Duane Baumgartner

  • Is Your SEO Company a Copycat?

    Why you shouldn’t work with an SEO company that copies your competitions’ strategies. As a business owner nothing can more frustrating than seeing one of your competitors copying the same website and SEO strategies that you’ve been using.  It happens all the time, even within the SEO agency world, right here in Vancouver Washington.  Here…

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  • Google Pigeon, what happened to your Google listing and rankings?

    Did you loose rankings with the Google Pigeon update? Late Thursday, Google quietly released its newest update to its local ranking algorithm, quickly dubbed Google Pigeon by the folks at Search Engine Land.  Google’s newest update aims to achieve more useful and accurate search results according to a recent article posted by there.  When asked by…

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  • How much should SEO cost?

    How much should SEO cost your business? The answers to this question are as plentiful as websites returned on any given search on Google. As a business owner , you should be looking at SEO as a long term  investment into your business. So my answer is: “It costs you nothing.” SEO – done correctly – should…

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  • Are you really dealing with an SEO expert?

    The 10 warning signs that the person you’re talking to is not an SEO expert. In this day and age it’s pretty easy to come across someone who claims they are an SEO Expert.  As a small business owner you are no doubt contacted by several people every week via phone or email claiming they…

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  • Why your SEO needs to be continually worked on

    SEO and Your Old & Tired Website SEO and first page rankings One of the questions we get a lot is why search engine optimization needs to be continually worked on once rankings have been achieved.  Most business owners understand that SEO is a process that takes some time, but once desired rankings for a…

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  • Measuring The Effectiveness of Your SEO and PPC Campaigns

    The Basics of measuring your marketing efforts How to measure the effectiveness of your SEO and PPC efforts When it comes to measuring your own SEO and PPC efforts, or perhaps you’re trying to measure your outsourced efforts, understanding what metrics to measure can be a difficult task.  The sheer amount of data that can…

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