The Search Engine Optimization experts at Brick Marketing are happy to announce Seattle SEO Workshops. Designed for business owners, web designers, and marketing specialists, each SEO workshop will instruct participants in the basics of white hat Search Engine Optimization. The Seattle SEO Workshop will be held in Seattle, Washington and will provide a comprehensive overview .

Whenever a local reporter calls because they need help with an article about SEO or online marketing I am almost always willing to answer their questions. A half hour on the phone or a quick email answering 4 or 5 questions is well worth my time, even if it's an extra busy day, because I [...] The post Can Helping a Reporter Help Your SEO? appeared first on SEO Journal by Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing .

The Search Engine Optimization experts from Brick Marketing are happy to announce full-day Miami SEO Workshops. Hosted in Miami, Florida, the Miami SEO Workshops are designed for business owners and marketing professionals and provides a detailed overview of SEO best practices as well as how to integrate social media and content marketing into an SEO [...] The post Miami SEO Workshops By Brick Marketing appeared first on SEO Journal by Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing .

I was speaking with a new client the other day about their former SEO efforts. Their previous SEO firm had outlined in their contract exactly which ten keywords )10?!( they would target on the site and include the content marketing efforts. This client owns a local business so most of their keywords were localized )think [...] The post Don't Be Afraid of Competitive Keywords appeared first on SEO Journal by Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing .

Search Engine Optimization firm, Brick Marketing, announces full-day Dallas SEO Workshops in Dallas, Texas. Ideally suited for business owners and marketing professionals, each full-day Dallas SEO Workshop gives attendees a comprehensive overview of SEO and demonstrates how to integrate social media and content marketing into an SEO strategy. Not only will participants gain a greater .

Blog comments are a great way to increase inbound links to your website. By leaving well written, insightful comments on a blog post with a link back to your website, you add more inbound links back to your site which helps with your site's SEO. Unfortunately, the process of finding the right blogs to comment [...] The post Researching Blogs for Blog Commenting appeared first on SEO Journal by Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing .

I've been working in the SEO industry for nearly 13 years as an in-house SEO professional, freelance SEO consultant and now as the owner of an SEO company. In that time I've dealt with just about every level of management possible from small business owner, to marketing director to company CEO and I have learned .

Brick Marketing will host full day Chicago SEO Workshops in Chicago, Illinois. Designed for business owners and marketing professionals, each Chicago SEO Workshop provides a comprehensive overview of SEO and instructs attendees how to integrate social media marketing into a SEO strategy. Not only will participants leave the workshop with a better understanding of SEO, .

Does your business exist solely online? Maybe you run an e-commerce website, own an online registration software company or work in online education"whatever you may do, your whole business exists on the Internet. You may or may not have a physical office )maybe all your employees telecommute(, but it's imperative that you get a physical [...] The post A Physical Address is Essential for Local SEO appeared first on SEO Journal by Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing .

This guest post is by Aleh Barysevich of Link-Assistant.Com Have you ever considered your site's redesign? If you want to keep up with current web trends and technologies, you definitely have. On the surface, improved layout and usability should attract more visitors. However, in reality webmasters often report post-redesign dramatic traffic drops. To avoid losing .

Calling all New York City business owners, web designers, and marketing specialists, Brick Marketing is now offering full-day New York City SEO Workshops. In each full-day SEO seminar, participants will be immersed in the basics of white hat Search Engine Optimization best practices. Hosted in New York, New York, Brick Marketing's New York SEO Workshops .

Broken links, both internally and externally, are bound to happen from time to time. For instance, external blog posts and resources that you link to from your own website might get pulled down or redirected by their respective owners. You have no control over what someone does on their website, and it's not like a [...] The post Can Broken Links Hurt Your Website? appeared first on SEO Journal by Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing .

Crawl rate is the frequency in which search engine spiders visit and re-index your website. New content will get indexed faster on sites that have a higher crawl rate, which helps increase the site's overall online search presence. Continually creating and publishing new and unique content is essential for SEO. When you publish new content, [...] The post How Content Creation Affects Crawl Rate appeared first on SEO Journal by Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing .

Obviously the first part of any content marketing strategy )and arguably the hardest( is actually creating the content. Content could really be anything including a blog post, article or white paper, video, podcast, infographic, case study and more. Each piece of content comes with its own challenges and rewards and can be used to target [...] The post Who Will Help Your Content Promotion? appeared first on SEO Journal by Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing .

A few years ago I was working with one of those lucky startups. By lucky I mean they had a decent amount of VC funding and weren't completely bootstrapped for a budget. They even had allocated a set amount of their marketing budget for a startup SEO campaign because they wanted the full SEO/social media [...] The post 4 Pieces of Startup SEO Advice appeared first on SEO Journal by Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing .

I was speaking with a potential new local SEO client a few weeks ago, about developing and implementing a white hat link building campaign for his website. Things were going pretty well on the call until he mentioned that he really only wanted 500 inbound links created throughout the course of the link building campaign. [...] The post I Only Want 500 Inbound Links Please appeared first on SEO Journal by Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing .

H1 tags serve as the headline of your webpage. They are helpful in SEO as they are a great place to add priority keywords and are beneficial for the user experience as they let the reader know what to expect. Watch this week's SEO video lesson here! For more on site SEO lessons, check out [...] The post Optimizing H1 Tags for SEO " SEO Video Lesson appeared first on SEO Journal by Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing .

A recent interview by Eric Enge with Matt Cutts is causing a bit of a stir in the SEO community. In his recent interview Cutts is quoted as saying, "I would not be surprised if at some point in the future we did not start to discount these infographic-type links to a degree'The link is [...] The post Are Infographics in Trouble? appeared first on SEO Journal by Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing .

Yes, you read that right"one keyword. An SEO client I worked with a few years back was adamant about it. They wanted all their SEO efforts focused on one main keyword, no variations, no long tail, no nothing. Keep in mind that this was in a pre-Penguin world so even though diversification of anchor text .

Many B2B companies are faced with the same problems when it comes to their SEO. They do a great job with their keyword research and onsite SEO, they build and execute a solid link building plan and things seem to be trending upward. But then somewhere around month six it feels like their B2B SEO [...] The post Fresh Content Keeps B2B SEO Alive appeared first on SEO Journal by Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing .