Tag Archives: Search Marketing

Small Business Reaps Big Blog Rewards

This post is a personal story of a friends small, family-owned business seeing impressively quick benefits from their new blog site. Last year I re-connected with a best friend from high school.   She runs the family business now – Broken Arrow Lodge & Marina  – on the Fishingest Side of Lake Livingston, Texas.   I have [...]

Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz Takes Blow to Head!

Ok, ok, so it was self-inflicted – a headsmack IS still a ‘blow to the head’. I read Rand Fishkins “Headsmacking Tip #1: Link Requests in Order Confirmation Emails” at SEOmoz.org, and I can’t say that I blame him – all this ‘link‘ stuff can induce headbashing. ;P It’s a great tip! I too was [...]

Website Search Ranking isn’t ‘ALL THAT’.

Controversial title ain’t it I keep seeing this same general question asked – ‘Can ‘bad neighborhood’ inbound links hurt a websites search ranking?’, and I keep seeing the same general answer – ‘inbound links to a website cannot hurt said websites search ranking’. While I agree in theory, I’m not 100% convinced of it in [...]