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Sitemap Usage Post – SEOmoz

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

I recently had the privilege of having my post on the use of Sitemaps and the affect on crawl rate published at SEOmoz.org. Feel free to head over the SEOmoz and read the post and let me know your thoughts.

Do Sitemaps Affect Crawlers?

Increase Your Website’s Position

Friday, December 19th, 2008

I’ve been working with a client who hasn’t been happy with their position in the search engines. The clients website was not designed by GR Web Designs and did not have any SEO work done on it. After doing a complete redesign and implementing a bunch of SEO techniques their rankings improved.

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Small Business Websites

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Small businesses often have a very small advertising budget. I recently had a client who was paying almost two thousand dollars a month for a spot on Yellow Pages website. The salesperson who sold the ad advised them they would be in the number one spot on the Yellow Page website in their area. The owner thought this was amazing and thought the customers would come in by the thousands. I talked them into letting me add a website tracker to their site to see what their customer base was.

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