What the Duck Is DuckDuckGO?
When I was working part-time at a Mexican restaurant in high school (to save up for that b-e-a-utiful prom dress I saw at the mall), there were a few behaviors from diners that I was forced to ignore -...
View ArticleWhat Does an SEO Company Actually Do?
I know a paramedic who so despises talking about what he does for a living that, when asked, he tells people “I’m a proctologist.” And I’m going to be honest: over the years, I’ve started doing...
View ArticleShould You Optimize Your Page for Yahoo!?
If Bing is the T.J. Maxx of search engines, then Yahoo! is the weird impulse-buy section of eclectic snacks in T.J. Maxx by the registers. Yes, it’s weird that I’m intimately familiar with the interior...
View ArticleHow Do I Switch SEO Companies?
One of my favorite things to do SEO-wise is clean up messes. I love poking around in a website that’s been treated badly, thinking to myself “what the duck?”, then cracking my knuckles, doing that...
View Article5 Reasons You Should Not Care About Google’s In Depth Articles
If you’ve done a search on the World Wide Web recently, you may have heard of a new thing Google is rolling out called In-Depth Articles. You can probably guess what these are – detailed, well...
View ArticleWhy Have My Google Rankings Gone Down?
Have you noticed that your website has recently lost its ranking position in search engine results? Working at an SEO company in Maryland, I’m used to hearing new clients say things like, “I used to...
View ArticleMarketing Your Home Service Business Online: Part 1
If you own a need-based home service company and you’re reading this blog post, you’re probably well aware of the fact that the Internet has dramatically changed the marketing and advertising...
View ArticleMarketing Your Home Service Business Online: Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of my three part blog series on how to market your home service business online. In Part 1, I wrote about the importance of selecting a good Web marketing partner and gave you my...
View ArticleHow to Translate Google Webmaster Tools Messages
From training your new employees and managing customer service, to creating estimates on a new residential insulation project or designing a fire sprinkler system, small business owners wear an...
View ArticleHow to Not Break Bad with Your SEO
I was late to the Breaking Bad party. Last December I decided to catch up, and I blew through every aired episode in a month. I became hooked. It instantly became my favorite current TV show, and on...
View ArticleWhat Is Keyword Stuffing?
Last Thanksgiving, I got upset when no one at my family dinner laughed at my keyword stuffing joke. Now that I think about it, they never get any of my SEO nerd jokes. For all you non-SEO nerds out...
View ArticleImportance of Page Speed for Remodeling Websites
“How are page speed and remodeling websites related?” you may find yourself asking—and it’s a fair question, especially since page speed and a remodeling website are seemingly unrelated. When it comes...
View ArticleIs Your Relationship with Your SEO Company Healthy?
Have you ever had the misfortune of working with a client or customer that you just flippin’ hated? The kind of person who questioned your every move, wouldn’t let you do your job and just made life...
View ArticleHow to Optimize Your Yelp Listing for Search Engines
As consumers, we’re constantly searching for user reviews before we put our hard-earned money towards any restaurant, hotel, or online purchase. This is especially true when it comes to major...
View ArticleCan Yahoo! Answers Help Your SEO?
I know it may seem like Yahoo! is like the kid who tries hard to be popular and just falls short every time…who uses Yahoo! anymore—right? Wrong! Instead, ask, “Can I use Yahoo! to help my...
View ArticleHow to Write a Reconsideration Request
Getting in trouble as a kid was so much easier. You’d get a slap on the wrist or have to sit in the corner for what seemed like eternity (i.e. five minutes). As mean as your parents might have been, I...
View ArticleSearch Engine Over-Optimization
Is Your Site Too Optimized for Search Engines?I feel like search engine used to be so black and white. Actually, my work wife, Hannah, blogged about black and white hat SEO yesterday. In the good ol’...
View ArticleSEO (Search Engine Optimization) Acronyms
If you stepped into one of our Blue Corona offices for a day, you might think we’re from another planet. I’m not just referring to the “out of this world” number of days in a given week that my...
View ArticleSEO Acronyms or AcroNOTs?
Earlier this week, I did my Blue Corona copywriter duty and posted a blog post on SEO acronyms—listing out around 20 acronyms from the SEO industry and explaining what each meant. Well, all work and no...
View ArticleWondering How to Push Down Yelp Reviews?
Unless you’re Bob Perini, you’ve probably gotten a bad review before. After all, we (minus Bob) are only human. (Bob, in case you are wondering, is superhuman.) In the past, you mostly just had to...
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