Eric Erickson | Outside Raleigh

Smart SEO Tips To Build Your Website Visits

April 13, 2013March 1, 2026

You can find key items that you specialize in and other SEO techniques that pros can help with. You’ll find the information in this article helpful, as you begin to take advantage of SEO strategies. To receive a better search engine ranking, be sure to place relative keywords in the metatag portion of your website. Include common misspellings of your keywords as well to increase your ranking. Sites that have effective meta tags will show up in more searches for a higher variety of keywords. Try to include a variety of keywords, along with some that are misspelled. For example, a website about aquariums would have keywords such as “fish tanks,” “aqarium,” “tank,” etc. Having a popular website is about … Read the rest

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Is your website mobile friendly?

February 12, 2013February 24, 2014

Whilst scouring for information on my post about, Do you need a website, I ran across the 2012 Local Search Study document at www.localsearchstudy.com And of the 6 trends it pointed out, the one of the most importance to most of us besides, “YES, you need a website,” is the growth of the tablet and smartphone market. It is already big and getting bigger every day. So let’s go with the assumption that you DO have a website. Now, is it friendly to your mobile platform totin’ customers? Let’s hope so. 61% of smartphone owners do local business searches from their phone. If you have the same website that you had carefully crafted in 1998 out there still,… Read the rest

Search Engine Optimization Web Services

Do you NEED a Website?

February 7, 2013February 24, 2014

So let’s say that you’re just crawling from under your rock. Your business has been running just fine and dandy for the last 20 years JUST the way it is, thank you. You don’t need no stinkin’ website! Well, do you? The following link from 2010 is a little outdated, but if you’re crawling out from under your rock anyway, this shouldn’t be a problem. SEVENTY PERCENT OF CONSUMERS GO ONLINE FIRST FOR LOCAL BUSINESS INFORMATION! Yes, in CAPS. It’s THAT important. And that is a 2010 survey. You can go to http://www.localsearchstudy.com/ to see results and data on 2012 trends. They have a great PDF for freely available download that covers information that I’ll hit in some articles… Read the rest

Search Engine Optimization Web Services

How Does Your Website Stack Up?

January 29, 2013February 24, 2014

We get called a lot from small businesses, probably a lot like yours, about getting their company up in the search engines. While this is just a small article, I’m going to give you some things to look for that you can do yourself. You don’t always need a pro to do some serious improvement to your website. The Easy and Obvious First Step – Your Content The absolute easiest thing you can do to help your website? Improve your content. Plain and simple. We so often see content that is full of “insider” words. In the tech world, many of us are guilty of using those insider words – the good ones try to translate those terms into human… Read the rest

Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization Ideas

June 18, 2012February 24, 2014

For A Better Understanding Of Search Engine Optimization Check Out These Ideas You want to make sure that any website you are a part of, whether you created it yourself, or had it made for you, is getting the attention it deserves. It goes without saying that most people find websites through search engines, and for this reason this article will give you lots of ideas on how you can optimize the results you are getting from search engines. Enhance the content of your articles’ body with keywords. Whether it’s a blog post or other content on your site, it’s critical that the body of your text contains your targeted keywords. Try to use your keywords in the first paragraph,… Read the rest