Are Multiple Domains BAD for SEO? 
Having multiple domains for websites can be really bad. If you have various domains with websites or “micro-sites” that promote your business, offerings or services the same way (AKA “duplicate content”), you are confusing your customer or potential customer, and sabotaging your search engine ranking.
Search engines decide and choose original content that displays more relevancy to a given search query. So, don’t copy or clone your content from other sources.
Now, that’s not to say having multiple domains is altogether bad–it depends on how you use them: Continue reading
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SEO tips of the month
What’s your website grade?
For those of you who would like to know how your website is performing, and what steps you can take to improve its performance and search engine ranking, go to websitegrader.com, a free website analysis tool, enter your website address, and click “Generate Report”. The cool thing about this site, is you can also check out your competitions’ websites and see how they rank.
Google Places–location, location, location!
Calling All “Uber” Multitaskers!
LaPraya McCoy, a reporter with the Daily Press, one of the large newspapers serving Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA, has contacted us for help with an article she is writing. Here is the email she sent us:
“Hi, I hope all is well. I am currently working on a story about why people multitask and what experts say about multitasking. Do you have any friends who say will have Facebook up, check e-mails, talk on the phone and watch TV all at once? Do you know anyone who you consider a heavy “multitasker,” if so, please let me know asap. E-mail laprayam@yahoo.com with the contact info (phone number, e-mail address, etc.)…. Thanks!”
How about it–any “uber” mutlitaskers out there?
DIY Website Optimization Step 6 – Blogs and Social Media
Blog, become a “social butterfly”, convert visitors to leads and improve your search engine ranking.
Google LOVES blogs, because their content is always changing. A blog can really push your website higher in the rankings, but only if it’s part of your website, like ours is, as opposed to using a third party like Wordpress.com to host it.
Smellycat Blogging Workshop in the News!
In case you might have missed it, the Daily Press ran a great article on our blogging workshops in their 8/29 Sunday edition that included a few nice shout-outs for some of our clients!
“My Webmaster takes care of me” (NOT!)
Over the last few months I have been asking business owners why they have a website and have been amazed by their answers.
The number one answer I get is, “because I need one”.
When I ask how they are measuring the numbers and types of visitors coming to their website, they have no idea what I am talking about.
When I ask them if they would like to have their website optimized so they will maintain (or get to) the first page position of a search, they invariably answer “My webmaster (or whoever) takes care of that”.
Oh really? Not from what I’ve seen. Almost every small (and large) business website I see is poorly, if at all, optimized.
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