Lately I’ve been working with some websites that are trying to create a community within their site. When helping build and optimize these websites I think about what community sites I visit and why.
When I was in highschool I got involved in online First Person Shooters. To be more specific, Quake 2 was the title [...]
Archives for SEO
Starting an Online Community that Contributes
No Budget SEO Experiment
Lastnight I was reading “Crush it” by Gary Vaynerchuk, who’s known for using social media to grow his brand and wine library tv. While I was reading it I came to a section where he was talking about choosing a blog platform. The two he really focused on was wordpress, which was no surprise, and [...]
New Year and New Pittsburgh SEO Group
At this Friday’s Pittsburgh SEO Group meeting I’ll be leading a group discussion on Recent Google Updates including: real-time search, personalized search for everyone and the New 3 Panel Google Design. We’ve been talking about these google updates around the office over the past month, especially the real-time search. It will be really great to [...]
Tracking Google Algorithm Updates
Subscribe to Major Search Engine Blogs
Part of being an SEO professional is keeping up to date with major search engine updates. To keep things simple I’m just going to talk about tracking Google’s algorithm updates. Of course one of the best places to start is the official Google blog. Subscribe to the feed using an [...]
8 Advanced Search Engine Research Papers
Recently I’ve been collecting online resources that look deeper into the science behind search engines. Here are some of the papers I’ve read that I felt like really provided me with a much deeper insight into SEO. When you start out learning about search engine’s optimization you get caught up in many of the tips [...]
Guide to On-Page Optimization
Monday Rand Fishkin make a great post on the SEOmoz blog titled “Perfecting Keyword Targeting & On-Page Optimization“. I usually pass over these on-page checklists as it seems they are a dime a dozen and usually there’s a lot of opinion that over shadows the core principles. This article really stuck out
Optimizing Yourself for an SEO Career
This Saturday will be my last day of class and my completion of the MBA program at Point Park University in downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. I have always had the urge to keep learning and this is one of many reasons to why I have found myself in the field of search engine optimization.
I often get [...]
Developing SEO Analysis Tools
At Eyeflow we find it important to develop some of your own SEO tools. There are many options out there when it comes to checking your link popularity, on-page optimization, trust, etc but there usually isn’t one tool that does it all the best and also to meet your specific needs. We’ve found that your [...]
Why Is This Website So Plain?
Some of you might of arrived here thinking “why is this website so plain?” and that’s a perfectly normal thing to ask. Some people want to have loud flashy designs and this can be good depending on the industry and audience you are targeting but one thing you always want to keep in mind; can [...]
Every Blog Needs a First Post
I thought it was time I setup a blog on my personal domain as an opportunity to express my thoughts on all things SEO. If you found my blog you may know me from the Pittsburgh SEO Group or Eyeflow Internet Marketing, the SEO firm I work for. I hope you come back to read [...]
Google Algorithm Updates