Most SEO’s just preach link building. Some will tell you about ALT tags, and Pretty URL’s, but most don’t really know how to improve your page quality score, nor do they know how to quantify to you that your page is scoring better. BlackWaterOps will walk you through changes you can make to your [...]
Adsense is pretty “fire and forget” right? Not quite, did you know that you could be losing 20-50% of your potential revenue because of Run of Site ads that only pay a fraction of a cent a click? Or that CTR’s can go up 30% by picking the right color scheme? That Ad placement can [...]
It’s important to invest your web analytics budget where you’ll get the greatest return. Hiring or contracting the right people for the job is one of the most cost-effective investments you can make. Many sites don’t need SEO, or SEM services, but all businesses can benefit from knowing who visits their site, and what their [...]
Ok, here it is, everything you need to know to be better at SEO than me. Google will flat out tell you how their search engines work, and how page ranking works, and if you follow along you can be better at my job than I am, because I’ll be truthful I have only read [...]
Your competition is outranking you for some of the best keywords, your adwords campaign is being put to shame by companies bidding to keep you out of the top spots? We can help. Counter SEO/SEM spends time looking at your competitors pages, analyzing them and creating pages that contain all of the relevant keywords, [...]
Anthony Doctolero, Founder of iLasting.com “After BlackwaterOps.com suggested ways we should change the way we were doing our subdomains we went from having 17 pages indexed by Google to now having about 400…” The Best place for Online Memorials is iLasting.com. iLasting.com’s memorial websites allow you to create a permanent online presence for your [...]
Getting the community talking about you is in many ways free SEO. If iJustine links to you in her twitter feed, 5000 people may show up in the next 5 minutes. That is a very powerful medium. Sure that is less than what shows up if you do TV ads, but iJustine will get those [...]
Christine Lu at the China Business Network related a story about the Used Car Salesman who sold her SEO services. Everyone trying to make a quick buck wants to claim they know SEO, but the truth is if you are worth your salt at SEO you can make plenty at home in your PJ’s [...]
It is hard to know how great the guy selling SEO really is. Especially since SEO companies don’t typically disclose their client list, because of confidentiality agreements with our clients. So what should you ask? What is the most impressive search you currently rank for? Greatest Living American Now this doesn’t have to be [...]
After talking with lots of people at CES I realized how much misinformation there was about SEO, SEM and social media. So I decided that it was time to put my services out there. If you need a Mercenary to help you with the types of Special OPtimizations it takes to get your web site [...]