Small Business Internet Blog

Until recently, Google PageRank was a great method to check the quality of a web page. Not only did the tool give website owners and web visitors a good idea of how important—and trustworthy—a web page was, but it offered insight into one of the methods used by Google to determine a page’s relevance (a.k.a. where it should appear in search results). Unfortunately, there were some annoying side effects—link selling, link spam, and other more unscrupulous tactics. Needless to say, things got ugly.  Read More

Long gone are the days when consumers pulled out the trusty phone book to find local businesses. Now your potential customers are turning to the internet to locate the products and services they are looking for. Will they be able to find you there? Read More

If you are like most small business owners, you wear many hats—marketer, accountant, content creator, sales, customer service, and the list goes on. As such, we wanted to mention some great (and free) tools to help make your job easier.  Read More

Google and other search engines frequently index websites, which means your business website can be “re-assessed” frequently to determine whether or not it is providing consistent value to searchers. Over time, you may find that your website traffic is beginning to decrease. This can happen for a number of reasons, many of which are easily fixable. Here are some common explanations for a drop in the number of visitors to your website and how they can be remedied.  Read More