Portland SEO

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A few years ago I remember reading an article in Wired Magazine on {ORM} or Online Reputation Management. The article was focused on a booming new start-up company named Reputation Defender. Here’s an important excerpt from the page: “ The partners of ReputationDefender originally conceived the company as a way for parents to protect their [...]

A couple days ago I decided to uninstall my StumbleUpon toolbar. I’m not done with SU forever, but I’m definately not going back on the regular basis like I have been the past few months. Sure I get great traffic from SU when I’m involved, but they just don’t follow me. That is, they just [...]

Spamming & Jamming – OR – Are you for REAL? That’s a tough question for a marketer trying to promote something within an online network of people that could be perceived by an individual as social peers, users, contributors or dollar signs. Are you spamming or contributing to the community? Are you adding another page [...]

Recently, I’ve received a couple of referrals from local Portland businesses that need Google Adwords Management. For a business owner, managing an Adwords Account can be an over whelming task. Even for mid-sized businesses that employ over 20 people asking someone to start working on Adwords from within the company could be a daunting task, [...]

Sometime around the end of May 2007 we started to stabilize on the first page of Google for most of our desired keywords. It definately was a lot of work to get to position one for “portland web design” but with the help of some friends and Google’s Webmaster tools, we did it. It’s time [...]

The last few months have been very rewarding. I’m 32 now and seven years of working my ass off seems to be panning out a little bit. With the help of some friends, I think we’ve launched about 9 new websites in the last few months. Theres a few more in the queue to be [...]

As soon as I mention or even hint we are ranked #1 the very next day we drop down to #2. Funny stuff… maybe there is a new update happening and we are back to being #2. The interesting thing is we are still #1 in for our term if you search in another country [...]

After being kicked off the first page of Google a few years ago we’ve finally established ourselves again in the #1 position for ” Portland Web Design ” I’ve made several post over the last 8 months documenting the progress as we climbed from page #2 to page 1, position 1. See here… positioning progress. Digital [...]

For the last 6 months or so I’ve been seeing the technorato tags on other peoples websites. Mostly web sites and blogs in the SEO industry. Then tonight when I was tinkering around in WordPress one of the links to took me over to Technorati. Within in minutes I was creating my own Webfu profile [...]