SEO Red Flag: Still Talking About PageRank
By all external measures, Google’s PageRank is dead. Google announced that they are no longer providing public PageRank updates. Which means anyone still talking about PageRank as a metric for […]
SEO Red Flag: SEO is One and Done
[inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”” suffix=”@StoneyD”]There is no such thing as one time SEO. [/inlinetweet]You see this a lot when SEO is offered as part of a new website design. The developers […]
SEO Red Flag: SEO Means Optimizing Meta Tags
It’s been a very long time since meta tags helped improve a site’s search engine rankings. Unfortunately, there are still agencies today that equate optimizing meta tags with SEO. We […]
SEO Red Flag: “Keywords Are No Longer Relevant”
Let’s call this the biggest web marketing lie since Google rolled out the Hummingbird algorithm in 2013! Google and other search engines are getting better and better at understanding human […]
SEO Red Flag: No Social Media Efforts
Technically, SEO and social media marketing are two different things. However most people looking for SEO really just want an improved web presence that results in traffic, leads and sales, […]
SEO Red Flag: Touting Rankings Over Growth
I often tell prospects that if our company is able to help them grow their business without getting a single one of their keywords ranked on Google, we’ve done our […]
SEO Red Flag: “Keyword Density”
It’s been a long, long time since we’ve looked at the keyword density of a page. But amazingly, there are many people out there who still think that putting a […]
SEO Red Flag: Content Focus On Volume Not Value
There is nothing wrong with publishing content on a large scale. If you have the ability and the audience that craves it, by all means, push content out every month, […]
SEO Red Flag: No Content Marketing Plan
[inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”” suffix=””]Content is the backbone of a good online marketing strategy.[/inlinetweet] In fact, almost everything we do for SEO revolves around content. We fix the architecture of websites […]
SEO Red Flag: Logos for Irrelevant Search Engines
Have you ever been shopping around for an SEO and come across a site that shows the logos of all the search engines they’ll get your ranked on? You’ve seen […]
SEO Red Flag: “Links Don’t Matter”
Every once in a while, SEOs try to be so cutting edge that they fall off the deep end. In the past few years, there have been some pretty significant […]