June 2009

Reading time: 8 – 13 minutes Why a Maryland Business website needs to improve it’s link popularity: What is it and why you’d better start thinking in these terms. There can be only one number one. Google has to pick one, just one… everyone else is second place or worse. How does Google Decide who [...]

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Search Engine Optimization Code of Ethics

by David Bruce Jr on 2009/06/30

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Whereas all parties are working towards presenting relevant and high quality information in an easy to use format to information seekers, and whereas SEO practitioners are being contracted to assist clients in obtaining higher rankings for client pages, we (and those linking to this page) are voluntarily adhering to [...]

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Why does SEO cost so much?

by David Bruce Jr on 2009/06/30

Reading time: 9 – 14 minutes Internet Advertising = Search Engine Marketing or search engine wizardry… to accomplish this in the great state of Maryland (and the entire world for that matter) requires Maryland Search Engine Optimization. Let’s break that last sentence down: Maryland (self explanatory, I sell advertising in Maryland) Search Engine (for 90% [...]

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Organic vs Sponsored pay per click

by David Bruce Jr on 2009/06/25

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes How do I Rank Higher in Google? When advertising on via the Internet you need to compete against other websites. What you’re attempting is to get your companies website to rank higher in the search engines than your competitors website. Too often a new Maryland Internet advertising client will [...]

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What are backlinks and why do I need them?

by David Bruce Jr on 2009/06/23

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes Backlinks 101 Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. In the search engine optimization (SEO) world, the number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (though other measures, such as PageRank, are likely to be more important). Outside [...]

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