What's your page rank?

So you've completed your title tag changes (the most important ones, by the way). Did you remember to resubmit your site to the search engines? It may take a few days/weeks/months to see any gains, but dont fret - we changed our tags and improved PR from 5 to 6 in less than 30 days. Knowing that PR is based on a log scale, well, you can see how happy we are. See a comparative graphic and compare your site's PR to other well-known, high traffic sites. And consider what it will take SEO-wise to improve your score to your desired goal. Good luck.

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Which Home Page Title Tag Looks Like Yours?

You are trying to capture search traffic. You rely on SEO. Does your Home Page title tag look more like Option 1 or Option 2?

For the Option 1 site, and assuming you have little brand awareness (hence your need to rely on SEO), are you expecting any Page 1 SERP listings? I wouldnt either.

In 80 characters or less, my suggested title tag revision would be: TopKeyword City State CompanyURL

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5 SEO Tips - you have your robots.txt so now what?

Now that the spiders can crawl your site (see my most recent post on creating a robots.txt file), where should you focus your SEO energy to get the most impact? My five suggested areas are:

• Title tags and urls
• Other tags and headings
• Keywords and content
• Site map
• Site registration

I will try to blog individually about each area in my next several posts, but for now, if you can focus on these five areas, you may reduce your dependency on your SEO consultant and actually improve your page ranks in a fairly short period of time! And remember, Google owns all this stuff so if anyone tells you they truly know how to crack the SEO code, use caution...unless their names are either Larry or Sergey.

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