Get to know the search engines

As the Internet evolves, so do the offerings of search engines as they battle to get your attention. New engines form constantly with changes in technology and old ones leave us behind. Here’s a sampling of some you may already know: AOL Search – A Google...

Scents Alive launches new B2B website

Scents Alive ia a custom manufacturer of natural personal care, skin care, pet care, and natural candles. Since 1987, they’ve helped customers formulate better quality natural products, or reformulate their existing products to make their lines more natural. Mystique...

What’s the deal with Google Analytics?

Want to know where and how traffic goes to your website? Well in brief, Google Analytics is a free service where when added to the pages of your site, you can learn a lot of information about visitors to your website, such as traffic that is referred, visitor loyalty...

Word of mouth vs a well built website

A few months ago we decided that with all of the various rebate programs available to us it was prime time to invest in a new home furnace. I had already researched furnaces a couple of years ago as ours was installed in 1980 and quite frankly we were surprised it had...

One way to get your site banned from Google

Hidden text and links A search engine trick by some seos is to manipulate the search bots by loading the page with keywords and phrases — but then hiding them from the viewer because they’re not relevant to the visitor. For example: using white text on a white...

Save money and shift focus to organic traffic

21.8 million Canadians access the Internet each month, that’s almost 70% of the population. For any given month Canadians conduct, on average, 55 searches. And it appears that the majority of us are searching in the same place. Google reigns with an overwhelming...