Bob Ottaway

We’ve been optimizing websites since 2006 and writing these newsletters just about every week to help you with more leads for your business.  But we rarely talk about our personal feelings about SEO.  Today we will, and we are...

Thousands of sites were delisted or dropped in the most recent Google core update that was completed on April 19th.  It was one of the most sweeping updates in years.  If your site took a hit in ranking, here’s...

This week’s Bloomberg Businessweek magazine (p. 64, Apr 22, 2024) has an extensive article on the state of the homeowner’s mind today.  Here are the highlights:  HOMEOWNERS WHO LOVE THEIR MORTGAGE:  51% SHARE OF HOMEOWNERS PLANNING THESE PROJECTS IN...

Now Google is testing placing the Google Ads right in the Organic results.  That’s right, no longer just at the top and bottom of a Google Search Results Page (SERP) but mixed in.  What does this mean for you:...

Pics, photos, images—they go by many names, but they all relate to the “engagability” of your website.  It’s why people spend less than 20 seconds on some websites’ Homepages, and why others have page session duration of well over...

Spring is upon us, and business is starting to pick up.  However, we’re nowhere near the “busy” season, so getting more leads now is important.  Here’s what our savvy clients are doing:  Google Ads (formerly known as AdWords).  Here’s...

We research extensively to keep our clients on Page One of Google for as many keyword phrases as possible, so the testimony of Pandu Nayak, Head of Search at Google, at the anti-trust trial of US v. Google has...

We all think that malware, hacks and ransomware happen to “the other guy” but that’s not true.  Here are some sobering thoughts from a presentation last week in Las Vegas by U.S. Secret Service Technical Special Agent Ian Benny,...

Your prospects want to know who you are before they do business with you…especially if you are a smaller business and lack branding. To prove this, we can show you site after site of our clients where the About...

There is all this talk about AI and how it is the biggest change since the internet itself.  Maybe all that’s true, but it doesn’t change the fact that showing up in any type of search depends on your...