At the end of every year Google puts out a Year in Search review. Highlighting the search trends of everyone who types a query into Google’s search engine over the past year. Grand Rapids The report has broken up my country and city, here is the link for Top trending...
Search engines are used by most people every day without knowing how they work or why they work. Since the introduction of paid search advertising, now businesses do their best to manipulate search engines to show their websites first. But is it as simple as paying...
How They Can Improve Your Search Rankings The first thing you should look into for an SEO company is what they can bring to your website so it can be seen by everybody. Make sure that they can outline a good strategy to get you the best results. If they are able to...
Keywords While keywords are important for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), it’s important not to use too many. Using too many keywords will cause the the search engine to think you’re “keyword stuffing” or inserting keywords just to increase your search engine...
SEO is all about optimizing your website right? Well a big part of that optimizing doesn’t even take place on your website, this is called Off Page SEO. Consider this your website’s “reputation” on the online community. The better your sites reputation, the more...
How your website is built also plays a large part in SEO. If you are going to use a template based builder like WordPress, Wix or Squarespace, SEO is already a part of your website but the SEO information will need to be filled in for it to work properly. This post...
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the process of making your website easy for search engines to find and rank. When a user types a search query into an engine (like Google, Bing or Yahoo), the engine then searches for websites that best match that search query...
I've been in this industry for over five years now, and when I say "this industry" I really mean many different industries at the same time. Our company, Grand Apps, started as an app development & design firm and transitioned into a full marketing agency. So I've...
SEO is a term thrown around loosely by internet "marketers" claiming they can rank you to page one on Google. Let's be honest, Google is not dumb. Google can change anything at anytime to de-rank you. Recently they mandated you must have a mobile optimized site or you...
So the time is coming where Google will require your small business to have a strong mobile experience for visitors. We have seen this coming for a very long time, but it is finally mandated and set for April 21st, 2015. Pretty much if you don't have a mobile friendly...