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Bonnie Dewkett is a Silver author on EvanCarmichael.com – to view her articles click here.  We asked her how she got her first customer, here is what she said: How I Got My First Client I got my first Social Ocean client through a newspaper article the local paper ran on our startup. I sent our press [...]

Yesterday was the first day of another fantastic year at SES Toronto!  It was a great experience being surrounded by so many Search Engine Strategy experts – I have learned so much and I’m so excited to share all the information! Below I have highlighted some of the most important points from yesterday’s sessions: Introduction [...]

Today is Day 1 of Seach Engine Strategies 2012 in Toronto. I’m here with Adis and Marija from my team and we’ll be covering the hilights from the conference. Here are some of my favourite comments from Day 1: Enterprise-Level SEO with @lyndseo Reporting – the SEO funnel – Crawling – Are your pages being [...]

  So you’ve got the greatest product to hit the market in a long time…now what? How do you get people to find out about, let alone buy it? That’s where marketing comes in. You’ve got to make sure you’re selling your products or services in the right way and to the right market. That’s [...]

Algorithms, robots and cloaks got you confused? To make sure your customers are able to find your company’s website online, you need to master more than just the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) jargon. You need to understand how search engines work, and how to design your website in a way that will get it noticed. [...]

At my last SEO for Africa I introduced a new initiative called SEO Buffet. The concept is simple: I’ll give you free advice for your website and profile you on my blog if you bring me food from your cultural background! The first person to respond was John Carr. John is a Toronto based real [...]

(Photo Credit: Bakerella) If you’re still on the fence as to if you should be using Twitter or are wondering if you’re getting the most you can from the service here are 5 practical ways that I’ve used Twitter to grow my business in the past week. As I’ve mentioned before, Twitter is the #1 [...]

(Photo Credit: Jeff McNeill) This is a special edition of SEO University where I have a guest post by Elisa Gabbert. Elisa was introduced to me by Byron Gordon, a great guy who I’ve worked with for a couple of years at the Search Engine Strategies conferences here in Toronto. When Byron asks me to [...]

It’s time for Part 2 in my series on Link Building Tactics. As I mentioned before, links are an important part of Google’s algorithm – if you don’t have links to your site, you won’t rank well for your keywords. Last month I wrote about how you can check the real number of links coming [...]

As a part of my ongoing SEO University posts I’m going to begin a series on Link Building Tactics. From its inception Google has weighed links very heavily when deciding where to rank a website in its index. Links count as votes and the more links and higher quality links you have from authority websites, [...]