I’m here at Search Engine Strategies Chicago, and today at the “Meet the Crawlers” session I asked the distinguished panel of representatives from the four major search engines the question: What is your current official position on simplifying the URLs selectively for bots like Googlebot, Yahoo Slurp, etc. by user-agent detection in order to drop […]

I get numerous calls and emails from really nice folks wanting help with SEO but who don’t have the budget to afford Netconcepts. I wish we could help all of them, but we are so full-on with client engagements we just can’t. So I do what I think will help them the most: I direct […]

No matter the size of the website, every SEO project should be broken down by task. This not only makes the project more manageable, but it also provides you with the ability to prioritize and set schedules. Organization within your SEO projects obviously helps keep the project moving; it also helps show the clients what […]

There are a lot of “social media experts” out there screaming that “YOU HAVE TO USE LINKBAIT!!! YOU HAVE TO SUBMIT TO SOCIAL MEDIA SITES!!!” Sure there are definite advantages to doing these things… quick traffic, a few new links, etc but… do you really have to? I am going to have to say that […]