Is SEO a black hole for small businesses? To the many who spend a lot of money month after month, it sure feels that way, especially if you’re not quite sure where that money is being spent. It shouldn’t be that way. In a world where Google is completely intertwined with our lives (and your…
One of the most frustrating experiences for any SEO is when a site with duplicate content or spammy backlinks outperforms a competitor who has done everything right. How does that happen? John Mueller, a webmaster trends analyst at Google, recently shed some light on why Google will sometimes rank more poorly optimized websites. According to…
Do you have a favorite genre of books? What percentage of your reading does this genre make up? If that percentage is very high, like above 50 percent, there are good reasons for branching out. Reading at all is great, and becoming rarer, so kudos, but if you want to take that next step and…
Managing and running an independent, high producing group or team is easier said than done. It’s a multi-faceted task that requires, among other things, empathy, emotional intelligence, and strategic thinking. It’s a job that places you, the manager, in different roles, going from coach and mentor in one instance to disciplinarian in the next. Management…
If you haven’t noticed already, I have an esoteric taste in books. I recently finished Donald Engel’s Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army, which — despite the title and subject matter — is a remarkably interesting and insightful book. The breadth of Engels’ research is impressive, as he’s able to unite…
There are a lot of patient management systems out there. A small handful dominate the market. Which one is best? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? We conducted a survey to hear directly from the dentists using these systems what they liked and disliked. Breaking down the answers, we put together this report…
How are you allocating your SEO resources? What about determining where the next SEO hour will have the most impact on revenue? Or figuring out whether your SEO efforts need to be paired with conversion optimization to get more revenue out of that organic traffic? These are some of the questions around which I’ve structured…
“What if making one tweak to your day-to-day conversations could immediately improve every relationship in your life?” reads the back cover of I Hear You. A bold claim, for sure. It’s a claim that stands the test of experience. Michael Sorensen’s book is a powerful tool for anybody willing to apply its lessons to everyday interactions…
1. Site Cannot Be Crawled Every site has a robots.txt file. To reach it, just take your domain and add /robots.txt. If it looks like the one above, then it’s disallowing any and all crawlers from every page on the website. That’s bad, very bad for SEO. If the Google bot can’t access and read…
There’s a lot of famous graphs in economics, but perhaps the Phillips curve will be remembered the most by anyone who experienced stagflation in the 70s and anyone alive today. It predicts that higher inflation correlates with higher employment. In all fairness, for much of the 20th century, that relationship held more-or-less true, and in…