Category Archives: Free SEO Tools

Calculating the Potential Value of an Exact Match Domain

January 25, 2012 – 4:32 pm

We recommend that all of our clients adopt a multi-site strategy for rankings, as it increases the number of sites they can have ranking for any particular target keyword phrase. This multi-site strategy also helps mitigate some of the risks of search engine optimization. For competitive keywords, finding such domains can be a difficult task. However for long-tail terms [...]

By Russ Jones | Also posted in Google, SEO | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Low-Risk, High-Reward Link Development

November 11, 2011 – 11:04 am

Yesterday Virante’s CTO Russ Jones (Twitter: @rjonesx) spoke at PubCon in Las Vegas on the topic “Low Risk, High Reward Link Development.” Virante Director of Customer Relations Jacob Bobhall (Twitter: @jakebohall) live tweeted the talk. The following is an aggregation of his tweets (with hashtags & a few other references removed): SEO Misconception: paid links are [...]

By Mark Traphagen | Also posted in Presentations, SEO, Virante | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Google Page Speed Tool Helps Optimize Your Site’s Load Speed

October 12, 2011 – 9:54 am

Google has handed a graduation diploma from Google Labs to its Page Speed Online tool, which is now “in the wild” as they say. Find it at https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/. It’s home page couldn’t be more simple: just enter your site’s URL and click “Analyze.”   Once inside, Google Page Speed Online offers a number of suggestions for [...]

By Mark Traphagen | Also posted in Analytics, Google, Paid Search | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

How to Report Scraper Pages to Google

August 30, 2011 – 6:54 pm

It’s one of the more frustrating experiences for any original content producer. You work hard to craft an interesting, well-researched, readable blog post or article. A day or two later you type the posts primary keywords into Google to see how your content is ranking. And there is your sweat-and-blood work published word-for-word on someone [...]

By Mark Traphagen | Also posted in Google, SEO, Social Media | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Website Launch Flowchart

May 11, 2009 – 6:32 am

This flowchart is a detailed guide that covers optimized website design, development and multichannel marketing integration. Web design doesn’t exist in a vacuum nor does marketing. The most optimized, easiest functioning and best performing sites are those that find a balance between design, content, business tool complexity and marketing integration. Download this free chart.

By Mark Traphagen | Also posted in Virante | Tagged , , | Comments (0)