Why Video Marketing is More Important than Local SEO

Over the past year I have been helping more and more local businesses on Long Island and Manhattan with their online marketing strategies. Problem with most local companies is they do not have much of a strategy to begin with. This is totally understandable, but it does make it easier to work with a company […]

Why Conversions Are More Important Than Page 1 Google

Time after time I meet with companies and the first thing they ask is how I can get them on page 1 Google. Now don’t get me wrong, first page Google is very important and needs to be a main priority. But one of the first questions I ask is what their conversion ratio is. […]

OnSite SEO 101

Onsite SEO is so important. About 80% of your success will come from onsite SEO. I have proved this many times to my clients. The problem is there is a lot of bad information on the Internet when it comes to SEO. Plus, there are many companies that just sell a backlink service because it […]

Internal Linking Structure Best Practices

Internal linking is more important than you think for SEO. Internal linking has to do with how your webpages are linked to each other. The anchor text, the amount of links, what pages link to what, all matter. Google likes relevant content being linked to each other inside a website and to other sites. The […]

How to Monetize a Website

If you want to monetize your website, there are many directions to go in. Which direction comes down to the type of website, are you selling products or services, a content site, a forum… once I understand your site more it will be easier to point you in the right direction on how to make […]

Video SEO Best Practices

Video SEO is very important if you are performing video marketing. From YouTube to your website, it is very important to make sure that if you are spending the time on video, you should put yourself in the best position possible to get the most out of the videos. One thing you should do is […]

How to Not Over SEO a Website

Google came out with the Google Panda Update in April, 2011. Since then Google has come out with many other updates around the Panda update. Panda was supposed to fight content farms, sites that have a lot of duplicated content that were manipulating Google’s algorithm. Many large sites got hit like ehow.com. The newest update […]

OnlyWire Review for Social Media

Onlywire.com is a great service that helps distribute your content on social media sites. It can help with backlinks and driving more traffic, plus it is automated. I have been using the service for years and it does work well. OnlyWire will not make or break or company but can help ease the pain of […]

How to Use Long Tail Keywords to Make $30,000 per month

There is a market in long-tail keywords. We run multiple sites that target this strategy. But anyone in any industry can easily make this an SEO strategy. Long-tail means 3 or more words in a keyword. It isn’t always smart to target the most competitive keywords or the most search for keywords, because it will […]

Local SEO Best Practices

Local SEO is much easier than any nationwide SEO campaign. It is amazing how some nationwide brands are not good at local SEO. I won’t name any companies. Local SEO can easily be accomplished by just optimizing a website and moving it to WordPress. The video below shows 4 websites that I have moved to […]