Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! This is a topic definitely worth devoting a whole blog post to, because in all forums, blogs, etc. that I visit where small web business owners are, I see repeated questions about this. Here is my attempt to address this subject once and for all. Meta description Tag = Good […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, I’ll begin today’s post with a description of a normal day for us at Solas Web Design: I get up, my husband makes tea, I turn on my computer and check all emails. My husband sets the tea down for me, I give him a little kiss of thanks, and […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Bill Slawski has just published the beginnings of his Local Search Glossary. Who better than Bill to make sense of all of the factors that may go into determining how your business could be ranked in Local Search? In case you’ve yet to notice, Local Search is the new frontier […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! There are 3 quick things I want to preface this article with. 1) I am a complete novice to the web 2.0 social bookmarking/tagging/media/marketing world. This article is written through the eyes of a complete newcomer. 2) My intention in writing this is not to put down the services in […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! My husband and I have a special affinity for small business e-commerce websites. As our portfolio shows, the majority of projects we’ve worked on to date have been for small sales-oriented companies, whether they make their own products, or retail products they are getting from a wholesaler. The goal for […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Today, Gord Hotchkiss posted about his recent interview with Ms. Mayer of Google over at Search Engine Land. If you haven’t yet read up on Google’s new personalized search strategies, Danny Sullivan’s definitive post on the subject will teach you all about exactly what personalized search is and how it […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Search Engine Land has become one of my favorite places on the Internet. I visit it on pretty much all 5 business days of the week because, frankly, the authority of the authors cannot be beat. The men who run this recently-launched blog are some of the world’s most respected […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Today, I hopped over into Google’s Local Search in Google Maps to take a look at how a client of ours is doing. Local Search is key to this client’s visibility on the web as they are an elder care provider, and obviously, this means that they provide their services […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! My father is an honest man. In point of fact, people have often accused him of being too honest. Some years ago when he was trying to sell my parents’ house which, to tell the truth, had a lot of things wrong with it, my mother and I listened to […]

Warning! This is a silly article. No offense intended to Dave Pasternack. My image of a Rocket Scientist is of a fellow in a long white coat, snowy hair somewhat disarrayed, and yet exuding an aura of wisdom that commands respect from all he knows. I picture him working in a spotless lab, doing brilliant […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, Over the past few months, I have been studying Google’s new Local Search – a resource that is going to be vital to countless small business owners. There are many, many details about Local Search that will be important for you to learn about, but I wanted to write a […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Some projects we have the fortune to be brought in on are so neat and fun, it’s a pleasure to talk about them. Businesswoman, Christina Niven, runs one of the Internet’s top resources for Civics lessons for people for whom English is a second language: Elcivics.com. In many cases, the […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, For this post to make sense, and for you to understand what Google’s new personalization feature is all about, and how it will affect you personally, please start out the way I did by reading Danny Sullivan’s in-depth post Google Ramps Up Personalized Search over at Search Engine Land. Danny’s […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! In case you have yet to hear, Wikipedia has now decided to nofollow all of the links on their site. What does this mean? Basically, they have implemented a practice where all links now include a snippet of code that looks like this:(rel=”nofollow”). This tells search engines not to follow […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! The time had finally come to replace my waterproof boots. One trek too many into the countryside and a jaunt across a creek which resulted in the horrid sensation of wet socks compelled me to realize it was time to say goodbye to the old, faded, mud-stained boots that had […]