Reputation Management is in the news today, big time.  Looks like some folks think Simon Cowell is using a SEO to promote positive news stories about himself. Unfortunately for him, the Reputation Management firm he used must have made a blunder in somehow not covering their tracks. Maybe he should have hired us instead? I [...]

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So, my family and I were at JC Penney’s the other day shopping for a bed.  The salesperson was showing my wife and I a couple beds and around the corner my 6 year old daughter found a bed she thought was just the right fit.  She kept calling, “Daddy daddy, this one is perfect”.  After [...]

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I am asked from time to time whether or not I think it is important for a client to Blog or not to blog.  Here are my thoughts on the subject: Advantages: Blogging is a great way to add current hot topics to your website (this post is a good example!). Blogging is a great [...]

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I added a SEO Blogroll to the blog today.  For consideration please contact, webmaster@haymeadows.com.

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Q. Have you ever wondered what the “…” is on the search engine result page? A. This is what happens when the <title> of a web page is longer than 70 characters.  This character limit can change from time to time, and is different from search engine to search engine. It is amazing to me [...]

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Hot off the press this week is Personalized Search and how this is going to effect rankings in the search results.  And, following the hot press, are the misguided “SEO is Dead” folks. I am happy to report that not only is SEO not dead, it is still very much alive and kicking.  Personalized Search [...]

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Windows versus PC Dos Excel versus Lotus MS Word versus WordPerfect Internet Explorer versus Netscape Bing versus Google Are you ready?

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A quick guideline for PPC: #1 – Get your CTR as high as possible. #2 – To do this you need to create smaller groups of keywords and make the ads very specific #3 – Include as many long tail phrases as you can put together #4 – Use keyword insertion, https://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=74996 #5 – Use [...]

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Just a quick post to say that I think the recession is over.  In hindsight, several things coincided with the beginning of the recession business-wise for us; and those things have since reversed.  My hunch is in a few months, they will be telling us we started pulling out of the recession in May 2009.  [...]

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Turned away three potential clients this week due to them all being direct competitors of current clients – all of which more than likely knew this beforehand. Must be doing something right.

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