1. You Don’t Take Your Website Seriously Enough You spend thousands of dollars on trade shows, print, signage, vehicle wraps, television and radio advertising, but when it comes to your website, you spend very little time or money on making it the best it can be, even though you know that every single person […]
10 Questions You Must Ask Before Hiring A Web Designer
In the old days of the Internet, business owners shopped for web design services the same way they shopped for print advertising. All that really mattered back then were graphic design and pricing. Today, your website is no longer just a site on the web. It’s REQUIRED to be lead generator, a profit center and […]
The Top 5 Women In SEO Today
SEO is a male dominated field. As I think back on the thousands of SEO blog posts and articles I’ve read over the years, the vast majority of them were written by men. That being said, last week when I asked myself to name the top women in SEO (without searching), only four names came […]
Did Penguin 3.0 Twerk Up On Your Website Like A Bad Miley Cyrus Video?
Its official, Penguin 3.0 has landed. It’s been over a year since Google’s link spam fighting algorithm has been updated or refreshed. Some webmasters have feared this update, others have been praying for it. The update, the sixth version of this particular algorithm, was officially rolled out on October 17th 2014. Per Google, it will […]
10 Reasons Why I Fell In Love With ASmallOrange Web Hosting and Dumped HostGator
My name is Phil Singleton and I run a boutique Internet marketing and web design company Kansas City. This is an honest feedback from a real customer – we are NOT an affiliate nor do we have any other relationship with ASmallOrange.com other than being a very happy customer. In the last year, we’ve hosted […]
Do You Have Zombie SEO Rankings?
Could your website rankings come crashing down like a house of cards? The SEO industry has witnessed five iterations of Google Penguin updates and you can almost hear the footsteps of the next Penguin update. And how many Panda updates have we seen? As of this writing, it’s now deep in the v20-somethings. Not to […]
Kim Kardashian’s SEO Grade: F
Sometimes I think about Kim Kardashian and I salivate. Not because I find her particularly attractive or appealing (not really my type), but because I look at all the web properties she is associated with and see a tremendous amount of untapped search engine potential. SEO geeks like myself are essentially organic web traffic opportunists. […]
I Pity The Fools That Say SEO Is Dead
How many blog and article headlines have you read in recent years proclaiming that SEO is Dead? You’ll probably see more of these headlines in 2017 and 2018. It seems that virtually everyone on the planet thinks that SEO is the same as link building. If your definition of SEO is volume based link building […]
Falling Into The ‘Affordable Website’ Trap (SEO Too)
Many web designers want to be the low cost provider. In fact, many of our main competitors’ here in Kansas City sell their services on ‘affordability’ and compete to be metro’s low cost leader.
Social Media Trends for 2014
Not too many years ago, social media was more about having fun, meeting new people, and making new friends. Today, it’s much more than that; in fact, if your business isn’t taking advantage of social media, your company is at a huge disadvantage in terms of building your brand and SEO presence – not to […]