Free SEO Tip #165 – Make Your Site Faster With Optimized Images
One of the things I love about being a Denver SEO consultant is the fact that my work encompasses so many different areas. SEO starts with great content, so at Spork we get to create interesting articles, guest blog posts, infographics, Internet video, etc., for our clients. We help them market that great content for the purpose of building links, and then the cycle repeats.
However, SEO isn’t just about content and links. SEO best practices often coincide with user experience best practices – particularly when it comes to web site speed. Faster websites tend to rank better with Google and Bing, so one of the things we do at Spork is help people make their sites faster.
One of the easiest ways to make your website faster is to follow these image optimization best practices: Read More
SEO Review – Pine Tree Paradise
As part of our sponsorship of the 2010 Wordcount Blogathon, we were happy to give away a free SEO review to one Blogathon participant. The winner, Charles Newbery, has a fun blog about his life raising a family as a work-at-home American dad who just happens to be living in Argentina!
The blog is called Pine Tree Paradise, and aside from the excellent writing quality, the hand-drawn pictures created by the kids are excellent.
On to the SEO review and tips. Read More
007 Things James Bond Can Teach Us About SEO
James Bond movies are a guilty pleasure of mine. They’re really pretty poorly written (SO predictable), the “romance” is terribly corny, and the puns can be just terrible…but what can I say? It’s fun.
The 007 logo image above is a trademark of MGM
In honor of my appreciation for 007, I’ve come up with a list of seven things James Bond can teach all of us about SEO: Read More
WordPress Blog SEO Tip – Use The More Tag
I was reviewing a WordPress blog for a client a few days ago and I noticed that they weren’t using the built-in blog snippet capabilities of WordPress – also known as the “more” tag.
Here’s why I recommend using the more tag in WordPress and how it works: Read More
Video SEO Basics Part 2
In Video SEO Basics Part 1, I talked about where you can place a video (answer: on your website first, then on video sharing sites) and the best way to maximize the search engine value of video you place on your own website. In part 2, I’ll talk about the basics of optimizing a video you upload to YouTube, the juggernaut of video sharing sites in the USA.
By the way, I created a quick little video that I hope sums up all the points here clearly and concisely – see below. Read More
Video SEO Basics Part 1
This is intended to be a very brief overview of a very broad topic. If you’d like to know more about a specific tactic or tip, please don’t hesitate to comment below.
Let’s pretend you are a marketing director for an auto dealership, and you’ve just created a nifty video that explains why your dealership is the best:
Here are the questions you may have:
- How do I use this video to improve my website’s search engine ranking?
- How can I make sure this video generates additional website visitors via search engine?
- What can I do to increase the likelihood someone will watch my video on YouTube? Read More
Business Blogging Tip – Linking To Your Site In Every Post
As a blogger with a little bit of experience and success (my blog on TundraHeadquarters.com does pretty good), I can attest to the fact that my blog posts are ripped off frequently.
Because I use Google Alerts, Yahoo Alerts, and Ubervu, I get a daily summary of mentions of all my brand names and I frequently see an exact copy of a TundraHQ blog post that someone has ripped off, posted to their own blog or website, and called their own. I used to get upset, but now I don’t care. Here’s why: Read More
Do You Need SEO, or Do You Need a Better Website?
As a Denver SEO consultant, every so often a potential client with a poorly converting website asks for SEO services. I want to give people what they ask for, but I know that finding a way to bring more visitors to a poorly converting website isn’t going to help. The conundrum for me is simple: I have to tell these people that they shouldn’t buy SEO services from me (or anyone else) until we can get the website working better. As you can imagine, this doesn’t always go well! 
Sometimes the problem isn’t that people aren’t finding your website on the search engines – it’s that the website doesn’t work. Read More
Two Minute Guide to SEO Title Tags
The HTML title tag <title> is arguably the most important element of on-site search engine optimization (SEO). A good tag is both descriptive of the content on a web page AND keyword-sensitive. Here’s how you can write a decent title tag in less than two minutes. Read More
SEO Quake Firefox Plugin For Beginners
After reading Tony Writes blog post about FireFTP, it got me thinking: what are my most useful Firefox Plugins…and why don’t I share them with the world? From the sound of his blog post, Tony didn’t know about FireFTP until a few weeks ago. That’s on me I think – I’ve been using it for more than a year without telling a soul. Shame on me for not sharing the knowledge – until today. I’m going to try and write a few posts on my favorite Firefox plugins, starting today with SEOQuake. Read More