As we reach the final day of Week One, today we’re focusing on putting all of our SEO Basics into play and integrating what we’ve learned into our strategies. In my personal opinion, there is no SEO strategy as important as blogging. Blogs serve many purposes; the main of which are to increase your amount of indexed pages and to increase your keyword saturation.   We write blogs to offer our web visitors some different reasons...

Keyword research and competition research truly go hand-in-hand when developing your SEO strategy, especially for a new website. In networking, you have your Power Partners, or influential individuals who you can not only learn from, but mimic and aspire to. These Power Partners have done it all, they’ve figured out the strategies for success, and they are reaping the benefits. Researching your competition online for search marketing is no...

A key element in determining your best SEO strategy is to research your competition. If they are doing well, out-ranking you and everyone else, it’s probably a good indication that the strategies they are using are working for them. Fortunately, if those SEO strategies are working for your competition, they will no doubt work for you as well. Competition Research Steps   1. Conduct a Search. First you must determine who your competition is....

Now that we have our keywords in order, it’s time to integrate those keywords onto your website. For the purposes of this Gilbert SEO Success article, I am going to walk you through how to update your on-site optimization in WordPress. Since I build all of my client websites on WordPress, and am completely biased regarding how amazing WordPress is, this is where we will s tart. If you have a WordPress website, this article is for you. If you...