The standard refrain in SEO is that “content is king.”  That might sound cliche, but content really does make or break a site and its search engine rankings.  Good information makes your website sticky, and optimized content tells the search engines what you’re all about.  Creating new content to put online is a critical aspect [...]

Local search got a big boost this month when Google rolled out an international change: showing local results on non-local queries.  So now a search for ‘machine shops’ shows a local 10-pack for machine shops near me in Minneapolis:

Before this update, I would have had to search using “machine shops minneapolis” to get the local [...]

Well, your SEO blogger may have been under the weather lately, but that doesn’t stop the flood of SEO news coming in.  To hlep me get back in the swing of things, and to get you caught up, here’s just some of what’s been going on lately:

German Internet sales grew in 2008. Despite the economic [...]