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 [...]

[Read more →]

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

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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.  [...]

[Read more →]

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.

[Read more →]

While most of our clients are doing very well on Local Search, I’ve been noticing that we could do even better.  Today, I focused on just that.  Doing better.  How did I do that?  Well, for one I made sure that the clients that weren’t doing as well as I would have liked were first [...]

[Read more →]

As news of the recession continues to worsen we are *thankfully* seeing more and more people moving expensive offline advertising like yellow pages and radio, to a much more cost effective format in that of the Internet and SEO. And why not, advertising on the web is easier to track using contact forms, email addresses, [...]

[Read more →]