http://www.slingshotseo.com/feeds/blog-rss.xml Slingshot SEO's Blog RSS Feed en-US http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/07/spring-growth-new-hires-and-partnership-with-exacttarget June saw a huge month of growth here at Slingshot. Kevin, our president, in addition to hosting what has to be the most outrageous new employee ceremony to ever be held in these fine SEO offices (see the video below), announced that we had just become trusted partners with ExactTarget.     If you’re not familiar with ExactTarget, let me acquaint you. Started right... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/07/spring-growth-new-hires-and-partnership-with-exacttarget#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:01:52 -0500 Phil Golobish http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/07/spring-growth-new-hires-and-partnership-with-exacttarget http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/5-tips-for-boosting-your-blogs-content You’re doing great!  You started a blog and have been posting on a regular basis with diligence.  But sometimes frequency isn’t enough to have a successful blog that adds value to your website and increases your visibility in searches. Content that is consistently of high quality is essential for your blog to move forward... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/5-tips-for-boosting-your-blogs-content#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:59:45 -0500 Kelly Wise http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/5-tips-for-boosting-your-blogs-content http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/will-google-caffeine-impact-seo   Google’s recent launch of its new indexing infrastructure Caffeine has stirred up the question among SEO enthusiasts about whether or not this will have a notable impact on optimization results or the process needed for a successful SEO process.  The revamp does not change Google’s algorithm for ranking, instead, according to the Google blog, it is a sytem that’s “more than 50 percent fresher than our last index and it’s the... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/will-google-caffeine-impact-seo#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:23:21 -0500 Kelly Wise http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/will-google-caffeine-impact-seo http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/get-connected-social-media-and-your-clients I will be the first to admit that the Twitter craze didn’t capture me when the obsession first came about and it seemed like the waves of news stories revolving around Hollywood Twitter news would never cease.  It was the “socialite” mentality associated with this type of media that kept me from taking any “tweet” talk seriously. ... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/get-connected-social-media-and-your-clients#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:44:38 -0500 Kelly Wise http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/get-connected-social-media-and-your-clients http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/on-page-factors-vs-off-page-factors On-page Factors VS. Off-page Factors Successful Internet marketers have known for years that people go to the web for only two reasons:  To be entertained or to solve a problem - quickly.  Because of this, I tend to take a "Keep it simple stupid" approach to website design and always use simple segmentation calls-to-action and UVP's (Unique Value Propositions) to funnel website visitors to my... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/on-page-factors-vs-off-page-factors#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:25:29 -0500 Chad Pollitt http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/on-page-factors-vs-off-page-factors http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/online-reputation-management Remember the days of writing bibliographies for research papers on 5x7 index cards in the middle school library?  The teachers insisted that references come from credible sources; preferably published.  As a youngster, it seemed that MLA or Chicago style of citation was... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/online-reputation-management#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:29:11 -0500 Kimberley Greuel http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/online-reputation-management http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/the-mobile-generation-of-seo   I think it’s fair to say that we’ve all lived through that defining moment when we realized that the old flip phone doesn’t hold its’ ground when compared to the rapidly growing smart phones that have come to dominate the market.  Despite its excellent texting capabilities and durability when thrown against a wall, the traditional cell phone’s lack of... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/the-mobile-generation-of-seo#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:41:03 -0500 Kelly Wise http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/06/the-mobile-generation-of-seo http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/05/kevin-bailey-provides-insight-into-how-to-value-seo Press Release Contact: Daren Tomey VP of Sales 888.603.7337 ext.205 Kevin Bailey, President and cofounder of Slingshot SEO, provides insight into “How to Value SEO” in terms of Google first page ranking. Answering the question, “What’s the value of a first page search engine ranking, anyway?” is... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/05/kevin-bailey-provides-insight-into-how-to-value-seo#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 13:52:20 -0500 Kelly Wise http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/05/kevin-bailey-provides-insight-into-how-to-value-seo http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-optimize-images-on-your-site-for-natural-search-strategies Does your website have images? Of course it does! Images make content more lively and attractive, helping to keep a visitor's attention focused on your message.Too often, however, we see we websites ignoring the few easy guidelines Google has published... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-optimize-images-on-your-site-for-natural-search-strategies#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:15:36 -0500 Jesse Laffen http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-optimize-images-on-your-site-for-natural-search-strategies http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/mobile-search-turf-war Mobile search is hotter than it has ever been. Nearly 83% of American Adults are carrying cell phones, with 20% of those being smart devices, one can see marketers urgency to grab their piece of the pie. Towards the end of the first quarter a turf war has started to develop between everyone's favorite tech giants Apple and Google.  There have been reports Apple has their own search engine... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/mobile-search-turf-war#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:48:44 -0500 Zach Marburger http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/mobile-search-turf-war