Blog

Well, the new website has recently been launched and it's time to start practicing these SEO skills on ourselves and optimize the new Timms Media site. The challenge, as you can imagine, is to optimize a business website in an industry where 100% of our competitors specialize in doing the same thing! In fact, a thorough analysis of available domain names turned up zero candidates. Usually it's good practice to register a domain name that relates to your industry or product/service offerings and location (if you specialize in a certain geographical area)...NOT the name of your business. (Contact us if you'd like more information on this subject.) A search for SEO-related domain names showed that every conceivable and acceptable domain name is already registered. It wasn't a surprise. So, we've decided once again to stay with timmsmedia.com. Optimizing the website wasn't a concern before as we've been content with several years of stable, successful contracts. But now it's time to stop resting on our laurels and expand the business! So we've challenged ourselves with the task of targeting a few keywords. Since we're located in Phoenix, AZ and a lot of our referrals are in the area, we've decided to target phoenix seo company for the next few months. Unfortunately a lot of competitors in this area are using a lot of shady tactics (so-called "black hat methods") to promote themselves, but we're confident that we can get good results with legitimate ...

On some level, you’ve no doubt suspected this was the case for some time. In 2008 online local search overtook all other sources used by consumers to find local businesses, including printed yellow pages, local newspapers and directory assistance. And now two major studies show that 97% have used the internet to research local products and services, while 85% have used the Yellow Pages in the last year*. The fact remains that for many new and established small and medium-sized businesses, Yellow Pages advertising is often the largest yearly advertising expenditure. Establishing or optimizing your website is less expensive than Yellow Pages advertising and most other forms of traditional advertising. It doesn’t lock you into yearly contracts, is very easy to correlate exact ROI for every dollar spent, and it can be updated more than once per year! Let us provide you with a free estimate and marketing analysis, and prove how you can receive more revenue and market share for your hard earned advertising dollars. Click here to read more about local search optimization *Sources: User Wave VII/ConStat 2010, Knowledge Networks/SRI 2009, eMarketer 2009

An SEO Consultant is easy to find. But what you may not know is that most "SEO consultants" or "SEO services" rely on methods that may be banned by Google, or may be destined to be discovered or banned by Google in the near future. Many of these so-called "SEO packages" rely on a method called link building, which is simply submitting your website link to hundreds or thousands of link directories (or "link farms") on the internet with the goal of increasing the Google rank of your website. These links initially provide some results, but are soon discovered by Google (and other search engines such as Yahoo and MSN) as search engine spam and the links are no longer acknowledged. That's why these so-called "SEO consultants" charge you a monthly fee, because they have to keep submitting your links each month to fresh new directories in order to keep the traffic coming to you! And if you've tried these services in the past, you know that the traffic is almost worthless if your visitors don't buy anything, or express interest on your site. The problem you are facing is, unfortunately, far too common. If you're reading this, you've no doubt already spent a lot of hard earned money or time setting up a website for your business or organization. Like nearly everyone else in your position, you probably expected to be getting more traffic than you are now...or maybe set your expectations just high enough to leave you disappointed. But the truth is, ...