One thing we’ve found to be true for all of the clients we’ve had the privilege to work with at OTM is the need to maintain a relevant presence for their customers online. To this end, we begin conversations around our recommendations that certainly contain search...
My website just went live, why am I not being found?
This is a questions we get a lot over here at Old Town Media. We put a site live and within a day or two we will have the client call up and wonder why when they type in a generic term like 'doctor' are they not being found on google. Here are some important things to...
Why Page Speed is So Important
Page performance is a big issue these days as websites become more and more graphic laden and we're faced with having to deal with retina images (can be up to 4X larger size). The longer a page takes to load, the less likely people are to stay on the site or even come...
Google’s Rich Snippets
Google has just begun integrating a useful new feature called rich snippets into their search results. These snippets of code allow you to specify certain characteristics about your company, business. people, products, and/or places that the search engine's bot...
Another Reason To be First on Google
Google has a feature on Chrome that pre-renders the first result on Google's search results before the user clicks on the page, meaning that the load tiem is virtually instantaneous. This makes a big difference for the user experience because loading time is like...
Google’s 23 SEO Questions
You may not appreciate Google's 500+ yearly algorithm changes, but you have to appreciate their transparency in helping you to deal with the changes. Almost a year ago, Google rolled out a very heavy update to their algorithm called "Panda". Soon after they roled it...
Want to up your Google quality score? – Part 5
Today is the last day of our 5 part series on Upping your Google Quality Score and search engine ranking. Today is a little self-explanatory, but is still very important: building relevant content. Now, this should seem very self-explanatory, but you'd be surprised at...
Want to up your Google quality score? – Part 4
Today we're continuing our series on Upping your Google Quality Score. Today is a little different, however. Today is about creating site maps and robot files. Now, taking these actions won't necessarily increase your search engine ranking, but what it does do is...
Want to up your Google quality score? – Part 3
Today, we’re continuing our series on increasing your Google quality score through quality SEO. We’ve already discussed keywords and links and this time we’re going to talk about the importance of including enough text in your pages. Now, as we talked about yesterday,...
Want to up your Google quality score? – Part 2
On Friday we began our 5 part series on how to increase your Google quality score and SEO ranking by talking to you about links. Today we're going to talk about keyword relevancy. Google looks at all the websites on the Internet using programs called "spiders". These...
