Reno SEO, Web Design & Internet Marketing

Many designers, developers, content managers and webmasters forget to utilize text or body copy for navigation and internal linking structure. Part of a strong optimization process involves capitalizing on your content for in-content or contextual links which link to pages deep within you site.
Use good anchor text that relates to the page you are linking [...]

Do not allow your administration page to get indexed by the search engines
With this one simple line added to your robots.txt file you can avoid having your content management system (CMS) administration or login page indexed by the search engines.
Disallow: /admin/
Note: change “admin” to whatever directory or page has your CMS login on it. For [...]

Over the last couple of days I have spent quite a bit of time reviewing business blogs and compiling business blogging recommendations for several of our clients. Because many of our clients are local, a large portion of my time was spent reviewing the local business blog scene (including many of our competitors) and I [...]

To compliment our “10 Questions You Should Ask a Prospective Web Design Company” we have put together this list of 10 questions you should ask any SEO company you may be interviewing. Not only will these questions give you a better understanding of who you are interviewing, but they should also raise any red flags [...]

We talked about it back in July (with a bit more of a green tint), but the discussion of how beneficial all forms of online marketing can be in an economic downturn has definitely raised its head again. Rand at SEOMoz.org touches on search engine optimization in a downturn in his post today and the [...]

Google, amid much fanfare and crazed celebration, recently introduced a starter guide on search engine optimization (SEO) to the webmaster community.  The PDF document is aimed at users less familiar with standard SEO techniques and those that “wish to improve their sites’ interaction with both users and search engines.”
Titles
Hello my name is Fred and there’s [...]

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If you were looking for more reasons to hire a search engine optimization firm maybe this article and the data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project will give you all the reasons you need.
Pew found that the use of search engines, both the large generic kind and the small site specific kind, has [...]

The Ball Game
Rob Sabo, 7/14/2008 – NNBW.biz
A new football-tossing machine by Verdi-based Sports Attack LLC might just give the tiny 13-year-old company a leg-up in the sports throwing-machine industry.
Sports Attack last week introduced its “Snap Attack,” a throwing machine that simulates the quarterback snap, as well as the passing and kicking aspects of football. The [...]

It’s been one month since I originally wrote about our client, Creating Effective Organization, and how their new website received top ten rankings in under 2 weeks. I thought I would revisit the subject and check their rankings a month later.
Not much has changed in the past month. The title tags and the descriptions are [...]