Tips

06/20/11  |  Kim Mickelsen

Good Clients Make Good Friends

I ran across this post today and really like it. Sometimes in the day-to-day stress of the job we need a little reminder. Treat clients like friends: Understand they have bad days, good days, days they need you and days they need to be left alone Give them a second chance if they make a [...]

03/21/11  |  Kim Mickelsen

Write for Humans Not Bots

We all know that SEO is critically important. People make billions of unique searches each month. So search engines drive a lot of traffic. But the content on your site must, first and foremost, be compelling (and readable) to the people who are reading it or you’re wasting your time. Use your keywords, in context, [...]

Posted in: SEO, Tips
10/21/10  |  Brian Wetjen

Google Analytics Hacks

SEOmoz has posted a great list of a few things to do with Google Analytics in order to get more out of the tool. Some of the tips are basic and some are advanced, but all help you to better understand what’s happening with your site and the visitors to it. And that’s very important [...]

Posted in: SEO, Tips, Web Development
08/03/10  |  Robin Donovan

A Simple Way to Improve Your Writing

Most people use three different sentence formats when they write. With only these three variations your writing can get monotonous. If you expand your repertoire to include six additional sentence formats your writing will automatically seem more sophisticated and be more appealing to the reader. Don’t let the “grammar” scare you, once you read the [...]

04/21/10  |  Robin Donovan

Job Hunting Tips for New Graduates

Send your cover letter and resume with clear direction as to which department you are interested in joining. When letters come in saying the writer wants a job “anywhere” in an ad agency it is clear that they don’t know the business well enough to know where they fit in.

04/16/10  |  Scott Rowe

Five Non-Technical Tips for SEO

There are potentially hundreds of factors search engines use when indexing and ranking a website. This can quickly become overwhelming for both organizations and web professionals. When it really comes down to it however, content is and always will be king. With that in mind here are five important things to know about search engine [...]

Posted in: SEO, Tips
02/26/10  |  Brian Wetjen

META Keywords Are a Thing of the Past

Don’t worry about filling out your page’s META keywords tag unless you’re running local search or a search appliance that takes advantage of them. The major search engines, like Google,  ignore that tag these days. Focus on your content!

Posted in: SEO, Tips
02/09/10  |  Kim Mickelsen

Use Google Reader to Keep Tabs on Competitor Web Sites

Recently Google announced a new feature in Google Reader that lets you create a custom feed to track changes on pages that don’t have their own feed.

02/05/10  |  Kim Mickelsen

Don’t Rely on SITE: Command

How many pages has Google indexed? That basic question and the problems surrounding it run rampant through the SEO world.

Posted in: SEO, Tips