card? What do you think your chances of making a profit would be if the customers you were attempting to attract did not have credit, or didn't have a job?
Not every industry can take full advantage of exposure to the vast Facebook community, the target market of certain types of stores for example deal in what political correctness terms the "disaffected", for example a local Latin market or a beer and wine store in the seedier side of the tracks... it's a safe bet their 'money customers" are not on Facebook. State highway contractors, for example get their work from Government bids, so being on Facebook doesn't make much sense for them.
There is however a reason for almost every company to have a company Facebook page...
Google is that reason.
Your personal Facebook account is blocked from Google's prying eyes, the contents of your personal Facebook page is protected, Google is not allowed to index its contents. Personal Facebook pages are visible ONLY to other Facebook members, and you can choose what parts of your Facebook site to share and what parts to share only with family members.
A Company FB page (also known as a Facebook Fan Page) ARE search-able by Google.
Having a Facebook Fan page means an EXTRA listing in Google's search results pages. Properly set up, you can end up with on entry in Google listings for your main website AND a second or even a third entry for your FB fan page Wall, your FB Fan page photos, and if you were slick enough to create a company blog in addition to your company website, a FB fan page is one of the most effective "blog delivery systems" you can use to promote your company blog. (but that's another article entirely)

David Bruce is Local Google Advertising Consultant, http://facebook.com/frederickwebpromotions/ Expert and professional blogger with over 100 blogs.

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Local Google Search Results Is What Puts Money In Your Cash Register

2009-12-09T15:53:00.003-05:00

In advertising, you are competing with other companies. In Internet advertising you're competing with other websites.

Where that competition occurs at is on Google's search results pages.

There simply isn't any other advertising real estate more important to your company than the 160 or so characters that Google gathers as what Google thinks your site is about.

That's all you get! 160 characters to 'sell the sizzle and not the steak'

But... and this is a very BIG But:

Are you attempting to compete, in Google, regionally?

Did you know there is a local Google? (and a yahoo local, a msn local as well?)

If you pitch your wares without deliberately including TEXT (not a graphic, but text) within your sales copy, that does not specifically spell out What Geographic Area you're offering your widget (or widget service)... you are, by default attempting to sell to the entire world.

Big mistake.
If you attempt to go up against walmart, you will loose.

What you are selling, when you're selling it on Google, is not your product or service, the ONLY path to your product or service is a keyword phrase. That IS your product.

the phrase, the keyword phrase is how people are going to either find you or find your competitor.

If that keyword phrase does not include YOUR Geographic Area...

You will not show up in Local searches.

If the arena you're competing in is national there is one level of difficulty.
If the arena you're competing in is local, there is quite another degree of difficulty.

You can probably gather that local Google advertising is what I do, I just gave you, for free, the single most important strategy to use in order to rank locally in Google. Obviously there's a whole lot more to it than that (or else I wouldn't be in business) This article is sales copy, it's a teaser...

Now if you want to dominate the local Search Engine Results Pages (serps in my industry) peruse the verifiable results that follow this article, call the real local businesses and ask them if ranking in Google locally is putting more money in their cash registers than they imagined it would. Then call David Bruce Jr at 240 397-9804

Fee to rank in your US county: $2500.00

Fee to rank in your State: $3500.00

Fee to have a quarter page Yellowpages ad: typically $4,000 to $6,000

Do the math

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Frederick Maryland
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Company Advertising and Free Speech

2009-08-02T17:46:00.003-04:00

Tweet Much?

Tweet about bad service?

Companies react to bad press via twitter with a lawsuit.

Chicago is looking a lot more like Tehran... than a city of citizens with the right to express what they see publicly.

Read on about how use of the law against people simply telling their friends about what they expirienced (and they may or may not have known that twitter tweets are public, meaning the entire world can see what you type) might have a chilling effect.

Horizon Realty is attempting to silence alleged complaints about it's real estate management department on twitter by scare-tactics lawsuits:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=horizon+realty+chicago&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=2Ap2StvtKomwtge919WWCQ&sa=X&oi=news_group&ct=title&resnum=4

What ever happened to the right of free speech?

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How Complaining Could Become Costly
Posted on: July 30th, 2009 | 16 Comments
Have you ever complained on Twitter? Most everyone has, but one lady is being sued for doing just that. Chicago resident, Amanda Bonnen, sent a tweet to a friend in May that said in part, “…Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it’s okay.”
Although her account has since been deleted, Bonnen only had 20 followers at the time of the tweet. Nevertheless, Horizon Realty Group filed a 50,000 lawsuit against the former tenant this week claiming she defamed the company.
Upon news of the lawsuit, Twitter users from all over have voiced their opinions on the incident.WebProNews caught up with a few to see their reaction and found that most everyone view the lawsuit as preposterous. Adam Martin of Martin Design Studio even suggested that the Horizon could have turned the tweet into an opportunity to improve their customer service.
What do you think about this incident? Do you believe other businesses will follow suit and try to cash in on complaints they see online? Will this affect your future tweeting?

Written for human consumption or Googlebot’s consumption?

2009-07-26T05:14:00.003-04:00

Article Directories with High Page Rank
For getting a new site off the ground in the serps there is nothing as effective as article directories. This is not true with every niche if the niche already has a zillion articles published but if your niche is not represented in the article directories you just cant beat the boost given to your site from article directories.

If you’re competitors are not using article marketing and you are… it’s a slam dunk. If they are then it behooves you to match them.

I write for Googlebot and “pretty it up” just in case a human “accidentally” “stumbles upon” my article.

Computer generated articles:
below is an example of an article NOT written for human consumption, it’s purpose is solely to get Google to see the keywords associated with the author of the site’s target url.

I found it because a substantial portion of this “article” was “scraped” from my site!!
I was checking on MY backlinks and discovered this.. I just had to post it as an example of horrible writting (from a human journalism point of view) but perfect example of writing exclusively for the algorithim:

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Search Referrals and Organic Traffic Rising

2009-05-26T03:46:00.002-04:00

Search Referrals and Organic Traffic Rising

As a companion piece to the post by my colleague Heather Hopkins, I thought it would be interesting to take a step back and look at the overall impact of search upon specific industries. For the majority of categories measured at Hitwise, search is the top source of traffic referrals and the share has increased year-over-year. Overall, search is increasing as a traffic driver. Among the parent categories that received less than 25% of traffic from search in April 2008, all except News & Media received a higher share of search referrals last month. This data suggests that the best growth opportunities for search are among the laggard categories where adoption has been slower as a referral tool.

Overall, visits to search engines increased 8% on April 2009 as compared to the previous year, implying that those visits will result in the searcher going somewhere afterwards. In order to translate the impact of search referrals upon traffic, I also took the size of the category into account and calculated the market share of visits that were search driven for the same year-over-year comparison. In this analysis, when translated into visits, the largest categories received more visits from search, regardless if overall traffic was up or down.

As Heather pointed out, the ratio of clicks from paid search has declined within some categories due to reduced spending by marketers in the current economic climate. There is nothing like a recession to encourage marketers to become more creative with budgets. The increased share of organic clicks also implies that companies are getting smarter about optimizing their websites to take advantage of organic search results and these SEO efforts are working. Additionally, the increased popularity of social media such as Facebook and Twitter, along with blogs and video, are sites & pages that index quickly within search engines and result in higher organic results.

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Google Friendly Business Descriptions

2009-04-23T17:06:00.002-04:00

Business Descriptions

When writing a winning business description, there are a few main points to keep in mind:

Your company’s name should appear 3 - 4 times within the description. This helps optimise your listing for search engines and increases the chances that potential customers will find your business.
It should also refer specifically to your business’ key product or service offerings.
The description must also be informative enough that people are attracted deeper into your company’s listing, mentioning things like how long your business has been in operation.
The length of your business’ description should be between 50 and 200 words.

Example: Joe’s Plumbing Tools

Joe’s Plumbing Tools has been a recognized name in the Chicago plumbing industry for over 20 years. Joe’s Plumbing Tools carry a range of plumbing tools to suit every plumbing task great or small. The Joe’s Plumbing Tools range includes industry renowned plumbing tools from leading manufacturers including Pump ‘n’ Save and Drillz. Joe’s Plumbing Tools supply a range of pumps, fittings, hydraulic wrenches and pipes to suit every budget.

Maryland Internet Advertising

2009-03-30T05:31:00.003-04:00

Getting PageRank Without Getting Links

by rustybrick

The discussion was started by a webmaster who asked, how can his page have a PageRank score of four, when Google webmaster tools reports the page has zero links? The obvious answer is that Google is not reporting all the links yet and it is very possible the page has links, but just not being reported yet. But that might not be the full answer.

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WebmasterWorld administrator, Tedster, feels that Google gives "mom and pop" sites an artificial PageRank boost, in some cases. Let me quote Tedster:

My assumption is that this unusual PR boost is one of the ways that Google helps "mom and pop" sites compete - something that Matt Cutts made a side comment about on his blog a few years ago. He never said WHAT Google does specifically, only that they do a few things.
It seems like many top names in the thread believe in this "artificial PageRank boost." The question is, what is the artificial part? Is it the score shown, how the score is made up, or how Google sees the page in terms of trust and popularity?

In any event, do you believe in the artificial PageRank boost? Take the poll below:

Is There a Google Artificial PageRank Boost?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the practice of optimizing your web site in order to increase natural search engine traffic. Proper SEO can be time consuming, complex, and costly... that is if you don't shop around.

Frederick Web Promotions has a sterling record: 100% of all our clients have Multiple Top Ten Organic Search Rankings, and we charge a fraction of what the other Maryland Internet Advertising firms charge.

It's been said that 90% of all Google Searchers and more than 90% of all other searchers will not click past the first set of search results. Why is that?

If Google thinks you're important enough to be listed in the top 10, that's good enough for most people. People KNOW that the 'sponsored' listings are paid advertising. The public operates under the assumption that Google is selecting the MOST important websites to be #1, #2 and so on.

It's not widely known that a well executed search engine optimization campaign can manipulate who gets to be #1

A prospective client trusts the organic results

2009-02-22T20:33:00.006-05:00

What is meant by "Organic Search Results"?

It almost sounds edible doesn't it?

The definition of Organic Search Results is the search term results returned by a search engine that are derived from what they search engine itself thinks is important as opposed to returning paid listings or advertisements.

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You type a keyword into a search engine and the search engine tells you what it thinks is the most important website regarding that search term. Search terms are what the search engine industry calls "keywords".

Google claims that their users click (organic) search results more often than advertisements.

Wikipedia's definition of search engine optimization uses the term "Algorithmic" as a synonym for "Organic". What is an algorithm?

Why algorithms are necessary: an informal definition

While there is no generally accepted formal definition of "algorithm", an informal definition could be "an algorithm is a process that performs some sequence of operations." For some people, a program is only an algorithm if it stops eventually. For others, a program is only an algorithm if it stops before a given number of calculation steps.

For our purposes an algorithm is a mathematical process that stops when it decides, definitively which website gets to be Numero UNO and who is second string, third string, also ran, and filed away under 'deep six'.

Wikipedia goes on to say this: "As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines."

So optimizing a site means taking an existing site, it might be a pretty site, might be an interesting site, may or may not have state of the art graphics... but it's nowhere to be found.

Why is that?

Because the 'artist' who crafted the site didn't know the first thing about keywords nor did they take into account which part of the page the "bot" is going to "parse"... I'll bet my last paycheck the web designer thinks they're supposed to write the code for human consumption...

Wrong.

You want the site to be found I take it?

I mean the whole purpose of the site is to get someone to buy something... and is that going to happen if the fancy site is buried deep in the search results on say "results 71 through 80"

You either write the code to please GoogleBot or you're writing it as a hobby. If the desired result is to put MONEY in the CASH REGISTER, you' re wanting to write code that pleases Google FIRST, pleasing humans comes second.

Argue with me if you want... My sites make money, their sites look pretty.

Which one do you want?

What can one do to get your site to rank higher than your competitors site... that's the $12,000 question (which is what I charge for a 6 month Search Engine Marketing Campaign by the way - $2000 per month for six months... the rest of the year there is a lower monthly maintenance fee).

RELEVANCE - that's what Google Wants

Ranking - that's what YOU want.

Google is bigger than you are... you want something from Google?

I thought so... give Google What IT wants and Google can make you rich.

Anything that can be abused... will be (can't remember where I heard that first, wish I could claim it as my own quote). Everybody thinks the job of an SEO guy is to trick Google. So many people in marketing are under the foolish notion that our job is to 'get away with' getting at the top of Google without having to pay to get at the top.

Every business person on the planet wants their product to outsell everybody else's product.

They don't' give a rats a** about any body else but themselves.

What's in it for them? is their axiom.

They've got the cart before the horse!

Think about this carefully: What does Google Want?

more coming, stay tuned

Local Organic Search Ranking

Why Your Website Should Be A Blog

Yes We Are For Hire

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