Google makes periodic adjustments to its algorithm for determining organic search results. It likely does this each day, using small adjustments, to avoid large-scale mayhem that infrequent adjustments would presumably cause. Recently, however, many SEO professionals have detected dramatic drops in organic search results from certain keyword phrases with multiple words, known as “long tail” keywords.... 

I spend a lot of time working on SEO (Search Engine Optimization), both for myself and for clients/customers. There’re a lot of “standard” questions I get asked, but one of the most common is “just how much do links really count?” A few months ago, I was helping a client with a blog. I totally restructured and redesigned their blog. Their blog had been around a while, but only had 2 posts.... 

It’s essential to understand SEO before you spend thousands hiring consultants you may not even need. Search engine optimization–the canny use of keywords and other techniques designed to shoot a website to the top of a search–is the make-or-break factor for many new businesses. It is also the web’s unfolding, and unregulated, frontier. There are countless SEO strategists, consultants and self-professed...