5 Surefire Tips To Boost Your Small Business Website’s SEO

5 Tips for SEO Success

SEO tips to try if your want to improve your ranking Search Engine Optimization is a complicated business. If you’re like most other small business owners, you already have a million other things on your mind and spending hours trying to figure out how to improve your website’s search ranking is probably low on your list of priorities. However, SEO is critical for any business – if you’re trying to market your business online, you need to make sure that you’re making the most of your investment. With that in mind, we’ve put together a list of 5 quick, concrete steps you can take to make sure your site is optimized for search engines. If you take these steps, you should see a big improvement in your search rank. 1. Add a sitemap A sitemap is an XML document that tells Google and other search engines the structure of your website […]

Lauchlin MacDonald

Author: Lauchlin MacDonald

About Lauchlin MacDonald

Lauchlin is part of the content and marketing team at LinkNow Media. He has nearly a decade of experience in copywriting and editing, and spends way too much time on the Internet. He can be reached at lmacdonald@linknowmedia.com and @Lauchlin on Twitter.

Is your website mobile friendly?

If you still don’t have a mobile site, you want to read this Just over a year ago, we reported that Google was planning to put an increased emphasis on the importance of websites being mobile friendly. In what became known as “Mobilegeddon,” Google promised that sites that were not optimized for mobile devices would soon take a major hit in their search ranking. People debated the extent of the impact that Mobilegeddon had on search results, but one thing was certain – Google had taken a firm stance and made a commitment to providing the best possible user experience on mobile. Now they’re stepping it up – they’ve announced that in May they are going to put even more of an emphasis on mobile. Why is Google doing this? It may be surprising to some people, but the majority of internet activity is now happening on mobile devices. Whether […]

Lauchlin MacDonald

Author: Lauchlin MacDonald

About Lauchlin MacDonald

Lauchlin is part of the content and marketing team at LinkNow Media. He has nearly a decade of experience in copywriting and editing, and spends way too much time on the Internet. He can be reached at lmacdonald@linknowmedia.com and @Lauchlin on Twitter.

Is your website mobile-ready? It better be!

At the end of February, Google made an announcement that is going to have an enormous impact on search results. Beginning April 21st, websites that are not mobile friendly will be taking a big hit in mobile search results. This means that if your website is not optimized for mobile devices like smart phones and tablets, your site will be dropping out of the search results of users who are searching using those devices. Why is Google doing this? The web is simply not the same place it was even two or three years ago. The explosion of smart phones and tablets means that more and more people are spending a large percentage of their Internet time on these smaller, handheld devices. According to a recent survey of Internet use, the percentage of web use taking place on mobile devices went up from 14% in 2013 to 25% in 2014, […]

Lauchlin MacDonald

Author: Lauchlin MacDonald

About Lauchlin MacDonald

Lauchlin is part of the content and marketing team at LinkNow Media. He has nearly a decade of experience in copywriting and editing, and spends way too much time on the Internet. He can be reached at lmacdonald@linknowmedia.com and @Lauchlin on Twitter.